Setting up to the ball involves finding an athletic stance combined with ‘natural’ positions not influenced by a club or a golf ball.
We strongly recommend practicing and becoming familiar with YOUR natural set-up position without the use of a club.
Feet are approximately shoulder width apart.
Knees are slightly flexed…women tend to revert to straight legs…knees flexed so front of knees are over the balls of your feet.
CRITICAL: You MUST bend forward from your hips, not your neck and shoulders. To reinforce the feeling of bending from hips, attach one end of a club to both the back of your head and the base of your rear. Bend forward, maintaining contact with both body parts. Most people do not bend from the hips, and as a result do not set themselves properly to swing towards the ground.
Once bent forward from the HIPS, allow your arms to hang straight down from your shoulders. NOTE: your arms always meet in the middle of your body, always meet extend away from your body, and always meet in the same place directly beneath your shoulders. Once a club is in your hand and a ball in front of you, you DO NOT deviate from this position…it is your ‘natural’ position based on your body dimensions and comfort. This is also our way of determining the properly length equipment suitable for YOUR set-up and body. The equipment fits you, not vice versa!
The ball is to be placed in the middle of your stance (with two exceptions, driver off a tee and chip shots…to be discussed later), because the middle of our stance represents the lowest point of our swing (hands are their lowest in the middle) and therefore offers the best chance of getting the ball airborne.
