Choosing The Correct Golf Ball And Teeing Up At The Correct Height
The selection of golf balls that is available today can be perplexing to say the least to the novice golfer and one thing that leads to more mistakes than perhaps anything else when it comes to selecting a golf ball is its compression rating. Normally beginners believe that a tightly wound ball which has a high compression rating is going to provide them with the longest distance, but this is not the case and indeed just opposite is frequently true.
When selecting a golf ball you want to look for a ball with a rating that matches your swing and the general rule is that the slower your swing is the lower the rating should be. The reason for this is a little technical however, in simple terms and up to a point, the more that your club head flattens the ball on impact the farther it will fly and the amount of flattening attained depends largely upon the strength of your swing.
Manufacturers give a compression rating to their balls with soft balls having a low score and harder balls being given a high score up to a maximum score of 100. In just about all cases you will find that the longer hitting professionals use a ball rated at the top end of the scale between 95 and 100 while the majority of professional golfers select something a little below this figure in the range of 90 to 95. However, for the average golfer a rating in the range of 75 to 90 is probably the best choice with high handicap, soft swinging beginner golfers fairing best with a ball coming in between 60 and 75.
It might be a nice idea to think that selecting the same ball that Tiger Woods uses is going to yield the same results for you however this will not be the case and you will have to do a great deal of practice before you will see anything like the same performance from your choice.
Now, having selected the correct ball the next question to ask is 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 your club head when it is resting on the ground. And, very importantly, once you have found the right height you should always set your ball at the same height.
Now some golfers may tell you that you ought to vary the height of your ball according to the conditions of the course. For instance, if the fairway slopes downhill you ought to tee the ball low and if it is sloping uphill you ought to tee the ball high. This is not correct and you should always set your ball at the same height whatever the contour of the course.
Now, having said this, there is one single exception to this rule and this applies if you are playing into a wind of any reasonable strength. In this case you should always tee up your ball low and also hit it low to achieve the greatest distance and to control the direction of your ball.
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