Picking The Correct Golf Ball And Teeing Up At The Correct Height

The choice of golf balls which is available today can be perplexing to say the least

for the novice golfer and one thing which creates more mistakes than perhaps anything else when it comes to picking a golf ball is its compression rating. Usually beginners believe that a tightly wound ball with a high compression rating is going to give them the greatest distance, however, this is not so and indeed just opposite is often true.

When picking a ball you need to look for a ball which has a rating that matches your swing and the general rule is that the slower your swing is the lower the rating ought to be. The reasoning behind this is a little technical but, in simple terms, the more your club head flattens the ball on impact the farther it will fly and the level of flattening achieved depends largely upon the strength of your swing.

Golf ball manufacturers give a compression rating to their balls with softer balls having a low score and hard balls having a high score up to a maximum score of 100. In most cases you will find that the longer hitting professionals will use a ball rated at the top end of the scale between 95 and 100 whilst most professional golfers will choose something 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 novices fairing best with a ball coming in between 60 and 75.

It may be a nice idea to believe that picking the same ball which Tiger Woods uses will provide 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 anywhere near the same performance.

Next, having chosen the correct ball the next question to ask is just how high do you need to 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, having 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 depending upon conditions on the course. For instance, if the fairway is sloping downhill you should tee the ball low and if it is sloping uphill you should tee the ball high. This is not correct and you need to set your ball at the same height whatever the contour of the course.

Now, having said this, there is one exception to this rule which applies if you are teeing off into a wind of any reasonable strength. In this case you should always set your ball low and hit it low to achieve the best distance and to control the direction of the ball.

by: Don Saunders

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