love to see this VDO to confirm my own feeling is right! (different from pro theory) Thank you for you kindly explanation. Hope to play golf in Sweden once in my life!
Your way of calling out the important distinctions is appreciated, Dr. E. The demonstration of literally releasing the club out into the field in slow-motion in an angle that is a little extra compared to the target. Thanks for that, simplifies understanding. ⛳🎯🎯🎯
Such a cool concept, and it makes so much sense... trick the brain. With only a few practice swings after watching this, it feels so natural and comfortable to come easily from the inside. I've failed miserably trying to swing from the inside with a square alignment, that does not feel comfortable and the torso wants to take over (hello swinging over the top!). Look forward to hitting balls with an open stance. Thank you sir!
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Hey Marcus... I hit balls using an open stance yesterday, swinging in-to-out seemed easy and natural, very relaxed hands. Like you, I learned the bottom of my swing arc is back in my stance, so I adjusted accordingly. Wow, never have I hit longer (6,7,8 irons, 4 and 7 woods)! Only 1 ball drifted towards the right (I am right handed), almost everything either dead straight or with a nice draw. I began your series "How to use your hands" and it all seems logical. Too many pros teach rolling of the wrists and that always gets me in trouble (hook). So far, just relaxing my wrists and arms, swinging in-out with the open stance has me either straight or a slight draw and longer. I don't need longer now, I just want control of the ball. Thank you sir, your lessons all appear to make logical sense to me. Thank you! Mark G., fellow Swede in the USA.
So many instructors on RUclips make the mistake of shouting or exhorting...their screeching voices simply push me away from their teachings......Marcus your gentle delivery here does the opposite - it draws me into your way...i shall explore this open stance idea.....it also brings me closer to the my favourite golf swing of all time- Freddie Couples'.
The most simple but best explained video on club path I've seen on tube or in lessons I've had before with a pro who complicates the crap out of the swing. Tks Brother. Best wishes, Russell, a Brit 🙂
I’m now almost 49 years old and just recently changed to an open stance to allow my arms an easier swing path. Since doing this, I am making much better compression with the ball and adding distance as well. Thank you for this explanation! It has helped me from over drawing my shots by my body going one way and the club going another. Much appreciated! 💪⛳️ Richard Z
Brilliant. I’ve been trying to keep my feet closed, shoulders closed etc to try for an inside out path. It never works. An open stance also feels more free and natural
This was interesting as my playing partner is always telling me I am closed at address and we have now proved that. I would have been doing that for many years. Today I tried to be more open but not with a great deal of success. Having now watched the video I feel I have a better understanding. Now to practice this. Many thanks.
I do open stance on every iron. The only club I close my stance is my driver. To hit massive draws. I hit my irons perfect every time with open stance. Im left handed and it will teach you to compress the ball every time
Loved this video which kind of answers a few feelings I’ve developed during the swing. As a feel I’ve recently been feeling the trail hand like an underarm throw that hasn’t released fully by impact (for irons) and has already released before impact (for driver). It has really helped my movement a lot in general but does that sound like a healthy swing thought to have?? I think the open alignment exercise in this video will tie-in nicely. Thanks! 🙏🏻
The open stance as to how you swing a golf and how the club path and aim/stance can be separated when the separated the issue of the separated the issue of balf and adding as well as the issue of drawing the drawing and the club going another. Another the issue of drawing my shots by my body going and the club going another. Much appreciated.
Sadly that measurement would not be a possible. I see on videos that it varies a bit every day. I go from straight to maybe 10 degrees open. No fixed angles. 😊
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Thanks that’s what confused me you seem to change. Really enjoying this style of play. Great teacher. I’ve got to have patience as it’s going to take time for my brain to adapt.
Marcus, I am correct in understanding that your feet and body are open to the right but your shoulders are aimed to the left, where you want the ball to start? Thanks.
Marcus, I have been trying this but I am very inconsistent. I am a right-handed golfer, many times the ball slices right or I shank it. Relative to my target, where should my club face be pointing. Thanks.
Hi Garland. It all depends on your path. Inside path then the face should be slightly open-end. If your path is straight your face should be straight. Every change you are trying to do can effect other things in your motion.
I too have setup closed to obtain a draw with no success. I have dabbled with an open stance, liking how I get through the ball. After your explanation on how you can make it work, I am committing to an open stance to get that elusive draw. Thank you.
