Open Golf Stance

Video Transcript

"Okay, one of the best ways to get out of the sand, because the sand does affect the club because it's very loose. So if I'm aiming at that green I could be in a traditional closed stance but there's a good chance that I'm going to catch a lot of sand with my shot and it will throw off my effort to get out of the sand. So I'm going to do more of an open stance. So I open my feet to the line that I want to hit the ball, so I'm going to aim to the left of where I want the ball to land and then I open the club face like so. So this is what's called an open stance. Then I get a nice solid foundation and now I can take an appropriate swing. This is a pretty big sand trap so I'm pretty far away, so I'm going to take a pretty full swing to try to get this ball onto the green. Let's see how I can do here. Oh, right at the top of the lip. So this is a very big sand trap. What that shows me though is I can take a bigger swing. So, open the stance, open the face, and there we go. So it allows you to swing pretty powerfully with the open stance because you're going to catch a lot of sand and you're going to loft the ball out of here. So this is a great place to spend a lot of time practicing."