Teeing Up a Golf Ball

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Chris Ardolina, and I'm a golf instructor here at the Jim McLean Golf School, located at the Doral Resort and Spa, in Miami, Florida. In this clip today, we're going to teach you how high to tee your golf ball, with both an iron and a wood. There's two different ways to tee up your golf ball. You're not going to tee it up the same for an iron, and a wood. They're going to be a little bit different. What I mean by that, if you look here at my first ball down on the ground, you're going to see that the ball is teed a lot lower. What you want to do when you tee the ball up for an iron, is your trying to tee it up nice and low, where the ball sits right in the center of the club face. With the iron, we're trying to create a descending blow, so we hit down on the golf ball, hitting the ball, then a divot, and the ball will get airborne, so again, we're trying to tee the ball nice and low with an iron, so we can get a descending blow, hit the ball, then the ground, and the ball will get up in the air nicely. Now, you can see we have a second ball here, which is situated a little bit higher, on the tee. This is for a wood. I teed it up for my driver here, which is a ten and a half degree Stylus Driver. What you want to try to do is try to tee up that ball about a half a ball above your driver head. The reason for that is, is that with the driver here, the center of mass here, is not directly in the center of the club, like an iron. It's a little bit higher on the face. Also, with the driver, we're not trying to take a descending blow. We're trying to create an ascending blow ,which means we're trying to hit it at it's flat point, or else slightly on the upswing, so by teeing it up a little bit higher, it allows us to catch it on it's flat spot, or on it's ascending blow, or on it's upswing, so remember, an iron you're teeing up nice and low, so you can hit down and create a descending blow. A wood you're teeing up a half a ball higher than the club head, to try to get that ascending blow, or hitting up on the upswing. Today, we taught you how to correctly tee up an iron, and a wood."