Golf Alignment of Your Feet
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Alignment in golf requires an understanding of where your feet are actually pointing and determining what reference point to use for your alignment to the target.
one of the most basic elements of the golf swing is alignment and alignment is another one of those things that typical golf instruction seems to tell you it doesn't really matter where you're pointed as long as you know where the ball is going to a degree that's true especially if you're in the middle of a round of golf and you're just kind of not sure and your feet setting up your feet and clubface are kind of throwing you off as long as you know where the ball is going that's great but that's a pretty unreliable mechanism because every day what you think you're lined up at is going to change a little bit your body feels different your brain and eyes see things a little bit differently so at the end of the day one of the most basic things that you'll always see tour pros working on is alignment so I've got a couple sticks set up here to make this really obvious and easy to see because alignment when you're working on it can lead you to a really closed setup without you catching on to what's happening here because your feet the way that you're measuring it can be very tricky to your eyes and so here's what I want to show you with this I'm going to put my feet in here and what you'll notice is that these two sticks even though they're lined up exactly on my feet and touching my feet my heels and my toes they're not parallel in fact they're quite a bit skewed so what I see most of the times that people set up to practice on the range and they set the club down they set a club down on their toes and they're using that as an alignment guide well now I know where I'm actually going to hit this ball is actually off of this line because my feet or my clubface is square to my right foot which is perpendicular to this shaft or this stick so now I know that this in relationship to thy toe line stick is actually looks really open if you look at most tour players at address if you get a chance to play or excuse me you know go to a round of golf where you can walk up really close to them you'll notice that most of the time their club faces look really open it's actually not open it's square in relationship to their body not their feet your feet will trick you how come simple if I set up with my feet perfectly square then you could put that this toe shaft along that line it'd be great but most all of us open our foot a little bit this makes a little bit easier and puts less strain on the hip to have your foot open because you're not rotating on that hip socket internally as much so this is perfectly fine to have your feet open but as I open my feet that's what makes this line change if I open them explore a lot now this is going to be 20 30 degrees left of the target so what I see happen all the time is people set up they have their feet open but they're putting the shaft down so now what I'm actually doing is making myself kind of want to open my shoulders so that it matches this line so now from down the line it looks like I'm actually set up this way because I'm paying attention to where the toe line is pointing this doesn't matter this is what matters your heels your knees your hips your shoulders and clubface should match up to your heel line not your toe line because your foot's going to be open so when you're practicing you may feel when you splay your foot open and you get all of this set up correctly you'll just need two shafts on the ground or two clubs on the ground and start getting comfortable with this set up that you're going to feel a little bit more open but that's actually truly square because now all of your body align your joints apart from where your foot's angled out are square so when you practice until you get comfortable put two shafts down one on your toe and one on your heel and use this as your guide you can set it up on your heel first and then set this one up parallel to it as well and now you've got a nice square visual of these two shafts being parallel now the clubface is going to be perpendicular to that and if I put all this together get a nice straight shot exactly on my line and that is how you're going to work on your alignment
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