too close for comfort
gommo February 28th, 2007
After shanking far too many hits on the driving range yesterday (Granted I’d only had about 3.5 hours sleep the night before but still) I took another look at my golf swing from some video I took early this week. …
One thing just jumped out at me! I am standing way too close to the ball at address. I also found some great articles from golfonline that go into some detail about shanks, their causes and how to cure them. This also would be a major factor to my outside-in swing that is causing the ball to slice.
Additionally, I also found a post on golfrewind that had a quick test to see how far you should stand from the ball. Basically it goes something like this…
- Take your normal stance.
- With your eyes shut, lift the club infront of you so the shaft is parrallel to the ground and at arms length away.
- Bring your arms in so your triceps touch your chest.
- Bend at the waist until the club head touches the ground.
- Open your eyes and compare the club heads position to where you originally set up from.
For me, this was a good 6″ further away from me.
We’ll see how this goes on the range tommorrow 
