This Optical Illusion Can WRECK Your golf Swing 

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Phenomenal. These sort of tips will help out the average golfer much more than dissecting a slice due to how much wrist hinge you do or don't have. We tend to jump to the most complex solutions when in reality, they're pretty simple. Grip, stance, and alignment could probably fix 98 percent of weekend hackers. Great tip!

This is the best visual and explanation I have seen and I have to say "the light went on" in a way it hasn't before. I thought I knew how to line up ( railroad tracks) , yet I come over the top a lot. Yet when I remember to "swing out tot the right" about 10 degrees the ball flies pretty good. This is more than a "tip". It is the way to understand what I've been doing wrong and how to make it right. Thanks Michael Brisbane.

This is a big thing in hockey too. The shooter sees holes to shoot at on the goalie from eye level that aren't truly there when you look at where the holes are from the eye of the puck, which is about 6 feet lower and another 3-4 feet away from the body. People go their whole lives without considering this, but the best scorers internalize it and get a sense for it when they decide where to place the shot.

Very interesting. I often accompany my wife, who is a good golfer, on her practice rounds and regularly stop her once she is at set up and tell her she is aimed to the right. She has now taken to being a little more open at set up ie aiming to the left to get her drives to go straight. This will help greatly for understanding why this works. Definitely will do the stick alignment drill.

1st time ive ever seen alignment explained in this manner. Excellent !!! Plus explaining over the top and slicing from an alignment perspective ..... Great instruction :)

Very helpful. I've heard people talk about this alignment issue, but this is the best visual and description I've seen. And great practice station setup.

Pure gold! Seriously, this is absolutely brilliant! Mike Malaska calls it parallax view. This is a very good golf lesson.

I used to golf with a guy that aimed 25° to the right. From the top of his backswing, he looped the clubhead severely over the top, got steep on club approach and hit a big pull towards the target. He usually chose his 8 iron when playing into the greem from 150 yds. All of his irons pretty much flew the same distance, as his 8 iron, about 125 yds. When I informed him of this, and that I would even take a phone video from behind him, he was having none of my advice to adjust his alignment. He drove the ball with a push slice about 175 yds with roll. His handicap was too high to be inside of the handicap range. About a 40ish, I'd say. He was good at short pitches with his sandwedge, but that was about it.

Excellent instruction

Simple advises but very effective & easy to follow. Thanks for getting in our shoes as amateur who tend to forget easily…. Few videos i did watch and all make sense, thanks a lot. Surely will watch all of them.

Great video Bris. Already sent to 2 of my students.

Thanks for the video, Michael. The biggest optical illusion in golf by far is lining up putts. How many times have you used the line on a ball to stand behind it and line up perfectly to the hole but when you stand over it, it looks as if it’s about a foot to the right. You should do a video on that.

Light bulb! That is the best explanation of alignment I have seen, and I've been seeking instruction for 20 yrs, countless videos. This just is simple and makes sense. Great video. I'll be sharing this with friends.

Woah… this might just fix my alignment issues, thanks! 🙏

I have watched 1000's of useless golf instruction videos. Only came across a couple that spoke to something different, unique in the golf swing that no one talks about. You my friend are one of the handful of useful videos out there.........thanks!

arguably the "BEST most helpful" golf information ever

This video is so critical that if you do not know these concepts, you were guaranteed to fail. Thank you so much for putting this video up and explain it the way you do I will borrow some of your concepts of your explanation in my lessons as well.

Excellent explanation of something I heard people talking about but could not visualise before this presentation ! Wondering any point in having a line on the ball that you make sure is pointing to the target ? then swing club square to the line - kinda like lining up a putter to a line on the ball ?

Great video that so few high handicappers really understand. As a single digit player myself, I picture a clock face with the target being at 12 o'clock. I imagine or try to swing my club face towards the 1 o'clock position to force a slight in to out path knowing if I do my part correctly, I should not only be online with the target but the club path should encourage a favorable result.

Good video, This optical illusion is called the parallax affect.

Great lesson, never thought about that.

