There is no perfect stance — only the one that matches your body.
In this Master Track, Jonathan Craddock shows you how to engineer your stance using mobility, stability, and club-specific requirements. You’ll learn how to map your natural ranges, find your ideal width for every club, and use foot flare to unlock hinge freedom and protect your back. Discover how the Mobility–Stability chain dictates whether your swing flows or fights itself, and why personalising your base instantly improves balance, strike, and sequencing.
Stop copying stances. Start building your own blueprint.
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Most golfers assume stance is a static position.
Elite players know it is a structure — built, tested, and refined around the body you actually have… not the one you imagine.
This Master Track gives you the upgrade:
structure without stiffness, freedom without collapse.
The Mobility–Stability Chain (Pete’s movement law)
Your stance determines whether this chain works — or breaks.
Ankles → Mobility
Knees → Stability
Hips → Mobility
Thoracic Spine → Control
Too wide?
You lock the hips and kill your arc.
Too narrow?
You sway, lose timing, and collapse pressure.
Get the stance calibrated — and the whole chain fires in sequence.
The 3 Constants of Elite Stance Engineering
These are the non-negotiables that keep movement efficient:
Club Across Hips
Reveals your natural joint line so you build width from anatomy, not opinion.
Shoulders Inside Feet
Creates space for the engine to fire underneath, keeping the spiral free.
Pressure Calibration
Weight centered through arches and balls of the feet — glutes active, knees soft.
Foot Flare: The Hidden Power Lever
Foot flare isn’t style — it’s joint protection and hinge access.
Lead Foot (10–20°)
Frees the pelvis, protects lower back, and encourages clean rotation.
Trail Foot (Neutral–Slight)
Helps load the hip and build a stable coil.
Just adjusting flare can unlock immediate freedom in transition.
Club-Specific Basebuilding (Your New Blueprint)
Wedges → Hip-width: precision, control, short arc.
Mid-Irons → Shoulder-width: optimal blend of mobility + structure.
Driver → Slightly wider: load, push, and generate pressure-driven speed.
Film your stance from face-on and down-the-line, compare width to your coil freedom, and you’ll feel your blueprint forming.
The Spiral Code Principle
“When the base fits the body, the body can finally do its job.”
This lesson doesn’t give you a stance to copy.
It gives you the tools to build a stance that belongs to you — a base that unlocks balance, protects your spine, and fires the spiral with zero resistance.
This is stance… engineered, not guessed.
This is movement… built from the ground up.
This is the Spiral Code.
