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Positioning the Golf Ball in the Stance Part 2

9:54 am November 24, 2009

Following my last article, describing where to position the ball in your stance, several of you emailed me wanting more about where to have the ball along the line of the shot direction, in relation to your feet. Re-reading the article, I see I concentrated most on distance from the body, as that’s what I struggled most with.

By the sound of most of your emails, though, it seems many of you are more interested in the positioning along the line of the shot, rather than from the body. Golfers truly do come in many shapes and sizes! From my original notes I’ve put this second part of the article together for you.

Recapping the original article, it was about how you need to ball to be the correct distance from you based on the club you’ve chosen to use. The driver being the longest club means the ball with be furthest from you, with the short irons and the putter being nearest to you.

So what I was taught to do once I’d mastered that, was again based on the club selected for the shot, and placing the ball at different positions along the line of the swing. So there are 2 elements of positioning that are dependent on club selection – distance from the body and placement along the line of the shot.

Based on the length of the club shaft again, the ball will be further up the line of swing for the longer clubs. With the driver being the longest club, when using this we should place the ball right near the front of the stance, along the swing line. ie opposite or nearly opposite your left foot for righthanded golfers.

The driver is the longest of the clubs, and requires more of a rounded swing than any other clubs. Because of this, we don’t want to hit the ball too early in the swing, so when we place it near to our front foot, we will be hitting the ball on the upswing rather than the downswing.

99% of the time for amateur golfers, the driver will only be used from the tee, so placing the ball on a high tee will combine with this technique of hitting it late in the swing, to hit the ball up off the tee and give us a clean and long strike.

For the other clubs, of course, we don’t need such a big swing or to hit the ball on the up so much, so we position the ball further back from the front of the stance, with the middle of the stance (directly in front of our eyes) being the ideal position for the shortest clubs.

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