Good video BUT you've left out the most important part on how to train yourself to hit to the right of the stick in the ground which other instructors have addressed in their videos. In order to train yourself to do that, and it can be done on course as well, you need to also create an aim line. So once you've got your target line sorted, you then pick an aim line ( for a RH golfer) to the right of the target and swing at the aim line. Until you start doing that you will NEVER cease hitting over the top.

That makes perfect sence! Thanks!

This is a fantastic description, in my case I shoot left and I’m left eye dominate, if my son is with me he will gently mention turn your aim to about 2 o’clock .

A very "eye opening" (no pun intended) video indeed. I am an above average striker of the ball, but more often than not, hit the ball left of my target (with the accompanying leftward divot.) Thanks for pointing this out...looking forward to working on this asap.

Darn! I always had issues with alignment this is the best explanation I've ever seen sadly due to health issues I haven't played golf for years

I've always noticed and thought it was interesting that I've only seen Tiger use an alignment stick outside of the ball and never near his feet

Great video man..thankyou

Binocular vision. Have an intermediate point no more than 9 inches in front of the ball and use that to release either left or right of it to fade or draw the ball to the target.

Thanks for the easy to understand explanation.

Thank you for sharing. In my life, I realized there are just a few "secrets" to the golf swing. Meaning...hidden... elusive.... not widely known. This is one of the biggest secrets period... the optical illusion of correct alignment. This secret changes lives.

Very good video. I hit a pull so I know I'm guilty of this. I have to really focus on a spot to feet out in front of my ball for my aim and trust it when I'm setting up

Thank you for the instruction. How does lead eye/rear eye dominance play into this, if at all?

I've never had that problem, as I don't aim down my eye line...I aim down my foot line with is parallel to the target line. So I don't hit the ball to the right this way.

My high handicap mates and I noticed this some time ago. We’d all developed a very closed stance, we figured it was us subconsciously trying straighten our over the top with that target line

nice job. thx.

I’ve checked my alignment on a lot of bad shots and after I put a club down on my stance I’d estimate 90% of those swings my feet were aligned right of target. Thank you for the reminder

You explained this much better than my brother tried to!

Wonderful. Will soon learn how much this cures coming over the top. Regardless... Subbed.

My experience is quite the opposite. I often see that amateurs aim their feet *at* the target instead of parallel left, which means the club (especially the driver) does not have the time to square up during the downswing. This results in wild slices that end up OB. Whereas if the feet are parallel left, even an over-the-top move causes a pull-fade or pull-slice which most of us can live with because it rarely goes OB.

I saw this in another video and if it helps you great. I don’t suffer from this issue and frankly it blows my mind that anyone does. It just never occurred to me that it was even possible to think like this, lol.

It's been called 'railroad track' alignment. Your shoulders and eyes should be aimed a little left of your target. Square your clubface to the target line and square your body to the clubface. Then you're parallel to the target line. Play with guys who always say I'm lining up left when I am doing exactly what he is explaining. When playing with others 90% are aiming to the right and I try to teach them the proper technique.

The way I do it- on a stock shot, I pretend the stick represents a wall- I cannot hit to the left. If I go to the right of the stick it’s a draw stock shot. Then I was able to know how to shape my shots because I know the discipline. Without knowing a point A then there is no way of knowing point B.

I noticed the perfect takeaway which is the best thing to correct- aside from alignment- to an amateur.

What should one do out on the course to make up for this?

Good job!

I get it, but the main camera view appears to be to the right of the flag (of course, the golfer’s view is even further to the right).

THIS IS SPOT ON !!! I always have the flag @ my left shoulder and I appears as thought I am aiming way right BUT THE BALL ALWAYS GOES TO THE TARGET !!!!! or draws a little left ..... WAS NOT EXPECTING MUCH FROM THIS VIDEO. ((((. BUT GREAT !!!!!!!! JOB AND VISUAL for those who don't understand PARALLEX )))))))

I have an unpleasant tendency to set up closed, which leads to too much inside and hook. Perhaps it is possible to derive to the same phenomenon you show?

Helpful explanation of the problem. But i didn't really get what the top tip is to overcome the problem.

Thanks. You confirmed what i have suspected.

Question. I have this problem with putting. I have a line on the ball, from behind the ball I line up the putt. BUT once I'm over the ball everything looks off. Any tips?