Grip, Setup & Stance

Most bad ball flight is decided before the club moves. These are the checks that happen at address.

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How to Grip a Golf Club: The Only Guide You Need

The grip is the only part of you that touches the club, so every mistake in it shows up in the ball flight. Here is how to build one that works, and how to tell when yours has drifted.

9 min read

Beginner

Golf Alignment: How to Aim the Club and Your Body

Aim is the only fundamental you cannot feel. It drifts silently, it is invisible from where you stand, and the swing quietly compensates for it every time.

11 min read

Beginner

Golf Ball Position: The Chart for Every Club

Ball position is the cheapest shot-shaping tool you own and the one that drifts fastest. Here is where the ball belongs for every club, and how to tell when yours has moved.

11 min read

Beginner

Golf Posture: Spine Angle, Hip Hinge and Knee Flex

Posture is the setup piece that decides whether your body can rotate at all. Get the hinge right and the spine angle, the knee flex and the arm hang mostly set themselves.

11 min read

Beginner

How Far to Stand From the Golf Ball at Address

Distance from the ball is the only setup fundamental nobody can give you a number for, because it is not something you set. It is something your posture produces.

11 min read

Intermediate

Golf Pre Shot Routine: Build One That Holds Up

A routine is not a superstition. It is the order you assemble a setup in, and it is the only thing that makes the same swing available on the first tee as on the range.

11 min read

Intermediate

Golf Stance: Width, Foot Flare and Weight by Club

Stance is the cheapest part of the swing to change and the easiest to get subtly wrong. Width, flare and weight decide what the rest of the motion is physically allowed to do.

11 min read