19 feels found
feel your lead arm staying straight—not rigid or locked, but extended with no bend at the elbow. Like there's a splint running from your shoulder to your wrist. It stays long from takeaway through impact, only folding after the ball is gone.
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.
Feel your wrists hinge fully by the time your hands reach hip height. The club should already be pointing to the sky before your arms have gone very far. Set it early, then just turn—no more hinge needed.
Let right elbow fly HIGH and LOOSE at top of backswing—like Jack Nicklaus. Don't pin it tight to rib cage. Feel like cocking arm to throw football or baseball.
Imagine you're standing inside a barrel that touches your hips. Your job is to rotate your body without bumping the sides—pure rotation with no lateral slide. Feel your belt buckle turn toward the target while staying centered.
Imagine your spine is the center pole of a carousel. Everything rotates around that fixed pole—it doesn't tilt, sway, or move off center. Your shoulders, arms, and club are the horses spinning around that stable axis. The pole stays perfectly still while everything else turns.
During takeaway, feel hands brushing close to right thigh (staying inside) while clubhead moves further away (outside). Butt end moves ~9 inches while clubhead moves up to 36 inches.
Feel your head perfectly still and quiet while everything else moves around it. Body turns, arms swing, hips rotate—but the head floats in place like it's suspended by a string from above.
Imagine a laser extending both ends of the club. Keep the laser down the target line in both the takeaway and downswing.
On takeaway, allow eyes to track and follow clubhead as it moves back. Don't force head still—let it turn with club naturally. Adds side bend earlier.
Feel like you're swinging a baseball bat at a waist-high pitch. Arms and shoulders stay on the same tilted plane throughout—no lifting, no steep drop. The club goes around you, not up and down.
At two checkpoints—shaft parallel on the backswing and shaft parallel on the follow-through—feel the clubface toe pointing straight up to the sky. Like the club is giving a thumbs-up at both positions.