AlignmentAddress Posture / Stance at Address All clubs Beginner ⏱ 9 min 🇬🇧 Video in English, summarized

Martin Hall's Clubface Alignment: Aim and Stance

Name: Martin Hall's Clubface Alignment: Aim and Stance
Uploaded: 2023-03-13T12:00:00+00:00
Duration: 8 min 54 s
Channel: Martin Hall
Description: Martin Hall addresses beginners: In golf, you’re not aiming at your feet or shoulders—you’re aiming at the club’s leading edge. Using a wooden block and a dry-erase marker, he demonstrates how to check your alignment, and then how to set up your stance and posture based on the clubface.

Martin Hall addresses beginners: In golf, you’re not aiming at your feet or shoulders—you’re aiming at the club’s leading edge. Using a wooden block and a dry-erase marker, he demonstrates how to check your alignment, and then how to set up your stance and posture based on the clubface.

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What the lesson shows

According to Martin Hall, the stance often determines the direction in which the ball will travel. And what you’re aiming for is neither your feet nor your shoulders: You aim with the leading edge of the club, at a right angle to the target line, even before gripping the club. The Face First, then the hands, then the body. His exercise: place a block marked with a perpendicular line just behind the ball, draw a line on the clubface with a dry-erase marker, and check that the two lines align. Most people discover this way that their clubface is turned inward or outward.

Next, we build the stance from the front: The lines of your shoulders and hips should be roughly parallel to the target line. With a square clubface and parallel lines, the ball almost finds its own spot, a few centimeters inside your front foot. All that’s left is posture: Bend forward from the hips, not from the waist, at an angle of about 30 to 40 degrees, with your knees slightly bent. His favorite exercise: hold the driver under your chin against your chest, and lean forward from “noon” to “one o’clock, one-thirty.”.

The Exercise, Step by Step

Place a string or a marker on the ground along the target line.
Position the leading edge at a right angle to this line before you even grab the grip.
Check using a block marked with a perpendicular line behind the ball and a felt-tip pen mark on the face: the two lines should align.
Take your grip, then set up your stance with your chest, shoulders, and hips parallel to the line.
Let the ball settle a few centimeters in front of your front foot.
Hold a driver under your chin against your chest and bend forward from the hips, from 12 o'clock to 1 o'clock, or 1:30.
Bend your knees slightly: you're in the right stance, balanced, and ready to swing.

Key Takeaways

You aim with the leading edge of the club, not with your feet or shoulders.

First the face, then the grip, then the body.

Use a straightedge and a felt-tip pen on the face to check that the face is square.

The lines of the shoulders and hips are roughly parallel to the target line.

With a square face and parallel lines, the ball almost finds its own path.

Posture: Bend forward from the hips at a 30- to 40-degree angle, with your knees slightly bent.

Mistakes to Avoid

Aim with your feet or shoulders.
Position the body before orienting the face.
Facing inward or outward without realizing it.
Shoulder and hip lines that are not parallel to the target line.
Standing too straight or too bent over, or leaning forward from the waist.

Driving Range Mode

Keep it in plain sight, on the rug.

A mark on the back of the ball and a felt-tip pen line on the face
Aim at the face first before each shot
Place the driver under your chin to find the correct posture angle

Your Questions

According to Martin Hall, what do you aim with in golf?

With the club's leading edge—the lower edge of the clubface—not with the feet or shoulders. It should be at a right angle to the target line.

How can I check if my face is square?

Place a block marked with a perpendicular line just behind the ball, draw a line on the face with a dry-erase marker, and then check that the two lines are aligned.

Where should I place the ball?

If the clubface is square and the body lines are parallel to the target line, the ball will almost find its own spot; Martin Hall generally recommends a few centimeters inside the front foot.

How far should you lean forward at an address?

About 30 to 40 degrees, starting from the hips and not from the waist, with knees slightly bent. With a driver under the chin, the angle ranges from 12 o’clock to 1 o’clock, or 1:30 on a clock face.

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