Driver gets backspin

[bigfish6312]

I am getting backspin on the golf ball when I hit my driver. I carry close to 250 yards but the ball comes straight down and stops like i was hitting a 5 Iron. I can even see a ball mark in the fairway sometimes. Do you know how I can try to fix this. Please let me know.

[kpaulhus]

What degree and Brand is your driver? They are supposed to create some kind of spin.

[DavidFehertysBike]

Youre probably swinging too steep. It also could be the shaft, though. A stiffer tip my flatten the ballflight some, if that is the case.

[bigfish6312]

I am using a Cobra speed driver 9*. Stiff shaft.

[bigfish6312]

How can i tell if i am swinging to steep?

[goblue107501]

In my experience, it is a shaft and/or head issue if you get too much backspin. I had a driver that was a high spin head, combined with a shaft that added more and I never had a ball roll out. They would either plug if it was wet or maybe hop a little forward. In some instances they would spin back. Not ideal for the hard and fast conditions our fairways get into around here.

If it is a new enough club, perhaps you could find hit a demo club with a different shaft and see if it is any better. If you have the facilities near you, maybe get on a launch monitor and see what it says.

[Scott_K]

As mentioned above, find a launch monitor and some stats if you can. I know my spin rate is around 3300 which is on the high side. I get that high shot off the driver farily often as well and miss out on the roll. I think ideal spin rate for a driver is around 2200. Launch angle in the 12-14 range. These are general numbers and starting lines. I think the real deal is how it feels and translates on the course.

[keiko]

Why did my post not show up? This keeps happening on this site.
I refuse to post again.

[vmsea]

Do you hit "reply/reply with quote", then when u're done are you clicking "post quick reply"? or the "+ REply to Thread" button?

i've done that and messed up too.

[DavidFehertysBike]

  bigfish6312 said:

How can i tell if i am swinging to steep?

If you break tees where the point end is still stuck in the ground, then you're likely swinging too steep. As others have said, its probably a equipment issue, but i wouldn't overlook the swing itself, either.

[iacas]

  DavidFehertysBike said:

If you break tees where the point end is still stuck in the ground, then you're likely swinging too steep. As others have said, its probably a equipment issue, but i wouldn't overlook the swing itself, either.

C'mon, that's such hogwash. How hard the ground is has 100x more effect than your angle of attack.

Do the math - the leading edge of the clubface can only vary a teeny bit even with +5 and -5 (or even +10 and -10) angles of attack. It catches, what, 1/8th of an inch more of the tee? Probably less. People who tend to spin the driver too much either have poorly fitting equipment, come over it a ton, OR flip like crazy at it so the ball is not only hit with 20 degrees of loft or something but also the added backspin of hitting a ball with a club going 100 MPH and 20 degrees of loft.

[bigfish6312]

Should I try to record myself and post the video for analysis?

[Zeph]

  bigfish6312 said:

Should I try to record myself and post the video for analysis?

That would certainly help, yes.

[misty_mountainhop]

All drivers generate backspin - the ball wouldn't get airborne without it. Are your fairways currently wet? If so, I wouldn't worry overly about it. Do you hit your driver high and if so, does it start low(ish) and balloon or does it launch high and stay there? If it's the former, you're probably generating too much backspin on the ball and you may want to look at the driver head and/or shaft combination itself.

[bigfish6312]

it ballons up. The driver is a 9* cobra and a stiff shaft mid kick.

[KEEPITSIMPLE]

As already been noted,too steep in the downswing.Only one way to backspin and that is the club face is coming down steep and the ball climbs up the face. I am guessing you don't extend on your backswing and you are too vertical with your backswing and that from that position you are coming over the top. Just a guess.

[misty_mountainhop]

  KEEPITSIMPLE said:

As already been noted,too steep in the downswing.

Coming down too steeply will

increase backspin cf . a flatter plane into impact; you'll have backspin on the ball whatever you do. The ball does not "climb up the face".