Driver Question (following on from Tee Height post)

[Ash1974]

I tee the ball quite low, about a quarter of the ball above the top of the club face, I always have a nice flight (fade) and contact, however this weekend I hit 2 drives in a row where the ball popped very high and left (almost lob wedge flight) as if I went under the ball and it came of the top of the crown, not sure what caused this or how I got the driver under the ball, did not feel like I hit the ground?

Any suggestions as to what caused this? have hit the driver on the range since and not done this.

[KimboSlice]

I have done the same thing with my driver. From what I understand is that it happens because we hit the ball with a descending blow rather than an ascending one. The descending blow puts a backspin on the ball and robs distance. I've read that if the ball is tee'd up higher, it could flatten out the swing.

[zeg]

I usually do this when I don't get my weight forward. As a result, I hang back and cut down at the ball. I don't usually hit ground, not sure exactly what's happening at impact, but I have a few chips around the edge where the face of the club meets the crown. I think it must be that the club is just bottoming out and is still at a steep angle when it hits, then it pulls forward. At any rate, I've just gotta be sure I commit to the drive or I am at risk of this error. Unfortunately, once it happens, the tendency is to back off out of fear it'll happen again, which is exactly the wrong response.

[Ash1974]

Cheers guys anyone else any thoughts on what happened?

[Ash1974]

OK played 18 yesterday, my tee height was higher than I thiought so I have lowered it so that the top of the ball is just above the clubface and I am not hitting the ball off the top of the face, no sky marks even when I did this so a slight height adjustment was all that was needed.

I think the reason behind this is that the only place I practice now has rubber tee's and the driving tee is quite low, so I have got used to hitting of this height with the driver so will see how it goes, for now though I am back to hitting them clean