Can you stand too close

I had been struggling mightily with my swing and my biggest feeling was that my left arm was always coming separated from my body towards impact and I would end up having to flip my hands underneath my wrists. As you can imagine, I hit all sorts of bad shots ranging from pull-hooks-worm burners to high-block-slices.

While at the drving range the other day I remember reading lee trevenio's autobiography where he discussed playing a round with I believe, Billy Casper. He said the first thing he noticed was all the pros seem to stand very close to the ball and have upright clubs. So I tried getting a little closer to the ball to where I felt to close....

and the results were great. I was hitting the ball much higher with all my clubs not my usual low trajectory. The shots were way more consistent. I didn't feel as 'HANDSY" My feeling is that now I didn't have to reach out to hit the ball and was able to swing on a more proper upright swing, which probably got me closer to normal as I have always swung flat.


does this sound right???

go with it for now, golf is trial and error. But in answer to your question, yes, you can stand too close and that is a whole list of problems. Make sure there is at least a full fist between the butt end of you club and your pelvic area

I see a lot of people at the range stand the same distance from the ball from every club. Its usually because they hit 50 7i's, get comfortable and then stand the same distance with the driver and slice it

Make a concisous effort to find your optimum distance from the ball with each club and find an easy way to remind yourself (like the fist or hand distance). Clearly tho with a wedge you should 'feel' like your hands are a lot closer to the body than with a driver

And anything that makes you swing with a more connected body motion is good so I would guess youre on the right lines!

WEll, this is officially working for me. Last Friday I shot a 98 and this week I shot a 83. It was unbelievable how different everything was today. All of my shot had good trajectory and would just bend one or another every now and then. Had a couple pulls and one block, but to me that is expected. I AM SO HAPPY. I guess I was just standing to far away.