Ball placement, shaft angle, and setup are just a few of the things that must be correct before you can become a consistent driver of the golf ball. This helps when swinging an iron because in a conventional iron swing you should be striking down and through the ball, with your hands leading the club head through the point of impact, according to swing coach butch harmon. I recommend you view the video in full screen version to better see the details. The simple role of the left elbow in the golf swing video. Should the golf ball set up position be different for. Impacting the upper, outer quadrant of the face also reduces more spin and encourages a draw. Don trahan, pga master professional, has spent over half of his life perfecting the golf swing as an instructor and a competitive golfer.
Swing surgeon certified instructors and fitters don trahan. Their ball position has been too far forward which will cause a late impact on the ball. Compress the golf ball february 08, 20 andrew rice. Oct 06, 2019 the home of the original bodyfriendly golf swing.
Please see the set swing backswing lesson for more details on how to make a great turn to get to this position. Aug 06, 2008 the ball is off his left heel if you drop a line from the ball straight vertically down but the open stance changes the dynamic. Put the clubface in an open position, then take your grip. Should the golf ball set up position be different for every. For someone to write otherwise is just plain a bunch of lies.
Ball position with your driver swing surgeon don trahan. Flared feet ball position with your driver golf tip youtube. It seems that the ball height on the tee is just as important considering my swing along with forgiveness and position of sweet spot of the type of driver or club being used and desired trajectory of my ball as well as setup, posture, and alignment. What changes is position of feet and width of stance ball appears in center with short irons, slightly ahead of center with hybrids, about 12 behind the front heel with the fairways and on the instep with the driver. Science proves traditional golf ball position is wrong. Will you please add a swing rite trainer to my club order. Hit your driver on the upswing a simple training drill. How the proper golf hands position at address can help fix your golf shank.
A few ways to check that your ball position is good and my thoughts on alignment with irons and driver. Certified professional doc griffin don trahan academy of. I like keeping the ball in the same position for all clubs on standard full shots. The arms wont have enough room to hang and swing freely, causing the club to be lifted by the hands in the backswing, forced down on the downswing, and lifted again to the finish position. Flick believed a wide stance promoted stability for the longer, faster swings these clubs require. Play it in line with your shirt logo, and drop your right foot away from the target in a.
Certified professional doc griffin don trahan academy of golf. Golf driver loft distance, degrees, and best club selection. What i found interesting was that if i put the ball way forward in my stance i. Harvey penick said that the ball position for a driver and 3 wood off the tee should be just the opposite of left heel.
Apr 25, 20 standing too close to the ball causes golfers to stand too upright, losing the forward upper body tilt. At the set swing position your left arm should be parallel to the ground. Fill in the email address that you used when you signed up to receive a list of. Ball position, alignment, and flight swing surgeon don. I hit 60 balls concentrating on the 3 positions and the only. Right elbow golf swing position drills video by pete styles. In this video youll learn what determines the bottom of your swing arc so that you can hit crisp iron shots every time and stop chunking the ball or topping it. The driver will be played just about straight off the left heel. The simple role of the left elbow in the golf swing video by pete styles there is plenty about the golf swing that is confusing. And with longer clubs, that circle gets bigger, which changes the bottom of the swing arc, or the bottom of the circle. Swing the driver like all the rest golf swing tips youtube.
Get the longest distance, either on a launch monitor you trust or. But the secret is in that space of time justbefore through justafter the ball is struck. Trackman refers to this gap as spin loft and without being too detailed it is the difference between where the face points at impact and where the clubhead. When you come to 9 iron, he said the ball should be in the center of stance. Ppgs flared feet setup swing surgeon don trahan peak. Tips for perfect golf swing setup and posture by scratch golf academy. The lessons on ball position have changed over the years. The narrower the gap or closer the two lines are the more compression will be exerted onto the golf ball and assuming a decent strike and appropriate launch, the ball will travel further. Advantages of an upright golf swing and how to perfect yours. An upright swing can also help golfers have a squarer clubface position when it meets the ball since the club travels a straighter path throughout the swing than it does with a flat swing. Jul 27, 2012 he has taught the same golf swing methods for as long as i have known him. If you have similar swing speed, but hit your shots far shorter than your playing partners. Want to learn more about the vertical golf swing and how to hit a golf ball with consistency.
I play my driver off my front heel and play my irons in the middle of my. Golf schools and golf events sponsored by don trahan and swing surgeon golf. Drop your right shoulder until the base of your right thumb is even with your lefthand fingertips. Because im an equipment expert, not a swing expert, i usually leave questions like this to the people who make their living teaching the game. Know your limits and maximize your driving distance using proper ball position and flared feet. Instructors and fitters certified to teach the peak performance golf swing. Especially for the beginning player, trying to understand the swing and all of its moving parts can quickly become overwhelming. Ball position relative to my torso, the head is slightly behind the ball with the inner part of the shirt pocket. The exact driver swing i taught my son, dj trahan, that produced 3 tour wins.
