Where does this ball go in my stance, one of the most popular questions that
I get asked by my students and today's video, we will cover
Stance and Ball position. Make sure to watch the full video, to understand from your
driver to your pitching wedge, where we placed this little white
ball. Welcome back. I'm coach Shayain. If you've been watching my videos, I hope you've already
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forward for you to watch the rest of this video. The last video in the four part, basic golf fundamental
series, your Stance, where are we placing the
golf ball in your stance? We've done the grip, the aim,
the alignment and the posture. If you already haven't watched those
videos, make sure after this one, you go and watch those. All four of these steps are
extremely important before you hit the golf ball, like have mentioned
before 80% of bad shots happen before you hit the ball.
So if we knock these
down, if we perfect them, if we practice them at home
and then take it to the driving range, I can guarantee you you'll
be much happier on the golf course. Let's get started. One of the biggest mistakes I
see my beginner students do is not know where to put
the ball in their sense, as well as how narrow or
why their sense should be. So let's figure that out
and help you with that. We have irons and I have my
driver.
I'll show you a quick, fast rule of thumb that you
should always have in mind, not to make completely confused. First, let's talk about how wide or
narrow your stance should be. If you have your irons close your feet, open your feet, shoulder width apart.
What your shoulder width apart looks like. Technically it should
be from your shoulders all the way into the inside of your seat.
That is considered shoulder width apart. You want to be comfortable in your sense, you need stability and you need comfort. That is what your stance provides
for you. In the previous video, we already spoke about posture. So you will be quite stable
already just from how we did that. So your iron, your pitching wedge all the way to your
feet iron, you will close your feet. You'll open your feet, shoulder
width apart. Nailed it. Now as the clubs get longer, if your
irons are longer, if you're a beginner, you're not playing with a three or
four iron as it is, don't worry. But if you are, your sense gets a
little bit bigger with your words. Your sense would get a little bit
bigger than should holder with a part. But let's talk about the driver. As I see a lot of
mistakes with your driver, you do not stand narrow with
your driver because you will not be able to generate power.
So how, why do you go with your
driver? Let me tell you. I have the ball in front of
me with the driver in front. I moved my left foot, my leaf foot,
since I'm a right hand golfer, a little bit to the left. This ball needs to be in
line with the back heel or some people do it with
the instep of their foot, which is this part right here, PO that is what the ball is lined up. I am now moving my right foot past my shoulder and quite wide. I am much shorter than
most. I'm five, three.
So I like to have a much stronger, wider, um, than most people,
my width of my stance, just because I feel like I am
a lot more stable that way. And I can generate a lot more
power coming through on my drives. So I have it a little bit
wider than most people do, but whatever you do do not have your feet, shoulder width apart with
your driver. Big no, no. Make your sense much wider.
Generate that power ball position.
I already told you for the driver, it needs to be by the back left heel, which is, or your lead foot,
which will be your right foot. If you're left-handed driver,
the ball needs to be there. And the ball does not move into the
middle of your stance or the back of your stance ever. When you're hitting a driver, it's forwarding your sentence and
it's in line with your left heel now ball position for
five iron to pitching wedge the rule of thumb for me in my head
to keep it simple is pitching once to five iron.
I have my ball right in
the middle of my stance. I am never taking my
ball and the back of my stance. It's in the middle
preferably a little bit forward of center, just
the tab, but there, okay. So if this is my center, you can have your iron shots play a
little bit forward of center, but again, not all the way forward where the
back of your heels for your driver and that should cover
it for your three woods. You would push it a little bit
forward as well. But again, not where the driver goes. I will show you an image which will
help you understand exactly what I mean. And we'll explain to you in
detail exactly the precision. Now, no one's going to come out
with a measuring tape to measure. If you have it right behind your
heel or right in the mat in the middle, this is something you will need to gauge
over time playing and hitting goals and getting consistent with what that
looks like.
Just note to self. It should never be in
the back of your stance. Your ball position from pitching
wise to driver should not be in the back of your sense. If you're
hitting off the tee box. Now, you know how wide or narrow your stance
needs to be along with where we're positioning our ball when
we're hitting off of the tee, as well as on the fairway. And then we will also have more videos
coming about chipping and pitching, which this setup will look
very different for that. So don't get it confused for
what I am showing you right now. We're talking about drivers
all the way to the pitching, wedge off the tee box or in the fairway. On a par three, it's 136 yards. I have my seven iron we've gone
through grip and alignment and your posture. Now it's your stance. So I
showed you in my house, what I would do, but let's show you on the
golf course.
