Why ALIGNMENT is EVERYTHING in Golf! [AIM PROPER]
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How can you know if you hit it where you were aimed if you don't know where you were aimed? You can't! Which is why so many golfers are so frustrated. You'd never pull the trigger on a gun without aiming it and golf is no different. Yet many of you simply guess where you're aimed and swing. You're adding variables into the process that can be completely removed.
When you are aligned properly and you know it and trust it you can SIMPLY SWING. Butch Harmon said, "Swing like you're on the beach aiming at the ocean. You can't miss."
You should never need to hit the ball anyway but straight.
Many amateurs tend to aim right then try to hit the ball down the fairway resulting in a fade or slice that finished to the right of their alignment. Aim straight and you can swing straight.
Golf should not be a struggle. Golf should not be hard. Golf is easy if you know the secret.
Start playing golf well. Gain confidence and have more fun playing golf.
Dustin Johnson, Cameron Champ, Rory McIlroy, Joaquín Niemann and Tommy Fleetwood all take great care in their aim and alignment.
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Standing with shoulders, hips, feet, closed to the target, encourages over the top or swinging across the target line, because the brain remembers where the target is and will guide the arms to follow that line.
Eye Dominance...right handed / right eye dominant person will loose sight of the ball in back swing and tend to limit backswing or look up in order to see the ball. Anika Sorenstan, David Duval. They tend align too open to the target and swing across line for pulls. They should approach the ball from an oblique angle with intermediate target line in full view, step in with rear foot first and place the club down behind ball perpendicular to target line, then bring the front foot in. This sequence will allows the eyes to communicate the target to the brain and reduces the temptation of closing the front shoulder to the line. Get used to the "open" or "aimed left" feeling. Take pics or video or ask someone to check your alignment. It will actually be correct.
Right handed/ Left eye dominant people can see the target because the dominant eye is out front and peripheral vision assures the brain the they are aligned.
I don't really "look" at the ball at all. Like Bobby Jones said, "I'm simply aware of where it is." It's not moving and it's not going anywhere until I hit it.
Love your way of looking at golf!
Truly, we thank you, I know words are cheap and it doesn't put food on the table or pay the bills but if you share and give something of yourself like you do with your followers, its like paying it forward, I am of the opinion that we will look after each other for whatever reason . .
Bravo, I sure needed this! Thank you
You're welcome. If you adopt this you will see an improvement. Like I've said before, I see a lot of people complain their ball didn't go where they wanted it to and I say, "It went exactly where you were aimed."
More great knowledge!
Yes, Yea & Yes. Especially the right hip idea, which brings back
into focus the downswing path, SQ impact, slightly right, left, up, back and up.
Really like ur video, hope everything is great for u and we will survive this pandemic together.
I love your title. You are far from a Moron. ;-) Kudos for speaking TO us as one of us not At us like some of the so called Golf Gurus. I know it takes a lot of time to prepare and produce videos so while you can Keep em coming. Very informative and inspiring.
Covid cough 😷!
Great tip! I use this 88% of the time and it works with putting also!!🐊🏌️♂️🚩🇺🇸🦅
Love all your videos. Will give you a tip to your PayPal account as your information and presentation is valuable to me
The Solution at the driving range is always to have in mind the intentional landing of where you want the ball to go. If you missed that spot, you know whatever you did needs ajustements on your part and so figure it out. Jack Nicklaus way as you demonstrate is obviously good; but if your ball still does not land on your intended target you need to find a different way. Cheers
Enjoy your content man, hope things get better for you soon.
Thanks for sorting out my golf swing
I was a caddie when I was a kid and one of the better golfers I caddied for smoked a pipe. On every shot he laid his pipe about 8" outside his ball aligned to his path. I picked up on it and when I played I had a skinny little bag and I would casually lay it down about a foot outside my ball aligned with my path. Not legal, but it helped a lot.
