Now to the adjustments.  The first thing you need to watch is the position of the ball in relation to the feet.  Obviously you will be standing nearer to it when you sole your steep-lie, short-shafted lofted iron than you would stand when playing the driver or brassie which are flatter in the lie and longer in the shaft.

  The variation you must attend to relates to the position from which the ball should be played, either from a central position (that is with the ball equidistant from both feet) or nearer one foot or the other.

  I explained the positioning of the ball for the various clubs in the chapter on the stance.  To make it quite clear let me repeat it in another form.  For the medium irons, the five and six, centre the ball; for the longer irons and woods position the ball progressively left of centre, until with the driver the ball is so far off centre that it rests on the end of an imaginary line drawn at right-angles from the left heel.

  The other side of centre concerns the lofted irons from the seven to the wedges.  The ball is positioned progressively right of centre until you have it at the end of an imaginary line from the right toe for the playing of a low-flying wedge.

  Bear in mind, too, that the stance becomes gradually narrower as you go through the club range from the driver to the wedge until the feet are only a matter of inches apart for the very short shots.

  All these simple variations I have mentioned are what might be termed standard for straightforward shots in normal conditions.  There are adjustments for playing from uneven lies, aiming for deliberate pulls or fades or when playing into a strong wind or from a tight lie.  In the last two cases the ball will be played rather more back than normally, but at this stage it might be confusing to ask you to absorb too many detailed variations.  With experience you will come to learn what is required.

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