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Feel Your Swing  Email this Article to a Friend
Now your are ready to swing the club. I have never met a player, regardless of index, who didn’t know what their best swing feels like. Begin making practice swings until you can feel the swing you want to make. Go through your full set up routine on every swing you make. Rate every swing you make on a one to ten scale, one is terrible and ten is your best swing. Note how many swings you take before you feel two or three consistent nine or ten swings. You will likely make between ten and twenty swings before you feel your best swing. The average player begins hitting balls after one or two practice swings. If it takes you between ten and twenty swings before you start to feel your best swing, consider the bad you are giving yourself when you begin hitting balls with those swings as soon as you arrive at the range. Those swings you rate four or five will be shots you would rate a four or five. I encourage my students to begin making practice swings until they feel a nine or ten swing before they hit a ball on the range. Once you have felt your nine or ten rated swings, set up next to the ball and make a practice swing. There is no target for this drill. Focus on the feeling of the entire swing. You should have no swing thoughts nor should you focus on "positions of your club," just a feel of the entire swing. When you make a nine or ten rated swing, repeat your physical set up routine and address the ball. Your goal is to repeat the feeling of the entire swing. Rate how well you are able to reproduce a feeling of the swing. When you repeat the swing at a five rating, you will hit a shot you would rate a five. When you repeat the swing at rating of nine or ten, you will rate your shot a nine or ten. Again, as you do this drill, your focus should be on a feeling of the entire swing, not pieces, positions or swing thoughts of any kind. Notice how confident you become in your ability to make a nine or ten rated swing and then set up and repeat that swing. You will have great success with this feel drill if you practice it on the range with no targets. We are going to integrate this feeling into a total routine momentarily. Suffice it to say, this feeling of your best golf swing is as mechanical as you should ever be on the golf course. We are going to build a hierarchy of mental strategies to use on the course, this is the bottom of the hierarchy.
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