20 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.
For fairway woods from ground, focus on making sure 'bottom of swing is where ball is.' Set up like driver but think 'level sweep'—bottom out exactly at ball position.
Keep ankles soft and limber throughout swing rather than locked. Feel weight shifting into instep of trail foot on backswing, then driving through on downswing.
Imagine club is a giant match and ball is matchbox. To light a match, strike at descending, forward-leaning angle—not lift up. Feel club moving through with shaft leaning forward.
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.
'Feeling chest turn into lead leg, ahead of club, helps me compress the ball.' Feel chest over lead leg while turning.
Feel hips bump about 3 inches toward target at start of downswing. Think of pressing lead hip into imaginary wall.
Instead of feeling shoulders turn level, feel LEAD SHOULDER moving DOWN toward ball in backswing, TRAIL SHOULDER moving down in downswing. Tilted 'rocking' motion, not flat 'spinning.'