Driver Tee Height Explained – Why You Might Be Losing 20 Yards Revealed

Want 20 more yards off the tee? This video reveals the surprising truth about driver tee height and how it really impacts your golf swing, distance, and strike.Mark Crossfield teams up with JD Golf Academy for a deep data dive into how tee height affects clubhead speed, angle of attack, delivered loft, body rotation, and much more. Whether you’re teeing it high or low, this isn’t about guesswork—this is about facts and practical drills to help you unlock your potential with the driver.
You’ll learn:

* Why higher tee heights can genuinely boost speed and distance
* How to use tee height to control shape, strike, and shot planning
* What separates skilled golfers from higher-handicap players in adapting to tee height
* Drills to control dynamic loft and improve launch
* The critical link between swing movement and tee setup

Whether you’re trying to hit up on the ball, manage your launch angle, or just finally gain that extra 20 yards you’ve heard everyone talk about—this video has everything you need.
Are you teeing it high, medium, or low? Let us know in the comments and see how your setup stacks up!
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Today I’m going to show you why tea height really 
matters and why even though you probably know some of this information from my mega study I’ve done 
with the team at JD Golf Academy. You are going to be as surprised as we were when we looked at 
the data from everyday golfers changing their tea height. If you have ever wondered why I watched 
the videos people say tee it like this te like that for extra 20 yards but it doesn’t work 
for you. I have found the answer to why that is happening and I’m going to share it with you 
today. Last tip today, the big reveal. Honestly, it shocked us. I think it’s going to shock you. 
Remember, if you find the information in today’s video useful, hit that subscribe button, hit the 
like button. Really helps. Come on, smash that like button for me. And a question I want to know, 
do you te your driver up high, medium, or low? In the comments, let me know. So, the first thing we 
looked at in our study with a mixture of different handicaps and abilities is club head speed. Did a 
higher T to a medium T to a lower T influence club head speed? And we saw a slight increase in most 
cases in club head speed from the higher T to the lower T. You’ll see why this happens as the video 
goes on. But interesting to watch how that higher T gave people maybe a little bit more freedom of 
movement, bit more space to move to increase that speed, which is why the extra 20 yards is on the 
table when it comes to the higher T. To get the most out of that extra speed from the low tee to 
the high tee, great place to start is in your lead foot. So on the down swing, you want to feel like 
you’re really pushing into that lead foot as early as you can in that down swing because you want 
to get that energy out into the ball. Now, to do this, a great little trigger would be to lift 
your lead heel on that back swing. I’m not talking straight up in the air, but just a tiny lift of 
this heel as you go back will allow you to really feel that pressure in that ball and those toes 
of your feet. You want to push that energy this way. So out towards just in front of the ball and 
then in turn that ground’s going to push you back, which is where you’re going to get that better 
turn and ups to get the better speed out of the high tee to the low te. And then in contrast, 
if I hit the low tea here, I’m not going to push as hard. I’m actually going to stay in lead 
foot. Stay down for that ball. Play that low tea. That’s going to be shorter. Play a different shape 
compared to the high tea. I’m really going to feel on this back swing that I’m really pushing into 
this lead foot a lot more. Play that shot. Boom. Oh yes, that is longer. And they were different 
shapes as well. Great way to trigger that feel. The next thing we looked at in the study with the 
team from JD Golf Academy was angle of attack. So if the club is passing up more to get that ball 
on the higher tee when it’s on the lower tee, does it pass down more? And we saw again in most 
cases the higher tee encouraged more of an upward angle of attack. It moved the angle of attack 
from the lower te to the higher tee. And often for golfers from their standard tea to the higher tee, 
you would see a difference in how they attacked the golf ball. hitting more up again opens 
that door for that 20 yards with the speed. If you can maximize your angle of attack with other 
factors that you’ll get to and learn through this video as it goes on, you’re going to maximize 
your driving distance. But again, like speed, not everybody changed their angle of attack. Two 
great useful tips for trying to get that angle of attack working for you from the higher T. Number 
one, I want you to connect your hands and the grip end to your trail pocket. And what I mean by this 
is I want you to feel like you get your hands in a down swing, basically down level with your trail 
pocket. Then from here, feel like your hands are going up and left. So from here, they feel like 
they’re going up and left around you. One of the big faults we see is golfers hanging on to this 
angle, trying to really think is the answer. That keeps the club up in the air, gets the hands low. 
