On "Taking your Practice Swing to the Ball"

[DaveLeeNC]

Hi Dave,

Yes, that is me doing one form of a drill that I do to help my backswing demons.

After reading the comments in this thread a couple things come to mind 1) I truly do not know if my practice swing is a better swing than my real one - it just doesn't have some flaws that my real one does have. 2) If proper preparation/attitude/whatever should make "practice swing execution" move in a relatively seamless manner to the golf ball, then most golf drills SHOULD take the form of "work on it with practice swings until you got it first". My personal observation and my observation of others in lesson contexts is that I/they have little problem "doing it right without the ball". 3) I've done a lot of sports - tennis, basketball, baseball, football, table tennis, and golf. If you just sent me out for two straight weeks of "just play those games all day" I can guarantee you that after those two weeks I would be playing better - EXCEPT for golf. I would probably be doing it better - but would be far from surprised if I wasn't. Similarly golf is the only sport that I have ever participated in where I can try to make some kind of move and absolutely be wrong in my own mind about whether or not I made that move. Golf seems different to me. dave

[Stuart]

I have the exact same problem. My practice swings are picture perfect and my real swings are quite different. Getting them to be identical is my next big project. I"ll let you know how I fare with this over the next two weeks that I have off, as I'll be playing every day.