You can gain 20-plus yards by employing this simple gear hack

Question: Is there an optimal tee height for the driver?

Answer: How high or low you tee up the ball directly impacts carry distance. So, too, does your angle of attack (AoA). Find a way to optimize launch and attack angle and distance potential increases exponentially.

Think of it as a driver power-up.

Sound elementary? That's because it is. The problem is many golfers don't know if they have a positive, negative or neutral attack angle. For those who are still in the dark on AoA, a launch monitor can establish a baseline.

In most cases, swinging up on the ball is going to give you the best opportunity to gain distance without having to completely tear down the golf swing or make gear changes. But not everyone can change their angle of attack on the fly.

The simple fix if you're looking for more distance is to change the tee height.

To hammer home this point, we employed the Golf Laboratories swing robot to show you exactly how much distance you stand to gain by changing the tee height using a common attack angle (negative two) and swing speed (95 mph).

Once the swing parameters were established, the robot hit three balls with a 10.5-degree driver out of the geometric center of the clubface to produce a carry distance baseline.

The tee was then moved higher and lower and three balls were then hit below and above the geometric center at .3 inches and .6 inches, for a total of five strike locations.

Let's take a peek at the results:

Center strike: 241 yards

Below .3 inches strike: 232 yards

Below .6 inches strike: 219 yards

Above .3 inches strike: 244 yards

Above .6 inches strike: 237 yards

If you're someone who impacts the ball on the low portion of the face—a very common mishit location for many weekend golfers—spin will very likely increase to a suboptimal level as launch decreases. A low launch and high spin won't generate distance, which is why the strike .6 inches below the geometric center went only 219 yards.

If you simply raise the tee height, while maintaining the same negative attack angle, and impact the ball higher on the face, you could theoretically gain 25 yards.

We understand you're not a robot and can't hit the ball in a specific spot on command, but this test confirms that hitting higher on the face will generate more of what you need—high launch and low spin—especially for those who routinely miss low on the face.

Go take advantage of the driver power-up and hit some bombs.