106 feels found
Feel trail elbow drops down and touches trail hip as you start downswing. Elbow slots against your side.
Feel like 'gathering the sword' at top—collecting weight and momentum. Then feel release happening TOWARD target, not AT ball. Release happens after the ball position.
Instead of swinging way out to right, feel club exit LEFT and LOW after impact at ~45-degree angle. Club should finish low and left, not high and right.
At top of backswing, consciously PAUSE for one full second before initiating downswing. After pause, swing down as hard as you want. Practice until pause feels natural.
Set 60-100% weight on front foot (more for firm lies). Feel like driving club DOWN into ground, not helping ball up. Open clubface creates 'drive down, ball pops up.'
'Never allowed myself to worry about missing, never putted afraid. Fear is death for putting.' Cultivate long-term memory of successes and short-term memory of failures.
Feel wrists are 'oily' and 'supple'—smooth, lubricated, flowing without friction. Grip like holding bird—firm enough not to let escape, soft enough not to crush it.
Trace a figure eight with the clubhead. Take the club back UP and OUTSIDE, then loop it UNDER and INSIDE on the downswing. Think 'up, around, and under.'
Feel the club swinging around your body on a tilted circle—not lifting straight up and chopping down. Like your arms are tracing a hula hoop that's tilted to match your spine. More rotary, less vertical.
Imagine your trail elbow is lightly glued to your rib cage from address to follow-through. It never drifts away from your side—it slides along your torso like it's on a track. On the backswing it folds against you; on the downswing it leads back down brushing your shirt.
Visualize golf ball 6 FEET IN FRONT of the one you're hitting. Feel like releasing club—letting toe turn over—at THAT ball. The actual ball 'just gets in the way.'
Three sequential feels: (1) SHIFT—pelvis shifts laterally toward target first, (2) TUCK—trail elbow tucks down into side like 'low five,' (3) TURN—lead elbow rotates toward lead hip to square face.