Jimmy Walker is a name that kind of standing out in the crowd over the last four or five years playing on Tour. And maybe not for the, the sort of sparkling off course charisma but certainly for his sparkling play on the golf course. You know a big tall fellow and a super wide stance when he addresses the golf ball. And this is something that you could learn by picking up from his game particularly if you have balancing issues. So as Jimmy Walker stands to the ball, similar sort of size to me and really quite a similar stance, I often have a very wide stance when I’m playing my own shots. Way wider than my hips and often wider than my shoulders, and I think it works particularly well on sloping lies, windy conditions and for anyone that is struggling to maintain their balance. So often people say well how wide should my stance be because you know if I keep getting wider and wider and copying Jimmy Walker, I am I going to get like this at one day and that’s going to be too wide and would restrict your rotation. So here is a really great way for you to try and understand how wide you can take your stance and the good thing about this drill is it works depending whether you’ve got wide legs or short legs and narrow legs. So what I’d like you to do is take a normal striding walk and just sort of break into your normal natural stride, and then you are going to stop mid stride and then rotate and you’d find your natural stance.

Now it’s quite difficult for me to do it here with amount of room I’ve got to work with, to stay on camera but I’m going to give it a go, so if I walk across the mat here and I break into my normal stride, I stopped toe and heel and turn, that would be my normal stride length, stride width. And also a good width of stance, you generally find that smaller people, people with smaller legs maybe would have a smaller stride length and when they turn they are going to have a narrow stance. Somebody with longer legs there is not many people with longer legs than me, but if you had really long legs you’d be striding out really nicely, you’d have a wider stance. So it’s a greater way of using your natural leg length and natural stride pattern to give you the right width of stance. When you look at a player like Jimmy Walker, player like myself as well that really wide stable stance creates massive flexibility and turning in the backswing, big ability to drive through to a finish and great balance. You very rarely see Jimmy Walker out of balance even when he is hitting 300 yard bonds.