I've been Teeing the Golf Ball Wrong for 20 Years!

one of the biggest debates in golf is how high should you tea the ball when you're hitting driver why is there such an aare a different tea height that's what we're going to find out today welcome back to the channel guys I'm Gary Martin and in today's video we're going to be testing with white 2 in teas pink 2 and 1/4 inch T's and orange 2 and 3/4 T's now you might not use Castle te's but this video will still apply to you because what we're going to be testing is the importance of consistently teeing your ball up the same height and we're going to be having a look at the differences at what happens to ball flight so launch and spin when I hit a driver with different colored tees and I think that will give us some sort of you know information to determine how it how important it actually is to make sure we consistently tea the ball up the same out and to see if there's any patterns and I think like most videos we've been doing recently it's not only going to help you guys you know to determine whether teen up the same height is actually good and they going to help you become more consistent but I'm certainly going to be able to tell what T he is best for me because you know I'm assuming you know because I always use sort of two and three two and a quarter length T's sorry that that's the best tea for me but this test could prove that I'm using the wrong tea cuz I've never done it before so uh let's get stuck in so we're going to start off by having six shots using the white te now if you've been watching the channel if you're not new to the the channel you'll already know that I actually launch the ball pretty low and it spins quite low as well so I don't think this white te is really going to do me any favors but let's get six drives out there cuz I could be wrong I mean we all have this perception of what we should be launching it and spinning it so believe it or not that ball is still sitting a quarter above the top of the driver so you know some of you guys out there might consider that to be high enough I mean to me it looks incredibly low compared to you know how normal te up but uh I'm sure some of you would consider that to be high enough and I've got to admit I don't find it as easy to I feel as though like I'm I can't hit up on the ball as much um which I think we'll we'll see with the numbers when we comeing to conclude right over to Pink I've got to admit guys um and I'm sure there's other people at home that are a bit like this being a traditional golf as i' call myself you know when I first got into golf you had white long teas or you had short mixture of wooden teas they were on these sort of like you know fancy Castle teas and bamboo Castle teas and all this so we never had sort of measured teas we just used to tea up you know get have a good calculat guest but I tell you what that Tea Act lovely I would say that is exactly how I have it I use actually white te's with sort of yellow marks so I can see where I'm putting the tea in but uh that looks perfect and that's two and A4 but having said that you know when you consider how low I launch it and how low I'm spinning it maybe an orange tea could uh be better for me let's see what happens with pink I had to delete a couple of shots with the white ones where i' hit a anomaly so we can get this data as accurate as possible that's the go-to shot so it starts left Fades or just sort of stays on that line which I'm enjoying I think I'd feel really at home with that tea I actually like the look of that against this driver don't usually use these pink castle te's but the bamboo ones look a bit classier than plastic I can feel myself swinging through it with more confidence it wouldn't surprise me if my club speed's a little bit higher with this te and it's only because when the ball sat up nice and like you can imagine it being on a bit of a tougher grass and you like you fancy it I just fancy it sat on that tea that white one I felt a bit you know like when you're trying to hit one like a Punchy one into it wind it just felt a bit too light low that one I just feel as though if I hit it Miss it it's going to go up and spin and when the the white one were just going to be like aggressively bad like if it we're going to be bad it we're going to be aggressive so a bit more nervous whereas this one I feel I've got that confidence to hit it it's a missile it's a bit cutter that's what I wanted that's what I asked SF for didn't I so that's what I got so I've not had to take one out there with pink which I suppose it's my it's my go-to tea it's that that height that I really like this is going to be the interesting one because it's I'm going to be teeing it much higher than a normally tea but actually thinking about my numbers it could be the tea that's better for me wow that's scary I'm going to have to show you a closeup of that one that's kind of like there'll be a lot of golfers watching this Channel or watching this video today and probably thinking guys I would not use that te because I'd be hitting I'd be hit it roof that's Sky territory that te so I've got two options I've either got to hover it which I'm not going to do I'm going to stay true to this test I'm going to try and hit up on the ball if I hit down on that it's certainly it's going to be up here it's going to be hitting roof I've got to make sure I try and it up