Controlling spine angle with arm swing is one example of how ideas, positions, and compensations meet to form a golf swing around the concept of impact. Perfect impact requires a perfect idea around which to form motion. That’s why I founded The Open Stance Academy.

The following video is nothing explanatory in and of itself. I use my own swing, within my own rediscovery process, to give my students an idea of how the process of perfecting impact works. For example, after three weeks, I am hitting 400 balls per session.

I’m working on first things. Before I can make lasting swing changes, my body has to be ready first. I stretch for fifteen minutes before each session. Even when I was at 100 reps in week one, my stretch routine was the same.

I notice my hands are getting much stronger. I know it because now my clubs feel like toothpicks. Hence, I loaded them up with lead tape until I could feel the heads again. Hand strength comes before perfect impact. Of course, when I say perfect impact, I mean every time.

Here is my current move.

If I were correcting in the opposite direction, I’d be swinging my arm more upright to offset with more spine tilt behind the ball/neutral/less inverted at impact. What a great sport we chose! Be gentle.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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