Blog

Neutral Joint Alignment and Ball Location

There are golf mechanical topics that sound a bit too ‘Physics Oriented’ (‘The Physics Of Rotation and The Geometry Of The Circle’) but, when broken down into really simple basics, are not as dauting as might have seemed up front by the title!

Our ‘5 Set-Ups’ (Posture, Grip, Stance, Ball Location & Alignment) are in every single golf strike made world-wide! Worthy of our focus! Let us look at ‘Stance & Ball Location’ please.

‘Stance’ is about the ‘Width’ between our feet as well as our ‘Foot Aim’ (options are ‘Open, Square & Closed’) The Brace or Push Foot should generally be Square. The Target or Steering Foot should generally be ‘Open’ to precipitate or invite the ‘Target Hip to Clear’. (see ‘Steer So Your Can Clear’)

How about the ‘Stance Width’. We must discover ‘Neutral Joint Alignment’. This means that our Target Ankle, Knee, Hip and Shoulder Joints are ‘Stacked or in a roughly ‘Plumb Configuration’. Our Feet should be about as wide as our ‘Shoulder Sockets’, likely slightly wider than the hips. FYI … The ‘Shoulder Axis is the ‘Primary Alignment Axis’! I personally get narrower for ‘Short Game Dinkers’!

Initially the ‘Target Lever’ (including the Golf Club) hangs from the ‘Target Shoulder Primary Articulating Joint’ (PAJ – one of 13). This is fairly on the ‘Neutral Joint Alignment’. When we simply place both hands on the Golf Club Handle, (making the Hands, Wrists & Elbows Triangles) the Target Hand moves AFT to about under the ’Target Clavicle or Collar Bone’.

Keeping this simple, that is what your ‘555 Team’ refers to as the ‘Universal Ball Location’. Of interest, that is the same or virtually the same as your ‘Putting Ball Location’. A key point is that this is the functional ‘Bottom Of Swing Arc’ or ‘BOSA’ … where the ball must be for a solid ‘KRANK’!

Let’s not beat around the bush too much! For every golf club in your bag, when not teed up, this Ball Location will do the desired job of getting in the way of your ‘Sweet Spot’. Of course, there are small Variables to balance out our Constants’. There are three primary ‘Ball Locations’ … 1) Putting, 2) Chipping and 3) Driving. Tinker time! You will figure these out over time.

award winning golf academy Denton, Texas
Award-winning golf academy provides private and group instruction for beginners, advanced, and PGA players.

BOSA and AOA

These two acronyms are well known to you, our ‘555 Global Family’. They mean ‘Bottom Of Swing Arc’ and ‘Angle Of Attack’. When we ‘Set-Up’ (Posture,...
award winning golf academy McKinney Texas

Sensible

Ball Flight Control Understand, set-up and execute the ‘Straight Ball Flight’ as efficiently and soon as you can. Once this is accomplished,...
Award-winning golf academy provides private and group instruction for beginners, advanced, and PGA players.

Laziness

Seldom Gets Rewarded Golf requires, “No Golf Demands” discipline especially by way of a proven and defined in writing ‘Pre-Shot Routine’ for each...
award winning golf academy McKinney Texas

IF

‘IF’ you cannot swing small, You will not be able to swing big? “There Is A Putt In Every Drive!”
Award-winning golf academy provides private and group instruction for beginners, advanced, and PGA players.

Putting & Chipping

Think of executing 5 Foot or shorter Putts with your foundational and proven effective ‘8 Step Putting & Chipping Pre-Shot Routine’. (PSR)...

What is a Par 3?

Now that is a pretty simplistic question that deserves an answer. Simple name for what is often a simple task … ‘Shortest Holes On The course’...
Steve Jobs

Words On His Deathbed

STEVE JOBS and OTHERS FIVE UNDENIABLE FACTS OF LIFE 1. Do not educate your children to be Rich. Educate them to be Happy. When they grow up they...
award winning golf academy McKinney Texas

Inching & Body Clocking

Think ‘Hammer & Nail’. The bigger the hammer head and longer the handle, the more work can be done! Another good image is the difference between...
award winning golf academy Pilot Point, Texas

Ground Rules

Whether a 2-some or 4-some, it is wise and useful to establish some discussion and ‘Ground Rules’, especially when there are strangers in the mix....
award winning golf academy McKinney Texas

Primary Set-Up Tasks

Human Parts Properly Positioned In Time & Space Baseline facts: 1) Putting and small Chipping are Stage 1 Procedures (No Wrist Cock and No...

Complete Golf Myth Collection

BEST VALUE

Purchase the Complete Golf Myth Collection for $49.99 and receive the entire 19 volume set. That includes Books A, B, C, D, E, and F.
Instant download access.

Special Offer

A ‘GOLF MYTH COMPLETE COLLECTION – Proof Of Purchase’ will earn the customer a 30% discount off the ‘Published Bench Rate’ for one ‘Personal Lesson’ without any time restriction.
Makes the ‘Complete Collection’ FREE!
Offer is not transferable!