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Originally Posted by GreeBoman try standing with your feet closer together, if they are too far apart its difficult to get all your weight onto your left side. |
This helped me, with the same problem--although I'm a *much* higher handicapper. My stance was in fact wider than it felt, and it was keeping me flatfooted.
But here's something else no one has mentioned. We are not all put together the same way. I am somewhat "duckfooted", i.e., when I walk my feet flare out. People who know me say they can pick me out of a crowd by the way I walk. It's just the way my ankle joints are formed. It caused problems for me when I used to ski, too.
Well, if I setup in a position that feels "natural" for me, both feet will flare out, 30*-45*. The trouble with that is that it mechanically makes it very awkward for the right (trailing) foot to lift and pivot, because the foot is facing the wrong direction and ends up being quite rooted.
By trial and error, I've found a remedy. It's idiosyncratic, and looks odd, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else--except someone else with duck feet. For them, it's worth a try.
First, when I setup, I left my left (leading) foot flare out naturally toward the target. If I try to pull it in more perpendicular, that creates resistance to my hip turn. This caused trouble for me for long time, because I wanted a stance that looked "right".
Second, at setup I do force my right foot to a perpendicular position with respect to the target line, and I cock my right knee slightly toward the ball--actually, because of my duck feet, this is the natural direction it bends with my foot lined up like that.
So, looking down, my feet look a bit like this: \ |
It looks a bit odd but when I do this I get a proper weight shift and my right heel comes up without my having to think about it.
Again, this is something to consider only for those who are duckfooted. I doubt it would do anyone else much good.