Why do pros stand so close to the ball?

Standing close to the ball helps players have a slightly Upright swing path and can help with being able to get the ball to stop on the green. In addition, a higher ball flight helps ensure that you get the ideal distance with each of your shots.
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Should taller golfers stand closer to the ball?

Tall golfers are given the natural gift of height and should use that in any way possible to become better at the game. The best way to do this is to stand close to the ball, as tall and stable as possible. When you stand close to the ball, you can use your natural arc to get more distance and better golf swings.
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What happens if you stand too close to ball?

Standing too close to the golf ball will result in incorrect posture, which in turn results in inconsistent hits and inaccurate hits. Standing too close can result in a shank or a slice, depending on the posture of the player.
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How far should you stand from a driver?

The right pinky touches the left thigh while the right thumb sticks out to the butt end of the driver. A fist and a stretched out thumb works well too. For a golfer who is 6′ and up, this distance usually ends up around 7 inches from thigh to the butt of the club. For golfers around 5'4″-5'10”, it is around 6 inches.
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Where should the ball be in your stance?

The simple rule – the longer the club, the further forward (towards your left foot) the ball should be in your stance. For example, when hitting a 3-iron or hybrid, the golf ball should be near your left foot. In contrast, an 8-iron shot would be closer to the middle of your stance.
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How long should you stand over a golf ball?

Tour pros, for instance, tend to spend more time deciding about escape shots or unpracticed shots around the green. But once the decision is made, rehearsal and execution should take no more than 20 seconds and must be consistent.
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Do any pro golfers have an over the top swing?

Craig Stadler, Craig Parry and many other champion golfers swing this way. Bruce Lietzke made a wonderful career on the PGA Tour with an “in-and-over” move. Their secret was simple: They made one move from the top of the swing.
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Can standing too far from the ball cause a shank?

Too far away and the momentum of the swing will cause you to lean into the ball through impact – again, the shank is the most likely result.
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Is it better to stand tall in golf swing?

Standing tall makes it easy to turn through the shots and easy to turn in the backswing – it suits a lot of golfers. Jason Day and Rory McIlroy have very athletic postures because they work out a lot and this helps them really stand over the ball, but this type of posture might not be for everyone.
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Do taller golfers swing faster?

Because the modeled tall golfer's faster swing takes less time -- 283msec vs 300 msec. So the ramp-up takes a greater percentage of the tall golfer's swing than the shorter golfer's.
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Should shorter golfers stand more upright?

Stand further from the ball. Shorter golfers should stand a bit further from the ball at set up. It will feel more natural and will become repetitive.
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Are the shanks mental?

On the one hand, the shanks are something mental, but you have to acknowledge that there is a physical component. The experience was shocking, sad, surreal, shattering my firmly held convictions. I felt like the skeptic who'd scoffed at hypnotism, only to wind up clucking like a chicken.
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What happens if you stand too upright in golf?

Similar to the hunched-over position, an upright posture causes a poor takeaway either too inside or too outside. This can result in flying right elbows which cause over the top golf shots as well as killer slices, topped, thinned, fat, pushes, and pulls.
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Do pros have swing thoughts?

Indeed, a study found 75 of PGA Professionals have no swing thoughts at all. At most, a typical golfer should refrain from having more than one swing thought at a time when playing a round of golf. However, whenever practicing and trying to groove a swing it can be helpful to experiment with various swing thoughts.
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Who has the most technically correct golf swing?

1. Anne Van Dam: You probably didn't see this coming, but maybe you should have. There's an argument to be made that Van Dam currently has the best golf swing in the world. Put it on repeat.
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Who has the smoothest golf swing ever?

Most people will say either Ben Hogan or Sam Snead had the greatest swing of all-time, but Hogan, himself, said it was Mickey Wright's move that was the best he had ever seen. It was simple, rhythmic and perfectly balanced.
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What is the 40 second rule in golf?

“Under the guidelines for Rule 6-7, a player is permitted 40 seconds to play a stroke. This 40-second time limit includes the first to play from the teeing ground, from the fairway and from around and on the putting green."
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How long do PGA players have to hit the ball?

Each player gets 40 seconds to hit a shot (50 seconds if he is first to play the approach, chip or a putt). Players will get a one-shot penalty for each bad time. Each player has two time extensions he can use to take twice the time allowed for that shot.
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How tall should your driver be?

Remember, the average driver standard length is 45 inches for men and 44 inches for women (off the rack). With a shorter shaft can help with the right clubhead, you can make magic off the tee and start to shoot consistently lower scores.
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Can ball position cause a hook?

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Those who swing out-to-in often have more forward ball positions, and they're usually players who slice the ball. It's no coincidence, because ball position can determine the hook or slice spin that occurs during the shot, as well as dynamic loft.
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Why do I keep toeing my irons?

The most common cause of hitting off the toe is releasing the club early, the wrists unhinging and the right arm straightening too soon on the downswing. Players who do that hit a lot of fat shots, so they learn to yank the club upward either by standing up or bending their left elbow.
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Do pros ever get the shanks?

They just need to drive under with the right lat and will crush the next shot; which they tend to do. You don't ever see Tour Pros having shanks an entire round. In fact, they almost never hit two shanks in a row.
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