Please help me! I understand that your feet, knees, hips and shoulders should all be heading parallel down the target line. But if I have my driver, and I'm playing it off my left heel, my shoulders naturally open simply because the ball is that far forward in my stance. Does anyone have any drills or tips that I can work on to help with my alignment?
Thanks!
Driver can be a little different, because you may catch the ball with the club moving upwards. You might want find a way to set up with the club grounded a handfull of inches behind the ball, at the supposed bottom of the swing, for example. Experiment a little!
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To compensate for the left shoulder try and get you spine alligned with where your ball is. IE the inside of your left heel. Kinda difficult to explain but instead of standing with your spine at 90 degrees to the ground (upright) tilt your upper body slightly away from the target so that your spine forms a straight line from your head to your left heel (the spot that the ball is aligned to).
It will feel a bit strange at first but it will work.
Orndorff 24a
To compensate for the left shoulder try and get you spine alligned with where your ball is. IE the inside of your left heel. Kinda difficult to explain but instead of standing with your spine at 90 degrees to the ground (upright) tilt your upper body slightly away from the target so that your spine forms a straight line from your head to your left heel (the spot that the ball is aligned to).
It will feel a bit strange at first but it will work.
This can be good advice or bad advice depending on the type of swing you have. If you have a one plane swing, tilting the spine away from the target could totally mess you up.
Well stand in an address position put your hands together as if to pray and let them hang down in front of you. Now slowly let your right hand drop below your left hand without losing your squared up position. You do this by letting the right shoulder drop straight back and tilting the spine straight back. What we usually do when we set the right hand on the club is to let the right shoulder go forward a bit opening up the shoulders with respect to the target line.
Please help me! I understand that your feet, knees, hips and shoulders should all be heading parallel down the target line. But if I have my driver, and I'm playing it off my left heel, my shoulders naturally open simply because the ball is that far forward in my stance. Does anyone have any drills or tips that I can work on to help with my alignment?
Thanks!
If the ball is going straight with the driver I wouldn't worry too much about having your shoulders open. Try video to see for certain.
If the ball is going straight with the driver I wouldn't worry too much about having your shoulders open. Try video to see for certain.
I wish it was going straight! Ha! I'm averaging maybe 15-20 yards of left to right. Seems like my feet go right, shoulders go left, knees and hips who knows! I think I need a big mirror to check the alignment in. Right now I have my wife stand behind me and help me line everything up. I can do it it just feels wierd!
Target Line and Stance line always run parallel to each other. They never intersect so the stance line will actually be left of the Target line. Make a T w/ PVC and set your stance parallel. Use the perpendicular line to adjust for ball position.
Set your clubface down square FIRST in yoru preshot routine. Then take your grip and stance around the square clubface. Hogan used to come intot he ball with his left hand setting the club square, and Nicklaus came in with 2 hands setting his clubface square while staring at his INTERMEDIATE Target. Tiger picks out a spot in from of his ball as well.
March 5th, 2008, 09:05 PM
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