Yes not legal. I had a person accuse me of doing that in a PLGA champions tournament once. I was off the green and deciding to chip or putt. I threw the unused club down and hit the chip. Afterward one of my playing partners asked if I was using the second club to align myself. I had literally thrown it down. So, now I always throw the extra club behind me where I can't see it.
My slice solution came from Lee Trevino..."Aim Left, Swing Right, Walk Straight". Alignment and ball position is everything. Since most golfers tend to sand closed to the target line, they must get used to the percieved "feeling open" or "aiming left" of the target. They must adjust to extending the arms to hit the ball or "swing to the right (right field)". Proper setup and alignment goes a long way to eliminate over the top moves. Think of the front shoulder and left leg foot as the door hinge. Swing back opens the door. Downswing closes the door. Your hip can't cross into the wall. So, the hip and body must slide "back" along the wall so the shoulder hinge remains in place. The hinge area is where the club head will meet the ball. Unlike a door, your arms do not stop. Your arms shoulders continue past the "door frame" or ball and will pull your body and head around and the back leg follows around because the back hip leg foot comes forward to the target line on the toe without trying.
Foot angle helps clear hips to allow arms to swing through. Check out overhand golf guy feet position and angles. Back foot square to line. Front foot is angled 45* forward. You don't "turn" or "fire hips". The hips just go back when foot pushes against the ground to counter the swing momentum.
Practicing with and without alignment sticks is most important in training the brain to see proper aligment. Dominant eye should be understood as well. Bifocal glasses distort vision perception.
You're absolutely right. Many people cannot cure their slice because the refuse to align themselves properly and trust it.
Intermediate point is a must... but no more then a foot in front of the ball. And a remember your mind will try to fight u on this once you're over the ball. Its your eye sight messing with you.. trust your Intermediate point. It will feel like your hitting it way right, for a right handed golfer. Anyway thats my experience..
Another thing to do is try and predict your ball flight.. fade, draw, high or low.
Cheers mate and stay safe
You're right. I've been doing this for so long that I'd forgotten what it felt like when I first started. I remember thinking, 'that can't be right,' because it felt like I was setup to the right of the target. I'd back off and check it again and it was correct. It's amazing how we get used to an improper setup. I see players all the time setup wildly offline, especially on a hillside lie and I have to stop them and say, 'Where are you aiming, 'cause you're pointed way over there.' They always disagree with me and I have to tell them I wouldn't have stopped you if you were aimed properly.
@@HolyGrailOfGolf ... you and shawn clement are the only teachers I've ever come across that's got it right. Everyone else is focused on some body part always with a new drill that will magically change your swing. If you learn to throw the club everything will follow. When you are trying to hit the ball and the ball is your target there is no need to clear the hips, no lag, no posture... you need to gove yourself a different task. And your mind can only be at one place at a time. When a tennis player serves the ball his mind is not on the ball, but at a point on the other half of the court. Again thanks for sharing and I hope things will turn around for your business... cheers mate
Whew thanks for clarifying it's not covid, I was worried i'd catch it when you coughed.
..yeah I wondered why Greg mentioned that. Maybe the covid police were in the neighbourhood watching!
Well, I’m afraid I’ve been a little sceptical of all of this stuff. After 2 days of swing practice in my backyard I finally made it out onto the course today for 9 holes.
The first hole, (I was playing two balls) started and ended with balls going so far left that they almost came back at me boomerang style. “What the hell am I doing here”. After some quick thinking I realised that I was just throwing the club out the back of my swing without doing the downward part, (hitting with the shaft). Hole 2 saw two beautiful tee shots straight down the middle with a slight fade. The rest of the round was the same. No real effort. Just thinking that if I follow the instructions then all will be good. Faith. And it was. No super long distance yet but I can work on that. The irons went perfectly straight too. Hopefully, I can convert my pals after this weekend’s competition.
Thank you many times for this instruction. It will become my “stake in the ground” from now on.
