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This concept video is read every lie.

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So when I do playing lessons which we're in the middle of the season so I'm doing them a lot more,

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when I do playing lessons, one of the first things that I'm teaching people is how to evaluate

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the lie and how that influence is shot selection.

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So here I've got the whole actually is a dark-like left but I'm aiming over these trees

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in this particular video.

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You can see that the ball would be well below my feet in this particular stance.

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This is kind of pretty close to exaggerated because if we get too much more than that

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the ball is not going to be able to stay on it.

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So this is going to be close to the ball below my feet as much as I can and if I spun

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around the opposite way you'll see that the ball is going to be well above my feet.

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So the tricky question is at some point right if I had the ball well below my feet like

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this or if I had it way above my feet like that.

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Obviously that's going to influence the shot a ton.

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Well, does it matter on say a T-box if the T-box slightly crowned if it changes a couple

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degrees?

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My stance is yes that even the brain is going to make adjustments for those few degrees.

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So I emphasize that you want to read every lie.

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Now we've got these two different kind of exaggerated scenarios so that we can talk about

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them and you can do a smaller version when you're looking at your own kind of subtle shots.

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So one of the simple things is when the ball is below my feet or when the ball is above

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my feet when I have a non-traditional stance because of what will happen in my ankles

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it's going to make it harder for me to power the swing with my lower body.

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So what I have to do is I have to try to use my core, use my arms.

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I have to try to kind of maintain a lot of my alignments in geometry without using my lower

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body as the main power source because what happens is when the balls below my feet like this,

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my ankle now has more range of motion for me to kind of rotate that lower body.

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But what will happen is if I start to shift even a little bit because of the ball being below

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my feet and my weight being more towards my toes I'm going to tend to fall over.

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The opposite is when I'm here I could use my lower body a whole lot more for power

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but the problem is because the balls above my feet I'm already close to my max

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amount of ankle dorsiflection or basically I can't really bend my knees too much

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without going up on my toes. So when the balls above my feet it's more of a physical

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restriction that forces me to swing with my arms. When the balls below my feet

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it's more of a balance restriction that tends to force me to power it more with the upper body or

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with the arms. So in general I'm going to have to have a little adjustment that I'm going to make

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based on how much contribution I'm going to get from my lower body. Now let's talk about

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the shop possibility. So when the ball is below my feet like this it means that the ground is kind

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of tilted away from me like that and the golf ball sitting here. If I was to try to come from the

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inside it wouldn't work too well because now the ground is going to be in the way. So I'm going

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to air on wanting to have a path that's going to be slightly outside to in so that I don't

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make contacts with the ground before the golf ball. So if I have an outside to in path then that gives

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me the options of playing a fade, a pole or a pole draw. Right and I could overfade over draw

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but those three basic categories I'm going to have my path going left if the face is square to the

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or open to that path it's going to curve back to the right if it's square to it I'm going to hit a

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pole and if it's close to what I'm going to hit a draw. So one of the things is I'll see a student who

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might be working on trying to hit more of a draw and they'll come up to this shot and they'll still

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try to hit a draw and I'll say well the ground is taken away a big part of your margin of air

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so why don't we play the safer shot why don't we play what the lie is dictating why don't we try

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more of a fade. The opposite is true when the ball is above my feet like this. The harder thing is

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if I get slightly on the outside I'm going to tend to strike the ground before the golf ball.

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I've got a lot of room to come from the inside and not hit the golf ball so I'm going to air on

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having more of a path that's into out. Now with it in the out path I can either hit a push a push

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fade or a nice draw possibly even an over draw or hook. So the ball being above my feet

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and the ball being below my feet tends to open and close the club face so when the balls above my

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feet that tends to close the club face which is part of the reason why it's going to be

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more likely I'm going to hit a ball that curves more to the left and the reason is if you

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review the club face closing when the shaft lowers like this the face is actually pointing to the left

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where in this situation here when the shaft raises it's actually pointing to the right. So

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that adjust the shot selections. So if I tend to be kind of really lower body dominant I have a ball

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below my feet that's going to be a real tough shot. If I have if I tend to be more upper body

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dominant and the ball is above my feet that's going to tend to be more of a tough shot. So we can use

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these lies to help adjust what you're working on but the big thing is even on t-shots I want

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you to be kind of aware of what's going on with the lie and what kind of shot that's going to

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dictate for you. So for example up here it's a little bit more of just the ball would be

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subtly below my feet but if I sense that I may still want to play more of a cut shot

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and not necessarily try to hit a draw because I would be more likely to hit a pull

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if I try to hit a draw. So read the lies know what they're going to do for you if that's

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significantly above or below you're not going to be able to use your lower body as well.

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You're going to have to find out a way to kind of get the same or similar alignments

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but using the upper body and the arms is more of your power source. So give that a try if you have

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any specific issues relating to your swing or your swing falters swing pattern please let us know

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and we can help you figure out which would be the easiest shot selections for you to use

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given different situations.