So seven iron. I have come in front of my
ball. I am closing my feet. I'm going to open my feet,
shoulder width apart. And that is how wide my stance will be. And I will place the
ball in the middle of my stance. I usually have it a tiny
bit forward of middle. So if this was dead middle, I have it as you can see a little bit in front of middle for my irons. So take a look. If this is the middle, I have it placed a little
bit in front of middle for my iron. So from my pitching wedge
to my five iron, that is where it is, but just remember put it right the
middle. If you have your irons, that's where it goes. So with my
driver, what is my stance look like? I'm closing my feet.
First
of all, my team will be much have my grip, aim, alignment,
posture. Everything's perfect. Now we're on stance. I have my driver, my left foot moves a little bit. My right foot moves a
lot more and this ball should be in line with
the back of my left heel. It's in line with my left heel. Like I mentioned before, no, one's
going to come up with a measuring tape, but as far as close to your
left heel, as you can put it, that is where it needs to go. Then
you're relaxed and you're swinging. Well, most of you are now going
to ask me is how far or close do I stand to the ball? That is something you have
a lot of difficulty with. Let's start with the driver and I'll
show you with my seven iron as well. We'll move the view from
the side angle really quick.
Now from the side view, let's talk about how close or
far you stand from the golf ball. I'll show you with my driver and then
I'll show you with my seven iron as well. So my driver is quite long,
but I like to choke down on it. What do I look like from the side?
How close should I be standing? Or how far should I be
standing from my golf ball? So we've done our posture.
You've pushed your hips back. You've bent your knees slightly. You're
relaxed. And remember when I told you, you're just going to let your hands
hang down and you have to clap. So I'm not clapping out here
and I'm not clapping in here. Just relax and let your hands hang. If they clap and they're comfortable.
That's where your golf club goes.
So let me show you so close my feet left foot, little bit, right
foot, a little bit more. And my hands are nice and
relaxed right over here. So I'm not high up there
and I'm not this close. My hands are nice and relaxed right here. And always closer to my left foot. Right-handed golfer right
in between your left ties, where your hands need to go and
your head goes back really quick. Let's show you with my seven
iron. So my hands from here, you can see my shoulders are nice
and straight. They haven't moved. They're square and my
hands are just relaxed, just falling right out of my
shoulder. Sockets, just nice and down. And I'm just letting them hang. And
that's where I want my club to be again, not out here and not down in
here. So what does that look like? I have my grip. I'm
breathing, always breathing. I've closed my feet.
I
have a shoulder with apart. My ball is pretty much in the
center. A little bit forward. My hands are a little bit
ahead, closer to my left leg. And my head is behind
the ball and my hands are relaxed. And this is where
my relaxed hands are. No, and no, they're just hanging. And that's your stance. What I will do is do a full recap, grab alignment and aim,
posture, and stance. Let's do your full gaps. Then you can get a full picture of
what all the four videos we've just gone through, what it all
looks like on the tee box. Before you hit the ball, let's do that for demonstration purposes. I will show you gaps all the
way through. So I have my grip, my V to my right shoulder,
my overlap grip, my other, my right hand V towards my chin. I'm going to make a straight
line on where I want to go.
I will be aiming at the discolored
piece of grass right here. This patch that you can see is
a little bit different color. That will be where I will be aiming. So
let me draw my straight line from there. Perfect. I come and stand
in front of my ball. I have my club down facing that
piece of grass, close my feet, open my feet. Since
I'm using a seven iron, it'll be in the middle of my stance
a little bit forward.
I'm relaxed. My hips are back. My knees are bent, so my gaps is ready to go. I'm
going to take a deep breath. And my grip is at a five, not
a 10. I'm going to go for it. Right in the middle of the
fairway where you want to be. That's it. You guys, you made it. Now. You are going to make sure that
you do not hit those bad shots off the tee box because you know exactly
what your setup is supposed to look like. Looking forward to hearing from you in
the comments and let me know how you're doing out on the golf course. See you next Thursday for a brand
new video in the description below, you will find a link each week, that link will take you
to a free download of gaps, grip, alignment,
posture, and stance. Make sure you print it out, fold
it up, put it in your golf bag. So when you were at the
driving range and you forget, or you can't remember what I had said,
pull it out as your reference tool.
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