Connection Feels

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.

Feel like your feet stay quiet and grounded while your hips do all the talking. Hips are aggressive and rotate fully, but feet stay calm and connected to the ground.

As you start the downswing, feel like you're sitting your weight into your lead heel—like sitting onto a barstool positioned under your left butt cheek. Ground yourself before unwinding.

Feel hands and belly button (core) move together as if one throughout swing. From halfway back to halfway through, imaginary line from butt of club should point at belly button.

At address, imagine triangle formed by shoulders and hands. For first few feet of backswing, triangle moves away from ball as single unit—no independent hand action. Chest 'drags' arms back.

'Don't overswing. Feel like going back three-quarters instead of full turn, then really fire from there.'

Feel chest 'pointed ahead of ball at impact'—outpacing club on downswing. Chest rotates through faster than arms/club.

Feel HIPS AND SHOULDERS rotating significantly BEFORE arms fold in backswing. By hands at hip height, shoulders should already be turned 70+ degrees.

Feel the weight of your arms (~40 pounds combined) hanging from soft shoulders. Let this weight swing like a sledgehammer or pendulum—back and through. Don't tug on club; SWING the mass.