Last week I published a ball position tip from Seve. Seve tended to move the ball round in his setup.
Today I'm linking to a Golf Digest article from Butch Harmon on ball position. Butch likes using the same ball position with all your clubs -- at least for full shots.
While I want you to read the article, at the beginning I did not recognize precisely how he become determining where he desired the ball. In this publish I'm going to ensure you understand how he does it due to the fact he has two exceptional reference factors, and the primary one facilitates you figure out the second. The 2nd one is the only you'll be using.
You start with the driver. Butch's reference point for ball position with the driver is the logo on the left breast of your golf shirt. (You lefties will have to guess at that, I suppose, since most companies don't make left-handed golf shirts. Just pick the point halfway between your right armpit and your breastbone.)
Are you with me so far? That's the FIRST reference point.
Now you look down and see how far the ball is from your lead foot. For example, in the photo above Butch has the ball around two inches or so inside his lead heel. That's the SECOND reference point, and that's the one you use for the rest of your full shots with your other clubs. You move your trail foot to adjust your stance width, and that has the effect of moving the ball back in your stance. You can see how that works in the photo above.
You got that? You determine your basic ball position by using your shirt logo and driver, check where that ball position is relative to your lead foot, and then use the lead foot-to-ball distance you just measured as your ball position for every club in your bag.
Butch's article explains in detail how to locate that distance, however at first reading it might not be clean that it's a two-step procedure. Now you already know.
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