| The reason I brought this up was because of an artical I was reading in Golf magazine a while back that stated most pro's play their irons a lot more forward in their stance than amateurs. The artical also stated that most pro's play their driver off their front foot. The funny thing to me was that every time I see the fold out they have of a players shot sequence this just doesnt seem to be the case. Sergio playing his 5 iron in the center of his stance, DiMarco with his 5 in the center, both even slightly behind center. Then I see Adam Scott with his driver well behind his front foot, same for Annika, and a few other I looked back at. The biggest light bulb went off reading a blurb by long drive champ Jason Zuback. He said in the artical that he plays the balls ahead of his front foot with his driver. Yet all the straight on pictures showed this was clearly not the case, it only appeared that way to him because of the angle we approach the ball from. This had me re-evaluate my own ball position.
So off to the dome I went.
Once I started tinkering again and paying attention to my own swing plane and the bottom of its arc I was hitting shots as crisp as hell. Click, click, click, one after another. The ball appeared to be very far back in my stance. The interesting part about this occured when i got home and set up infront of mirror, (I also took a few pics). My ball position was pretty much the middle of my stance with long irons and went further back with the shorties. What appeared to be even with my back foot was actually still a fair bit in front of it. So even though I play the ball back it wasnt as far back as I thought. It was simply my perception being off when looking down at the ball. I tried this with my wife as well (what a patient girl). I told her to put the ball in the middle of her stance. Every time she set up with it a few inches forward of that point. When I placed in the middle she looked at me like I was a nut (I see this look a lot).
So now I just do what feels right and trust it.
Moving the ball and inch in either direction can vary the height if need be, nothing drastic. Its amazing the differance an inch can make.
My ball striking is the best and most consistant it has ever been, yet I was hell bent of fixing it, making it more conventional. When in reality printed conventionality and on course conventionality seem to be too very differant things.  |