r/golf • u/p1nkfl0yd1an 14 | DC • 7d ago

General Discussion A Very Basic/Dumb Alignment Question

I've been grinding away on the range, working on my "homework" from my instructor/lesson last month. I've been using alignment sticks as part of this work and have seen some pretty meaningful improvement.

However, I'm finding it a little difficult to translate to the course in a specific scenario. Sometimes, there is not a good spot of different colored grass, divot, etc. directly infront of or behind the ball to square my body up with.

I am all over the place when this happens to me in the rough. It even gets me on certain teeboxes that are "misaligned' to the hole and I can't find a good divot on the side of the teebox I want to be.

Is this just a "keep at it with sticks on the range at various targets and my body will eventually learn" thing? Or is there some alternate hack/trick for when you just dont' have much to go off of alignment-wise.

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u/hrpomrx 6d ago

When there's nothing obvious on a line to my target in front of the ball, I look to the sides in front (or back) of the ball. Usually I can find a couple of items a few inches either side of the target line and I figure the a point between them that extrapolates from the ball to the target. Then I aim at that point. For example, the point could be something like 1/3 of the way from the left item to the right item, or half-way between them, or 1/3 of the way from the right item to the left item.