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Sam De Sira lets go of the club with his right hand, and his right arm falls.
And that's it.
That is his move to tell him that he is standing too far from the ball. Or very close. He calls it his “easy golf game.” and 'easy' seems to fit.
Di Sira, a pastor based in British Columbia, Canada, was demonstrating the tip in a video recently posted to his Instagram account — and you can watch it all by clicking here or scrolling down below. We will wait as you watch, and then we will update it.
In the video, Di Sira first deliberately stood too far from the ball. Seeing that, he took his trailing arm – for players on the right, this is your right arm – and let it fall, and it fell close to his body.
Di Sira then gets very close to the ball. Saying that, he took her arm again and let it fall, and lo and behold, it fell on him.
The goal is to set up, of course, a strong and consistent connection.
“Your distance from the ball,” De Sira wrote in his post, “affects your ability to consistently hit the center of the face.”
Notably, GOLF.com has written other stories about how a player can tell when he's standing the right distance from the ball — including one featuring Payne Stewart. You can read that story by clicking here, or by scrolling quickly below. Its title is: “Are you standing too far from the ball? Payne Stewart had one simple way to check.”
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With your left hand (if you're ready), grip your golf club behind the ball.
Then let it go backwards, towards your left knee.
That's about it.
That, Payne Stewart once said, is the way to know you're standing too far from the ball. Or very close.
Or it's okay.
He was talking in an old video he recently shared on the Golf Manual Instagram page, and it's worth watching before you continue with this story, as well as other videos with Stewart, as he is one of the most aggressive golfers of his generation and he talks. , so you could always walk away with something from the three-time big winner and colorful dresser. It's worth noting, too, that the Golf Manual video is great because it starts with Stewart saying he learned it from his dad, Bill.
Bill Stewart was an actor himself. A 1987 Sports Illustrated article by Rick Reilly described the man, and the father-son relationship (and you can—and should—read it here.) This part was especially interesting:
Golf, his father and he were three different people. From the way he dressed, the way he posed, the way he lived, the son was his father. The two had been on the golf course together since Payne was six months old. He started learning from his father at the age of four, trained him at the age of six, and beat him at the age of 16. Across Ma Bell's bosom, throughout Payne's Tour, the two carefully went round the day, divot by divot.
“Then on the 4th,” Payne said, “I hit a nice drive down the left and blocked the six-iron right.”
“How many times do I have to tell you? Don't deal that bad hand.”
“I know. I know.”
With that introduction, here's a tip.
In the video, Stewart holds the club with just his left hand, then stands over the ball, with his club behind it. He threw the stick back, towards his left knee.
“A little tip my dad gave me when I was a kid was how to look at my ball,” Stewart began in the video. “Whether I was too far from it or too close, it was when I let go of the club with my left hand and it lands, if it hits above the left knee, I know I'm in the right place.”
And how does Stewart know when he's too far? Or is it too close? And that was easy for him to see.
“If I'm too far from the ball, the club will hit here below my knee,” he said in the video. “If I'm too close to the ball, the club will be hitting the top of my thigh.
“So the tip I give you is if you release the club with your left hand and it hits just above your left knee, then you know you're in the right position to hit the golf ball.”
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