Hybrid golf clubs can and should be used from off the tee on occasion. Indeed, several golf tee scenarios call for the hybrid to be used instead of your driver or 3-Wood.
For example, a long par-3 or a shorter par-4 with a narrow fairway would be good candidates for you to use your hybrid.
If and when you do, just remember to position the ball on a tee that is just the right height. Specifically, make sure that half the ball resides over the clubhead. If you position the ball too high on a tee, you risk skying the ball as a result of your clubhead traveling underneath the ball. Conversely, if you position the ball too low to the ground you might not get the full ball flight that you are hoping for.
Next, make sure that you position the ball forward enough in your stance but not as forward as you would if using a driver or a fairway wood. Two to three balls width away from your forward foot’s instep should prove plenty.
Finally, make sure that you swing the ball with the intent of brushing the grass, neither digging in nor trying to steer clean of any contact with the grass.
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first thing to consider with this tip about using hybrid clubs from a teeing ground is it is something you should be doing I think some people consider that any Par Four or par five they’re just instinctively going to reach for driver take the head cover off and then look down the Fairway and any par three they’re going to leave all the head covers in the bag and they’re definitely going to use an iron and that really misunderstands how hybrid clubs and Fairway Woods can be very versatile in both those situations so the first consideration is try and find a couple of opportunities where you can use a Hybrid Club out on the golf course on the power fours and the par fivs on the longer holes hybrid clubs can be very use useful and versatile where distance is not the key priority but accuracy and placement is so what you should try and do is understand how far this club goes when you’re practicing so for my hybrid clubs it goes 220 I practice with it on the driving range it goes 220 so I then look on the golf course and think well where does 220 suit if I’ve got a 310 yard hole relatively short par4 but the bunkers the narrowness the pond All Creeps in at sort of 240 250 then drivers not the option for me though I don’t want to try and hit a drive and try and get it up near the green I want to hit a Hybrid Club 220 Leave myself a good yardage in so there’ll be a time and a place where maybe a dog leg or like I say narrowing of bunkers or a pond bringing the option of laying back a little bit further and playing a slightly longer second shot but you’re going to guarantee or more likely guarantee you should be on The Fairway cuz a Hybrid Club will normally be straighter than a3w which would normally be straighter than a driver just the nature of the shorter shaft and the more lofted head would generally keep the ball in play better the other consideration for a club golfer is that so many Club golfers are short or shorter than they think with their irons so if you’re on a let’s say 180 yard par three a lot of Club golfers will instinctively reach from mid iron thinking well in the past I have managed to hit my six or seven iron 180 so I’m going to use it on this occasion I’m going to try and hit it that far generally in that situation you won’t reach it won’t go far enough you’re going to be in the front edge of the green now we know as golfers that most Co designers are going to put the bunkers the hazards the hedges the ditches in the front of the green so suddenly you’re hitting an iron that’s Landing in that area so if you’re constantly laying up short on par 3s you’re not hitting the irons quite as far as you think don’t be afraid of pulling a hybrid take your Hybrid Club out on those par 3s try and fly the ball all the way to the back of the green generally what we’ll see with a Hybrid Club is when it lands it’ll have quite a lot of height so it’ll come down and it’ll stop again perfect for those par 3s it clears the danger at the front it flies to the middle of the back of the green and then it lands and it stops so if I te the ball up now be this on a teeing ground for a par four par five or even for a par three I have the ball on the little teg I can see around about half the top of the club from the camera’s view if it was teed down too low I think it would just make it very very difficult to hit if it was teed up too high I might feel like I’m going to go straight underneath the ball and Sky it into the air so want to have the ball on a reasonable size t i then position the ball just about three balls widths away from my left heel as a right-handed golfer it’s definitely towards the front half of my stance but it’s not as far forwards as it might be with a driver in a 3-wood I then go ahead make my normal Gulf swing the feeling here as I’m trying to just clip the leaves of the grass I’m just trying to bruise the leaves of the grass if I was too high I might top it if I was too low I might Sky underneath it and hit it heavy so I can take the ball cleanly off the top of the teg there it’s in the air it’s in the air it’s in the air and when it comes down I get the sense that that Ball’s not going to roll too far it’s going to land it’s going to stop relatively quickly which is perfect for that lay up on the par four par five situation where I want distance control or long par three I want that ball to come down and stop and I can just see that I flick the teg over so I knocked the teg over but I didn’t gouge out the ground and hopefully using those tips will give you reasons and opportunities to use hybrid clubs on the tee round
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Great video. Like the strategy tips.