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What should the golf swing "feel" like?
Posted on 5/25/21 at 5:06 pm
Posted on 5/25/21 at 5:06 pm
I played with a much better golfer this week and realized that he does several things I don't do. He has a slower, more consistent tempo, seems to have looser wrists, and his balance is much better.
For you better players, what should a great swing feel like? How much tension in the arms and wrists? How firm of a grip? What do you feel through impact?
I think I'm trying way to hard and not getting good results.
For you better players, what should a great swing feel like? How much tension in the arms and wrists? How firm of a grip? What do you feel through impact?
I think I'm trying way to hard and not getting good results.
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Posted on 5/25/21 at 5:27 pm to Dawgwithnoname
I’m a new golfer relatively, and once I learned the proper grip pressure it changed the ball flight completely (much higher/straighter). It just took a lot of practice and trusting that I wouldn’t lose the club.
I also watched a video on “finding the slot”. Forcing myself to have a more upright swing helped me get better/smoother contact.
I still feel like I have no idea what I’m doing though, Ha
I also watched a video on “finding the slot”. Forcing myself to have a more upright swing helped me get better/smoother contact.
I still feel like I have no idea what I’m doing though, Ha
Posted on 5/25/21 at 6:18 pm to Dawgwithnoname
It should feel like you simply turn your torso away from the target keeping the club in front of you. Then turn back towards the target returning the club to, and through, the ball.
This post was edited on 5/25/21 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 5/25/21 at 7:06 pm to CorpusTiger
Posted on 5/25/21 at 7:20 pm to Dawgwithnoname
When I play well, it’s automatic.
When I struggle, it’s tough to figure out.
It’s a swing. Pull your right shoulder behind you, and Let gravity do the work.
Do not “hit” the ball; allow the club to “swing” freely.
Loose wrists. Swing through ball. The bottom of swing is in front of ball on iron shots.
When I struggle, it’s tough to figure out.
It’s a swing. Pull your right shoulder behind you, and Let gravity do the work.
Do not “hit” the ball; allow the club to “swing” freely.
Loose wrists. Swing through ball. The bottom of swing is in front of ball on iron shots.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 7:24 pm to Dawgwithnoname
Nobody can tell YOU what your swing should feel like. Bubba Watson and Jim Furyk and Rory Mcilroy all have different keys in their swing.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 7:32 pm to Dawgwithnoname
quote:
He has a slower, more consistent tempo, seems to have looser wrists, and his balance is much better.
Fk that!
Grip it and Rip it!!!
But, to answer your question, mine feels like an Unfolded Lawn chair
Posted on 5/25/21 at 7:58 pm to bstew3006
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But, to answer your question, mine feels like an Unfolded Lawn chair
Need to find you a Mexican Mac O'Grady
Posted on 5/25/21 at 8:01 pm to Dawgwithnoname
Such a crazy reference that took me until a Shotgun Start podcast spotlight to get.
Posted on 5/25/21 at 8:04 pm to Dawgwithnoname
Good weight shirt back and forward is 75% of my swing thought right now. My other swing thought is to get athletic at the top. I'm not too loose going back. It isn't fast or slow. But when I go to set the club at the top, it's less of a set and more of a relaxed movement where the swing becomes more athletic feeling and less structured.
That may make 0 sense. Sorry.
That may make 0 sense. Sorry.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 9:43 am to Dawgwithnoname
I feel three things.
1. Feels like i’m yanking a chain down from the top of my backswing once i’m loaded.
2. Chest and hips ahead of my hands.
3. Club feels heavy like i’m dragging a toddler through Walmart.
Is that actually what happens? Probably not, but it’s what i feel.
1. Feels like i’m yanking a chain down from the top of my backswing once i’m loaded.
2. Chest and hips ahead of my hands.
3. Club feels heavy like i’m dragging a toddler through Walmart.
Is that actually what happens? Probably not, but it’s what i feel.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 11:04 am to Dawgwithnoname
quote:better than sex.
what should a great swing feel like?
Posted on 5/26/21 at 4:17 pm to Dawgwithnoname
Well, I tend to think of the golf swing as a poem...
The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip. Which the hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger. Lowly and slowly the clubhead is led back. Pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body which turns away from the target shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Tempo is everything; perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. Theres a slight hesitation. A little nod to the gods.
That he is fallible. That perfection is unobtainable. And now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth. It's alive, this swing! A living sculpture and down through contact, always down, striking the ball crisply, with character. A tuning fork goes off in your heart and your balls. Such a pure feeling is the well-struck golf shot. Now the follow through to finish. Always on line. The reverse C of the Golden Bear! The steel workers' power and brawn of Carl Sandburg's. Arnold Palmer!
The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip. Which the hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger. Lowly and slowly the clubhead is led back. Pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body which turns away from the target shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Tempo is everything; perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. Theres a slight hesitation. A little nod to the gods.
That he is fallible. That perfection is unobtainable. And now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth. It's alive, this swing! A living sculpture and down through contact, always down, striking the ball crisply, with character. A tuning fork goes off in your heart and your balls. Such a pure feeling is the well-struck golf shot. Now the follow through to finish. Always on line. The reverse C of the Golden Bear! The steel workers' power and brawn of Carl Sandburg's. Arnold Palmer!
Posted on 5/26/21 at 5:19 pm to Dawgwithnoname
quote:
What should the golf swing "feel" like?
Assuming you're right handed. . .
It starts by coiling up AGAINST a bent right knee with about 70% of your weight on the inside of the right foot, a push off the right foot just as the backswing is being completed ( no pause) so that the weight is shifted immediately to the left foot, and a hard turn of the body to the left.
It's a flowing, unlabored athletic motion, where the core of the body is winding up and then unwinding with passive arms and hands.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 3:48 am to Dawgwithnoname
I’ve been working on shallowing my swing and I must say it “feels” much better. Swing never felt bad before but I definitely can tell a difference now.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 5:40 am to Dawgwithnoname
No one can tell you how your swing should feel. I WILL tell you that it shouldn’t hurt you or any part of your body.
Over time I have had lots of swing thoughts that I have used to point to spots on my swing that all worked until my swing evolved and devolved. The one swing thought that has always stuck with me is “swing easy but hit hard”. In my mind, this means that I accelerate all the way down and feel like I am hitting the ball hard but not exerting myself too much.
When I played my best golf, I would load up and “feel like I pulled with my left hand”. It was a feeling but it was how I timed my wrists and my right hand would feel like it was doing nothing.
Now, my swing thought is just to make good contact and make sure it feels like I drop my right elbow at my side first to create a better swing path.
Over time I have had lots of swing thoughts that I have used to point to spots on my swing that all worked until my swing evolved and devolved. The one swing thought that has always stuck with me is “swing easy but hit hard”. In my mind, this means that I accelerate all the way down and feel like I am hitting the ball hard but not exerting myself too much.
When I played my best golf, I would load up and “feel like I pulled with my left hand”. It was a feeling but it was how I timed my wrists and my right hand would feel like it was doing nothing.
Now, my swing thought is just to make good contact and make sure it feels like I drop my right elbow at my side first to create a better swing path.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 9:18 pm to Dawgwithnoname
This is what my swing feels like and I always go back to this when my swing is off
Monte Plane and release by feel
Monte Plane and release by feel
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