However, when I read quotes like "sustain lag pressure as it drives down to China" that, to my young TGM ears, is saying drive the pressure point down so that the club squeezes the ball against turf, I can do this with an iron or wood or anything of the deck, however, I don’t know how to do the same thing with a driver when the ball is sitting on a tee a couple of inches off the turf. Any help?? I am seeing an AI maybe once a month and credit him and TGM for getting me where I am now, but I just need more and more information.
Thanks,
Rarely if ever does a ball get squeezed between the clubface and turf. It does get severely compressed (pancaked) against the clubface though and is usually gone before the face is taking up turf. It's a good swing thought because a decending blow is what you want with all clubs, even a teed up driver.
I've seen several TOUR players as recently as last week taking divots with teed up three woods. The descent for a Driver is much shallower than an iron, but it should be contacting the ball during it's downward descent just before low point.
You might try hitting your driver off the deck as a drill. Once you get a nice trajectory out of it and flying straight, take that same swing from a tee. Hover your clubhead if you need to.
Keep in mind that just about anything can be overdone. The trick with each TGM component is finding the right one for you and then learning its tolerances.
You'll find a ton of good information here to supplement your learning. Last time I checked we had over 40,000 posts. Most of them TGM related except for the rantings of a few crazy members.
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Last edited by Bagger Lance : 07-16-2007 at 07:09 PM.
Rarely if ever does a ball get squeezed between the clubface and turf. It does get severely compressed (pancaked) against the clubface though and is usually gone before the face is taking up turf. It's a good swing thought because a decending blow is what you want with all clubs, even a teed up driver.
MAJOR LIGHT ON HERE! *bing* I can see it better now, thanks Bagger!
Last edited by Richw : 07-21-2007 at 04:31 PM.
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Hi KOC,
as I don't take lessons either,can you explain in more details how you
hit your driver? Do you feel anything different in hitting your driver than,say,
your 9 iron? Are you hitting or Swinging?
Thanks for your reply.
Just to give you a follow-up .....
I took Bagger’s advice and went to the practice range and hit many drivers of the deck, after hitting pretty much every shot either low left, low right or just a plain old top and running out of daylight I was thinking that maybe this was not going to work for me and I would have to have two swings, one for the Irons and one for the Driver. However, I don’t give up that easy, a couple of days later I went back to the range and it was the same old story, low right, low left or top... then all of a sudden the ball started flying straight for a pole about 260 yards away, one after another flying straight for the pole either with an ever so slight draw or fade .... and remember this was of the deck .. so then I switched to a teed up ball ... the same result, but, about 20 yards further and all struck with that unmistakable sound of compression. AMAZING!!
Thanks Bagger for the great advice and I will incorporate this drill in all my practice time.
My keys for the driver now are:
Set up more in an impact fix position, however, with a square stance.
Extensor action maintains the right wrist angle and the shaft on plane to the top of the swing.
From the top pressure point 3 sustains the lag all the way down and through the ball.
If I try and over power pressure point 3 the ball usually ends up going to the left, which feels like a slight pull hook.
.. so then I switched to a teed up ball ... the same result, but, about 20 yards further and all struck with that unmistakable sound of compression. AMAZING!!
Thanks Bagger for the great advice and I will incorporate this drill in all my practice time.
Wow! 20 yards.
That's great to hear and thanks for the feedback.
The last time I got together with Yoda, one of the things that I came home with was teeing the Driver lower. Maybe an inch high at the most.
I was hitting the driver with long tees and he walked up, pushed my 3 inch tee about two inches lower, looked at me with his green grin and said, "That's all you need Bagger, now hit down, out and forward". Instantly I was getting true loft out of my 9.5 degree Driver instead of 11. I was creating loft by making swing compensations. Those compensations were hurting me with every club because I was "hanging back" rather than "getting through" the stroke.
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