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Maximize Your Driver Distance with the Right Tee. Get the Proof at Private Fairway.

Overview

This content is a golf lesson and product demonstration by Craig from Private Fairway, focusing on how amateur golfers can use professional technology (TrackMan) to optimize their drives by choosing the right tee height.

Key Points

• Purpose: Craig explores whether using a short or tall tee affects driving distance and performance for amateur golfers, utilizing TrackMan data for analysis.

• Technology Used: TrackMan, a tool commonly used by professional golfers, is featured as a way for amateurs to measure and improve their game.

Experiment Details

• Short Tee Results:

  • Club head speed: 96.2 mph

  • Ball speed: 140 mph

  • Average carry distance: 230 yards

  • Total distance: 264 yards

  • Ball flight height: 73 feet

  • Launch angle: 13°

  • Spin: 2,700 RPM

  • Landing angle: 30–33°

  • Tendency: 40 feet right of center (push fade)

• Tall Tee Results:

  • Club head speed: 96 mph (similar)

  • Ball speed: Slightly higher, due to better strike

  • Average carry distance: 249 yards

  • Total distance: 275 yards

  • Ball flight height: 100 feet

  • Launch angle: 16°

  • Landing angle: 36°

  • Rollout: About 25 yards

Conclusions

• Carry Distance: The taller tee produced nearly 20 yards more carry distance, which is more reliable than total distance due to variable ground conditions.

• Other Metrics: Launch angle and ball flight height both increased with the taller tee, leading to greater overall distance.

• Recommendation: Golfers should consider using a taller tee for increased carry and overall distance, and use tools like TrackMan for personalized analysis.

Call to Action

• Try different tee heights and analyze your results, ideally using technology like TrackMan.

• Subscribe to Private Fairway for more golf improvement tips using professional technology.

Full Video Transcription:

Hi, this is Craig with Private Fairway and I'm an amateur golfer just like you. And I asked myself the question, what if I could have the same technology the pros have? So at Private Fairway we have TrackMan, just like all the pros use week to week on tour.

And we're helping amateur golfers like me and like you get better. Ever wonder when teeing the ball up at the driver, whether to use a long tee (the blue 3 1⁄4 inch ones) or a short tee (the red ones)?

Probably most of us use the one in the middle, but I want to show you how you can use TrackMan to figure out which tee can help you get the most distance out of your drive. The first one are these, the ones I hit with the short tee. So you can see the ones I hit with the short tee, my average club head speed was 96.2 miles an hour, ball speed 140, and my average carry distance was 230 yards, my average total distance 263. 9. So 264 yards total distance. And on average I finished 40 feet right of the center line. So a little bit of a push fade, I was hitting with that.

So a couple of things to also notice, my attack angle was up on the ball, that's what I try to do, and spin was 2,700 RPMs, and then the launch angle for that short tee was 13 degrees. So what's the difference if I go to the taller tee? So let's look at these four shots I hit with the taller tee.

Club speed is about the same, 96 versus 96. 2. Ball speed is actually a little bit better, mostly because I think I hit it more in the center of the club, or a little higher on the face than low on the face that you hit with that little short tee.

Height, my average height was 100 feet, and I'm trying to remember what the other one was, versus 73 feet. So the ball went actually 25 feet, 27 feet higher in the air on average.

And my carry distance is 249 versus 231. Now the total distance of 275 is only 12 yards between the two.But you know, the reality is the distance you can count on is carry distance, because you never know the conditions of where the ball is going to land, is it going to roll out or not.

A couple other interesting things you can look at, if you wanted to look at launch angle, that's 16 degrees with the taller tee versus 13 degrees with the shorter tee.

And you can also look at landing angle, for example, we could add landing angle in here

I just have to find it. Okay, here we go, landing angle. So landing angle with the taller tee is 36 degrees, that's how it's landing And with the shorter tees it should be shallower, 30 degrees, which is going to give us a little bit more.

You can see I get, well, what did we get, 33 degrees with a rollout with the short tee, versus roughly 25 degrees, or 25 yards of rollout with the longer tee.

But overall distance has improved, all of the things being equal, ball speed, club speed, all those things being pretty close to the same, you're going to pick up, I picked up almost 20 yards carry distance with the longer tee.

So next time you're working on your golf game, consider looking at that longer tee and see how that might work. And if you really want to compare, find yourself a TrackMan facility like Private Fairway.

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