Stop Making This Critical Mistake With Your Ball Position
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Clay Ballard
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I see a lot of golfers make a critical mistake with their ball position I want to make sure that you’re not doing the same thing so tell me if this looks like you let’s say that this stick here represents the middle of my standand so it’s right in between my feet here when
You hit a nine iron you may play your ball position right here just forward to the middle of your stance then when you go to a longer club like a five iron you may go to this yellow ball and play it a little bit more forward and then when
You hit a fairway wood like a three-wood you may play it toward this front ball this American flag ball really far forward in your stance the problem with this is that you’re letting the club dictate the ball position and really what you want to do is let the shot
Dictate your ball position so for example if I push my Fairway Wood ball position this far forward and I’m hitting the shot off of the ground it’s going to make it very very difficult for me to make ball first Contact cuz I have to have a little bit of a downward angle
Of attack into the ball if the ball positions that far forward I’m going to tend to want to hit up on the ball or swing more level with the ball and if the ground is in the way that’s going to make it very difficult now if the ball
Is elevated on a te or let’s say I have a lie where the ball’s really sitting up on the grass and I have a little bit of air underneath the ball to be able to hit up on it and I want to kind of launch a a three-wood higher then yeah
That would be a a good ball position for that I’m letting the shot dictate the ball position but I see so many golfers put push the ball position so far four with those longer clubs and then they tend to chunk and thin and top those shots or even worse they may come over
The top and an effort to be able to hit this shot because if I come way over the top if I come over the top like this that pushes the bottom of my swing forward and allows me to hit down on the ball more easily but the problem with
That is I’m going to hit really bad shots if I come way over the top so I don’t want to push that ball position forward too far forward if the shot doesn’t allow me to do that so we want to let the shot dictate the ball
Position not the actual club now you may be in situations where you hit certain shots with certain certain clubs but you’re still letting the shot dictate the ball position so what would be some instances where I may put the ball position back in my stance well let’s
Think about what putting the ball back in your stance does it does a couple things it makes it easier for us to hit down on the ball so let me move it just a little bit back like this right so I got it maybe two balls
Back of the middle of my stance here what would be a situation where I would play it there well if I want to have a more downward angle of attack on the ball it makes it easier to do that because I’m going to be able to chop
Down into it so if I’m in some really deep rough right where I I have I don’t have a lot of space behind the ball I really kind of have to hit down on the ball to be able to get clean contact on the ball I may play the ball more back
In my stance to make it easier for me to hit more down on it right right if the ball is back in my stance it’s a lot easier to attack the ball from the inside right so if I want to hit a big hook right maybe I got to hit around a
Tree and I want to get a big hook curve on the ball I may put it back in the stance close the face and then that’s going to make it easier for me to attack this ball from the right with a closed face to allow the ball to hook right now
With my wedges right what I like to do again this this would be just kind of my stock standard kind of shot with a wedge I actually like to play the ball a little bit back of the middle because that promotes a more downward angle of
Attack it also helps me to get my hands a little bit more ahead of the ball so what that’s going to allow me to do is that’s going to allow me to launch it lower when they look at tour players they see that with their wedge shots especially like those distance wedge
Shots like 70 80 yards they launch it between 27 and 30° so if I put that ball a ball back in my stance that makes it easier for for me to launch it at that angle but I still keep that spin on there because I’m getting that downward angle of
Attack uh on on the ball that gives me that that lower launch High spin kind of shot that that the pro players hit that makes it a lot easier to control your distance and then when it lands it likes to stick right there instead of caring
Over because you have the spin right so but let’s say I’m in a situation where I want to hit a really high wedge right I don’t want to hit hit a below 20 you know maybe I have a tree in front of me right well I wouldn’t play the ball
Position here I have to let the shot dictate my ball position so what I’m going to do is I’m going to move the ball position a little bit maybe a little bit forward of of the middle of my stance and that’s going to allow the