When the hands get low, they need to start coming up and there isn’t enough time to get the club to 
the ground before it hits the ball. So, it hits on the way down. Where if you are quicker in getting 
that club down to the ground for more near trail pocket from here, you can literally just extend 
your body and turn through because believe it or not, on the down swing and into impact, even when 
you think you see shaft lean, your hands connected to this trail pocket as it comes through. It’s 
not going across your body like it looks from a 2D camera. Now, if that doesn’t do enough, grab a 
head cover and just push that feeling on a little bit more. Put it two size n feet in front of 
you. People often put this head cover too close. Doesn’t need to be massively in the air and get 
the feeling of connecting hands to trail pocket. Connecting with that ball and then moving above 
that head cover on the way through. If you’re someone who does want to leave that club up in the 
air and you feel like you have to tee it low to get it, you’re going to come through and you are 
going to connect very close with that head cover. Me personally, when I do this with students, it’s 
the practice swing next to the ball, missing the head cover, connect the trail um pocket, extend 
up and get that head cover missed on the way through. Then I ask them to move it because we 
want a real swing happening when the ball’s there and applying that feeling. We see different 
changes in angle of attack. Better distance, better strikes. Oh, lovely drives like that. 
get on delivered loft. So the loft at delivery, we saw more loft with the higher T and less 
loft with the lower T, which we would expect. But what really showed through when we talk to 
the different abilities of players who did the test is how this can be really used as a skill. So 
the tea height, then in turn, how it changes the loft you deliver when out on the golf course in 
different situations. ball on the left, low tea, compared to the high tee. This is a very tight 
golf hole that shapes round to the left. Low tee is slightly shorter. So on this tighter hole, I 
don’t want to go too much round the corner. I’m going to aim up the left and play the shape that 
the low tea dictates. A little cut into the middle right and little bit leaked, but it won’t be long 
enough to reach the trees. The high tea here, I’m feeling like I might try and bomb it. It’s 
giving me that extra speed. It’s changing my angle of attack. Changes to path. Changes to the 
way golfers are swinging the club. Going to hit this one harder. Try and boss this hole. Take it 
right up there left side and chase it up. That’s a little wedge in. I’m going to use these heights. 
Good players are using different tea heights. You need to start doing it, too. It’s a massive 
weapon in your game for good driving. Now, this was a huge surprise for all of us. Not as 
big as the end surprise which is coming. But this one really did shock us. We saw an increase 
in most cases in body rotation specifically in pelvis. So hip rotation which kind of goes inside 
with those other ideas we’ve just spoke about. But that wasn’t on the table. I was not expecting 
that to be something that would change. But again, we really did see in most cases and you’ll 
see why that statement is so important as we get to the last tip which is it just blew us 
away. but being more active with your body in the down swing and through into impact. You could 
really see why the 20 yards again totally on the table. If you can use a higher tee compared 
to a lower tee and get everything in place, push that rotation a little bit more. really 
simple tip you can use to help you make sure that you are getting what we see from those players 
from that high te where they want to open up is obviously helping them get up and through the ball 
is try and get your shirt buttons to chase the ball literally chase the ball. So back swing I’m 
going to turn and my shirt buttons go back here. I’m going to bring them down. I’m going to try and 
time shirt buttons up to around impact. Obviously, the ball’s going to come off super fast, and I’m 
going to try and chase that ball with my shirt buttons. It gives you a great feeling of rotation 
on the way through, making sure that you get not too much too early, which is common because you’re 
trying to line shirt buttons up with impact. It’s the chase afterwards, which you’ll actually start 
doing from about here, which is what we want. So, it’s this kind of delay in turn to then really 
trying to turn to chase that ball with your shirts. Because we see this from so many good 
players. The classic position is where we get this one on the way through where you’re almost 
kind of pulling the grip off this way. So as the club is flying out, your body and your hands and 
arms are pulling back on the club basically to get controls. It comes around the corner. And 
if you think about that, that is basically your shirt buttons and the button of the club all 
marrying up. Really feel that you turn shirt buttons to the ball. And then as you’re coming 
into here, really give that forward chase with your shirt buttons and your chest. It’s going to 
just push those rotations on a little bit more for those of you out there not increasing that 
