popping balls up with my driver

[franky21]

For some reason i all of a sudden cannot hit my driver at all everytime i make contact i get under it way to much and pop it up which gives me no distance. I cut my driver a inch and a half for more accuracy and it seemed to work for a couple of weeks now i have lost all confidence with this darn club.

[USMCSemantics]

I've had that happen to me also, skying every drive and I *think* what I was doing was letting the ball creep up towards the toe of my left foot.  I was sliding back on takeaway and teeing the ball up too high.  Maybe it was a combination of those three.  But now I have a routine so that I tee the ball the same height and that the ball is inside my left foot.

[msullivangolf]

Hi franky, If you're skying your driver (probably have ball marks on top of the club), it means that your swinging too steeply into the ball.  Try making some practice swings as if you're trying to sweep the ball off the tee, then re-create that feeling when hitting the ball.  Your swing path may also be "out to in", which would also cause pulled shots.

[franky21]

i have always had a steep swing path and i little out  to in but the problem is fixing it and being consistent. That is waht really hurts my scorcard. If it wasnt for my wedge game and putting i would of probably hung myself by now

[iacas]

  msullivangolf said:

Originally Posted by msullivangolf

Your swing path may also be "out to in", which would also cause pulled shots.

To be clear, the cause of a pull shot is both a clubface closed to the target and a path square to that clubface. As we all know, the ball starts in the direction the clubface is pointed, so there's no way whatsoever to hit a pull with a clubface square to or right of the target at impact.

Most people who pop up the driver do swing out to in and fairly steeply. Hips haven't gone forward, shoulders very flat with no secondary axis tilt coming into the ball, sometimes the upper center has gone forward as well which can't help.

[franky21]

So what you guys are telling me is to pretty much go across my body a little like a Kuchar swing.

[DBC]

In addition, if the ball position is too far back, this may be the cause of the steep angle of attack.

[iacas]

  franky21 said:

Originally Posted by franky21

So what you guys are telling me is to pretty much go across my body a little like a Kuchar swing.

Not necessarily. A lot of people will swing back that way and then come over the top by throwing their right shoulder out at the ball. We can't really say without seeing video.

[franky21]

i will have to take some video this week and post it to see if you could help me.