I love your simple method, thanks. Just a little confused on this point though. When you say you swing in-to-out, I assume this is on a line that points some 40 degrees left of target in your case (lefty). This is where your club headed when you threw it both times - left of target. And yet you said it’s going “to the target” the 2nd time (4.00 mins in). This is an important distinction for me, because being a righty, if I focus on swinging from the inside, just to the ball and don’t think about continuing out to right field, my swing often tends to come over the top. If you can achieve this (swinging along your chalk line - from another video), and let the ball “just get in the way”, so long as you make the draw release the ball should end up on the target line. Correct?
Hi Daniel. If you want to hit a draw with any club you will need to separate swing path and aim. This can help all clubs and is mostly a way to feel to swing in to out.
Hi, I love this concept. Just one question (for now): By swinging to the left, do you mean relative to your open stance, but on the target line, or even more left of the target line too? Regards
Hi. It needs to be relative to the target line to produce a draw but this video is more to feel it relative to your stance and alignment. If you align to the target it's both relative to the target sign and stance. Ok?
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Thanks for your quick response. I'll try further left (of target line) too as well as on the target line and experiment a bit to see what works for me. Great stuff! I tried the earlier release you mentioned in another video (driver) and it seems to work well. I must just hone it in yet for as soon as it feels comfortable I tend overdoing it, seeking the same feel as in the beginning.
This is like swinging to right field (right handed golfer) but instead swinging to the target. Most amateurs have a hard time swinging right or left of target, the subconscious thinks it needs to swing at the target which creates an out to in path. With an open stance just swing to the target which automatically becomes swinging to right field.
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Your comment about fooling the brain resinated with me because straight does not exist in golf yet we try to accomplish that objective and, as you stated, over the top just happens. This is solid gold, easy, repeatable and does not take more than a bucket of balls to engrain!
So is this how you stand in all your videos? I thought your were standing in a closed stance instead of an open stance. Either way, I like your videos.
It's amazing there are so many ways to swing a golf club. U got Marcus preaching open stance, and u got John V preaching 45degrees close shoulder. U got coaches teaching swing with ur left arm, some teaching right arm. U got slinging the club, and u got throwing the club. Find the one that works for u.
Gee Marcus the lightbulb just went on What you are showing on the open stance is exactly how Lee Trevino hit his wedges and there wasn’t anyone better than him with wedges
One of the best videos I have ever watched- single digit handicap
Happy to hear that. 👍
Love this! I can feel the path better this way. It feels that I can push out and rotate open effortlessly.
Glad it was helpful. 👍
love to see this VDO to confirm my own feeling is right! (different from pro theory) Thank you for you kindly explanation. Hope to play golf in Sweden once in my life!
Glad you liked it and Sweden is very nice in the summer. Worth a trip. 👍
Absolutely brilliant. Makes shots effortless.
Thannk you. 🙏
after watching all your videos, especially on the release, I have my push draw back! thanks!!! Awesome content and so well explained.
Thank you. 👍
Your way of calling out the important distinctions is appreciated, Dr. E. The demonstration of literally releasing the club out into the field in slow-motion in an angle that is a little extra compared to the target.
Thanks for that, simplifies understanding. ⛳🎯🎯🎯
Thanks for watching and trying. 😁
Such a cool concept, and it makes so much sense... trick the brain. With only a few practice swings after watching this, it feels so natural and comfortable to come easily from the inside. I've failed miserably trying to swing from the inside with a square alignment, that does not feel comfortable and the torso wants to take over (hello swinging over the top!). Look forward to hitting balls with an open stance. Thank you sir!
Glad you liked it! 👍
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Hey Marcus... I hit balls using an open stance yesterday, swinging in-to-out seemed easy and natural, very relaxed hands. Like you, I learned the bottom of my swing arc is back in my stance, so I adjusted accordingly. Wow, never have I hit longer (6,7,8 irons, 4 and 7 woods)! Only 1 ball drifted towards the right (I am right handed), almost everything either dead straight or with a nice draw. I began your series "How to use your hands" and it all seems logical. Too many pros teach rolling of the wrists and that always gets me in trouble (hook). So far, just relaxing my wrists and arms, swinging in-out with the open stance has me either straight or a slight draw and longer. I don't need longer now, I just want control of the ball. Thank you sir, your lessons all appear to make logical sense to me. Thank you! Mark G., fellow Swede in the USA.
