Stance IQ

The Stance IQ is designed to be used on the range or during your warmup before a round.

Start off by working through our guides to adding your own preferred ball positions and stance widths.

Then move on to our drills designed to familiarise yourself with your own positions, so that you can transfer that consistent setup to the course (we'll show you how).

Challenge yourself with skill-based drills designed to add more resilience to your game.

Lastly, for those ready to take it on, learn how small tweaks to your ball position can lead to different ball trajectories and shot shapes.

Once you've mastered your setup, use the Stance IQ as your reference for a good setup before a range session or heading out on the course.

The short answer is no. While not specifically designed to address swing changes, having a more consistent golf setup will help to eliminate variables that can lead to inconsistencies in the swing.

Find out how much of your inconsistencies are coming from your setup, and then you'll know how to fix your swing.

We're not going to stand here and pretend like this is going to solve all your problems. Golf is one of the most complicated movements in sports. This tool addresses just one of the many aspects that affect your golf performance - the setup.

If you can get your setup dialled, then it eliminates some of the variables that affect your swing, ball contact and turf interaction.

When starting out, you might use it to learn your setup for the first 10-15 minutes of a range session.

Then you might use it occasionally for specific drills when working on your strike, ground contact or changing ball flight.

Finally it might become integral to your warmup before key rounds, just to ensure you're setting the right foundation for the day.

No, you don't need to align square to the mat. You can choose whether to align the mat to your feet, or to the target.

Please note that if you align the mat to your feet, then the marked ball positions may not be as relevant to you (and vice versa). But you can still add your own preferred setup positions that work best for you.

We've designed a set of drills specifically for testing your ability to repeat the setup blindly, so that you know when you're ready to take your setup to the course.

Our stance width and ball positions were derived from a mathematical model, based on state of the art research from the leading golf research Universities, as well as data from the USGA and other Pro Tour organisations.

We developed a height-based model, as our research suggested that height was a better indicator for stance width than shoulder width, which has more variation.

Pros use alignment sticks religiously in their warm up sessions.

The Stance IQ takes alignment one step further, by adding the ability to mark your foot positions and ball positions.

There is no one-size-fits-all stance width for golfers of different heights. The stance width of someone who's 6'4 will be wildly different from someone who's 5'8.

Same goes for ball position.

We've developed a range of sizes to suit golfers of different heights, ensuring that the stance widths and ball positions are accurate across the height range on each mat.

Firstly, it will simply draw attention to the fact that there are even different setups for different clubs.

Then it will give you a structured way to learn these setup positions, so you can take them onto the golf course and impress your mates with how quickly you're picking up the game.

As an intermediate golfer, you're learning what you don't know and that might be how big an impact ball position actually has on your accuracy, and how much stance width affects the quality of your strike.

Work through the structured drills to get your setup dialled and you'll see your shot dispersion tighten even more.

As an advanced golfer, you're refining what you already know and possibly learning a couple of things along the way.

Use the Stance IQ for calibrating your setup at certain points of the season or before important rounds. You can also learn the effect that small tweaks to setup can have on your ball flight.

The Stance IQ mat is manufactured in New Zealand, the golf-mad country which is second only to Scotland with the highest number of golf courses per capita in the world.

The Stance IQ mat comes with a 1 year manufacturer's warranty.

Note: Do not leave the mat outside for extended periods of time as the suns UV will gradually fade the graphics and this is not covered by the warranty.

Our money is on the Kiwi, Ryan Fox!