The following is a list of Open Stance key benefits.
Setting up Open means you’ve steepened your impact. Thus, flattening your swing is necessary to moderate your impact. When flattening your swing, you reduce the probability of impingement in the back-swing and the through-swing.
You have created shaft lean simply by setting up Open. The target line measures but the swing plane defines shaft lean. The shaft lean created creates an angle of attack that creates ground interaction that serves to absorb shock and capture momentum created athletically.
We eliminate excess rotation on our leading leg in the downswing, which minimizes injury in our ankles, knees, and hips. And, although the trailing hip does normally absorb slightly more pivot, it is under controlled swing conditions.
We gain ability to hit thirty-three percent more shots than a standard ball-flight tree would indicate. Setting up closed eliminates the 1, 2, and 3 ball flights. The Open Stance golfer has all nine original and three more past the 7, 8, and 9 ball flights.
Open Stance golfers can hit the ball much higher, and thus further, than golfers setting up square or closed. This has to do with a more neutral grip adaptation/ opened club face to hit our ball at our target.
We can clear our left side faster in the downswing. Golfers who want to eliminate hooks clear their lower body sooner in the downswing. Clearing insures separation of upper and lower components, flatter plane, lag and vertical shoulder rotation due to a more complete backswing and smoother transition
More to come.
John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy
Everyone Improves With An Open Stance!
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