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I would like to find out the difference between a swinger and a hitter. What is your approach? Which is better?

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I would like to find out the difference between a swinger and a hitter. What is your approach? Which is better?

I'm gonna say that I "swing" and trust that you all understand that we're talking about golf here.

Anyway, I swing, and the ball gets in the way. The only time I'll really try to "hit" the ball is when it's buried pretty deep in the rough and I want to expend all of my energy right at the point of contact, direction be damned (a little). And even then I'm really thinking more "punch" than "hit" because I always learned to punch "through" the target (someone's nose, the ball, whatever). So even then I'm still thinking of the ball getting in the way more than "hitting" it.

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I've been playing cricket for more than 20 years now and so I started out as a hitter. I used to really try and muscle that right hand through and had the classic reverse pivot.

A few lessons in and I am starting to wash away the last vestiges of my old swing and am turning into a swinger. I'm amazed at the difference it makes. I am able to put a lot more on the ball with a lot less effort and less likely to block myself.

I'm gunna break 90 any day now I reckon.
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