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If you're battling the yips with your driver, this tip is for you. Learn why lowering the tee or hitting straight off the deck can help you manage your attack angle, increase spin, and tighten your shot dispersion for better accuracy.
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00:00And one of the things you can do, if you are someone who struggles with driving, you should look into
00:03this a little bit more, drop it on the deck for a bit.
00:07And driver off the deck sounds like it should be making it more difficult.
00:11It's going to make me want to smother it more.
00:13Yeah, but you're already default down, so we're not going to all of a sudden get you hitting three degrees
00:18up on it.
00:19And three degrees up on it isn't necessarily great for a lot of players.
00:23As soon as you introduce an ascending attack angle, you're optimising for distance.
00:27But quite often your dispersion cone will go up.
00:30So a lot of the better drivers, why do people always peg it down when they want to hit a
00:33fairway?
00:34Because they need to hit down on it and squeeze one out there a little bit.
00:36When it's on the deck or just on a little Laura Davis tuft or something like that, you kind of
00:42cover the ball a little bit better.
00:43You're hitting it low on the face, which is automatically increasing the spin.
00:48And I hadn't thought of it before, but if you are struggling with driver, a little remedy for a little
00:53while can just be to get the peg right down.
00:55So it's feeling more like an iron or a controllable shot.
01:00Because the higher you peg it up and you try to pick it off this kind of knitting needle that's
01:05popping up a foot in the sky, it can be very difficult.
01:07It's just an interesting idea that I hadn't heard about trying to get driver back under control.
01:13Seems counterintuitive.
01:14Everyone says, oh, driver on the deck is so hard.
01:15Well, it really isn't with some of the new modern equipment and the CG locations that just increase the spin.
01:21It's an interesting thing that I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of people try.

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