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

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

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But here's a great way that you can look at ball position, depending on what club you're using.

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So, I talk a lot about how you'll essentially set up to a golf ball and adjust your stance with.

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Well, here's another way to kind of look at it that I think has helped clarify why we take 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, you know, shoulder width apart where I kind of have a pretty good movement from left to right and not a 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 eye, my collarbone, left ear, this is kind of the position where I'm going to try and get the handle to come back to roughly where I'm making contacts with the golf ball.

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Now, what's interesting is if you look at how the clubs are designed, they pretty much tell you if that's where you want your hands to be.

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They're going to tell you where you think the ball should be.

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When I mean by that, here's my 58 degree wedge and if I lay it flat, you'll see that it actually has a compared to vertical, a fair amount of angle towards the target.

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Here's my seven iron. If I lay the base of the club flat, you'll see that compared to vertical, it has a lot less lean.

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And then if I take a three wood and lay it, you can see that compared to vertical, it's actually slightly behind.

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So the way that that would work practically is I'm going to put my hands right here, and that tells me that roughly this ball position should be just inside my big toe.

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

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Just inside kind of the middle of my stance towards the target this way, we're 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 buttons, whatever, and I have that club sitting flat, this tells me that my stance or the ball 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 roughly where your ball position is,

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and then you put in a number of reps and you'll feel comfortable having it there. 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, figure out where the bottom of your swing is for each club or each swing,

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and then put the ball just slightly ahead of that so that you make ball first contact, and that's one of 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 establish 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 almost vertical, and you can see that the front of the club is hanging off.

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So rid about there is flat, and you can see that that has slight amount of shuffling.

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Here is the 58 degree wedge. If I have it hanging vertical, the front edge is a lot off the ground if I was to bring it to where that club is roughly flat.

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You can see that that has about twice the amount, maybe even three times the amount of shuffling.

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And then if I bring the three wood up, you can see if I had it hanging vertical, the back of the club would be off the ground if I actually sold a club,

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you can see that it's just to the other side of vertical.