If you’ve never considered how club-fitting can adversely affect your golf swing, you need to pay close attention here. You need to be fit by Gurbaaz Mann, Mr. Miura, or a couple others I cannot recall. Why? Because clubs too upright are your swing’s dynamite. That’s why. Nothing will blow up your game like mis-fit clubs.

I had a session yesterday to one of our amazing, handicapped military veterans from Oregon, named William. William and I discussed his swing from beginning to current, talked about his clubs, and his dedication to improving from his 9.5 handicap index… pretty impressive considering he lost both his legs in battle.

William has utilized an Open Stance for years, and was missing in a direction we cannot miss if we seek lower scores. His miss is a viscious pull-hook with his current club set-up. Therefore, we agreed to consider flattening his lie-angle at least a degree – for starters. My suggestion was for more than that.

His clubs were fit to him 1.5 inches long, so his 2 degrees upright was even more drastic. The club-fitter put him in 60g, steel fiber graphite. which makes sense considering toe droop. However, it makes absolutely NO sense when considering his golf swing. His club set-up, as William suspected, needs tweaking.

My man swings his driver over 100 MPH! WIlliam was already considering 110g steel. I agreed that would be more stable at impact, and he can certainly handle the weight. However, my concern is almost always lie angle.

When we swing an upright club, our subconscious mind goes to work to make it go straight. That’s the problem. The swing needed to accomplish that task is not conducive to either control or consistency… maybe that’s the same for most people, but not me.

We can create our golf swing without having control over it. For example, to me control means musculo-skeletal coordination and cooperation of power-generating body parts. Therefore, my view is that we can, consistently, lack control.

Consistency is different because we must create efficient structures within our swing to repeat motion. Therefore, I suggest “consistency” delivering the clubhead into the ball exactly every time. Solid contact is incidental to consistency, in my book. I can always move the ball around to meet an efficient golf swing.

Efficient golf swings always include the trailing elbow structure inside the trailing hip – ALWAYS. If you’ve read my book, The Open Stance and Three Short Game Lessons, you know why. William has crafted his swing like the rest of us. He adapted to his clubs. However, now that his good swings are hitting pull-hooks, we need to change his club set-up before his good swings are replaced by others.

William,

It was a great honor to meet you. I can’t tell you how much selfless patriots like you mean to me and many other grateful Americans, but I, personally, am permanently in your debt. Call anytime. My time is yours.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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