Aligning a Golf Shot

Video Transcript

"Okay now the alignment drills that we've done in this series at the driving range are great, but when you're out on the course, when you're playing in a match or in a tournament, you're not allowed just to lay down a club and say okay there's my target and lay down a club, and then set up your alignment. So you have to be able to do this, throughout your practice on the course in your mind. So a lot of times you're on a course and you've got your, your ball is here, you've got trees coming or the target isn't exactly line up properly, so there's a lot of different angles that you have to adjust for. One of the hardest things that I've had to overcome in my game, is that I'm on the tee box and the line of trees goes this way, but the hole goes that way, so you kind of are misaligning because of the way the hole is designed. So, or a lot of times it looks like the fairway is narrow but it's big. Or it looks like that would be a bad place to put the ball, so the mind kind of resists a little bit. So that's why you have to do the alignment drills continuously in your practice. And when you're doing practice rounds, you can use your clubs even on the course so you can get a feel for the alignment. Because half the time our body resists, like you're like I want to hit over there and you can feel the body tensing up, so that's why you've got to do these drills so you can be relaxed when you hit the ball. So, if I'm going to hit the ball straight, I'm going to look at my target, I'm going to draw a line from the target back to the ball and then I'm going to want this club head to be perpendicular to that line. So now I've established this imaginary line and I'm going to try to stand, step parallel to it, so now that I'm aligned properly. And that's for a shot that I don't have any wind or anything like that to deal with. So this will be your nice straight shot. So you draw that line from the target, then you get the club to be perpendicular to it and then you step into it like that. So that's how you get perfect alignment on the course."