golfrewind.com

Hello, I’m new to golf. I have started practicing on the range and I have a difficult time getting the ball into the air with my driver. I hit the ball with to much topspin and it produces a ground ball for me.

With my 3-9 irons I can hit the ball 100-200 yards consistently, but I have to position the ball back in my stance, almost to were the ball is parallel to my right foot.

Thanks John_Preston

I would recommend that you go up the range and practise your high irons from the middles of stance and move the ball more forward with longer irons with eventually the driver from left heel,if its an oversize driver with large tees you can place it further forward at left toes,compensation in golf is a damaging long term technique,you are placing ball at back to compensate for wrong swing,you might be swaying back on swing or lifting clubhead up on backswing,moving ball back is to compensate,when the club is at your right foot it is connecting cleanly and you wheareas when it reaches middle you have lifted the club but because you have struck the ball you get away with it,swing smoothly and practising hitting the mat at centre smoothly starting with small swing and extending as your accuracy at not lifting club or swaying improves,you might well be using an iron swing with your driver and hitting down on the ball as opposed to a flat plane swing to hit through and up

Sounds like you may be swinging down too much on the ball with the driver. Sometimes if we've been practicing with our irons a lot or hitting them pretty well, this creeps over into our tee shots. Try to visualize that you are sweeping the golf ball with the driver. It might help to imagine you're holding a broom and making a golf swing with it. You wouldn’t drive the broom into the ground, you would “sweep” it along the ground almost parallel with the ground or even a slight upswing. The same thing applies with the driver.
Also be sure to make sure that the ball is teed up far enough forward in your stance. The ball should be roughly even with your left heel or the instep of your left foot (for righties.)
One more thing to look for is that the ball is teed up at the right height. A ball teed too high will produce a low shot with lots of topspin. Tee it up so that about 1/2 to 1/4 of the ball is above the face of the driver as it rests on the ground behind the ball.
Hope this helps.

If he was coming down too much with the driver wouldn't he be getting under the ball and Skying it into the air?

I suggest that you try more power, and try catching it more on the upswing. release the club early for the extra bit of power and a higher trajectory. Tee the ball a little higher, so that the middle of the golf ball is in line with the top of your driver.

Good Luck

Hitting down on the ball and back in my stance produces the low screamer , like the other poster said. Only when I have the ball off my front foot with the ball teed up too high will it produce a skyed shot, and then its becasue I went under it with a level swing.

My set-up is 3 inches back from left big toe, teed up with 2 3/4 tee just barley in the ground. And then swing for the fences