Driver Set Up and Hands Location

by Larry Boyle
(Huntsville, Texas)

With a driver take your setup standing on a floor with parallel squares, place the ball position off the inside of left heal line looking down to floor from from golfers eyes.

The ball position is off left heal and if you let the shaft angle back toward your body center (where some play it) the club face appears closed.

The only way to set the club face square is to place the shaft more perpendicular to the target line, which sets my hands closer to the middle third of my left thigh. Should the hands be there with a driver? or is this a dominant eye illusion?

Louis Reply

You must understand that some drivers are manufactured with a closed face. This is to assist slicers in obtaining a square face at impact. It also encourages to keep the hands more perpendicular to the ball like you have mentioned and experienced.

If you take up your address with a square faced driver you will notice the difference in the lie angle of the face and the hands will automatically be more perpendicular to the ball without having to push them forward to the target.