Pre-swing process

[denver_nuggs_15]

What's your pre-swing thoughts/process for determining what shot, club, etc. to play on a particular hole?

For me, I:
1. Get yardage, figure wind, look at the lie, then get a club.
2. Evaluate where the safe miss is.
3. Do a practice swing to feel lag, turning wrists, and that I'm hitting down.

Anything I should add?

[imtomtomim]

Well, that's pretty close to what I do.

evaluate lie, distance, wind

look at the course, what kind of shot is it asking for? put that up against the above

pick a club

swing around the club, get the feel of the weight and how it's gonna react during swing as well as get a feel for what I'm trying to focus my swing thoughts on that day

find my line and watch the shot

waggle, stepup, swing

[jambalaya]

1. Stand behind ball, look down fairway, sip beer.
2. Move to side of ball, sip beer, take one last puff on my cigarette.
3. Hand beer to caddy, flip cigarette to the side, grab club place clubface behind ball.
4. Have fleeting sexual thought about beer girl, finish address position, look down fairway once more.
5. Begin backswing thinking push of left shoulder back with right arm pinned to side as I rotate.
6. Loose connection quickly thereafter, bring club too far inside and and continue with club across the line at the top.
7. Swing and send screaming push slice high in the air and deep into the woods.
8. Curse, toss club, retrieve beer and cigarette and think about lunch.