{"id":5261,"date":"2019-09-22T23:38:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T23:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.openstanceacademy.com\/golf\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2019-09-22T23:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T23:38:49","slug":"the-open-stance-academy-at-stoneleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstanceacademy.com\/golf\/the-open-stance-academy-at-stoneleigh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Open Stance Academy at Stoneleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Open Stance Academy at Stoneleigh is my new address heading. When I gave one of my students a lesson here in June, I thought I had been transported to some fairy-tale village in a Walt Disney story. I was immediately in love with the place. Even now, I look out my window and feel a sense of peace here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In graduate school, I took some architecture classes that emphasized a “Sense of Place”. They meant a place that melded perfectly with its surroundings. That is Stoneleigh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The golf course cooperates perfectly with the surrounding property. Moreover, it demands that we obey its dictates or pay the consequences. At 6,750 yards, it seems gettable. However, it punishes doubt with impunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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