A fellow lefty! Glad to have found you
Hope you find som knowledge in my videos 😊
i love this open stance on all my approach shots. I just open the stance and swing (throw) towards the pin with very quiet hands.
Glad you found what you needed. 👍
So many instructors on RUclips make the mistake of shouting or exhorting...their screeching voices simply push me away from their teachings......Marcus your gentle delivery here does the opposite - it draws me into your way...i shall explore this open stance idea.....it also brings me closer to the my favourite golf swing of all time- Freddie Couples'.
Sounds good. I think you will find some useful information. 😁
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad i am on school holidays so lots of me time to follow your path.....don't ever lose your eccentricity 😊
@@sipo4349 🙏
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad People want to "own" their swings...but never own themselves....all topsy-turvy
The most simple but best explained video on club path I've seen on tube or in lessons I've had before with a pro who complicates the crap out of the swing. Tks Brother. Best wishes, Russell, a Brit 🙂
Wow, thanks Russell. 😁
Can't thank Marcus enough! Thanks again!
I love to help and I'm glad you find my teaching valuable. 👍
I’m now almost 49 years old and just recently changed to an open stance to allow my arms an easier swing path. Since doing this, I am making much better compression with the ball and adding distance as well. Thank you for this explanation! It has helped me from over drawing my shots by my body going one way and the club going another. Much appreciated! 💪⛳️ Richard Z
I am glad that I could help. Thanks for watching. 👍
I too, gained much better strike when doing this.
Brilliant. I’ve been trying to keep my feet closed, shoulders closed etc to try for an inside out path. It never works. An open stance also feels more free and natural
You are on your way. 👍
Oh my. I will definitely try that this weekend!
This was interesting as my playing partner is always telling me I am closed at address and we have now proved that. I would have been doing that for many years. Today I tried to be more open but not with a great deal of success. Having now watched the video I feel I have a better understanding. Now to practice this. Many thanks.
Good luck and thanks for trying. It will work. 👍
throwing the club... shades of Shawn Clement!
I'm glad if you can find it elsewhere. We need more of it. 👍
I do open stance on every iron. The only club I close my stance is my driver. To hit massive draws. I hit my irons perfect every time with open stance. Im left handed and it will teach you to compress the ball every time
Two questions:
1. Do you consistently hit draws with your irons?
2. If so, what happens when you are open with your driver?
Thanks.
Hi Scott. I'm glad to here about the open stans, it's the only way to get 100% out of your trail side. Nice job. 👍
@@werquantum usually cut across it and snap hook or just pull it.
@@werquantum I do hit draws with my irons consistently
Loved this video which kind of answers a few feelings I’ve developed during the swing. As a feel I’ve recently been feeling the trail hand like an underarm throw that hasn’t released fully by impact (for irons) and has already released before impact (for driver). It has really helped my movement a lot in general but does that sound like a healthy swing thought to have?? I think the open alignment exercise in this video will tie-in nicely. Thanks! 🙏🏻
I like the thought about the diiferent release points. Keep it. 👍
Thanks for taking the time to reply Marcus. I will do that.🤙🏻
The open stance as to how you swing a golf and how the club path and aim/stance can be separated when the separated the issue of the separated the issue of balf and adding as well as the issue of drawing the drawing and the club going another. Another the issue of drawing my shots by my body going and the club going another. Much appreciated.
👍
Great info.
Is everything set open?
Shoulders, hips and feet?
I only think about my feet and the club face. 👍
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad You set your clubface open for all clubs?
@@OOOVIE8 Yes, slightly open.
Hi Marcus. Can you measure how many degrees your stance should be open ?
Sadly that measurement would not be a possible. I see on videos that it varies a bit every day. I go from straight to maybe 10 degrees open. No fixed angles. 😊
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Thanks that’s what confused me you seem to change. Really enjoying this style of play. Great teacher. I’ve got to have patience as it’s going to take time for my brain to adapt.
Marcus, I am correct in understanding that your feet and body are open to the right but your shoulders are aimed to the left, where you want the ball to start? Thanks.
The ball should start att the target. Open stance and hit it to your target.
