We all have alignment rods in our golf bags…Whispering Pines’ Director of Golf, Chris Rowe explains how to use them.
Today’s swing tip is the alignment Rod all of you have them in your bag none of you ever use them I’m going to show you the correct way to use an alignment Rod so first I’ve worked with every kind of caliber of player I actually had a tour
Player one time we’re aiming at the center of the building down here he’s about to go to the AT&T Pebble Beach proam and he’s aimed at the right corner and pulling it back around so if you’re lined up the wrong way and you make a good swing it’s going to go the wrong
Way so if you’re able to pull it back or push it back or whatever your alignment issue is then you can manipulate and make it work but the bottom line is if you’re not lined up properly you’re starting from a bad position already so here’s the way we’re going to do it this
Is the way most people do we’re going to go to this red flag over here I’m going to lay the club down or this alignment rod and I’m going to point it right at the red flag okay so that’s where we’re trying to go but when I set up to the golf ball
If you notice my body’s at the White Flag or maybe even right of the White Flag because my body’s pointed at the red flag the the club face is going the wrong direction so here’s the way I want you to do this and I think everybody especially coming out into the spring
Masters is right around the corner you want to get your alignment your posture your grip all those things in syn and firing on all cylinders so here we go we’re going to take the same alignment rod we’re going to point it right at the red flag okay now if you have another
Alignment Rod it’s not necessary because you can still do parallel but I’m going to set up and I’m going to put this parallel to that orange stick now if you notice if this was a if this was a train track the ball is on the outside
Track my feet and body are parallel and on the on this side of the track so this is the way proper alignment should go so if you do this you make a good swing you should hit a good shot if I’m pointing over towards these trees make good swing
It’s going towards the trees so let’s see how this works good alignment good setup starting out the spring just like that
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Yeahhh I was using these things all wrong