[Rob2197]

The wider stance of the longer club is needed because of the increased amount of hip slide that is required to get the right shoulder on plane after the shoulders turn flatter because you are bending over less and thus your shoulders turn flatter on the backswing by default.

Whew!

The real "trick" is to make sure the ball is far enough forward and the head is far enough back at impact.

I have seen golfers on the SQUARED SHOULDER PLANE with the driver who hit it great!

Good point!! I used to have all kinds of problems with this, my miss was a pull left because I had the ball far enough forward but the head was not far enough behind my hands at impact. One thing that may help understand why a driver must have the feeling of coming more from the inside is to look carefully at the way the clubs are made. If you look straight down a driver shaft, you'll see the head is designed so that is in front of the shaft at address. But if you hold a sand wedge straight up and down you'll see that the clubhead looks to be behind the shaft.