Find Your Feel

Focus on fundamentals, then feel hands dropping into trail pants pocket as you rotate through. Don't manipulate—just drop hands to pocket and rotate.

As soon as the club starts moving back, feel your right elbow begin to soften and bend. Don't keep it straight and rigid—let it start folding immediately. By the time your hands pass your right thigh, there's already a noticeable bend in the trail elbow. This early bend encourages your arms to work more vertically rather than dragging flat and around.

At top of backswing, imagine pants zipper pointing at 4:30 (target at 12:00). First move down: feel zipper moving toward 10:30—diagonally away from ball. Bump tailbone further back along that diagonal.

Feel your shoulders rotating on the same angle as your spine tilt—not level to the ground, not overly steep. If your spine is tilted 30 degrees at address, your shoulders turn on that same 30-degree plane. They stay "parallel" to your spine throughout the backswing.

In boxing, hook comes across horizontally; uppercut comes up from below. Feel trail arm swinging like throwing UPPERCUT—up and through rather than around. Creates in-to-out path.