How High Should You Tee Up Your Irons? – Golf Swing Basics

What tee height should you use with your irons? In this video, we break down the different tee height options (ball on the ground, knocked-up turf, low tee, medium tee, and high tee) and show how each one affects your strike, ball flight, and control.

You’ll learn:

– When to use a low tee vs. medium or high tee
– How tee height affects your angle of attack and strike consistency
– Why many golfers struggle with controlling low point
– Practice drills to improve your iron play and ball-striking consistency

By the end of this video, you’ll know the best tee height for each club, from long irons to short irons, and how to use tee height as a tool to sharpen your game.

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So, what tea height should you use with your irons on the teeing ground? We’re going to talk about the different tea heights and what it could do for you. Also, what does it say about you as a golfer if you’re using any of the different tea heights that we talk about in today’s video? Remember, like, subscribe if you like this content. Also, down below, let me know how far do you hit your seven eye in the comments. Let me know. So, what teight options do you have? You have ball on the ground, just thrown down, put on a nice bit of turf. the knockup where we knock a bit of turf up so it sits slightly up still very much on the turf. We’ve got low tea which is probably the most popular or should be. Then we got medium tea and then we have high tea. These are all options available. And then we also have maybe not in the US as much but UK the winter mat. So where the balls on an artificial tea an artificial bit of ground which you could use any one of those heights or from the artificial ground. So these tea heights will change as well subject to some different loss. But let’s talk about when they can be used and how they can be used as well. So the ball on the ground I would say next and never would I personally just put the ball on the ground. It’s only generally very good if I was going to play literally a knockdown shot. So ball back in my stance, handle forwards, weight forwards, and I’m going to punch it. Try and maybe hit it low if the wind is out. And I would do that with nearly any loft of club. I’m just trying to really get the feel of punching that ball low and forwards like it is on the ground. But to be fair, I would still do that from a knocked up bit of ground. Now, the knocked up bit of ground is obviously very popular with better players. You’ll see lots of good players do this because it gives you that combination of feeling from the ground, but on a really nice lie. It’s kind of the lazy person’s tea in some ways. And for me, this just feels like I’ve got a really good lie. I could hit any loft from this. I can play a punch. I can play a regular shot. It really doesn’t matter. And I feel like I’m gonna get a really nice strike on that. And it’s a friendly lie from the tea. And it’s the fact it’s not that dissimilar to the normal lies that I get on the course. Now, the low tea. So low tea is where it literally is kind of lined up with the bottom two or three grooves. So you literally barely got a bit of that tea poking out like about a nail kind of not even halfway up my nail up. That’s putting the ball very much in the middle of the bat. The bit I want to hit. And the low tea. Again, any loft of iron and I would say this is the most go-to for most people watching. This is the one you should be going to. Puts the ball in the position of your club where you can still have a good low point control, still good angle of attack, get a good strike, still get ground contact as well. So, you are, like I say, controlling that low point. It’s my go-to if I’m feeling nervous, if I want a bit of help, if I’ve not been striking it that well, and it should be the go-to for most players. Medium T, we’re now like above my nail height. This is far too high. This is going to get those kind of shots where if you watch what happens here, so I have had to pluck that off to make any kind of shot which gets the ball to the target. See, I’ve gone divot, divot, divot, no divot. Now, I think you can see the pattern if you’re somebody who wants to hit up this high, unless you’re trying to do something. I mean, there is a reason to do this, which I’ll show you at the end of the video, which might surprise you. Um, this one, no contact with the ground. I actually thin that because I’m really trying to adjust to a super high te. If you’re feeling most comfortable off one of these two, it’s definitely saying you’re not so good at controlling low point, which is something you’ll be able to use this to help you do further on in the video. Then the final T height just to be aware of is the mat. And the reason why you’ll see people like me and other players turn generally throw it down on a mat is a mat is a little bit like semi- rough. It’s not even fairway. So hitting from the ground off a mat is absolutely similar to the low tea. If you can get a low enough tea in there, do. If not, be careful. Very easy to tee these up too high. So, from the mat, definitely from the ground is a great way of getting good strikes and hitting some good shots. So, let’s think about tea height a little bit more. This is my two iron. My two iron is going to be teed up on the low to between low and medium. I’m basically putting it right in the middle of the club and I’m not hitting it down as much on my two iron. So the lower lofted iron. If I hit one here next to no T, that’s a pretty straight good shot. I’m more kind of one to two down, not taking much of a diver. Now, as the loss change, let’s go to my five iron. Let’s bring that tea back. This five iron for me can be paid from the ground to the same height as that two iron because again this one for me is going to be two to four down this angle of attack. We start brushing the ground a little bit but I’m not really moving much of a divot out of there. Now if we go to my seven iron that’s going to get pushed right down near the ground. This one I am now going to try. We’ll play this one more two like four to six down. So angle attacks passing more down. Definitely more ground interaction. I thinn that one. So even from the tea I’ve been saved. If I hit a proper strike with that seven might help. Um that from the non T. See how the tea does help. For most of us putting a little tee is a helpful thing to do. So you can see there’s a good strike dead straight ball and then turf. And then finally, if I move to my nine iron, bring this tea back. This again, we’re going right down into the low tea because again, I’m going to be playing this more on a downward angle of attack naturally. Plenty of loft ball then turf. And you can see how I’ve hit X amount of shots there. And I’ve only taken divots of some of them. The loft you’re playing on that par three or that hole will dictate tea height a little bit as well and it’s something you should work in. Bear in mind the lower the loft gets and the lower you tee it up the more chances probably got of cutting which you can use. Getting a more neutral tea height for the lower loft might just help you keep that ball a little bit straighter. Now what is your tea height saying about you and how can it help you play some better golf? So next time you’re at the range, play this game. I’ve got three different tea heights. So, high, medium, and ball on the ground. I’ve got a sixiron. Use whatever club you want. Play a shot with your six iron. You’re waiting for a half decent strike. So, wherever if I if I don’t strike this one, I’ll do another. Oh, and I’ve struck that. Nice. So, visually, all I want to do now is hit from the other T’s. Try not to change ball position, but I’m going to change delivery and try and mimic the same height. Oh, yeah. Identical. Same flight for all different TE’s. What this will help you do is control low point a little bit better with loft delivery. Something that most amateurs are really not so good at, which is why you struggle from different lies on the fairway. Oh, the higher tee is harder. It’s the same flight, but I caught off the top of the club. So working on different tea heights from your range mat on the course whenever you can is a great way of practicing different lies on the course which often you are struggling with. Such a simple way improving your strike, improving your low point control and helping lowering your scores. Remember how far you hit your seven iron? If you want to find out have I it, this video