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One ball position or many? Which do you use and why? This video covers the fundamentals of ball position and why there are two competing theories in golf on where to play the ball in your stance.
There are two competing theories on ball position in the golf swing, but the reality is they're not actually competing at all.
If you're a Hogan follower, You learned about the single ball position for every single club in the bag.
That was up in the stance and really based off your lead arm or the left side of your ear, that every club in the bag should be played off of that position.
Now, if you look at somebody like Butch Harmon in Tiger Woods, he plays the ball position back for shorter clubs and moves it up as he gets to longer clubs.
Now, how can two great golfers have two completely different ideas about where to play the ball?
It's such a fundamentally important part of the golf swing.
How can they be so different?
The reality is they're the same in the sense that they actually are both correct.
And what I mean by that is if you're a lead side dominant golfer, as Hogan was, if you read Hogan's book, He warns about the use of the right hand and the thumb and the forefinger, and calls them swing wreckers.
And tells you to do everything to avoid using your right arm and shoulder.
Until he gets down to impact, where he said he wished he had three right hands.
Tiger, on the other hand, and Butch Harmon, all right side stuff.
You listen to Butch talk, he talked about wanting Tiger to make swings right-handed only.
And that shifts the bottom of your swing arc.
And that's why these things are, these two ball position theories are different because they're for different swing patterns.
Hogan, being a very lead side dominant guy, wanting the left side of his body to pull.
Remember the old analogy of having a rubber band back behind him pulling this left side through?
Tiger uses much more right arm.
He's using the trail side.
And when a trail side pattern, you actually want to start moving the ball back.
And you'll note Tiger plays the ball back.
He really likes to hit a lot of lower flighted shots.
And the ball position, Being back in your stance and using the trail side and trail hand to dominate and control the club face, dictates that you want to actually play the ball back.
And this gives you the ability to flight the ball down quite a bit lower than with a lead side pattern.
Where you've got to really work to get on that lead side to be able to flight the ball down.
So in a trail side pattern in which the goat coat is, we use a movable ball position.
So with your wedges, you're going to play it back.
As you start working through the program, you'll see at the very beginning during the chipping strokes, we're playing pretty much everything off our right big toe.
And as we start moving into more longer swings, the ball position is going to start moving further and further up, up to the point to where with your driver is going to be the furthest point forward.
But don't be afraid to play the ball back in a trail side pattern.
In a lead side pattern, you want to play the ball up.
So start working on, as you're working on these chipping strokes, work on having the ball back off your trail big toe.
Get used to being able to pivot so that you're pivoting actually on the trail side, which we'll talk more about in the full swing, rather than trying to get onto your lead hip and pivot.
It's a very different pattern and that's why they require two very different fundamentals for ball position.
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