Have you ever wondered what the loft angle (in degrees,) listed on your driver actually means? Wikipedia offers an excellent concise explanation: "Various clubs are designed with the face of the club head, also called the "clubface", having differing loft (the angle between a vertical plane and the clubface when the club is at rest). It is loft that makes a golf ball leave the ground on an ascending trajectory, not an upward direction of swing: with the exception of the tee shot, the club actually hits the ball in a horizontal or slightly downward motion. The impact of the clubface compresses the ball. Grooves on the clubface impart a counterclockwise (from a parallel view of the swing) spin, known as backspin, on the ball, that when combined with the rebounding effect of the ball, give it lift. Typically, the greater the loft, the higher and shorter the resulting ball trajectory."
The next time you're looking to get that ball over the trees on a dog leg left, instead of laying up, make sure you have a driver in your bag with a decent loft angle, so you can really launch the ball and clear the obstacle.
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