rotation enough. Another big change we’ve seen, which we’ve kind of already mentioned already, 
but we’re going to call this loft difference. So, this is the difference between loft delivered 
compared to loft at the beginning. to where they started. And what we really noticed is an increase 
between 5 and 10° in loft difference from where they set up to where they deliver. Again, really 
making us see that they couldn’t really did kind of change the ideas of angle of attack and loft 
and how they really need to be separate forts, which hopefully this tip will help you see. For 
those of you who are maybe adding when you hit the higher ty too much loft because of the increase 
in loft which is then shortening you. So you go for higher tee and you think well it doesn’t go 
longer for me it goes shorter. You’re probably not that good at controlling dynamic loft while 
the club is coming up more to hit that ball which means you need to be able to separate angle 
of attack. So club coming up coming down and the loft. They’re separate movements. Easiest 
drill to feel that I want you to move into last parallel on the way down. So feel like you’ve just 
shifted across. Bring your hands down by trail uh pocket. And what I want you to do is just move 
into this position. Turn the face to the ground. So I’m just turning my wrist, turning the club 
down to the ground. And then just try and hit it from there off your higher tea. What we’re going 
to see angle of attack is four up. Launch angle was six. It actually didn’t get dynamic loft 
there cuz I turned so much off. Now doing this, remember from the high te, you’ll still got that 
angle of attack improvement. Same idea. Moving to last parallel. I’ll just turn the face up to the 
sky and turn through. You can see high rights, very common shot. Dynamic loft is 17. Angle of 
attack is up, launch at 15°. So, you can control loft by trying to achieve last parallel, taking 
loft off or adding loft while still trying to hit from that high te. And the more you get into 
the habit of hitting from adding loads of loft, turning face to the sky, taking loads off, finding 
somewhere in between, the better you’re going to get a disassociating loft with angle of attack. 
So when you do get your higher TE’s, you got your better chance hitting those bombs you want to hit. 
And often the big question with this, yes, but where’s right? There is no right. You’re all going 
to hit a different position in last parallel. Some of you are going to require more turn down subject 
to club path. Some of you are going to create less turn down subject to club pass where the club 
is coming from. It has to blend into everything which is why you need to learn the skill of using 
all those angles comfortably controlling all of them to find that middle ground. That’s where the 
real skill lays. Remember to like and subscribe if you’re not already. Subscribe to the channel for 
free videos. Like the video if you can. It really helps the channel out. Now the big reveal. This 
one was so noticeable. The players in the test with the higher club head speeds naturally made 
more of the changes I’ve just said above. They got these things into place just by changing tea 
height. Not telling them anything, not asking them to do anything. Literally just changing the tea 
height. They rotated more. They hit up on it more. They increased the speed more. They reacted more 
to the tea height. the lower speeded players which in turn were also the higher handicap players 
they didn’t always adjust. If they adjusted one or two of the things they never adjusted all of 
them which is the reason why when you watch to higher hit it further videos you try that and it 
doesn’t help. You have to be doing all those tips prior on in the video if you’re someone who is 
not changing to tea height which we noticeably saw from different abilities of golfers. We can relate 
that to club head speed, but that really related to their indexes, their handicaps as well. And 
that’s something we see on AROS data where slower golfers generally have higher handicaps and faster 
golfers generally have lower handicaps. And I know there’s outliers in those as well, but the lesser 
skilled golfer, however we want to define it, was not as able to adapt to the ball on different 
heights. Think about what that means when you’re out there playing on the grass as well with your 
iron play. If you are not adapting to different heights with the driver and your safety zone, 
when the ball’s off the ground, how good are you adapting on different lies? And when the ball’s 
above your feet, below your feet, down your lies, all those kind of things. Again, you’re probably 
going to see in those cases, more skilled golfers handle it, less skilled golfers don’t. Meaning, 
if you want to get the benefits of this video, you need to practice all those tips that have 
gone before to make sure you get those benefits of the high tea to the low te. 20 yards is on 
the table. It totally is. But it’s not just the tea. Everything else has to fall in place. Now, if 
you want to find out how far you should be hitting your driver to your ability and your age, this 
video here will tell you everything you need to