Choosing The Right Ball And Teeing Off At The Right Height - By: Don Saunders

The selection of golf balls which is available today is bewildering to say the least for the novice golfer and one thing which creates more mistakes than perhaps anything else when it comes to selecting a golf ball is its compression rating. In most instances novice golfers think that a tightly wound ball with a high compression rating is going to provide them with the longest distance, but this is not so and indeed just opposite is often true.

When picking a ball you want to look for a ball which has a rating which matches your swing and the rule is that the slower your swing is the lower the rating should be. The reason for this is fairly technical however, in very simple terms, the more that your club head flattens the ball during impact the farther it will travel and the degree of flattening attained depends largely upon the power of your swing.

Manufacturers give a compression rating to their balls with softer balls having a low score and hard balls a high score up to a maximum score of 100. In virtually all cases you will find that the longer hitting professionals use a ball with a high rating of between 95 and 100 whilst the majority of professional golfers select something below this figure in the range of 90 to 95. For the average golfer however a rating in the range of 75 to 90 is probably the best choice with soft swinging, high handicap novices fairing best with a ball of between 60 and 75.

It might be nice to believe that selecting the same ball which Tiger Woods uses will provide the same results for you but this will not be the case and you will need to do lots of practice before you will see anywhere near the same performance.

Next, having selected the right ball the next question to ask is just how high should you tee the ball?

The simple answer is that you should tee your ball so that half of the ball is showing above the head of your club when it is resting on the ground. And, most importantly, once you have found the right height for your club you should always tee your ball at the same height.

Some golfers may tell you that you ought to vary the height of the ball according to the conditions of the course. For instance, if the fairway slopes downhill you should tee your ball low and if it slopes uphill you should tee the ball high. This is not true and you need to set your ball at the same height regardless of the contour of the course.

Having said all of this, there is one exception to this rule and this applies when you are teeing off into a reasonably strong wind. In this case you should always tee your ball low and also hit it low to get the best distance and to control the direction of your ball.

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Donald Saunders has been publishing articles on various topics for many years now. Visit his latest website which offers information on Club Car golf carts and Club Car accessories together with much more.

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