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How to Set the Ball for Straight Drives
Where you position it in your stance helps determine accuracy

By Brad Redding
Top 100 Teacher

This story is for you if...

• You rarely hit a dead-straight drive
• You never think about where you tee the ball in your stance

CHECK THIS! Select a target and take your address position with a teed ball and your driver. Have a friend lay an iron on the ground with the head against your left heel and the grip out toward your target line. Then have him lay a second iron parallel to your target line along the front of your toes. This second club will rest on top of the first one.

Credit: Angus Murray

 

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