Driver Angle of Attack, Pros vs Ams
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
There's a chart of PGA Tour Trackman averages that indicates that the Tour professionals hit down with their drivers. And yet, we're regularly told that we should be hitting up on the ball. Why the discrepancy? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg answer this question from a listener and give advice for what you should be trying to do when you're hitting driver.
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| 0:00.0 | I had a really good question from a listener of the Hacking Out Golf podcast on our social channels, |
| 0:05.4 | asking why do tour pros hit down with their driver when they're all told to hit up at it with their driver? |
| 0:14.5 | I thought it was a really good question. |
| 0:15.7 | Let's discuss it. |
| 0:16.6 | Lou, you hit up at it with your driver, so you are a good boy. |
| 0:20.5 | Greg, you are a tour pro. Do you hit down or up with your driver so you are a good boy. Greg, you are a tour pro. |
| 0:22.1 | Do you hit down or up with your driver? |
| 0:23.7 | I was down. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm now neutral to two degrees up. |
| 0:28.5 | Okay, Matt. |
| 0:29.0 | Depending on it, motivate, how motivated I am. |
| 0:31.9 | Oh, it's like a movie this because Greg has basically given the answer to this question at the start, which we're going to go full |
| 0:38.7 | circle to get back to that answer because he's basically nailed the idea of this question |
| 0:44.0 | on the head here. So if I look at trackman data from Tor averages, it says that a tour player |
| 0:51.4 | averages 1.3 down with their driver. |
| 0:54.8 | Does anyone know why would they be hitting down with their driver where people |
| 0:59.7 | definitely now understand that hitting up might help with distance? |
| 1:05.0 | Why would they be hitting down where we're telling everyone else to hit up? |
| 1:09.5 | Anyone got an answer, Lou, do you know why that would be, being a 14-up kind of a guy? |
| 1:15.5 | Well, one, I think that, you know, hitting up on the golf ball will allow you to hit the |
| 1:22.0 | golf ball longer. |
| 1:23.7 | And they swing very quick and they don't need to add distance and swinging down is going to put a |
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