106 feels found
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.
Visualize taking divot of sand the size of dollar bill—thin and elongated, not deep. Enter 1-2 inches behind ball and drive FORWARD under ball, not DOWN into sand.
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.
Keep right foot planted on ground from start to finish, or at least through impact. Slows swing just enough while helping maintain address posture.
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.
On finesse shots, feel opposite sequence of full swing: CLUB starts down first, then arms, THEN body. Like 'throwing' clubhead at ball while body stays quiet initially.
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.
Focus only on moving club away slowly and smoothly for first two feet of takeaway. 'Just take it away slow. Just get that club moving.' Once you pass first two feet, trust millions of practice balls will take over.
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.
Before the swing, feel your wrists already "loaded" with the clubhead slightly behind your hands. Carry this pre-loaded sensation into your backswing—no need to create hinge, it's already there.
On short putts (inside 5 feet), look directly at HOLE instead of ball when putting. Frees up stroke and eliminates tendency to steer.