Ball position ...help

I put this up because of a post by Ed regarding foot action and keeping the back foot down. My knowledge of TGM is fragmented right now and I need to know where the ball should be. My instructor wanted it forward, fixed position for most clubs. (We fired each other over this last night) I can't do it and keep myself quiet below the belt. This is the same jazz we all got in the '70s that created the decade of the flying legs. You have to move your swing radius.

I can't maintain a solid foundation, and go chasing a forward ball with a pitching wedge. The club is shorter than a 4i. I can put it on line much earlier than a longer iron.

I know this is an eternal debate, but.......

Can I move the ball around? It just makes sense to me. The irons are different lengths. The physics of the thing only makes sense to me that way.

Since I'm going full throttle TGM, I could use some validation on this. Thanks guys..

charlie

Originally Posted by Yoda

Originally Posted by Theodan I

Can I move the ball around? It just makes sense to me. The irons are different lengths. The physics of the thing only makes sense to me that way.

Since I'm going full throttle TGM, I could use some validation on this. Thanks guys..

charlie

Hi Charlie, and an enthusiastic Welcome to our 'happ'nin' site!

The short answer is that you can either (a) move the Ball; or (b) move the Aiming Point (6-E-2). Personally, I prefer to move the Ball. That said, far better players have preferred the single Ball Location and chosen instead to move the Aiming Point.

I have written extensively on this subject in the past year. Check my archives at www.chuckevansgolf.com; www.thegolfingmachine.com; and www.brianmanzella.com. There are some 2,000 posts there, so you'll have to poke around a bit-- unless, of course, some of our resident diehards know exactly where they are and can lend an assist here!

Eventually, this site will have a complete archive of those posts, organized by subject and coupled with a key-word search capability. Meanwhile, we are constrained by life's most precious resource:

Time.

Nobody has enough.

Everybody has all there is.

Thanks. I found a real sizzler on ball position between Brian Manzella and you at Chuck's site. Also found photos of the dowel work as a bonus.

2,000 posts! That's alot of wheels that won't have to be completely reinvented.

After a couple years of commercial website building I found that ideas often "outkick their coverage". But that's what vision is for. How else would we know what to do to maintain continuous improvement.

Good Luck, it's great so far.