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Hi ..Can one of you suggest a drill to keep left foot from moving after the release with driver and fairway woods? I hit the perfect drives middle of the fairway, and during follow through move out to the left with left foot coming out. Everytime I do that my palying partners tell me "why don't you stay in balance?" I tell them I hit better and longer than you. I can swing much slower and stay in balance purposely, but then ball does not go that far. My bad shots are slices to the right (obviously I am coming out from the stable footing). I know it is a problem, I may be loosing yardage and like to correct it. It does not happen with irons, but then again I am still not a good iron player. Sorry for the long question.
 
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Let me ask you a few questions before responding...

By the movement of the left foot, are you refering to foot spinning about the heel? That is the left foot opens during/after impact?

Actually, Furyk does this. When he won the Open a few years back, they had some slo-mo video of him driving the ball and his left foot opens, whereas most Tour players nowadays don't have much foot movement.

If you want to have 'quiet feet', I might suggest flaring the left foot open a little. Remember at impact your hips and shoulders are open. If that left foot is flared out a bit, that helps you get to impact.

So...set up to the ball normally, everything more or less square to the target line. Now, simply flare the left foot.

Lots of golf instructors tell you to the opposite. That is to hit the inside of the ball, they might line you up ultra closed and then tell you to really focus on rolling the forearms. Yes, you can hit draws and snap hooks this way. However, when you are setting up clossed and your body [hips and shoulders] wants to be somewhat open at impact, you are sort of inhibiting, or restricting, where your hips and shoulders should be at the moment of truth.
 
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Erik K,

Thank you for the comment. yes I do set up the ball close for driver and farway wood swings while for irons it is normal set up. I do it to avoid tendency to hit slices. However, I will try and see if flareing the left foot would alleviate the problem.

When I say my left foot opens up, i completly come out of the stance. Please picture a person set up parallel to the target line. Now after the stroke is complete i come out in such a way that my toelines are completly perpendicular to the original target line (it is kind of comical to think about it), but I hit grate drives to envy of my partners. I can fly the ball about 240-250 and with roll I get a little more, except about twice in a round I will hit slices and they don't go more than 200-220.

One way I am thinking is that the ball is long gone before I do this weird thing, but somehow, I may be doing something wrong during the backswing/downswing to arrive at such a position.

Someone asked a similar question from Brian about 6 months back, Brian gave some tips, but they never worked for me.
 
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