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Originally Posted by jim_0068
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I use the manzella one ball position....however there is a critical thing you have to remember:
As the club gets shorter, narrow up your stance.
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Yes, good point Jim. Even if the ball is always inside left heel, it will be more and more behind low point as your stance narrows. So you
are actually changing ball location, because ball location is defined as the distance of ball from low point, even though the ball has same relation to stance. This leads some people to
think that they have constant ball location for all clubs.
From my experience, playing the ball near low point (0-4 inches behind low point) with short clubs (9 iron - lob wedge) is not good with most players. Definitely would not recommend it!
Everyone has two choices: change ball location, or change aiming point. The one ball location theory requires aiming point to change for each club. Why? Because the law of conservation of angular momentum says that shorter clubs will reach its in-line condition much sooner than longer clubs. So aiming point needs to be changed (moved forward for shorter clubs) to hit the ball effectively. However, if you change ball location instead, the you can achieve a constant release point feel with all clubs.