Tee height with Ping G5

[reedinger]

I used to hit a Taylormade, 12 degree loft, fairly high. I just purchased a Ping G5, 10.5 degree loft. I have hit a 10.5 previously and the height was ok. Today I hit the one I just purchased and the trajectory was pretty low. I did read a couple of posts about checking the actual loft angle, but I am wondering if perhaps I am just teeing it a bit low.

How high do you tee the ball when using an oversize driver?

BTW where do you focus your eyes when hitting a driver or iron?

[doogkie]

Re: Tee height with Ping G5

half the ball should be above the top of the club


when hitting a driver i focus on the inside of the ball

irons, i just look at it, not really focusing

[reedinger]

Re: Tee height with Ping G5

Wow, with half the ball above the top of the club I guess I need to buy some much longer tees!

[doogkie]

Re: Tee height with Ping G5

haha yeah, its a shocker, where was u teeing it up before? like a fairway wood?

well now u should really get some good low spin long drives

[reedinger]

Re: Tee height with Ping G5

Assuming you have a new, oversize driver, what size tee do you use? Is a 2 1/2 tee going to be tall enough to get the ball up as high as required? I'll find out tomorrow of course, but I'm just curious. Seems like I'll need a real tall tee.

[RacLt7]

Re: Tee height with Ping G5

I used to hit a Taylormade, 12 degree loft, fairly high. I just purchased a Ping G5, 10.5 degree loft. I have hit a 10.5 previously and the height was ok. Today I hit the one I just purchased and the trajectory was pretty low. I did read a couple of posts about checking the actual loft angle, but I am wondering if perhaps I am just teeing it a bit low.

How high do you tee the ball when using an oversize driver?

BTW where do you focus your eyes when hitting a driver or iron?

Its personal preference but for me if i was using an oversize i would tee it down more than normal. Try and hit the lower part of the face. Also remember that your swing is going to be the main reason for how your ball travels. For a degree of 10.5 you should be getting pleanty of hight. When you hit it higher, try and look for a mark, you may find you hitting under it. Focus hitting behind the ball on driver and iron

[dnm]

Re: Tee height with Ping G5

I just bought a cheap driver

[doogkie]

Re: Tee height with Ping G5

if u tee it too low, you wont get near the distance, now if u are sure u can bursh by the ground u can tee it up and set the club behind it and see where the ball would hit, which should be in the upper half of the club

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[LowPost42]

Re: Tee height with Ping G5

The problem in most drivers and fairway woods is a property called 'roll'. (Save for many Wishon designs).

Long ago, club manufacturers found that if the bellied the face of the club out, heel to toe (and this is called bulge), then mishits were often re-directed back to the middle. This uses something called the gear effect. In a sense, it puts 'back to the middle' spin on a square face shot. (I'm not sure the gear effect helps open or closed clubfaces. I think it makes it worse.).

Anyway, since this helped correct wayward shots, it only 'made sense' to do the same thing top to bottom.

What we get are drivers that, when struck on the middle of the face, use their actual loft, plus your angle of attack to create your launch angle. However, if you hit them higher up on the face, you get more launch angle (and spin), and if you hit them lower, you get less. A while back, Tom Wishon introduced GRT (graduated roll technology), that basically makes the whole face the same loft. Sure, there's still bulge, to help with those heel-toe misses, but if you're high or low on the face, you still get about the same launch angle. I'm not aware of any OEM using this (but I also haven't researched it, either).

So if you're teeing your ball low with a conventional driver, and hitting with the lower part of the club, you're going to get a low ball flight. Teed high, hit high, high ball flight.