on this a little bit now I've got got to do that to strike the ball clean I think with my normal swing I'm going under that so this team's forcing me to sort of feel like I've got to hit up on the ball a little bit more sorry if I sound a bit full of cold today I think we've got a flu bug going around up field golf club and you get rid of it and two days later you've got it again I can't seem to get rid of this one have I got orange yeah my eyes didn't know if I picked a pink one up actually isn't then yeah if you're wondering why I'm staring and looking at this screen a little bit more and a bit more intrigued it's CU until I thought about doing this test I weren't really thinking how much this could help me personally because uh I'm dying for a little bit more launch than Spain I'll show Sam these numbers later and see what he thinks I mean I certainly could adjust to that tea it does make me feel a bit nervous and a bit uncomfortable I'm sure I could adjust to it now I'm getting confidence with driver I'd have never done this before so if we start to have a look at this data we're going to start by looking at we'll start by looking at Club data to start with so first of all I always like to look at you know to see how consistent things have been I think what it probably shows is Club speed Wise It's varied within 3 miles per hour but it's progressively got quicker as we've hired the te so 100 Mil per hour with white tea 101 with pink tea and 103 with orange te I know some subscribers said guys you swing it faster than that but I don't actually swing it that fast I'm only using stiff Flex guys it might appear like that on screen but but that is my club speed um you know I I'm swinging a lot smoother these days I've got a little bit of a bad back so I don't hit it um you know that hard now I think attack angle is very telling if we look at attack angle again there's been a progressive um you know Improvement in attack angle so why White T's 3.7 down I mean that's out that's horrendous pink T 2.6 down and actually I've nearly got neutral with orange I'm still down but by no.4 now can't wait to look at these other numbers because that's got to have helped my ball data and wow I mean let's start by I mean ball speeds pretty consistent with white and pink obviously there's been a dramatic increase in ball speed with a the orange I were swinging it faster but I think that came down to probably a little bit more confidence uh as the tea got higher if we look at um launch shle 9.1 with white we've gone up to 9.9 with pink we've gone up to 11.8 with orange so you see how it can really increase the launch what I'm surprised about is spin spin's not changed that much which is a surprise to me you know I'm not a master fitter but I just assume that if I were was you know obviously creating uh more launch off the face and I probably create more back SP obviously Sam's custom fit of this driver for me uh one of the things we tried to do were keep that club face open so we had to use you know we had to L the driver down um but you know I'm still lacking that little bit of spin it could be that I need to use a different ball possibly and I've not experimented with ball maybe that could help increase this move anyway it's not about me entirely um distance look at that you know it's a perfect pattern of an increase in distance 273 with white which is below what I'd normally e it pink 283 I'd usually to say I'm about a 285 to 300 person and then orange 299 um and I think you know just just look at the simple stuff trajectory white pink you know orange a perfect pattern there um probably had the best dispersion with pink um if I if I was telling the truth remember it's the first time I ever use orange te's I've never used anything as high as two and three quarters and I've actually got the most distance and dispersion is is not too bad either you know i' probably would take orange over pink certainly wouldn't use white I mean that dispersion is not great um but uh yeah wow I think that just shows you how important is to make sure that you're tee it not just the right height but the same height I think after that test it's definitely safe to say you need to firstly make sure you're using the right tea I wasn't I'm going to be using orange teas from now I think that's going to help me it up on the ball and most importantly do you know what I might even go to the orange Castle tea I might stop being a tea snob and just use an orange castle where I can consistently get it that height because I can hand on Art say that you know that I've been guilty in the past as a as a good amateur golfer using white te's you know having a little bit of a guess and I think it shows you how you can be a quarter of an inch out and you know how dramatically that can affect your numbers and how important it is to make sure that you're teaming the the ball up the same high every time guys hope you've en enjoyed that little bit of an experimental video I'm loving these tests I'm not only improving my game but I'm you know it's giving me opportunity to share some of this for you and hopefully get you thinking about your game and uh make sure you hit the Subscribe button let's get to 25,000 and um yeah I'll be see you in a couple of days time bye

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Length: 13min 48sec (828 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 12 2024