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Assuming Your Stance The stance you take will be almost identical for all full swing golf shots, which is why building a comfortable position that you can repeat over and over is important. When chipping, hitting bunker shots or putting you will alter your stance but in general you should: Keep your feet parallel to one another unless you are setting up to hit a draw or fade. The width of your stance influences your stability, balance and mobility. The widest your feet should be apart is the width of your shoulders; the closest they should be together is your hip span. Your stance is too narrow if your right knee passes your left knee. Your stance is too wide if your right knee cannot meet your left knee. You have a correct stance width when your knees are even with one another. For proper dynamic balance you must also develop proper weight distribution from the balls of both feet along the arch and through to the heel with the mass amount of weight located between the ball and arch, think of the area underneath your shoelaces. Hips Your body is made to bend forward from the hips, not the waist. If you bend from your waist, you hunch your back and de-activate your centers of rotation. For every one degree of hunch you lose two degrees of spine rotation. Bending from the waist locks your hip joints, therefore forcing your hips to move laterally, creating a slide instead of a turn. When you bend from your hip joints, it will allow your arms to hang tension free directly below your shoulders. This also creates room for your arms to swing on the correct swing plane. Shoulders Your arms should be hanging straight down from your shoulders, with your upper arms adhering lightly to your chest as if they were strapped on top of your chest. You have the right position when you can drop your club at address, relax your arms and they do not change their angle of hang. Flexibility How flexible you are is going to determine the amount of hip and shoulder rotation that you will have during your backswing. If you are not very flexible, than your right foot will be more flared to allow you more turn, if you are pretty flexible than the less your right foot will be flared to prevent you from overturning.

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Knees Your knees are made to bend your body backward. Your knee flex should match the knee bend of your natural walk stride just as your forward foot flattens on the ground. This is your natural balance flex point. The amount of knee flex also depends on the length of your arms. If you have shorter arms you will require more knee flex then someone with longer arms. No matter how much your knee flex is, you have to insure that your weight is evenly spread from the balls of your feet to your heels and never on your toes. Back To find the right position of your spine, stand up tall and keep the back of your head lined up with your spine. Your arms are loose and hanging by your side, your legs are locked. Next, place your hands on your hips just below your waist line. Bend forward until your tailbone moves out, the back of your head, spine and tailbone all should be in a line. Head Your head shoulder positioned in the middle of your shoulders with your chin held in a high proud position, if you let it rest against your chest than it blocks your shoulder turn. Having your head held in the proud position requires you to “peep” at the ball with the bottom of your eyes instead of you staring down at the ball. When you are in the proper posture, the top of your spine, the tip of your elbows, your knees and the balls of the feet will all be in a straight line. You will be in the same position as athletes assume for action---a basketball player getting ready for a free throw, a shortstop ready for a grounder, a tennis player waiting to return a serve or a swimmer getting ready for a racing dive.

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