If you want to hit your driver longer, straighter, and more consistently, the correct tee height is one of the most overlooked fundamentals in golf. Most golfers tee the ball too low or too high, causing poor contact, low launch, excessive spin, and lost distance. In this video, I break down the perfect tee height for driver and show you how a small setup change can instantly improve your strike, launch angle, and overall performance.
You’ll learn how tee height affects:
• Launch & spin (critical for maximizing carry distance)
• Face contact (centered strikes = more ball speed)
• Smash factor (the #1 key to distance)
• Angle of attack and shot shape
• Driver consistency under pressure
I’ll also show you the most common mistakes amateurs make with driver setup, plus simple checkpoints you can use on the range and the course to ensure you’re always teeing it at the correct height.
Whether you’re struggling with low drives, sky marks, inconsistent contact, weak slices, or you just want to gain extra yards, this tee height guide will give you a reliable, repeatable system to find your best strike.
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Does the height you tee the ball really make a difference for how far you drive the ball? Well, Aaron Ry has just won on the DP World Tour using the pink castle tea. A very popular choice, I’m sure, with lots of you watching, but some golfers use orange, some use pink, some use white. In say I’m going to show you what those different heights changes in your swing, the delivery of the club, and which one will suit you most to help you hit the ball longer and straighter than ever before. So, I do think there’s no secrets out there anymore. And I think most golfers are aware that if we want to hit driver as far as we can, that it’d be great if we could get that club head traveling up through impact. So the club’s hitting up on the golf ball, launching the ball high with no spin. It’s going to maximize carry and then maximize roll out. Now the shot I hit in the opening of that video there, 102 mph club speed, 149 ball speed. I’ve hit up 2.7°, launch at just under 11, 2,000 spin, carry at 236, and roll out 279. Now, yes, before anyone comments, I know my club head speed is down. I’m working on that currently, but for a long time, I’ve used orange tea, and it really encourages me to hit up. Now, it’s very interesting though. I’ve kind of played around between pink and orange currently, and I’ve even got some golfers that work with me on white. So, I’m going to hit another couple off the orange, and I’m not going to change anything in my setup as I work through the different heights, but I’m going to help you understand why maybe a different height T works better for you, because remember, not one size fits all. So, I’m going to get that ball forward in my stance. Kind of get my uh stance pointing slightly over to the right with my body, club set behind. So I’m going to hit up on the ball and again make that swing just not drawing back but again very similar club head speed ball speed similar again hitting up 2.4 degrees 12 degree launch 1700 spin 237 carry and 279 total. So definitely what I do nicely off the orange tea is from setting the club behind, I know that my club’s traveling up as I hit the ball, I catch fairly near the center. I don’t always flush it, but I hit up generally pretty well. I don’t have lots and lots of loft on my driver because I find once I get a bit more loft on as I’m hitting up, it creates too much loft, which actually costs me a bit on ball speed. So orange tea there I know works pretty well for me. But I also look at my numbers there and I go for 101 club speed. The 148 maybe not as efficient getting the energy from the club to the ball. So then I would move down from the orange tea to the pink tea. I’m going to set up exactly the same. try and make the same swing. But I’m very aware that maybe more subconsciously than anything that if I were to hit up too much, I’d probably catch that a little bit off the bottom of the club. But I’m going to try and treat everything very, very similar. Make that swing. And we see very similar club head speed, but my ball speed jumps to 152.3. I’ve still hit up, but only very slightly at 0.2°. Launch angle’s gone down to 8.8, spin at 1,800, carry at 231, total at 277. So definitely by not hitting up as much, kind of hitting a bit more level through the bottom. So my low point would have been more underneath the ball there, I’ve delofted the club a little bit more, which has got more energy from the swing, from the speed the club head’s going into the golf ball. And I see this a lot with golfers that many golfers go for orange tea and they maybe struggle with strike a little bit as well, but they generally launch the ball too high. So it could be that orange tea as much as you hitting up should be making you more efficient. Maybe it’s actually costing you a little bit of ball speed. And that’s my little dilemma at the moment is carries down a fraction totals about the same. So let’s go one more on pink tea. And I did say at the start, you know, Aaron Ry uses pink tea to make sure that tea height is exactly the same every single time. So, you’re going to set up pink tea. Good swing. Now, that was a poor strike. Club head speed was good. Very much out the toe. Ball speed drops off to 143. Hit up a little bit more. Launch angle decent. Low spin because of the strike. 