Marcus, I have been trying this but I am very inconsistent. I am a right-handed golfer, many times the ball slices right or I shank it. Relative to my target, where should my club face be pointing. Thanks.
Hi Garland. It all depends on your path. Inside path then the face should be slightly open-end. If your path is straight your face should be straight. Every change you are trying to do can effect other things in your motion.
Great video Marcus. So would you setup as open as this for the driver or is this just to get the feel? Thanks
Hi.
Modtly for feel but you will be surprised how open you can be and hit good drives. 👍
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad thanks 👍
I too have setup closed to obtain a draw with no success. I have dabbled with an open stance, liking how I get through the ball. After your explanation on how you can make it work, I am committing to an open stance to get that elusive draw. Thank you.
And you will. When you can swing your arms free from your body, you can do anything. 👍
I love your simple method, thanks.
Just a little confused on this point though.
When you say you swing in-to-out, I assume this is on a line that points some 40 degrees left of target in your case (lefty).
This is where your club headed when you threw it both times - left of target.
And yet you said it’s going “to the target” the 2nd time (4.00 mins in).
This is an important distinction for me, because being a righty, if I focus on swinging from the inside, just to the ball and don’t think about continuing out to right field, my swing often tends to come over the top.
If you can achieve this (swinging along your chalk line - from another video), and let the ball “just get in the way”, so long as you make the draw release the ball should end up on the target line. Correct?
Absolutely correct. In my mind I try to swing out the most I can but in reality the rotation of the body will always bring it back to the target. 👍
Would this be the same for the driver
Hi Daniel. If you want to hit a draw with any club you will need to separate swing path and aim. This can help all clubs and is mostly a way to feel to swing in to out.
Hi, I love this concept. Just one question (for now): By swinging to the left, do you mean relative to your open stance, but on the target line, or even more left of the target line too?
Regards
Hi. It needs to be relative to the target line to produce a draw but this video is more to feel it relative to your stance and alignment. If you align to the target it's both relative to the target sign and stance. Ok?
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Thanks for your quick response. I'll try further left (of target line) too as well as on the target line and experiment a bit to see what works for me. Great stuff!
I tried the earlier release you mentioned in another video (driver) and it seems to work well. I must just hone it in yet for as soon as it feels comfortable I tend overdoing it, seeking the same feel as in the beginning.
@@inusprinsloo1257 👍
Does this work for all clubs driver?
Yes. If you want that draw. 👍
Yes started to feel that!
@@miltonparent6495 👍
Hi Marcus do you live or have a house on this course?
Yes Sir I do and have. 😊
This is like swinging to right field (right handed golfer) but instead swinging to the target. Most amateurs have a hard time swinging right or left of target, the subconscious thinks it needs to swing at the target which creates an out to in path. With an open stance just swing to the target which automatically becomes swinging to right field.
We sometimes need to fool our brain to learn something new. Good comment. 👍
@@GolfwithMarcusEdblad Your comment about fooling the brain resinated with me because straight does not exist in golf yet we try to accomplish that objective and, as you stated, over the top just happens. This is solid gold, easy, repeatable and does not take more than a bucket of balls to engrain!
@@MarkG_603 Glad you enjoy it. I know it works. 👍
Freddy been doing this fo eva
I know but hardly anyone talks about what he is actually doing. 👍
When you practice for an open stance with a short club, do you play the ball off your back foot? It looks that way in the video.
I play most of my shots a bit back of middle. 👍
Do you stand open on your full shots ? Cheeers.
Mostly slightly opened. 👍
So is this how you stand in all your videos? I thought your were standing in a closed stance instead of an open stance. Either way, I like your videos.
Camera angles are often misleading but I use a straight or an open stance depending on the shot and the club. 😊
If this bloke was anymore laid back he would defy gravity.
😁
It's amazing there are so many ways to swing a golf club. U got Marcus preaching open stance, and u got John V preaching 45degrees close shoulder. U got coaches teaching swing with ur left arm, some teaching right arm. U got slinging the club, and u got throwing the club. Find the one that works for u.
Couldn't agree more. 👍
Gee Marcus the lightbulb just went on What you are showing on the open stance is exactly how Lee Trevino hit his wedges and there wasn’t anyone better than him with wedges
I'm glad you found what you needed. 👍
Ball position?
Putt it in the middle and just turn your body open. The ball will be on your side.