Proper Golf Ball Position Can Cure Swing Ills (Video) - Lesson 22 by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Proper Golf Ball Position Can Cure Swing Ills (Video) - Lesson 22 by PGA Pro Pete Styles

Now, there's no question in my mind that a good address position to the golf ball is one of the fundamental strategy in making a good swing and a real big part of being a good consistent ball striker is having a good consistent addressed position to the golf ball every time. So next time you're at the practice ground, I'd like you to try setting yourself up a little practice station. Now, the first club we're going to place on the floor here points at your ball to target line, a point parallel to your ball to target line should I say, pointing straight at your target.

And the next club, we're just going to place across that one pointing straight at your golf ball here. Now, my little practice station there can stay on the ground for the entirety of my practice session. This one is going to mark my ball position and this one is going to mark my correct alignment. So, for every shot I hit, I can check that my feet are pointing in the right direction and my ball position is correct.

Now my ball position line here will move depending on the shot I'm hitting. If I'm taking a short time or a pitching wedge or something of that nature, I'd have the ball much more towards the center of my feet but then as I move to a longer club, it would move nearer to my left side for a mid eye in and as I move to my driver, it would move right up to my front foot so it's set almost touching my in-step if I was playing a driver.

That would be my ball position club and then this club placed across the floor here would bend my alignment club. Now, that's going to pretty much stay consistent right away through the bag unless I was trying to hit deliberate sort of drawer or fade shots or maybe if I was chipping and pitching, I might stand a little bit open across my alignment club to hit across the ball but my alignment club and my ball position club are going to stay on the floor through my whole practice session just to make sure I've got really good consistent address position.

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Now, there's no question in my mind that a good address position to the golf ball is one of the fundamental strategy in making a good swing and a real big part of being a good consistent ball striker is having a good consistent addressed position to the golf ball every time. So next time you're at the practice ground, I'd like you to try setting yourself up a little practice station. Now, the first club we're going to place on the floor here points at your ball to target line, a point parallel to your ball to target line should I say, pointing straight at your target.

And the next club, we're just going to place across that one pointing straight at your golf ball here. Now, my little practice station there can stay on the ground for the entirety of my practice session. This one is going to mark my ball position and this one is going to mark my correct alignment. So, for every shot I hit, I can check that my feet are pointing in the right direction and my ball position is correct.

Now my ball position line here will move depending on the shot I'm hitting. If I'm taking a short time or a pitching wedge or something of that nature, I'd have the ball much more towards the center of my feet but then as I move to a longer club, it would move nearer to my left side for a mid eye in and as I move to my driver, it would move right up to my front foot so it's set almost touching my in-step if I was playing a driver.

That would be my ball position club and then this club placed across the floor here would bend my alignment club. Now, that's going to pretty much stay consistent right away through the bag unless I was trying to hit deliberate sort of drawer or fade shots or maybe if I was chipping and pitching, I might stand a little bit open across my alignment club to hit across the ball but my alignment club and my ball position club are going to stay on the floor through my whole practice session just to make sure I've got really good consistent address position.