Your Golf Stand and Addressing The Golf Ball

Balance and poise - Aiming - Elbow-set - Flexed knees

  After the grip comes the stance.  Grip the club correctly and stand properly to the ball in the address and the subsequent actions will be the more easily mastered.  So do not rush these very necessary preliminaries.

  You must be balanced and poised in the address, neither sloppy nor taut.  On the first tee of any golf course any weekend you will see scores of players killing their chance of hitting the ball by the way they take up their stance.

  Some crouch over the ball with the set of the shoulders entirely and irretrievably wrong.  Others stand stiff-kneed and stiff-armed, and there are those who slump and droop like exhausted recruits awaiting dismissal at the end of a route march.

  And you will find the player who, while standing reasonably well, is quite wrongly lined-up.  The average golfer has a vague idea of aiming and lining-up the stance in relation to his intended line of flight.  Asked how he contemplates his drive from the tee he usually replies that he looks down the middle of the fairway and tries to hit the ball there.

  There is more to it than that.  At a two-shot hole, or par four if you prefer it, the good golfer aims to dispatch his ball from point A, which is the tee, to point B which is a selected part of the fairway which he judges to be the best from which to play the second shot, that is the shot to point C, which is the green.

  There are many good testing holes, well designed by a thinking architect where the player's selection of point B will require careful thought because the obviously best spot on which to land the drive will also be the more dangerous with a hazard, or hazards, placed close to it.  This leaves the player with the alternative choice of a bold shot which MUST be well struck and well aimed, or a line which is less ambitious, offering more scope for the avoidance of trouble but calling for a more difficult shot to the green.

  However you visualize the shot which you seek to play at a particular hole this is the best way to set about taking aim.  Stand a yard or two behind the ball after teeing it and survey the situation by taking a line from the teed ball to point B where you want to put it, and then along that same line on to a distant landmark, say a tall tree, a roof-top or a church spire.

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