Ball position for a peak performance golf swing youtube. Aug 22, 2009 ball position for driver my swing speed is normally around 100105 mph, but i was trying a few different things in the nets just to see how various swing changes could affect my swing speed. A simple drill for perfect ball position and pure strikes. Slow motion golf swing how going in slow motion can change. Lately, in schools, i have noticed people with incorrect ball position. A higher spin loft increases spin and generally slows down ball speed. I think the swing rite trainer will help me obtain this goal. He has attempted to leverage the internet to see if there is a market for his theory and the respective swing aids, but to say that what he us doing us a ripoff, well its just not true. In the address position, your hands are on the shaft, while the club head is angled back a bit. And believe it or not this applies to the driver as well. This is largely due to changes in equipment and in swing styles. A wide stance, rice argues, will allow you to stay behind the ball and swing up on it two keys many golfers use for longer drives. If you would like to simplify your golf swing and generate more clubhead speed than you have ever generated in your life using the natural movement of your body, peak performance golf is the only place i know to get it. Swing surgeon certified instructors and fitters don.
Floridabased pga professional andrew rice also recommends a wide stance for long clubs, particularly the driver. As my understanding of the golf swing has evolved over the last 20 odd. Since the swing has caught on with over 600,000 golfers over the past four years, i. Peak performance golf swing peak performance golf swing. Right elbow golf swing position drills video by pete styles so in the previous video to this one, we just talked about the importance of the role the right arm and elbow can play in the golf swing. Hold for three to five seconds in each position and repeat 1015 times on each leg.
Driver shaft position at address swing surgeon don trahan peak. At age 51 and in three days after watching the youtube instruction i have gone from hitting an 8 iron 165 to almost 190. Dec 14, 2015 i like keeping the ball in the same position for all clubs on standard full shots. I used to follow that routine, until i worked with canadian golf doctor, terry miscolski. Fitting a driver a find the shaft and head combination that the golfer hits with the best ball speed, the best consistent contact on the sweet spot, the best subjective feel, the best swing path and clubface angle, etc. An interesting debate among golfers and golf instructors involves the question of whether golfers should fix their mechanics so they can swing standard golf clubs properly, or if they should use clubs that help compensate for their swing deficiencies. The first point is that stance width and ball position is determined relative to your ankles and heels, not the toes. The smaller circle that shorter drivers create necessitate the traditional ball position of off the left heel pictured left.
Don trahan the swing surgeon hilton head island, sc thursday, 6. The peak performance golf swing that is the culmination of 40 years of golf experience. Ball position for driver my swing speed is normally around 100105 mph, but i was trying a few different things in the nets just to see how various swing changes could affect my swing speed. Just as shafts and heads react differently than they used to, the modern golf swing approaches the ball in a different way. The lower the loft on your driver, the farther the ball will go yup, thats true. Ball position for a peak performance golf swing swing surgeon golf. He is the pioneer behind the first truly body friendly golf swing.
The ball is off his left heel if you drop a line from the ball straight vertically down but the open stance changes the dynamic. Swing surgeon don trahan peak performance golf swing. The center of gravity of the club should be centered underneath the center of your swing. Simple ball position and tee height adjustments can mean another 1020 yards as long as you are compressing the ball efficiently for your swing speed. I live in utah and high altitude aside i am killing the ball, irons and woods. Those who struggle with hitting the ball at undesirable angles due to the club shifting positions during a swing might benefit from an upright swing. So ball position varies from the left heel to the center of stance. I question how one can get their swing to bottom out just in front of a ball that is in the position off the left heel when using a wedge. So if you want to train for a driver swing, you just reverse it all. As the club gets shorter, the ball position should moves little to the right. Standing too close to the ball causes golfers to stand too upright, losing the forward upper body tilt. Swing surgeon golf management swing surgeon golf management swingsurgeoncom don trahan dj and gerg sams internet. This position is somewhat extreme, and should tame even the biggest slice.
Their ball position has been too far forward which will cause a late impact on. Ball position at address has a tremendous affect on where you shot will end. Don trahan is a pga master professional with over 40 years of golf experience. When addressing the ball at the tee, should my position be. The goal on a good downswing is to get the big, powerful muscles in the back and legs to help generate as. Keep the ball in one place for every club golf digest. You may however, begin with the bar at a less rightward position from vertical, say 12. Their response was to file suit aganist the local providers for theft of computer equipment. In the vertical peak performance golf swing, we used flared feet and a quite lower body to produce a powerful, accurate, and body friendly golf swing. Golf ball position can affect alignment vertical golf swing youtube. Jun 24, 2017 because im an equipment expert, not a swing expert, i usually leave questions like this to the people who make their living teaching the game. I am determined to improve my early release with the driver and am going to work diligently to hit the ball on the upswing and increase my club head speed.
Play the ball where your righthand fingers point when hitting driver. The goal on a good downswing is to get the big, powerful muscles in the back and legs to. For now, consider the question does your ball position make sense. When you watch some of the fullmotion videos of brians swing see below in links, youll doubt that the ball will carry any distance with such a relaxed swing. I am a power monger and routinely have a driver width stance with a pitching wedge. But i have some thoughts on this subject from years of experience that might help. Compress the golf ball golf instruction andrew rice golf. Great golf after hip or knee replacement golf channel. Flared feet ball position with your driver golf tip. Dont change your swing for your driver, the club doesnt know the swing. But the thing i struggle to convey to a lot of golfers is how. Having difficulty playing because i dont know my distances any more. There are a few key points to remember about ball position when you use the ppgs setup of 30 degree flared feet.
Unwind all that great new coil, but in the correct order. The weight on the front foot encourages solid contact and hitting down on the ball. Learn whats correct based on the physics of the golf swing and your anatomy. The goal in these drills is to miss an object that is about 12 the height of a golf ball when placed at the ball position, and hit an object forward of the ball position thus encouraging the desired downward strike. Traveling the world, don trahan has helped thousands of golfers enjoy.
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