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Josh

 

I can 'see' when I've aligned my body square (practice with the Practice Tee) and the only thing I do now when I set up is take an intermediary object between my target and ball and visualise a line between it and my ball.

 

Then I setup square to that line.

 

You can't trust "feeling square", either - I tried that for a while (and consequently not paying attention to feet, hips, and shoulders), and ended up hitting a pull-cut for a while; until I realised that I was no longer square.

1. On the back swing should the left leg straighten? This is a S&T instruction that I see many pros deploy.In S&T the RIGHT leg straightens in the backswing (you typed left, a typo I think).It gets straighter but doesn't lock straight and the left leg increases its bend.It's done to help the hip slants,to help the geometry of swinging on the circle again.In RST the right leg maintains its flex, which helps to sit into the right glute as part of the weight transfer process.

In RST the hands will go above the shoulders.This is because of trying to keep the hands in front of the sternum, right arm flexion and shoulder elevation, which you may have come across in the videos.

5. Weight shift--instead of shifting weight back, would you get nearly the same effect by staying nearly 50/50 and shift weight to the left as you proscribe on the downswing?When you shift your weight in the RST you only need to move off the ball 1inch (1 inch hip bump in backswing/maintaining right hip line), 2 at the most if you perform the backswing and setup correctly.This gives a bit more power than no shift at all for little to no extra effort.This is why it's efficient.It's not a traditional 6 inches off the ball type weight shift that the S&T book talks about.