Forward Press to Start Swing

thoughts? Does anyone else do it?

To me it has completely changed my golf game. Im now using it to start my swing and my contact is so much better...

I do the same. My experience is that pressing the hands forward a bit sets my mind to the result i want.  I want the flat left wrist and the arms extended so this little pressing forwards helps achieve that goal. Helps reduce  flipping, IMO.

A small forward press is good, a big forward press, not so good.

@Ernest Jones , You mean shifting weight towards the target and turning? Or mostly just shifting weight?

That probably depends on what the individual player needs to feel. For me it's a feeling of mega pressure into my lead foot while ripping my lead shoulder UP and around which obviously is a turning component, but I don't think or feel turn or I get handsy and come OTT. The imaginary "foot switch" feel combined with the "shoulder rip" drags my lower body through the shot, but these are all just feels so YMMV.

I had improved my ball striking quite a lot by adapting a forward press, at least that was the way I saw it. Now I am taking lessons my instructor has me bringing my hands back in front and says I was delofting the clubs by using forward press.

For chipping, sure. It's one of the key parts of making a good hands-leading-clubhead contact IMO.

what do you feel in your hips?  that they stay square to the line for a long time and then turn?  or do they feel like theyre turning early on?

I have messed around with it, with the putter as well...but I find that I had a tendency to push the club into the ground...not forward, but down. LOL

So these days, especially with the putter, I hover the club...makes for a smoother takeaway IMO. I get the need for a "trigger" to initiate the takeaway, but I found, for me, bearing the weight of the club helped with tension...and the ability to start the takeaway.