Open Stance and The Fade Experience is part of a mastery process, to sharpen ball-striking while measuring adaptive expertise. I begin by setting the ball outside my forward foot with the intention to make perfect contact and insist my ball finishes on my target… all from an open stance. The adaptation required in club face, path, set position, and takeaway is extreme.

I do this to regain control of my motion in all regards, intellectual, mechanical, and sensual, and carry it forward into my regular sessions and play. The result is absolute comfort on-course, knowing there is NO SITUATION I cannot handle immediately… aside from big Florida Alligators.

My particular, historical error is over-rotating into my backswing (Due to a hyper-flexible spine), which flattens my swing too much. I left Virginia under-practiced and over-hooky. I knew I had to go back to the steepening process initiated the last time I was wonky (2001 Florida). The added benefit is total confidence in my ability to adapt quickly to any ball position change.

If you can reliably associate your ball position with clubface, path, motion, and takeaway necessities, and you can pure it every time and make your ball go exactly where you want, then you too can consider yourself a master of the golf swing. Then, the Fade Experience becomes YOUR expression of mastery.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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