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This drill is to help you with your ball position in your setup posture.

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So ball position is critical in that we want to make sure that the ball is

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positioned in

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a specific place depending on where the bottom of our swing is going to be and

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what shot

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we're trying to hit.

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So if we're trying to hit the ball solidly and we have it kind of right here,

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we want

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to make sure that the bottom of our swing is going to be somewhere in this

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range or

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ahead of the golf ball, four inches, three inches, somewhere around there, the

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better

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you can get it ahead the better.

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What you'll see in the impact section is the way that we do that is by having

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kind of our

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weight on the left side and enough shaft lean.

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Well, if we set up with the golf ball way back here and I got my weight on my

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left side

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and I had this good shaft lean, I would almost miss the ball.

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So if I set up with it way here, way forward of my stance like so and I got

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into good position

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I would hit behind the golf ball and it wouldn't be a very good shot or I'd

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have to really

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up adjust for it.

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So it's important when you're practicing to use something just to give you a

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little

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bit of a visual, at least when you're doing your mechanical practice.

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You want to have a visual that helps you kind of make your ball position

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consistent.

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We'll go through in the pre shot routine section how to make that established

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and I'll give

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you the snapshot of it here.

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Essentially after you've taken your grip, which you've been practicing and you

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set up

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to the golf ball, you can use a formula basically left foot forward, right foot

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forward, left

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foot, right foot to just have a constant place of reference.

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So I'm always starting with the ball pretty much even when my stance you'll see

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many, many

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tour pros do it this way and then you'll step your left foot six inches past

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the golf ball

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and then you'll adjust your right foot depending on which club and which shot

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you're hitting.

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So that's one way to look at where the ball position is compared to your feet.

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Now it's also important to look at where your ball position is compared to your

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upper body.

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So if compared to my feet I want my ball position slightly ahead of center

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because I'm going

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to be coming in relatively shallowly and getting the bottom of my swing to be

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somewhere around

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this left thigh, left shoulder blade somewhere around in here, then I want to

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make sure that

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the ball is slightly back of that.

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So the other important thing to look at with your upper body is your general

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ball position

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is going to be somewhere just ahead of center from your upper body as well.

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That's because what you'll see in the release is you're going to get your hands

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ahead but

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with your upper body far enough back so that when you release the club

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powerfully it creates

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a shallow angle of attack and a solid strike on the golf ball.

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So a good reference point is to have the ball position somewhere on this plane

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which

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is going to be depending on what feels comfortable right around your left ear.

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If you had a insignia on your shirt which mine does here from the Olympic club

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or the

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first belt loop right around here, these are all kind of off of the same plane

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which

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helps standardize that ball position.

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That way you're not like getting in a good posture like so where it looks like

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this is

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great and then I set up here.

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So because if I'm set up like this does it look like the ball position is in

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the middle

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of my stance, yes it looks like it's in the middle of my stance but compared to

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my body

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it's way too far forward.

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Same thing, here it looks like it's in a good position slightly forward in the

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middle of

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my stance but often we'll see kind of a set up like this.

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Both of those are missing the alignment or missing the set up position with

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your upper

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body.

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So there's two things to look at.

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Set up position and ball distribution with your lower body as well as your

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upper body.

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And set up is one of the fundamentals that you can work on that you really don

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't have

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an excuse for getting wrong.

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When you're on the course and you're taking your swings it's very easy to have

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your back

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swing, your transition, your release kind of change day to day but you should

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be making

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sure that your set up is pretty consistent every time you go out there because

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it's completely

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under your control.

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It's not something that you have to necessarily react to or do and it takes no

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real strength

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to hold that position for a few seconds before you swing.

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So the process that I use and that I like for a lot of my players is you're

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going to

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take your grip first then you're going to step in so that you're about the

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right distance

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away from the wall.

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Go left foot forward about four or six inches, right foot back a little bit

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more so six eight

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inches with a driver it might even be a foot and a half but you'll be able to

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work on

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that when you watch the stance width video and then now I've got a good

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reference point.

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From there you can adjust your foot rotation, you can adjust your spine tilt

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but at least

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now we've got a solid reference point for that upper and lower body to

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basically apply

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something consistent that you can then build off of.

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So work very diligently on your setup use some form of feedback to make sure

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that the

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ball is slightly ahead of center and it'll help make backswing transition and

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release

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much more repeatable and much easier.