When you think of ball striking, who comes to mind? I know for me it’s Ben Hogan. If you want some tips for better ball striking his very popular book, Five Lessons is a pretty good start. Most amateur golfers don’t know what it’s like to strike golf ball solidly. I know for myself, it’s a rare occurrence, as most of the time, I will hit it off the toe, thin and then fat. How about you?

Ball Position

You’ll hear many different approaches to ball position, and lord knows I’ve tried them all. What I have found is playing a consistent position off the left foot, and then depending on the club moving the right foot wider. So wedge the right foot is closer to left, mid-iron, right foot is further apart, then driver at its widest. This will give the illusion the ball is back in your stance with a wedge, but all the time it has stayed consistent off the left foot.

Another thought is playing the ball in line with your left armpit, as this is where your swing will bottom out and start to ascend (go up).

Impact Position

In my opinion, this one is HUGE! Impact is everything. If you can get your club back to the ball, relatively square, and with a forward leaning shaft, you are going to hit a good golf shot, and be considered to be a good ball striker.

I know I’ve struggled with my impact position for years. With some swing flaws that caused my to flip at impact, my hands never got ahead (until now). I’ve been working on my swing mechanics and came across a fantastic training aid called the Tour Striker Impact Trainer.

This training club ingrains the proper impact position with your hands ahead, resulting in ball, then turf contact. When you hit the ball first, then take a divot, you are compressing the golf ball, and will get maximum distance and penetration through any wind.

Because you actually hit balls with this swing trainer, I think it’s one of the most effective training aids to hit the market in the last decade.

Written By
Mike Pedersen

For beginner golfers, learning how to grip a golf club should be first on the list. A proper golf grip,shoulf feel natural, with no tension. To swing correctly, your hands have to be on the golf club a certain way. There is a little room for error, but getting the technique down so you don’t even need to think about it, should be your goal.

Proper Golf Grip

A proper golf grip is one that is the fingers of the hands, not the palms. Most amatuers, including myself don’t get ths correct. When you set the club in your fingers, you now have freedom to make a full wrist cock, which will give you maximum clubhead speed through the ball via wrist lag.

I will go into this in great detail, but for now, I want to briefly cover 2 grips. Continue reading below.

Grip

Most beginners slice the golf ball. One of the main reasons is a poor grip that is considered too weak. So for a right handed golfer that means the left hand is rotated too far to the left, along with a right hand that is also to far to the left.

Strength your grip to cure your slice AND add more power and distance to your swing. Rotate your left hand over to the left so when you look straight down at it you should see atleast 3 knuckles of your left hand. This is exactly what you want, as your hand will naturally want to turn over through impact which will close the clubface and create topspin adding lots of distance once the ball hits the fairway.

Learning how to grip the golf club with your right hand is equally important. You can do a couple of things with the right hand depending on what your new ball flight is. If you are getting too much curvature, you will want to weak your right hand (rotate it left on the club). If you are still hitting it right, then strengthen it (rotate it more left).

In future articles, we will cover golf stance, posture, and ball position.

Excellent Golf Resource (Ebook)

A very comprehensive downloadable instantly to your computer is the Golf Swing Book by Pure Point Golf. This covers the entire golf swing in detail, and will straighten out any confusion you may have regarding golf swing fundamentals and technique.

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Do you have a square club face at impact in your golf swing? Having been a single digit golfer for the past 6 years, I still was not happy with my ball striking, and particular my lack of compression of the golf ball with my irons. I very rarely took a divot, even with a wedge! Not that you have to take a divot, but perfect contact is ball first, then a thin layer of turf AFTER!

I had an eye-opening experience with a golf instructor recently, who looked at my grip (it was wrong) and my clubface at address. He said it was WIDE OPEN! I was in disbelief, but I trusted this instructor unequivocally. He squared the face, corrected my golf grip fundamentals and when I looked down at the club on the ground behind the ball I about fell over!

It looked completely, 100% shut!

Then, when he put me in an impact position, I about fell over a second time. Wow! I had never seen nor felt this position in my life! I think this is where many golfers mess up. They, like me, don’t really know what a correct and square clubface should look like at address, and at impact.

Take a look at the below picture, and ask yourself if your club at address looks like this?

If it does, than you are a solid ball-striker. If it doesn’t, you’re about to experience nirvana like I did!

I am now compressing the crap out of the ball with a piercing lower trajectory that I can control, and I’m getting backspin on the greens!

I’ve added about 5 yards to every iron, and I hit my irons pretty far already, so this was an added bonus. Now I don’t have to worry about the thought… “why is it so hard to square golf clubface at impact?”

Best Resource For Clubface

I’ve come across a phenomenal golf ebook that covers every aspect of clubface awareness in the golf swing. It really is amazing, as I have never seen a book just covering the clubface like this one.

This ebook has 50 DVD quality video clips which is unheard of for an ebook.