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This drill is learning proper ball position and not proper as in there's one

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right way to do it. Just learning a couple ways to standardize yours so that

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you're not adjusting your swing each time for where the ball position is. If

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you remember from the contact video our goal is to make contact with the ball

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before we hit the ground and then the club is going to continue traveling down

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for a few inches. Roughly four inches is the tour average. So one quick and

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dirty

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way if you're just going out to play and you're not kind of working on stuff

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you

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just want to play for fun is to take a few practice wings and see where the

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club

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makes contact with the ground and then put the ball position right at the start

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of where that club may contact with the ground. Now a better process for the

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long-term is to try and standardize it based on your body. So one of the more

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common ways to do it are either looking at where the ball position is compared

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to

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your feet and compared to your upper body and you want to check both of those

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because both of them will have an impact on how the club is going to

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bottom out. One thing to note as you get further along is that we are going to

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want to have weight shift into our front leg during the downswing. This helps

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create power and if you don't have it can mess up your path and create contact

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issues. If you play the ball too far back which might feel comfortable

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initially

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it will limit the ability to get your weight on to the left side. So when you

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're

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going to set up your wall position here's a simple way to kind of standardize

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the

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process. You're going to start with your feet together pretty much you know

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with

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the ball right in the middle of them. You're going to take a small step with

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the

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left foot and then a step with the right foot. Now the state the width of that

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stance is going to depend on what club you're hitting and what shot you're

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trying to hit but it allows you to have a standardized process that you can go

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back to time and time again. A normal ball position with kind of your mid

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irons your most most of your full swings in your stock shots is going to be

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just

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to the left of center because the bottom of your swing is going to be just to

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the left of center and we want to make sure that we hit the golf ball first

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before it reaches its low point somewhere even some people say in front of the

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left shoulder but somewhere along this left side this inner left side. So you

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can standardize the ball position so that it's roughly off your ear that will

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ensure that your upper body is slightly behind it. You can do it off of your

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collarbone right which will also which is pretty close to your ear and make

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sure that your upper body is slightly behind it and compared to your feet you

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can see that this is roughly in front of center. Now the ball position can

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change

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a little bit depending on how much I take like a driver stance you know how

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big of a step I take with the left foot of the right foot will help adjust as

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in

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with a driver I'll go small and then big and with a med a wedge I might go a

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little bigger and then about the same. So this will help give you a

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standardized

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process that allows you to get everything pretty consistent because one of the

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things that you'll see when we get into the ball shaping section is that just

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by

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changing your ball position you can adjust your ball flight. So it's important

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to have it pretty consistent otherwise some of the ball flight changes that you

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might see will confuse you and make you think you're swinging differently. So

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we've got the ball position based off of the feet and we've got the ball

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position based off of the upper body and you're gonna try to standardize both

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roughly off your left ear for the majority of your stock swings. When we

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get into the short game when we get into specialty shots we'll be moving this

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around but I want you to get used to thinking of it not just in terms of where

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it is in your stance but also where it is compared to your upper body. So

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practice

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that work on it diligently and similar to the grip after a week or two weeks or

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so you'll feel very comfortable with it and we'll be able to progress to the

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next layer.