When you swing a golf club to the best of your ability you do so without any conscious thoughts. Or in other words you swing the club automatically using your subconscious mind. And the better and more consistent your setup the more you'll be able to swing automatically.

But one huge determining factor as to whether or not you become a consistent ball striker will be where you position the golf ball in your stance and how consistently you get the ball positioned where it needs to be for each club. Because if your ball is positioned poorly then you'll need to make a lot of compensations as you swing and this will mean you'll greatly lack consistency.

So now you know this, here's where you need to position the golf ball in your stance to become a consistent ball striker.

§         For your Driver and 3 Wood your ball should be positioned directly off your left foot instep.

§         For your 2-iron through to 6-iron your ball should be positioned a ball width inside your left instep.

§         Finally for your 7-iron through to 9-iron your ball should be positioned two ball widths inside your left instep.

So there you go. That's where you should position the golf ball for all the clubs in your bag.

But after reading this you may be wondering why I teach three ball positions when it would be so much easier to have just one ball position. Well, here's the reason.

When you swing a driver you need a more sweeping motion than you do with say a 5-iron. And if you had just one ball position for both of these clubs then you would have to adjust your swing consciously to produce the correct swing motion (i.e. a sweeping one for a driver and a more downward blow with a 5-iron) and that's not good.

Even though this may look a bit complicated at the moment, just trust me that these three ball positions are just a habit that you need to create. And if you become a student of mine I'll teach you how to turn these ball positions into habits by showing you how to create a ball position template.  Once you've done that you'll then be able to practice the correct ball position over and over again.  By doing this it will help to give you amazing ball-striking consistency.