Is your golf stance too vast? This straightforward check will let you know

In terms of golf swing fundamentals, there are many components to think about: grip, ball place and posture, to call just a few. However what about your stance width? How are you going to inform in case your stance is suitable on your physique sort?

GOLF Prime 100 Trainer Jason Baile has a easy check to seek out out.

In a video posted on Titleist’s YouTube web page, Baile demonstrated simply how easy it’s to make sure that the stance you’re utilizing is the proper width.

First, Baile recommends getting right into a stance and posture that feels secure and athletic.

“I need you to really feel like you could possibly play something,” he says. “Like you could possibly take a snap from heart, play basketball, area as a shortstop. However then as soon as you’re feeling that width and that athleticism, place your golf membership proper right here in your thighs, simply make a flip in the direction of the goal and inform me whether or not your thighs can kiss proper right here.”

By “kiss,” Baile means your higher thighs ought to be capable to contact as you flip and observe by.

On Baile’s first swing, he finds that his thighs are too far aside to kiss, so he narrows his stance and tries once more.

“If I slender down that stance a bit bit nearer, now I can simply flip, kiss my thighs and I actually really feel like I’m in a lot better stability right here,” he says.

The trick to discovering the proper stance on your physique sort is to get vast sufficient to really feel athletic however slender sufficient to really feel secure on the follow-through.

“We would like you to be vast, however not so vast that you would be able to’t make this movement and keep on stability,” Baile says.

After you have your stance sorted, different fundamentals like ball place and posture can extra simply fall into place. Give Baile’s check a strive throughout your subsequent observe session to develop into a extra athletic and highly effective golfer.

To take a look at a full video of Baile’s tip, click on right here.

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