What Causes Toe Hits and How to Correct Them

🏌️ Using face tape or foot spray helps golfers identify exactly where they strike the ball on the clubface, which is key to improving consistency.

📏 Shortening your driver shaft from the standard length can make it easier to consistently hit the center of the clubface.

⛳ Placing a tee on the inside or outside of the golf ball during practice helps correct toe or heel strikes by acting as a simple obstacle.

🚩 Erratic contact marks all over the clubface signal that a golfer should consider getting fitted for a shorter driver shaft.

00:00:00 - All right. Well, today Josh is gonna teach me how to consistently make good contact with my driver. Some few tips and then see if I can do it.

00:00:12 - >> All right, Peyton. So, first thing is first here. I have some face tape. Okay. When you're talking about hitting your driver more consistently for everybody at home, you need to know first and foremost where you're hitting the ball in the face. There's a lot of area there. Um, and if you don't know where you're striking, it's going to be really hard to fix the issues that you have. So, get yourself some face tape. You can use foot spray. Um, if you're really

00:00:33 - fancy and you have a quad, you can put some reflective markers on there and it'll actually show you where you're making contact on the face. So, lots of different ways to do this. Main point here is you need something to identify where you're striking. Okay? So, we'll use face tape as we go through this today. Depending on where you're hitting it on the face, that can uh mean a variety of things. So, I'm going to have you hit a couple shots and get sort of a pattern for where you strike it, and

00:00:54 - then we can talk about how to fix your issues and then any others that pop up. Okay. Cool. Perfect. >> One of the biggest things while she's hitting, just for everybody at home, easiest way to get more centered strikes with a driver, uh, is to play a shorter driver shaft. Most drivers are 45 and 3/4 in long. Uh, that's a really, really that that length is really difficult to get contact in the center of the face. So, you'll probably want to get fit. Make sure you're playing a driver that's

00:01:19 - just a little bit shorter than standard. That just makes it easier to get the centered strikes. >> Oh, so where'd you hit that one? kind of top middle. >> So, sort of center a little bit, maybe towards the toe. Let's have you hit a couple more just to get a pattern here.

00:01:42 - >> Oh, right in the middle. >> Dead center. >> Dead center. That was really good.

00:01:50 - >> Cool. >> Feel like I'm rehitting. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> Okay. >> Basically, just right here. Yeah, >> you can see all the marks. >> Yep. >> Okay. So, if you are somebody like Payton who tends to have contact more towards the toe, so it's kind of centered and heading out towards the toe. Couple things you could do. Like I said, number one, um I would probably look at, especially for someone like you, getting a shorter driver. That would help. This is just a standard

00:02:14 - length. So, we're just going to stick with standard for right now cuz I don't have a shorter one for you to try. But an easy way that you could fix this is if you're striking the ball in the toe, all you really need is another T. So go ahead and put the golf club down behind the ball. So if you hit it on the toe, easy way to fix this, stick a tee in the ground on the inside part of the golf ball or on uh like the inside part of the club and the ball and just avoid

00:02:35 - hitting that. Like for you when you're striking the ball, if the club's closer to you, you would hit the tea. You would hit the ball on the toe. Make sense? So that's an easy way. If you're striking it more towards the toe, stick a golf tea on the inside. Make sure you avoid that. That's probably going to shift contact more towards the center, more towards the heel. If you were the opposite, if you struck the ball on the heel a ton, I would just move that tee to the other side. So, put it on the

00:02:56 - outside of the golf ball. Obviously, depending on how comfortable you are with this, you can get closer or further away with the tee. If you really wanted to challenge yourself, you can move it really close. I would start with it further away. Just see if that does anything to influence where the ball's striking on the face. Um, the other thing to keep in mind, if you're checking this with face tape, you may see contact on the toe, you may see it on the heel, you may also see just

00:03:16 - erratic strikes all over the place. I see that with a lot of amitters where they're just hitting it everywhere. That's the big indicator if you're seeing contact all over the face that you need to get fit for a shorter driver. When you have a club that is too long for you, you're not going to see a consistent pattern. It's just going to be everywhere. So, if you see that, that would be a big red flag and I would go get fit immediately for you. We're going to stick a tee in the ground right here.

00:03:36 - I'm going to have you make a swing where you don't hit this tee and hit the golf ball. And let's see if that moves contact more towards the heel.

00:03:49 - What? >> Yeah, it definitely did. Yeah, right there. >> That's the furthest to the right. >> So, there you go. One swing. Okay. And you can see we we'll show you the contact on the screen just where it moved on the face. That was the furthest toward the heel. It definitely wasn't on the heel. That's not where you're trying to get it to go. But if you see that contact moving too far one way or the other, simple T. That's the easy way to fix it. That'll give you the most consistent strikes.

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