I'm proud of you. You proved yourself wrong ... or you were trying to prove me wrong. Either way you did it! It's crazy easy once you get it. Almost too easy. It feels odd at first and then quickly it becomes second nature which is why everyone who's good is unaware they're doing it.
Super good stuff. I think I just found an Easter egg video baseball umpire dancing. Hilarious
Tiger and Jack do this - we should all be doing this.
Golf is a blind game - we don't get to look at the target when we strike the ball.
If your swing is decent this is the key to golf.
Get to it, please. 7:00 good info
DR.OH....Your comment about why children swing so weill' something along the lines of ,they figure out that they should swing toward the ground because that is where the ball is.....stuck in my mind .....just tried it and was amazed at the results.... is this for real and does it put you in the HG position ? Teally enjoy your style
Sure it's real. Yeah, the funny thing about kids is they figure out the club almost on accident. Luckily, no overthinking adult is telling them to "swing toward the target." If you're hitting great shots and you're happy with it, just enjoy your game and don't mess with it. When you're using the club properly it's almost like magic. Enjoy the magic.
@@HolyGrailOfGolf DR.OH
THANKS for your reply.....trying not to over think or hardly think at all......but does this thought put your club in the HG position ? THANKS
@@ronaldelkin124 The alignment? No. HG will send your ball down the target line, we need to make sure the target line is actually pointing at the target.
(@ 4:50) will that alignment produce a slice when paired with a (somewhat) straight golf swing path? I have been battling a slice for the past few months. I consciously opened my stance up on the tee box and tried to account for a slice and ended up hitting straight. Also, I've heard beginner golfers tend to have a closed stance because they're not used to looking over their shoulder lining up.
So i guess, how much does alignment affect the ball flight?
Aiming left or open is far better than aiming closed. Also, you shouldn't be looking over your shoulder toward the target. When you learn to aim properly you'll feel like you're open to the target but once you get used to it you can't live without it.
@@xavi12R Alignment affects ball flight tremendously. Most poeple as I said tend to aim right and try to make the ball go toward the target. The result is a fade that ends up directly where they're aimed.
I think people start creeping their body more and more closed before they hit cause they have the face way to closed and cupped on set up. They don’t set the club down, set feet and shoulders., then set grip. They set grip first and then line body up to compensate it.
Also, if I am hitting a ball into a net I seem to smash it but when the target is 200 yards away I fluff often fluff it.
This technique should help. For some reason when we desire for the ball go far we don't hit as well as we normally would. Try it, it'll seem very strange at first but you'll get used to it.
Never go 100 %.. and never hit it as far as u can... if u can hit ur driver lets say 240, then imagine going for 200. Its smooth and easy we want.. good luck
I'm glad you didn't lay the clubs on the ground. Most golf courses your lie is seldom perfectly level. Alignment is actually a function of where the ball exits your rotation. Your axis point changes with every change in elevation. You have to feel that as you set up. I used to use the alignment spot method...Jack Nicklaus uses it. But I now like to just start behind the ball, then approach the ball very open to the target looking at the target as you change your view to "under." Take dead aim at the target. The target always in your mind as you make natural setup adjustments. Got both my hole in ones this way. I would never pick an intermediate target throwing a ball to someone.....feels unnatural for me. But some have improved their alignment issues in golf using this method.
Good point about throwing a ball. In that case, we're not looking at the ball either. Although, when throwing a ball there's no anxiety, at least for most of us. We simply know how to do it the best we can and we never question it. So many people are literally scared to hit the golf ball and this definitely relieves stress.
Watch a video of Lord Byron Nelson playing at Pine Valley. The way he lines up from behind and then walks in from behind with total concentration, hefting the club and feeling the weight in his hands is a pleasure to watch. He does it on putts, too. Great course visual, also. On one tee it almost looks like they are on a movie set.
I feel that my swing is better these days...I’m swinging in to out however, I find it difficult to marry up the fact that the target is straight ahead but I’m swinging “out to the right”. It doesn’t feel like I’m aiming at the thing I’m aiming at...any thoughts on this?
