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Newsletter - Issue 20 Date 05/19/07
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Golf Tip: Hitting The Driver’s Sweet Spot
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If anyone has a golf question that they would like answered, 
please email your question to: teachingpro@bataviacc.com and 
I'll do my best to answer it in an upcoming newsletter.

This week’s tip comes from an article by Frank Thomas.

The best place to hit the ball is always on the sweet spot, 
generally in the center of the club face because this is where 
you are going to get the maximum trampoline effect from the high 
COR which all drivers are now designed to have.

If the distance you are getting with your drives is not to your 
liking then you must check to see if your launch conditions are 
optimum for your head speed. If not and you are launching the 
ball too low then the first thing to do is change the loft to 
launch the ball higher.  This will increase spin, which you may 
not want to do but you have to compromise. 

If you are close to the correct launch angle and the spin is a 
little too high, then move the impact point higher on the face 
which will decrease the ball speed a little but get closer to 
optimum launch conditions by decreasing the spin because of the 
vertical gear effect. (Most of us find it hard enough to find the 
clubface, never mind a particular spot on the face.) 

This impact location technique is a tweaking or fine tuning 
process when everything else has been done and adjusted. The 
difference in distance may only be a few yards so don’t expect 
a significant change.

Teeing the ball higher is a standard technique to change the 
impact location on the face. Try to keep the same swing and pretend 
the ball is teed lower than it is.

Hope this helps,

Enjoy, Tom