Hit better on gras..than driving range mat?

[jenhaoyen]

Anybody experience the same way as me?

I hit the ball much further and straighter when i'm hitting on grass compare to driving range mats. I feel like the ball is always lower when i'm hitting on the mat. Is it because you don't trap the ball well when you are hitting on a mat?

 

[dashfan87]

That would be my first guess... plus, some of it may be mental as well, you know your not going to be able to make a divot, and no matter how much you accept that, its going to make you hit it lower on the club face, resulting in lower trajectory.

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

um...you want to hit the ball low on the clubface. not sure what you mean by that...also it's probably just mental.

 

[tongzilla]

the ball has left the clubface by the time you take a divot

 

[jenhaoyen]

anyways, I have been playing with my mizuno mp60 for 3 years...and today i was hitting so low punch shots and snap. It broke!! I have been hitting pretty good, I dun understand how this could have happened!!

 

[puttmad]

mats tend to make you sweep the ball, plus the fact you can hit slightly fat and get away with it (and sometimes not even know it)....

 

[Bigwill]

mats tend to make you sweep the ball, plus the fact you can hit slightly fat and get away with it (and sometimes not even know it)....

I learned this one the hard way. Nothing like having a "great" session on range mats, then going to the course and laying the sod over everything.

 

[birdie_man]

I don't like hitting wedges off those fluffy mats. It's like hitting a lob wedge off a tee...

 

[puttmad]

One thing I did learn about mats...
If you put the ball in one of the little holes that the rubber tee pegs come up through, it trains you to hit down through the ball....

One pro swears by this and all his juniors apparently work well with it...