Bob's Lesson Tee tips

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Set up for the driver. What is different about the driver is that the ball is no longer sitting on the

ground. It's up on a tee. Around the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s,

engineering and science got more involved with golf. They changed the ball, and then they

changed the driver equipment, so they're both designed to fly higher, carry further, and roll less.

The engineering is that it would roll into less trouble. Well, no one's bought that part yet, but it

does fly higher and further. So, how do we set up to hit up on the ball as opposed to down? First

of all, the position of the ball in the setup should be right about where the arm's left armpit is for

a right-handed golfer and the right armpit for a left-handed golfer, now we want to promote

swinging up on the ball, so instead of when the ball's sitting on the ground we're hitting down on

it in our downswing our upper body slightly comes down before it turns in the driver swing when

our short left shoulder for the right-handed golfer gets to our chin now we're shifting laterally,

and then the shoulder and left side of the body goes up and behind us that promotes an upward

strike which sends the ball higher and further.

The low point of the golf swing, unlike what most amateurs think, is not the ball. The swing's low point is after the ball a good 2-3 inches after the ball. Why is this important? Because all clubs are designed to hit the ball when it's sitting on the ground, they have what is called offset. In order to compress the ball, which sends it up and out, we have to strike down on the ball and then the turf. Hence, the reason for that is in the downswing. We shifted our weight toward the target, which also moved the bottom of our swing toward the target, so we gathered the ball on the way to take the club to the target. 

Just to make things clear, the golf swing is not a turn, it's a coil. When you get into your setup, you bring your chest down toward the ball, and the takeaway is your chest rotating. In other words, the left side goes down, the right shoulder goes up and behind you, and you feel the weight shift from your left from both feet to your right foot, your right heel. Then, there is the uncoiling, which is planting the left heel and bending the upper body to plant the left heel first.

Today we are going to talk about the takeaway in the golf swing it's counterintuitive to take the put the club in motion after a proper setup the left shoulder arm and hand push the club away from the ball with a right-handed player with the left-handed player it's the right shoulder arm and hand this starts the club on a straight path on an inclined plane.

One of the greats of the game, by the name of Julia Boros, who won three majors in his career, taught me that all good shots start with a good setup So what does that mean that means let's start with the grip the grip should be held in the fingers not in the palms of the hand the v’s formed by the thumb and forefinger of both hands should come over to the right shoulder for a right-handed player and vice versa for the left-handed player when addressing the ball we bring the club up slightly and we bring it down with our chest not dropping our arms that way we have the right posture over the ball as well as our hands are the right distance from our body so that the they can come through in the hitting area and not be blocked by the lower body.