Five years

[tm22721]

After five years of intense study, practice, instruction and playing I have come to the conclusion that none of the known swing methods result in a reliable, repeatable swing for me. The reason is that I cannot develop a repeatable pivot. A 1/4" tolerance is needed for solid ball contact. Impossible.

So I just use intuition based on my experience that 1) clubhead must descend to hit the ball on the rear inside quadrant 2) hands must stay ahead of the clubhead throughout and 3) only gravity can provide the downswing force - any muscular effort (even the smallest tweak) can result in inconsistency.

I use a minimal pivot maybe 45 degrees at most to toss the club back to where the left arm ends up roughly parallel to the ground. Let gravity deliver it back to the ball. Any pivot in the downswing is passive, driven by momentum of the initial toss.

The result is ball compression 75% of the time. Distance and trajectory is amazing considering the simplicity of this move.

Nothing new. You won't see any golf *professional* espousing this swing.

[MiniMoe]

The simpler you make it the better you will do. This is about as simple as it gets.

[jambalaya]

If those thoughts bring you solid contact and fairly straight shots then keep it up. I mean could tell you that what you think and what you actually do don't always match but results matter. I can't tell you how many times I've described to others what I think I am doing and why it works only to realize when I stopped getting results that it wasn't quite so. I hope it continues to work for you.