31 feels found
Feel like you're skipping a flat stone across a lake. Get your trail side lower than lead side; trail elbow leads wrist, which leads fingers in a sidearm throwing motion. The movement starts from the ground up.
Through impact, feel like you're squeezing a tube of toothpaste from the bottom up with your trail hand—pressing the "paste" (power) out toward the target. Trail palm pushes and releases.
In downswing, feel pelvis LIFT UP toward sky rather than sliding laterally. If you slide too much, it creates excessive side bend and prevents release.
Feel like your lead arm is doing all the work—pulling the club down and through like you're ringing a bell or starting a lawn mower. The trail arm just goes along for the ride. Lead arm pulls, trail arm is a passenger.
Feel like PUSHING STRAIGHT UP off ground with legs through impact—like jumping without leaving ground. Vertical force extends body through strike.
Through impact into finish, feel like pushing belt buckle UP toward target while extending arms. Feel like pushing off ground and standing tall into complete finish.
Feel your trail shoulder "closing a door" behind you in the downswing—it moves DOWN and AROUND, not out toward the ball. The door closes as you rotate through.
Feel your lead shoulder staying down and resisting the urge to lift through impact. It stays low while your hips and chest rotate through—like your shoulder is pinned down by an invisible hand until well after the ball is gone.
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.
Feel backswing go UP steeply (like Nicklaus), then downswing SHALLOW dramatically. Shaft drops from steep position so by halfway down it's parallel to address plane. Like a baseball bat held high, then shallowed to strike.
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.
Three-part transition: (1) BUMP—small lateral hip shift toward target, (2) DUMP—right shoulder drops down toward ball, elbow leads down, (3) TURN—body unwinds. Feel right shoulder working out toward ball.