What you've described is exactly what Mike Austin said the golf swing should feel like. Is your ball going toward your target? If so, you just need to get used to it, if not, you need to adjust something.
@@HolyGrailOfGolf Thanks for the reply. Happy enough with the ball flight so I’ll need to get used to it...my problem is when I swing too much out to the right and start pushing the ball. I need to come up with some sort of reference line or path to stick to. In a linear game like pool/snooker you can never aim too straight but in golf, I feel like when I’m swinging out to the right I can swing too much out to the right!
@@Arkade_Perfect You shouldn't actually be swinging out the right although it should feel like you are. If you're swinging on plane, when you hit the imaginary ball, your club shaft should be level to the ground and parallel to the target line. From that point it's nearly impossible to swing in to out or out to in. Your imaginary ball might be too far inside if you're actually swinging in to out.
@@HolyGrailOfGolf I only found your channel a few days ago so I’ve not tried hitting the imaginary ball...I was on UA-cam looking for a bit of conformation bias 😆 - was on the course last week and filmed a few swings. Noticed that I was steepening the shaft a bit in transition, then getting on track later in the ds, so had an idea of “what if I got the club head on the swing path ASAP from the top” I normally imagine a path on the ground that goes a bit in to out. In my mind it would be a bit casty, as I was going to throw the club head at this line from the top. I hit it so good for my last 8 holes.
@@HolyGrailOfGolf to add to that I feel like the thought I had is along the same lines as your holy grail thinking (but I’ve only watched a few of your vid so far), or Bradley Hughes 4.30 drill, Jack’s “can’t release the club too early,” Penick’s keeping your head behind the ball until after you hit it, Justin Rose’s rehearsal of dropping the club with his back to the target etc....I love this shit 😃
I get all lined up, step up, swing. Now I'm in the woods to the right of the next fairway over.
So your ball actually gets closer to the hole? Nice.
Watch the holy grail of golf. If you're ball isn't going fairly straight you're doing something very very wrong.
@@alistairs8495 it's maybe your grip! Really make sure it's neutral.
@@HolyGrailOfGolf yea seems that the face is wide open
@@donkeyjoe4782 If you don't mind, can you put that question into a clearer context and send it to me here: OverhandGolf@usa.com The original post here was a joke, I think.
If you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.
Now that I read that a few times, I have to disagree. If I could aim at nothing and hit nothing I would. The problem is aiming at nothing and hitting something you didn't intend to. Good comment though. I know where you're coming from.
I often tell people to aim for the tree in front of them or the branch that they fear they might hit. I say, "how often do you hit what you're aiming at?"
@@HolyGrailOfGolf I am sorry that I did not put quotes around my comment. I'm not clever enough to have come up with that and I am not sure who it should be attributed to maybe Tom Watson ?
I wonder if you could get with Lee Comeaux .
With both of you collaborating I might finally get better at this crazy game.
@@garyflesher1752 Did you try the Holy Grail? Send me a video of your swing and explain what problems you're having. OverhandGolf@usa.com
@@HolyGrailOfGolf Of course I did can't quite get it.
Maybe it's a brain thing with me.
That is a wonderful offer and I will probably take you up on that my friend.
@@garyflesher1752 Right now I have a lot of extra time and I'm kinda bored most of it, so send that video. The Holy Grail probably easier than you think. We've had people telling us forever that the golf swing is hard and it's tough to get that out of your head. If a child can do it, so can you.
This is all good if you hit the ball straight…if you’re a guy with a controllable slice you aim left. 😊
Good video only comment is maybe with a shotgun alignment isn’t ‘as’ important lol :)
You've got a point there!
6:53 over the top...
What are you seeing then as it looks pretty good to me
@@nige99 it was tongue in cheek because he was not trying but it waa over the top, flat shoulder turn and the club approaches impact above and outside the address shaft angle.