Should I Change My Set Up Golf Ball Position With Different Clubs? (Video) - by Natalie Adams
Should I Change My Set Up Golf Ball Position With Different Clubs? (Video) - by Natalie Adams

Should I change my set up golf ball position for different clubs? Well, the answer to that question is yes absolutely. Your shorter club should be played from the middle of your stance and as the ball – as the club gets longer you want to play the ball down further the target line. So it should move forward in your stance. The reason for that is that if we look at a short club pitching wedge and a driver you can see that when they are set up the shaft angle is very different on the two clubs. The shorter club has a much steeper shaft angle and the longer club of the driver has a much flatter shaft angle. And that’s going to affect how you swing the club around you. With the shorter club you’ll swing club much more upright and open into the air which allows the club to come back and be on the target line for longer. Whereas, with the longer club, the longer club head will swing much flatter and lower around you, which means the axe away from the target line and that means as the club comes back towards the target line, it’s approaching from inside the target line and it takes longer for the club head to square up on the target line. So we have to move the golf ball further forward in the stance to give the club longer to make the clubface square as it connects.

So if we look at these three ball positions here, this is how our basic set up would want to look, that we set up with the ball in the middle of the feet for the pitching wedge and then the ball technically moves half the ball forward for each subsequent club. So pitching wedge and nine; iron in the middle with though eight; iron a ball to the left, seven; iron into half a ball then into six; and the five; iron and you continue forward. So this is the position with the ball in the middle of the feet for the pitching wedge, but if you were hitting with driver, you would want to hit your driver off the inside of your left heel. So the ball is moving slowly forward in the stance, the longer the club is better. If you take that on board, when you set up ready to hit you golf shots, you should find that your accuracy and your strike, improves and your golf scores get lower. 2014-07-29

Should I change my set up golf ball position for different clubs? Well, the answer to that question is yes absolutely. Your shorter club should be played from the middle of your stance and as the ball – as the club gets longer you want to play the ball down further the target line. So it should move forward in your stance. The reason for that is that if we look at a short club pitching wedge and a driver you can see that when they are set up the shaft angle is very different on the two clubs. The shorter club has a much steeper shaft angle and the longer club of the driver has a much flatter shaft angle. And that’s going to affect how you swing the club around you. With the shorter club you’ll swing club much more upright and open into the air which allows the club to come back and be on the target line for longer. Whereas, with the longer club, the longer club head will swing much flatter and lower around you, which means the axe away from the target line and that means as the club comes back towards the target line, it’s approaching from inside the target line and it takes longer for the club head to square up on the target line. So we have to move the golf ball further forward in the stance to give the club longer to make the clubface square as it connects.

So if we look at these three ball positions here, this is how our basic set up would want to look, that we set up with the ball in the middle of the feet for the pitching wedge and then the ball technically moves half the ball forward for each subsequent club. So pitching wedge and nine; iron in the middle with though eight; iron a ball to the left, seven; iron into half a ball then into six; and the five; iron and you continue forward. So this is the position with the ball in the middle of the feet for the pitching wedge, but if you were hitting with driver, you would want to hit your driver off the inside of your left heel. So the ball is moving slowly forward in the stance, the longer the club is better. If you take that on board, when you set up ready to hit you golf shots, you should find that your accuracy and your strike, improves and your golf scores get lower.