Position Weight on Feet / Stance - Need Input

[Dminn23]

I'm hoping to get some input on whether I am on the right track or not with these recent findings.

In my never ending quest to improve my swing I have experimented with some different things lately. I decided to take a less upright stance yesterday when messing around hitting a lob wedge in the back yard and positioning my weight on the balls of me feet, feeling as if I was looking a little more over the ball rather than out at it as I was before.

My swing plane now feels like its on a more vertical axis rather than horizontal as before. When thinking about how much swing was before, it seemed like a more outside to in swing with the more upright stance, which resulted in more manipulation of the club head at impact and no consistency with my divots, sometimes too thin (or none at all), sometimes to deep. When making the adjustments and standing more over the ball with the weight on my feet, I felt like my follow through fell into position much more naturally, rather than being forced. My ball flight was much straighter as well.

Am I on the right track or was yesterday a fluke (like we sometimes have when we're just "on")? I'm hoping this will be a key ingredient to straighter ball flight and consistent distances with my irons.

[allin]

The rule of thumb I was taught was that the more upright your posture, the more narrow your stance should be, if you are more upright then more of your weight is shifted to the right on the backswing, follwed by more lateral motion back to the left. If you bend over more and widen your stance then you do not need to transfer as much weight since you have already shallowed out your swing and to much lateral movement would make your swing overly shallow. There is no abolute here because your body type, flexibility, and athletic abilty all impact this. So if your stance was to narrow or you were to upright then this could certainly help, especially if you were sliding laterally instead of turning.