What's your feel at impact?

[Londoner]

At impact do you feel as if

1. You're hitting a ball sideways to your left (RH golfer), that you're facing in front of you?

2. You're hitting a ball forward that's on you're right hand side. (Again RH golfer)?

I feel either on different days but play my best golf when my timing has my chest facing target as the club strikes a ball "beside" me at impact.

3. Or do you have a different feel at impact?

(I hope this makes sense)

[b.helts]

Feel is hard to translate. On my best striking days I feel like I hit my irons ever so slightly behind me and my driver ever so slightly in front of me.

using the old noggin, if I imagine a visualization it is like this:

im kneeling on the floor about a foot away from a wall that is in front of my left shoulder. Driver I am hammering a nail into the wall about a foot off the ground. Irons I’m hammering a nail into the floor about a foot to my right and slightly out in front of my knees.

[Londoner]

I understand the analogy. However do you feel like you're facing the ball and hitting it directly left? Or as you turn your chest and hips do you feel the ball is now to your right hand side? (Effectively hitting it forward?

Your description sounds like the former.

[b.helts]

That’s a hard question to answer.

I do NOT feel like I’m hitting it to my left. But I also don’t feel like I’m hitting it “forward”.

I don’t really know. I’d say, I think I feel like I’m hitting it down. But it’s very nebulous in my mind and I’m not sure I even feel like I’m “hitting” anything.

just turning.

[cardoustie]

I feel a full hands and arms release targetwards

[b.helts]

Card, does that change if you’re trying to hit a cut or a draw? High or low?

i really like this discussion and of course feels are so individual but I always like hearing what people feel.

so for me, if the target is 12 o’clock, a cut I feel my hands release to about 10 o’clock and a draw I feel my hands release to 12. I’m a natural drawer so for me, “straight” is a draw.

[dpb5031]

Body open hitting it forward (toward target) for me. Like a flat tennis forehand, high fastball in baseball, or kill shot in racquetball. Arms supported by opening/rotating body, everything lining up for that optimal smash on good ones

[b.helts]

Londoner, can you define what you mean. If I’m in a setup position, addressing the ball, the target is “forward” and left is behind me.

I suspect you’re definitions of “left” and “forward” are different from mine.

[Londoner]

You're right were talking at cross purposes.

"Left" to me is shoulders square to target and the ball and strike being (feeling) at 90 degrees to my shoulders.

I feel like I'm hiting forward when I've turned my chest and shoulders towards rarget. At impact the ball is to the right, in line with my shoulders. As dpb says, much more like a forehand drive in tennis.

[Buzzkill]

As a drawer of the ball for 40+ years, my new impact feel is standing the club up through impact for a hold off fade/cut.

[TIM929]

I can definitely feel the transition. impact happens so fast after, all I feel(and hear) is a soft or hard club face with my right hand and my body turning to the finish.

 

it’s harder to explain than I thought.

[MtlJeff]

I hit a pretty big draw. On my best days i feel like my body clears a tiny bit before impact, like i'm coiling and releasing a little bit late. And the ball shoots out of a cannon with a draw/hook

 

[Lefthook]

1. You're hitting a ball sideways to your left (RH golfer), that you're facing in front of you?

2. You're hitting a ball forward that's on you're right hand side. (Again RH golfer)?

I feel either on different days but play my best golf when my timing has my chest facing target as the club strikes a ball "beside" me at impact.

3. Or do you have a different feel at impact?

 

For me it's variation of 2, but I have a tendency to do 1 and then I get bad results. My variation is a feeling of swinging through the ball as opposed to swinging to the ball. There are a bunch of other feels that I may or may not pay attention to at any given shot. A variation of swinging through is to swing through with the trail side. This often helps with getting shoulders and arms in sync. I also have a backhand feel that I use quite often: A feel of pulling with my lead arm and shoulder from transition and all the way through. When am successful at it, it feels like my back is facing the target at impact while in fact my shoulders are slightly open and my hips are really open.

[Conner Golf]

Straight, draw or fade, hands or ball forward or back at impact I want to feel my hands in the square position.

[TexasTurf]

I usually feel turf with the clubhead several inches behind the ball, then mud in my face, then feel heel or toe contact with the ball, then embarrassment.

[vman]

I don't think about anything at impact or have any conscious directions. I get feedback from the feel of impact in terms of quality of strike but my intention is predetermined, pre shot, by what needs to be achieved.

[andrue]

Since September (2) I think. I like to think at impact I'm looking down and back at the ball, but down and right at the ball would work. Hard to say how much scoring improvement I'll see since ground conditions here in the UK are atrocious at the moment but since I'm launching the ball better than I normally do in summer I'm very hopeful.

[Londoner]

Up here in Sheffield every course is like a bog. Never seen a winter like it. ☹

[Zitlow]

The club head feels heavy and the ball feels lite.

[andrue]

Yup. I'm basically in the south east (near Oxford) and our problem is usually borderline drought. Not this year though. But I take comfort in two things:

* I've been launching the ball well.

* I'm off for a week in Turkey next month.

It'll be very interesting to see how my swing changes perform out there. I've heard that they have fairways where your feet don't sink in it at all. Amazing!

[BB28403]

Feel like I'm taking money ? to the bank!