Changing Stance

[jguy2]

Ever since I took up golf, I've had trouble aiming the ball with any sort of consistency.  Until this year, I never really paid attention to where I was aiming while on the range because I was focused on improving my ballstriking ability.  Now that I'm comfortable with that, I'm trying to become much more accurate.  I realized on the range this past week that I have a fairly open stance at address.  My feet might be pointed down the fairway, but my shoulders and swingpath are pointed slightly to the right.  I've always had to close my clubface a little to avoid a push and it seems like I might have pinpointed the problem finally.  Can anyone suggest some drills or some way to begin improving my stance at address?

[mvmac]

Where the feet are pointed aren't as important as to where the hips are shoulders are aligned.  Sam Snead would aim his feet right and shoulders left of where his feet were aimed and hit pull draws, Tom Lehman aims his feet left but everything else right and hits push draws.  These alignments just help where you want to have your swing direction, ball starts where the face is pointing at impact.  To check you can either film yourself or just put a club across your chest to make sure your aiming the swing direction where you want.

[jguy2]

So as long as someone is consistent in how they align themselves, it doesn't really matter what their stance is?  If that's the case, then I can certainly learn to aim well with how I hit instead of trying to change it.

[mvmac]

To be clear, I would recommend you aim stance, hips and shoulders to where you want your swing direction to favor.  Just makes things more simple.