Stop Confusing Your Ball Position | Golf 101

🏌️‍♂️ Basing your ball position off your lead foot creates a consistent variable for better golf swings.

📏 Adjusting your stance width according to the club used can improve your ball contact and confidence.

🎯 Professional golfers like Rory McIlroy and DJ extend into their lead leg to achieve optimal ball position.

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00:00:00 - key i want you to see there is that's why we're basing your ball position off your lead foot because that creates a constant variable of where you're moving into into your swing they do it wonderfully well never miss the latest videos from the people who help you play better golf hit subscribe here all right so today we're going to talk about ball position basics and what i see a lot of my students do and amateur golfers in general is they start by putting the ball in the middle of their

00:00:24 - stance and they start moving it around they start moving their stance around you know for instance i'll see a an amateur come in for the first time they have the driver up in their stance and then they move to like their wedge and they move it in the middle of their stance but they're not sure how wide their stance needs to be then they think they need to move the ball up in their stance when they move up to a a mid iron and this creates such poor contact because you're changing a

00:00:49 - variable over and over and our goal today is to simplify this and make it very easy for you to start hitting solid shots and just be more confident when you're out on the golf course so we're gonna keep it very simple for you by basing it all off of your lead foot and to better explain this let's take a look at what the tour players do all right so we got rory mcilroy and dj pulled up here now what i want you to really take away from here is how both of them post

00:01:14 - up and extend into their lead leg here notice how dj really snaps that left leg straight extending that leg and same with rory over here with the driver and the key i want you to see there is that's why we're basing your ball position off your lead foot because that creates a constant variable of where you're moving into into your swing they do it wonderfully well and you can see you know rory ball position right up off his instep dj has it a club head width off his trail foot it might look a

00:01:39 - little bit further back because of the camera angle but the main takeaway here is how they post up and driving to their left side so let's walk through this with the clubs you typically play with we'll start with the driver so the driver we want to base it right off your lead insteps you'll see i have this stick right off my lead foot ball positions up in the stance the reason for this is so we can hit actually up at the driver the low points just before the ball and we'll catch it on the

00:02:04 - upswing you know from there we move into maybe your fairway wood here we have a five wood let's move this back down onto the ground but now we move into basing it off a club head width off our instep and we get a little bit wider in the stance feet are a little bit wider than our hips so now it is up in my stance but the goal here is to hit the ball and brush the ground in front so we're moving that low point just slightly in front now let's move into a mid iron

00:02:33 - wall position same thing club head width off my my instep but now i'm going to bring my trail foot in a little bit more so it's more right with my hips so this moves the ball technically a little bit more back in the stance for those of you you know who are used to starting with the ball position the middle stance now get a little bit closer to it and then last would be your wedge so same thing club head width off the instep narrow my stance a little bit more and that smooths the ball a

00:02:59 - little bit towards the middle of my stance but it's still based off my lead leg which i'm driving into trying to create that low point in front of the ball so to recap we want to base everything off our lead foot and then from there we just get wider with the stance so if i'm here with the sand wedge it's pretty much in the middle but it's baste a club head width off my lead foot then we just get a little bit wider for our mid irons a little bit wider for our long irons

00:03:23 - fairy woods then we move it right up off our instep when we hit driver so we can hit up at it so if you're struggling with your ball striking try this but if you're still struggling with low point issues check out this playlist over here

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