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This drill is the 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 positioned in

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

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shot 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, we want

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

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of the golf ball for inches, three inches, somewhere around there.

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The better 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 kind of our

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weight on the left side enough shaft length.

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

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

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Also, if I set up with it way here, way forward of my stance like so.

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And I got into good position, I would hit behind the golf ball and it wouldn't be a very

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good shot or I'd have to really adjust for it.

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

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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 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 you the snapshot of it here.

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

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

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your left 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.

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You'll see many, many tour pros do it this way.

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And then you'll step your left foot six inches past the golf ball and then you'll adjust

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your right foot depending on which club and which shot 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 upper body.

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So if compared to my feet, I want my ball position slightly ahead of center because I'm

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

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around this left thigh left shoulder blade somewhere around in here.

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Then I want to make sure the ball is slightly back of that.

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Okay?

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

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

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creates 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, which is

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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 mind does here from the Olympic club, or the

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first belt loop right around here.

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These are all kind of off of the same plane which helps standardize that ball position.

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

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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 the middle

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

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it's way too far forward.

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This thing here it looks like it's in a good position slightly forward in the middle

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

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Both of those are missing the alignment or missing the setup position with your upper 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 upper body.

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And setup is one of the fundamentals that you can work on that you really don't have

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to 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 your backswing

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your transition your release kind of change day to day but you should be making sure that

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your setup is pretty consistent every time you go out there because it's completely under

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your control.

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

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

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

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on that when you watch the stance with the video.

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And then now I've got a good reference point.

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From there you can adjust your foot rotation you can adjust your spine tilt but at least

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

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Use some form of feedback to make sure that the ball slightly ahead of center and it'll

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help make backswing transition and release much more repeatable and much easier.