211 carry and 256. So, not hugely detrimental, but I definitely feel with me that on pink tea, I don’t feel I actually catch the middle as often. And I’m not going to hit loads and loads of shots doing this, but that I think because I’m so used to the orange tea for me, but the guys who are very used to pink who struggle, that’s where sometimes trying white or orange can be big for them. So again, we go one more with pink tea club set back. Now again, better strike 103 mph club speed, 151 ball speed up under a degree, 9 degree launch, 1,800 spin, 226 carry, and 273 total. Now again, and this is where all those numbers that I use for fitting and coaching, it’s almost like getting that perfect recipe for you to get your longest drive. So definitely off the pink tea, I kind of feel I don’t spin it enough to keep it in the air. So that’s where I might have to play around with loft a little bit, but I can see very, very similar results between pink and orange, too. Now, if you are enjoying today’s video, I’d love it if you don’t already, just take a minute to click the subscribe button, like and share the video. Still over 85% of you that watch my videos, which I really appreciate you watching it, but you still don’t subscribe. So, I’d love it if you just took a second to do that. So, finally, we’re going to go down to the white tea. Now, I would say predominantly if you’re a golfer whose natural ball flight is very much on the low side, trying to hit up on driver will be difficult for you. So sometimes actually hitting driver the same way you hit irions might get the low point ahead and get the club traveling down, but it’s not always the worst thing in the world because it’ll definitely make sure that the strikes good for you and you’ll probably deliver the club very similar path and face to the irons. So the shape of shot will be very similar. But for me, go white te kind of keep setup as similar as possible. make that swing. So again, similar club speed. So similar club speed, ball speed 150, hitting down very slightly, 0.2°, launching at 9, spinning at 1700, 227 carry, and 273 total. Now, even though it’s only been a very, very small sample in this video, you can see my numbers don’t actually change massively, but definitely the trajectory of the shot changes. So, as I go lower with the tea, I do deliver the club a little bit different. I’m not trying to I’m keeping the setup the same, but kind of club speed, ball speed stay about the same. Attack angle changes. Loft therefore moves around a little. Definitely the lower T’s there’s less carry because of the flatter trajectory but pretty similar total distance. Now, this is where potentially you could play around with tea height if the driver performs very similar like it does for me depending what you want to do into the wind downwind. Doesn’t make a huge difference with me because of the low spin. But let’s go one more white tea normal setup. Make that swing. That one fell a little bit higher up the face. And we can see with the launch angle there, 11.4° club face was a little bit open. Actually spun at 2,300 because of the higher launch. I did hit down 241 carry and 273 total. Now this is definitely where golfers are different golfer to golfer. So definitely see with me that even though I set up very much in the same way depending on the tea height, my kind of brain does whatever it needs to try and get the center of the club face on the ball. So when it’s teed down, I definitely hit down a little bit. On the pink tea, I can still hit up a touch and on the orange tea, I can hit up a lot. And if I were to do the same exact same delivery and get the club back in the same place, we can definitely see how that strike location will be moving up and down the face. But it is a dilemma because I don’t necessarily think the tea height makes as big a difference with me as it does with a lot of the golfers I see. But it’s definitely a case of if you can play around a little bit with different height TE’s, see which one, particular if you go to a range where there’s some technology, see which one gives you the best ball speed first of all because that’s the efficiency of getting that energy from the club head to the ball. Then look at spin. Then look at your carry and your total. But definitely try the different ones. Don’t just do what you’ve always done unless you are a phenomenal driver of the golf ball. And if you do want to pick up those extra few yards on top of the correct tea height, I’m going to pop a video on now that’ll definitely get you a few extra yards from the tea.
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The spin on the Pink tee is v low.