Do we love David Ledbetter? Maybe we do. But, we can be sure Golf Digest loves Ledbetter, and uses Ledbetter’s gravitas to further their interests. Does David Ledbetter love truth? Maybe he does. Nonetheless, he certainly knows someone outside the established instruction hierarchy is its only purveyor. Here, in another example of the power of truth, Golf Digest takes yet another step closer to John Wright’s truth.

Page 16 shows a picture of David with his right elbow planted inside his trailing hip. Moreover, at the top of the page, there is a quote citing the import of the right elbow (no regard for lefties?). Additionally, the text alludes to practicing properly using the trailing elbow in a movement common to great ball-strikers.

And, which ball-strikers are mentioned in his piece? Lee Trevino, Calvin Pete, Jim Furyk, and Fred Couples. Why this selection of golfers, you ask? Because, the two who don’t set-up open have physical limitations or abilities that most symmetrical people don’t have. One has a handicap, and one has hyper-mobility in the hips.

Every Open Stance player has the move Ledbetter recommends. However, his job is to sell it to people who don’t set up open. In doing so, he and Golf Digest are guaranteeing broken swings.

You see how it’s done? They take two anomalies, advise an important structure but not the Open Stance, then cite two, Open Stance champions as indemnification. Accordingly, they can deny any intentional misdirection when their advice, inevitably, backfires. Plausible deniability is great thing for maintaining influence.

Ohhh, this was fun! Conspiracy theory is a hobby, I suppose. I also thought I’d have some more fun at the expense of Golf Digest and David. However, we won’t press the idea so as not to invite a denial. That way, we can all be friends.

Open your stance, and play golf.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy