Should I Ever Play The Golf Ball Back In My Stance? (Video) - by Dean Butler
Should I Ever Play The Golf Ball Back In My Stance? (Video) - by Dean Butler

So the question is should I ever play the ball back in my stance? Well the answer is yes. There’s a couple of shots that just come out straight out of my mind, well just think of the first one; the ball has landed – a neat nice golf shot, just in the semi rough, but I’ve got the trees over hanging. Now I’ve got two choices, I could either chip out sideways, I don’t want to do that, I just hit a 270 yard tee shot I don’t want to come out sideways. So, second option is I want to try and play a shot that’s going to drive that ball underneath those overhanging branches.

So by putting the ball back in the set up, actually does two things, the first thing is; by putting the ball further back so here I’ve got a 4-iron in my hands, but the 4-iron would normally be here, towards my left heel, but we’re going to put the ball back in my stance and by doing that it makes my swing much more upright, a steeper swing. So from here the club will tend to go more up, and down and you can see from that action coming down, that I’m actual going to hit down onto the golf ball. So by putting the ball back I’m going to hit the ball down. Because the club is still going, I’ve now de-lofted my 4-iron, so my 4-iron is more likely to be like a 3-iron at impact as it hits the ball nice and low so that’s one scenario, so let’s set up and swing and show you this shot. So there’s the ball back in the stance, completely in the opposite position, trees are overhanging, place my hands well forward and from here I want to swing the club back, the club goes up, and that’s a very, very low point shot and even I’m quite pleased with that one, that’s a lovely golf shot right underneath the branches. And of course the other scenario is, imagine, wouldn’t it be wonderful to play golf with no wind blowing, well here we are on the British isle, it’s windy all the time so we got to learn how to play golf shots, and whenever its windy, it never seems to be behind, it always seems to be against. So the same scenario, we don’t want to hit a nice sort of 7-iron where the ball is going up in the air because the wind will bring it back, and of course it means more and more clubs. So by putting the ball back in your stance again it has a lot more penetration so two golf shots spring to mind, when the ball goes back it produces a punch shot one for underneath branches but more importantly one for one of those windy days, that we forever seem to get here. 2014-07-31

So the question is should I ever play the ball back in my stance? Well the answer is yes. There’s a couple of shots that just come out straight out of my mind, well just think of the first one; the ball has landed – a neat nice golf shot, just in the semi rough, but I’ve got the trees over hanging. Now I’ve got two choices, I could either chip out sideways, I don’t want to do that, I just hit a 270 yard tee shot I don’t want to come out sideways. So, second option is I want to try and play a shot that’s going to drive that ball underneath those overhanging branches.

So by putting the ball back in the set up, actually does two things, the first thing is; by putting the ball further back so here I’ve got a 4-iron in my hands, but the 4-iron would normally be here, towards my left heel, but we’re going to put the ball back in my stance and by doing that it makes my swing much more upright, a steeper swing. So from here the club will tend to go more up, and down and you can see from that action coming down, that I’m actual going to hit down onto the golf ball. So by putting the ball back I’m going to hit the ball down. Because the club is still going, I’ve now de-lofted my 4-iron, so my 4-iron is more likely to be like a 3-iron at impact as it hits the ball nice and low so that’s one scenario, so let’s set up and swing and show you this shot.

So there’s the ball back in the stance, completely in the opposite position, trees are overhanging, place my hands well forward and from here I want to swing the club back, the club goes up, and that’s a very, very low point shot and even I’m quite pleased with that one, that’s a lovely golf shot right underneath the branches. And of course the other scenario is, imagine, wouldn’t it be wonderful to play golf with no wind blowing, well here we are on the British isle, it’s windy all the time so we got to learn how to play golf shots, and whenever its windy, it never seems to be behind, it always seems to be against. So the same scenario, we don’t want to hit a nice sort of 7-iron where the ball is going up in the air because the wind will bring it back, and of course it means more and more clubs. So by putting the ball back in your stance again it has a lot more penetration so two golf shots spring to mind, when the ball goes back it produces a punch shot one for underneath branches but more importantly one for one of those windy days, that we forever seem to get here.