Head position in swing

[Abu3baid]

I just had a bad game a few days ago where for some reason I just wasn't able to hit a crisp shot.  It probably started after my first bad shot, where after that I subconsciously tried to look where did my shot go?  Did I hit badly again?  Did I get into the water?  and so on.. Not until I went home and thought about it did I realize that I was doing that on the course.  That night I worked on making sure that in my practice swings I do not try and follow the ball at impact and the following day when I had that as part of my swing thought I was hitting my shots crisp again (not going where I wanted, but not duffing/topping/fat shots.  There is just something that makes us want to know where did that ball go even before impact and I think the advise that would be better than keep that head still could be make sure you don't try and see where the ball went before you hit it, I'm assuming that causes you to change your spine angle and thus your low point in the swing arc is effected.  (just my thoughts)

[saevel25]

I just had a bad game a few days ago where for some reason I just wasn't able to hit a crisp shot.  It probably started after my first bad shot, where after that I subconsciously tried to look where did my shot go?  Did I hit badly again?  Did I get into the water?  and so on.. Not until I went home and thought about it did I realize that I was doing that on the course.  That night I worked on making sure that in my practice swings I do not try and follow the ball at impact and the following day when I had that as part of my swing thought I was hitting my shots crisp again (not going where I wanted, but not duffing/topping/fat shots.  There is just something that makes us want to know where did that ball go even before impact and I think the advise that would be better than keep that head still could be make sure you don't try and see where the ball went before you hit it, I'm assuming that causes you to change your spine angle and thus your low point in the swing arc is effected.  (just my thoughts)

I always found that sort of movement in the swing wasn't because a golfer wanted to look to see were the ball is going, they have something else in the swing going bad that's causing the hips to come towards the ball. For example, like not keeping the weight forward, can cause people to stand up in the swing so they don't chunk it. This moves the head in what feels like its coming up to watch the ball.