Which part of the ball do you look at?

[jerrywilkin]

I look at the back inside corner for a draw, the outside corner for a fade on the driver. look at the front of the ball on irons ,cause you want your divot in front of the ball. you can work the ball by looking at the front corners on the irons. I like to work the ball one way or another cause the sraight shot is very hard to master,& I like to be in some kind of control with the balls flight. Focusing on the ball may cause you to be "hitting" instead of swinging "thru" the ball, but you have to look at something.can't close your eyes!

[inthebunker]

Hmm, I always looked at them very back of the ball but reading this thread I may see how it goes with the front of the ball.

[jbeau]

Count me in as to looking in front of the ball for irons, helps me make better contact, and rear inside quadrant with ball on a tee.

[596]

I look at the back of the ball for driver, 3 wood, 3 & 4 hybrid. I have a progression of distance from there for all my other irons. 5 is barely on the grass in front of the ball, to 3" in front of the ball for my lob wedge.

[Kicker]

I try to look at the area just around the ball.

[goblue107501]

I don't think I've ever given it a moments thought, I just look at the ball.

[ghalfaire]

I look at the top of the ball for shots off the ground and the back of the ball off the tee. This of course except when I lift my head before I hit the ball, in that case I am usually just looking for the ball.

[CassinoNorth]

Probably coming from a baseball background, I just look at the ball.


If I can hit it coming in at 85 mph, I can hit it sitting still.

[Chas]

Maybe I'll try looking at the grass just in front of the ball as some have suggested, in hopes of a crisper ball-then-turf hit.

Of course I'll prolly just end up thinning horribly. Then again, a thin is better than a chunk, no?

[DanGlen]

I look at one point on the back of the ball for all shots.

For me golf is hard enough, so I try to keep it simple by standardizing as much as I can.

[Bryan SD2]

I never liked looking at the back. Hated it in fact. I just look right at the ball, so I suppose that is the "top." Smack in the middle of it.

[CassinoNorth]

Maybe I'll try looking at the grass just in front of the ball as some have suggested, in hopes of a crisper ball-then-turf hit.

Depends how far you are. I'll take chunk over a ball that flies clean over a green.

[B-Con]

Maybe I'll try looking at the grass just in front of the ball as some have suggested, in hopes of a crisper ball-then-turf hit.

If you keep your hands ahead of the ball at impact and are hitting down, you shouldn't be able to hit it thin. Even if you bottom out an eight of an inch above the ground, if you're hands are ahead of the clubhead and you're hitting down you should get half-decent ball flight. Low ball flight, shorter ball flight, but not typical mishit thin ball flight.

I've been forcing myself to start getting my hands farther ahead at impact and to hit down on the ball, and I focus a half inch or quarter inch ahead of the ball on the ground. I basically tell myself to hit the ground at that spot. I don't think I've had a half-decent swing yet that hit thin. I still manage to hit it fat, but when I actually do what I'm aiming to do half-way decently I don't stand a chance of hitting it thin. I know it sounds like a fat-for-thin tradeoff, but I don't think it is.

[binga7]

Im slowly learning new things by the day. Once i figured out that my hips needed to move toward the target and not spin out so early, i understood why bobby clampet says the bottom of the swing should be 4 inches after the ball. If you play the ball around center of the stance, and bump your hips toward the target, you can see with a practice swing the bottom is roughly about 4 inches in front of where the ball would be. Things are starting to make sense now :) but actually acheiving it can be another story....

[bunkerputt]

All your brain needs is for you to get the ball somewhere in your peripheral field. Your brain will take care of the rest. When you drive a car, do you think about which part of the road to look at? The best drivers have quiet eyes. The best putters too. That's all been proven by eye-tracking studies. I'd venture to say the same is true of the full swing.

[BostonSully]

The top of it? Never really thought of it.

[right handed phil mickelson]

I look at the middle of the ball for everything haha

[CassinoNorth]

Wowza played today and looked at the front of the ball for wedges, middle for short irons and back for long irons and I don't think I miss hit a single ball.


Even if you don't wanna move all your shots, try the front of the ball for wedges. It's amazing how easily the ball jumps when you do.