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In this drill video, we're going to look at setup from the perspective of the

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club.

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So we've talked about ball position as it relates to both your feet and your

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shoulders,

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but here's a great way that you can look at ball position depending on what

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club you're

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using.

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So I talk a lot about how you'll essentially set up to a golf ball and adjust

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your stance

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with.

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There's another way to kind of look at it that I think has helped clarify why

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we take

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these different stance positions for different clubs.

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So let's assume that I'm going to be in kind of a somewhat balanced athletic

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shoulder width

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apart where I kind of have pretty good movement from left to right and not a

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ton.

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I'm kind of favoring my heels just slightly.

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Now if I was to put my hands slightly in front of my left thigh, my collarbone,

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left ear,

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this is kind of the position where I'm going to try and get the handle to come

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back to

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roughly where I'm making contact with the golf ball.

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Now what's interesting is if you look at how the clubs are designed, they

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pretty much tell

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you if that's where you want your hands to be, they're going to tell you where

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you think

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the ball should be.

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What I mean by that, here's my 58 degree wedge.

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And if I lay it flat, you'll see that it actually has compared to vertical a

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fair amount of

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angle towards the target.

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Here's my seven iron.

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If I lay the base of the club flat, you'll see that compared to vertical, it

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has a lot

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less lean.

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And then if I take a three wood and lay it, you can see that compared to

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vertical, it's

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actually slightly behind.

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So the way that that would work practically is I'm going to put my hands right

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here.

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And that tells me that roughly this ball position should be just inside my big

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toe.

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Now if I'm going to take my seven iron, put my hands right here, that tells me

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that this

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is going to be just inside kind of the middle of my stance towards the target

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this way, or

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just inside my left thigh that way.

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Now if I put my hands kind of in front of the inside of my left thigh, my shirt

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buttons,

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whatever, and I have that club sitting flat, this tells me that my stance or

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the ball

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position is going to be much closer to the middle of my stance.

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So just factoring in how the clubs are designed, they'll give you an idea of

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roughly where

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your ball position is, and then you put in a number of reps and you'll feel

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comfortable

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having it there.

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Now that's kind of a long term strategy.

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If you're going out to play, as I've talked about in some of the other videos,

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figure out

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where the bottom of your swing is for each club or each swing, and then put the

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ball

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just slightly ahead of that so that you'll make ball first contact, and that's

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one of

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the easiest short term ways.

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But using the clubs will help you figure out the long term strategy of how to

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establish

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kind of your standard of where your ball position should be.

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So here we'll do a little close up where we've got this would be the club

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almost vertical,

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and you can see that the front of the club is hanging off.

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So right about there is flat, and you can see that it has a slight amount of

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shaft lean.

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Here is the 58 degree wedge.

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If I have it hanging vertical, the front edge is a lot off the ground.

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If I was to bring it to where that club is roughly flat, you can see that that

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has about

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twice the amount, maybe even three times the amount of shaft lean.

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And then if I bring the three wood up, you can see if I had it hanging vertical

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, the

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back of the club would be off the ground.

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If I actually sold a club, you can see that it's just to the other side of

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vertical.