The club to release a little bit more as it gets to the ball right and that’s going to allow the the club to have a little bit more Loft on at contact to allow the ball to go up right so that would be a situation where I might move
The ball up in my stance so back in my stance promotes more more downward angle attack lower ball flight and it makes it easier to swing from the inside on the other side of that if I put the ball more forward in my stance right that’s going to promote higher ball flight
That’s going to make it easier for me to attack the ball from outside in if I want to hit kind of a Big Slice right I may put the ball a little bit forward in my stance to make it easier for me to attack that ball come come in more out
To in to be able to have that open face on it and create that that slice kind of spin but you have to be a little bit careful with this especially if you’re hitting shots off the ground if you don’t have a lie where uh you know if
You don’t have like a cushy lie this can be a very difficult thing to do because what may end up happening is you may actually end up coming in thin because the ball isn’t sitting up really nicely and when you hit it thin right the ball’s going to go lower right because
When you hit it thin the face will twist down that’s going to make the ball go go lower and that’s going to get the opposite effect of what you want if you move it forward in your understand right if we’re talking about the driver let’s
Pretend like this is a driver if I want to hit a really high launching drive right what I’ll probably do is I’ll play that ball really far forward right if this is the middle of my stance here I’m going to play that ball really far forward because what what’s going to
Allow me to hit a high launching Drive well what’s going to allow me to do that is to one I want to let that club release a little bit I don’t want to have a ton of shaftline on this ball at impact so having the ball more forward
Is going to allow me to have you know little to no shaftline at impact it’s also going to allow me to hit up on the ball right and if I hit up on the ball that’s going to allow it to launch higher so that’s why you see a lot of
Tour players when they really try to launch one they’ll te it higher when you see the long drive guys right they’re going to te it really high because that’s the most conducive thing to distance is to hit it higher with less Spin and putting the ball forward in
Your stance and teeing it up higher allows me to come in and have that very upward angle of attack on the ball now I can launch that ball super high but let’s say I’m in a situation where I don’t want to do that right I don’t want
To launch it super high I want to have kind of like a lower like maybe I’m hitting into the wind right I don’t want to launch the ball super high into the wind because the higher the ball goes up in the air the more that wind can can
Have time to affect it right so if I’m hitting into the wind I may want to keep it a little bit lower so the wind doesn’t affect it as much I’m going to have a little bit more control of it and then hopefully I can get a little bit of
Roll out after W so so what I might do is I might take it and only Tee It Up about that high right so that allows me to still be able to hit it in the middle of my face with my driver but my ball
Position is going to be not quite as far forward so if I say this is kind of the middle of my stance here it’s a it’s a little bit forward of that right but I’m going to be coming in more level on the ball now
I don’t really want to hit down on my driver that can produce some spin that that I don’t want when I’m trying to hit it lower I really just want to come in very level with it and I want to hit that ball in the middle of the face
Right and in order to do that it’s typically going to be about right here now you may need to experiment with it to find the perfect ball position that works best for you everybody swings a little bit different but for me that’s going to be a ball position that’s going
To be about right here now my club is going to come in very level with the ball I’m going to have a little bit more shffl at contact which is going to help me deloft it a little bit and I’m going to hit it in the middle of the face
Instead you know before I might have tried to hit it a little bit above the middle of the face cuz that allows me to get a little bit higher launch and lower spin but for this I’m not trying to get a high launch I’m trying to get a lower
Launch so I’m going to be aiming for the middle of the face and again this is for a driver I know I don’t have a driver in my hand here but this is for a driver this would allow me to come in and have an you know almost like a stinger like
Drive uh with it with the driver that’s going to allow me to keep it lower so critical lesson here is let the shot dictate your ball position don’t let the club dictate your ball position position now your ball position may be a key reason why you might be chunking some of
Your shots but there could be some other things that are going on there so what I’m going to do is I’m going to place a video on the screen here that you can select it’s one of our best videos on getting rid of those chunk shots click
That get rid of your chunk shots play well and I’ll talk to you soon
2 Comments
Great stuff
I move it back when I'm in between clubs to get an extra 7 yards.