How to check the width of your stance

Here is a short video explaining the correct width of stance.  Your width of stance and the position of your feet will affect how you transfer your weight, and your ability to create ground force and stability in your swing.

Check the width of your stance if you have any of the following problems:

– If you have poor weight transfer.

– If you feel you cannot create any ground force.

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– You Hang Back in the downswing.

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– You lose stability during your swing.

– If you hit Thin, Topped or Fat Shots.

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Transcript

The correct width of stance is very important. It promotes stability in your swing, but also encourages movement and weight transfer. If you’re not sure how wide you should be standing, follow this simple system: take an old club or alignment rod, hold it up front of your shoulders. You can see here, I positioned the grip in front of my left shoulders, the middle of the shoulder. Then I take a pen or a piece of tape and mark the shaft in front of the middle of my right shoulder. This has now given me a reference to my shoulder width.

When I address in mid-iron, that six or seven iron, I want my feet positioned around about shoulder width, so I can put this club with the alignment on the ground, matching my feet to that. Once I’ve got a feel for shoulder width stance with the mid-iron, simply I’d make the stance a little bit smaller with the shorter iron, by moving my right foot in sightly. Or if they’re a longer club and driver, I’d widen the stance out a little bit, by again, moving my right foot. It’s a simple system to give you, first of all, the feeling of a shoulder width stance with your mid-iron, that’s your reference point. Then you can narrow it down slightly for your short iron, or widen about slightly for your longer clubs and woods.