Open Stance

[MetsFanHell]

I am wondering if an open stance will promote hip rotation on the downswing? My hips seem to stop rotating and my swing too sweep. Also wondering if an open stance will flatten my swing.

Thanks

 

[FanofHogan]

The latest Golf tips magazine has an article about flaring your lead foot toward the target which in the article writer's feeling helps to encourage hip rotation. Might be easier to try than to change how you allign your self to the target.

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

well, if you open your stance and leave the rest of the body parallel there might be some issues. If you setup your whole body "open" to lets say hit a fade or a slice, it almost forces a steeper angle on the downswing and a slightly outside-in-swing which creates the fade or slice.

 

[cdog]

Mindy Blake created a set up completely open, and lots using that style swing hit the ball VERY straight, hit fades, and draws.

 

[Brian Manzella]

I totally dislike the flared out left foot....

..Jack Nicklaus STARTED with the flare out..lifted his foot...and put it back down straight!@#$%^!

 

[MizunoJoe]

Brian,

Yes, but this is better than starting straight, because it gives a measured lateral shift.

 

[Brian Manzella]

....morad?....

 

[MizunoJoe]

I don't know if that's something MORAD teaches or not. That has always been a characteristic of Nicklaus', who claims he didn't know it, until someone pointed it out.

 

[Brian Manzella]

Nicklaus would have been fine starting there....