[Scottgas2]

While on the range today, I was experimenting with driving my impact hands almost straight down into the ball. ("Batting with a pitch elbow?") I realized that I could control the flight of any shot by the ball placement in relation to the "nutcracker" type of move.

I teed the ball a little lower and put it right in front of the the bottom of where the driver would move level to the ground. The drive, like a lot of my wood shots, produced a tv like "bb" that "climbed the hill" and made me laugh out loud!

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Would you kindly elaborate? I don't understand what you mean by driving the hands straight down to the ball. Aren't you always driving the hands in a straight line to the ball from R shoulder height, but on a diagonal line? Are you saying that your hands at top are almost even with the ball, hence a much steeper downstroke? How does the nutcracker come into this? Thanks.