Newsletter: Vol. 1, Page 1

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Ball Position

One of the things that make the Automatic Golf method automatic is that you  don't have to be concerned about ball position. If you grip  the club while holding it up in the air and then lower it by utilizing the  proper automatic golf procedure, the club head will be in the  perfect position relative to your left foot. In other  words you don't have to concern yourself about how far forward  or back to place the ball in your stance.

If the  procedure is followed meticulously it should also  have the effect of positioning the ball the proper  distance from your body. However I have observed that not all golfers stand the proper distance from the ball  even if they consistently follow the pre-swing procedure.

More than half of the golfers I observe, including many  on the PGA and LPGA tours, stand too far from the ball and as a result have an unreliable shot dispersion pattern.  In other words, standing too far from the ball causes you to hit  it crooked quite often even when you hit it solidly.

Greg Norman, Tom Kite and Steve Elkington are among the players who stand up to the ball wonderfully.

Next time  you practice, inch closer to the ball until you  find the optimum distance (the closest possible distance  that still permits a free swing).

One of my best students  is long ball champion Art Sellinger. Art acquired the  first Automatic Golf video eight years before I met him.  Art credits my method with much of his success (Art is a  phenomenal athlete but since I never met his mother, I don't  take any credit for that). When I first met Art he had just completed shedding 30  extra pounds, but he was still placing the ball the same  distance from his feet as he had when he was 30 pounds  heavier (and had to accommodate a much bigger mid section). As a result Art's shot pattern was too wide even when  he hit the ball solidly. In a matter of a few shots Art  brought the pattern inward about 40 yards, when he moved  closer.

The reason that you will benefit from standing  close to the ball is easy to understand when you look at  these drawings.

The more the club swings around your body  the less opportunity you have for square contact (Fig. A).

Standing closer causes the club to go back and forth along the line producing straighter well-hit and miss-hit shots. 

When you stand close to the ball you increase the tendency to  keep weight back  toward the heels and flex the knees. When the knees flex you  encourage a proper lateral move which further  improves accuracy (Fig. C).

 

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