In a world of motion sensors, one idea stands out – The Open Stance. While golf instructors, great and small, hypnotize starry-eyed with talk of one motion that will cure their illness, the Open Stance promises nothing and delivers everything. There is a problem, though. The Open Stance gets lots of use, but no coverage… no press… no love by commentators or other media.

Perhaps the lack of coverage is due to the Open Stance’s curative nature. In other words, there’s no money in it. The Open Stance cannot be spun into golf instruction’s circular logic loop. Media and instructors don’t want cures! They want a lifestyle for themselves. It’s the same reason politicians don’t want solutions. Problems keep them in business.

Problems create opposing viewpoints that allow famous intermediaries to separate constituents into opposing camps, present their solution as if there is NO solution, and get away with it. Hence, our problems never get resolved. We love to celebrate clever ideas over profound ideas and clever people over problem solvers. That’s just the way it is.

However, those of you who take my advice, and commit to setting up open, will heal yourselves. Congratulate yourself… you’re the genius. Celebrate the wisdom in set-up structure, not the irrationality motion sensors use to market their wares. I am asking you to break with traditional golf instruction, which is based on motion “fixes”. Motion is inevitable.

Motion is the one guarantee in playing golf. Don’t believe instructors who tell you to move this way or that, hit this position or that, imagine this word-picture or that. You really don’t need any of it. All you need is The Open Stance and goals of solid contact and shots that fly straight at your target. Everything else, without focus on set-up, is truly designed to delay your improvement – not accelerate it. Stop suffering needlessly.

Open your stance, and play golf.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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