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This drill is looking at your stance with as part of the setup layer.

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So if you're new to go for if you're not, you're probably wondering,

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well how wide should I place my feet when I'm getting set up? Should it be, you know, as wide as I can go?

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Very close together. For your stock swing, they're going to be within a relatively small range,

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roughly between your hip and your shoulder width. There's a biomechanist by the name Michael Bentley,

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who helped create the cave-est and I've heard through the great vine of this formula that he uses,

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it's pretty neat. Where if you take your golf shoe and you take the length of your shoe in inches

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and you add the width of it, the longest part, that essentially will give you how wide your stance should be.

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So we got about a size 9.5-shoot. You add the four to five inches and ends up being about 15 inches.

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Which, believe or not, is almost exactly the same distance from shoulder to shoulder.

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So the biomechanist found out that what they've been telling you for a hundred years in golf

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instruction that your stance should be about shoulder width is pretty close for if you want to maximize

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what we call ground force reactions, where the ability to use the ground to create movement and speed.

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So if you're trying to figure out where your hips are, which would be kind of the narrow end of the range,

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they're roughly where your belt loops are if you remember from the hip hinge video,

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which would be kind of right about here. So this may be what I'm using for a wedge shot where I don't

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have to create a lot of power with my driver and my stock iron swing. It's probably going to be closer to

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that 15 inch or the stance width of my shoulders. If you want to put, if you have a practice area,

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you can put T's in the ground to kind of help yourself while you're a beginner.

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Otherwise you can just really eyeball and get this one pretty close. I don't think that having

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the stance width be exactly the same every time is absolutely critical, but being within the window

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is probably pretty important. So while you're practicing the setup, I want you to focus on how

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wide your stance is because that'll help set you up for how you're going to transfer energy during

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transition.