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Where can I find the best written description of what it feels like to swing properly?


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A single thought for a complete beginner: Like you just bowled down the lane sideways without a run up..

I am only half joking. It is actually a good thought for eliminating the out of the shoes hit instinct for beginners which is much harder than it sounds.

Vishal S.

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Opinions please.

Thanks.

Tin Cup, obvi

Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy: Well, I tend to think of the golf swing as a poem.

Clint: Ooh, he's doing that poetry thing again.

Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy: 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.

Dr. Molly Griswold: A, a nod to the gods?

Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy: Yeah, 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!

Romeo Posar: Unnhh, he's doing the Arnold Palmer thing.

Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy: End the unfinished symphony of Roy McAvoy.

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It depends on your swing and what you need to work on. Feels are different for every player. Even when players are trying to accomplish the same thing, the feels can be very different. There is no one swing thought or feel that will work or connect with every golfer. It's has to be specific to the golfer's priority piece and how their body interprets the feel.

I'd recommend reading some of the instructional articles here, look at what you're doing in a mirror, change the picture ( Change the Dang Picture! ), and submit some swing videos here http://thesandtrap.com/f/4180/member-swings .

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Are we sure this is a golf question??

Gambling is illegal at Bushwood sir, and I never slice.   

           

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"How to break 90" book by Tomasi, Adams, Corcoran has a good description.   It's a good book with lots of humor (you need one to play golf).

RiCK

(Play it again, Sam)

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