Recent Articles in THE SETUP

The role of the hands has long been discussed in the golfing world. There is really only one true role the hands play throughout the swing.

Moe Norman is still regarded as one of the premier ball strikers in the history of golf.

In this video I discuss his setup and how it helped his backswing & how it could help yours also.

Being natural at the setup can go a long way to helping solve swing issues.

If you are already out of position to begin with then there will be a body V brain fight right

throughout the swing and bad shots can be more commonplace.

In this video I discuss with 1995 PGA Champion Steve Elkington how far away from the ball at setup

would be the ideal position to address the ball from to help guarantee better shots.

Better balance. Faster clubhead speed. More body rotation.

It's all here in this quick clip from a student lesson where I discuss the reasons why a better posture can enable those things to happen.

When golfers get into the longer irons and the fairway woods they believe they have to try help the ball up into the air

because when they look down they see very little loft on the club.

Here is the way it works. Helping it isn't going to do anything good- rather the opposite.

It's like in baseball. You swing up the ball goes diving downwards. You swing down the ball pops up.

Golf is easier than that because we get to choose where we put the ball in the stance.

Simple if you know how. Video below.

Alignment from the tee can be made a lot easier nowadays due to the agronomy conditions today's courses try to uphold.

Look at the stripes Seve Ballesteros has teed his ball up on here on the 18th hole at Augusta National.

He has his ball teed up on one side of the panel and his feet aligned down the other side of the panel.

Sometimes things such as this are a simple way to get the hole started in good fashion. Effective & easy.