Place the ball just inside your front foot — not as far forward as a driver — and use a small step with your lead foot and a bigger step with your trail foot to find a square, neutral address position without opening your shoulders or chest.

Use an alignment rod to check your swing plane

Slide an alignment rod into the grip end of your club as a shaft extender, then swing to halfway back — the rod should point back along your target line, confirming the club is neither too flat nor too steep on the backswing.

The three-ball tee drill trains low point control

Hit shots off a high tee, a low tee, and finally a ball on the ground with a tee placed just in front of it — clipping that forward tee confirms your club is travelling low enough through impact rather than rising too early or chopping down.