There are many different ways of producing power within the golf swing and one of those is setting the wall half open to actually encourage a bit of a better hip turn throughout the point of impact. Now, setting it with an open stance, it can kind of put a little people off because they assume as soon as they aim the body left that the ball will stall, left in curve, back around to the right-hand side. And as many people struggle with the slice, that’s not a very appetizing thing to think about.

But there are ways that you can use a little body by opening it up to generate more power without having to hit a big fade. Now, with an open stance, it is really quite as simple as it stands. I’ve got this kind of line here which is mimicking my normal parallel alignments, my target line. Now, if I were to open my stance up, my lower half is then aiming off to the left of the target. Now, if I didn’t change anything else and I had a normal swing and my swing path followed that type of alignment, I would hit that left to right shot.

However, if I set my lower half open and I just bring my shoulders a little bit more around, the point of impact, what should happen is my lower half should be more open because of my hips are turned off to the left-hand side. But because I angled my shoulder slightly to the left, back around to the left-hand side, it should allow my shoulders to remain square at the point of impact.

So also the opening of the feet will allow that little bit more turn of the lower half and then the squaring of those shoulders a little bit more should allow the shoulders to remain pretty square at the point of impact. And I that withdrawal with an open stance, which may sound a little bit odd if you’ve kind of read a lot of instructional books but it’s just about the different positionings that you can have with your body. So that is what it should be looking like at impact if you want to be reducing that a little bit more power with an open stance.