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This reel is learning proper ball position and not proper as in there's one right way to do it.

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Just learning a couple ways to standardize yours so that you're not adjusting your

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sweet swing each time for where the ball position is. If you remember from the contact video,

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our goal is to make contact with the ball before we hit the ground and then the club is

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going to continue traveling down for a few inches, roughly four inches as the tour average.

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So one quick and dirty way if you're just going out to play and you're not kind of working

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

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makes contact with the ground and then put the ball position right at the start of where that club

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may contact with the ground. Now a better process for the long term is to try and standardize it

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based on your body. So one of the the more common ways to do it are either looking at where the ball

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

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those because both of them will have an impact on how the club is going to bottom out. One thing to

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note as you get further along is that we are going to want to have weight shift into our front leg

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during the downswing. This helps create power and if you don't have it can mess up your path and

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

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it will limit the ability to get your weight onto the left side. So when you're going to set up

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your ball position here's a simple way to kind of standardize the process. You're going to start

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with your feet together pretty much you know with the ball right in the middle of them. You're

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going to take a small step with the left foot and then a step with the right foot. Now the

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the width of that 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 back to time and

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time again. A normal ball position with kind of your mid-iron's most most of your full swings

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

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is going to be just to 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 left shoulder

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but somewhere along this left side this inner left side. So you can standardize the ball position

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so that it's roughly off your ear that will ensure that your upper body is slightly behind it

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you can do it off of your collarbone right which will also which is pretty close to your ear

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

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this is roughly in front of center. Now the ball position can change a little bit depending on how much

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I take like a driver's stance you know how big of a step I take with the left foot of the right

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foot will help adjust as in with a driver all go small and then big and with a mid-o wedge I might

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

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that allows you to get everything pretty consistent because one of the things that you'll see when we

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get into the ball shaping section is that just by changing your ball position you can adjust your

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so it's important 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 we've got the ball

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

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and you're going to try to standardize both roughly off your left ear for the majority of your

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stock swings. When we 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 it is in your stance

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but also where it is compared to your upper body. So practice that work on it diligently and similar

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to the grip after a week or two weeks or so you'll feel very comfortable with it and we'll be able

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to progress the next layer.