Tee Peg in top of grip for good setup, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Tee Peg in top of grip for good setup, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

Second little drill for you here, still utilizing the humble tee peg to help you improve your game. Now here I've taken a tee peg and I've just pushed it very loosely into the whole at the top of the grip of my club. So, I'm actually going to use that like a pointer and that's just going to help me identify where the top of the grip is pointing or where it should point.

Now, when I take my address position, you can see using that tee peg at the top, I could kind of work out where my club handle wants to be. I'm going to six sign here, so, ball position very slightly ahead of center. I've lightened the butt end of the golf club or the tee peg sticking out to the top of it to point just inside my left hip.

So, if you got a belt on or some belt loops on your trousers, it's your first belt loop. Normally, it's just inside your left hip. It's not out here on the outside of the pocket, but likewise, it shouldn't be in the center of your body either. So, I take my address position there and I point the tee peg across until it points to my belt loop, then I go ahead and take my grip. That will feel decidedly off-center. It isn't in the center of your body, it's certainly not at the back of your body, it's left of center.

Now, it's a good position to start with because that's a similar position to where I'd like to be coming down into the golf ball. Actually, that's the same point that the tee peg should aim at with every club in your back. So, if you have a shorter iron, I would have the cape and the ball position needs to be nearer to the center or slightly backing your stance. Then, when the handle points at your belt loop here, left of center, the handle is a long way ahead of the club head. It takes a bit of loft of your short irons and it would encourage you to have more of a descending blow.

Likewise, when your longer club, certainly taking it to your driver, your ball position should go a long way forwards in your stance, right against the left instep here, the tee peg, the butt end of the club, still pointing at the belt loop there, just on my left hip. Now, you'll notice how the shaft is a lot more angled, maybe sort of level or even backwards slightly. It's definitely not angled in front like it was with a short iron. That would of course give me a more sort of level, lateral blow, almost on the way up into the golf ball which is actually going to launch my driver higher with a little bit more of a carrying flight rather than a descending flight I would have on my wedge.

So, although I want different angles of attack and I have different ball positions, the position of the handle just left of center, pointing at my left inside hip can actually be the same and I can identify that using the tee peg, but with different ball positions, the tee peg position will always point in the same place.

So, a simple tee peg, top of the grip, that will help you gain a really good address position.

 2013-01-22

Second little drill for you here, still utilizing the humble tee peg to help you improve your game. Now here I've taken a tee peg and I've just pushed it very loosely into the whole at the top of the grip of my club. So, I'm actually going to use that like a pointer and that's just going to help me identify where the top of the grip is pointing or where it should point.

Now, when I take my address position, you can see using that tee peg at the top, I could kind of work out where my club handle wants to be. I'm going to six sign here, so, ball position very slightly ahead of center. I've lightened the butt end of the golf club or the tee peg sticking out to the top of it to point just inside my left hip.

So, if you got a belt on or some belt loops on your trousers, it's your first belt loop. Normally, it's just inside your left hip. It's not out here on the outside of the pocket, but likewise, it shouldn't be in the center of your body either. So, I take my address position there and I point the tee peg across until it points to my belt loop, then I go ahead and take my grip. That will feel decidedly off-center. It isn't in the center of your body, it's certainly not at the back of your body, it's left of center.

Now, it's a good position to start with because that's a similar position to where I'd like to be coming down into the golf ball. Actually, that's the same point that the tee peg should aim at with every club in your back. So, if you have a shorter iron, I would have the cape and the ball position needs to be nearer to the center or slightly backing your stance. Then, when the handle points at your belt loop here, left of center, the handle is a long way ahead of the club head. It takes a bit of loft of your short irons and it would encourage you to have more of a descending blow.

Likewise, when your longer club, certainly taking it to your driver, your ball position should go a long way forwards in your stance, right against the left instep here, the tee peg, the butt end of the club, still pointing at the belt loop there, just on my left hip. Now, you'll notice how the shaft is a lot more angled, maybe sort of level or even backwards slightly. It's definitely not angled in front like it was with a short iron. That would of course give me a more sort of level, lateral blow, almost on the way up into the golf ball which is actually going to launch my driver higher with a little bit more of a carrying flight rather than a descending flight I would have on my wedge.

So, although I want different angles of attack and I have different ball positions, the position of the handle just left of center, pointing at my left inside hip can actually be the same and I can identify that using the tee peg, but with different ball positions, the tee peg position will always point in the same place.

So, a simple tee peg, top of the grip, that will help you gain a really good address position.