Imbalances are forces that provide context for all human achievement. Forces counter one another in nature and in your golf swing. Balance is the key. However, I want to explain “why” imbalances are important in creating golf swing efficiency.

I’m the first to admit to pushing an essentially meaningless intellectual exercise. All answers to golf swing questions are provable, but not necessary. The only reason I explain things this way is to counter the trend in modern instruction and help students trust their instincts.

A need, an intent, and a philosophy can easily replace all available ‘expert’ opinions about becoming a better golfer. Choosing the best set-up philosophy is really all that is needed. The student will gain adaptive experience through deliberate practice. Thereafter, my only purpose would be to teach students how to interpret their experience.

Suffice it to say the mind creates it all. Therefore, we are talking about how our mind affects our movement. The same set-up philosophy will create the same solutions to it. Fortunately, we don’t have to argue the point. Physics provides a list, or basket, of possible solutions that solve any set-up challenges.

For example, Bubba Watson and Sergio Garcia look and swing differently using an Open Stance philosophy. Yet, they achieve excellence because their intentions and their chosen philosophy are efficient and constant. Each adapted differently (Shoulder Width…”) to the same set-up philosophy while choosing offsets from the same basket of solutions. In other words, we can look differently while adapting similarly.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy