How do you insure you are able to aim and align correctly? Simple, stand on the target line, not beside it! If you’re a loyal John Hughes Golf follower, you know how important alignment is to you and your golf game. I’ve authored plenty of blog posts, magazine articles, as well as produced several YouTube videos about the subject. Yet I still see golfers struggle with this most important basic principle. Why? You have a “Visual Bias” What most golfers don’t realize is everyone has a “visual bias.” Meaning, your eyes and brain, communicating to each other in milliseconds, prefers to see things a certain way, based upon several factors. Some of those factors are which eye is more dominant than the other versus which eye do you actually use to aim with? Which side of your body is stronger than the other? As well as which side of your body do you tend to favor when casually standing? There are other factors in force as well. But what it all adds up to is you standing on one side of the target line or the other. And not standing on top of or “Straddling” the target line. Throughout my career as a golf coach, I have noticed a common thread amongst all golfers, you tend to stand on the side of the target line you play from. Meaning, if you’re a right-handed golfer, your tendency is to stand on the left side of the target line as you take…
