Getting rid of "feels"

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I have a very feel oriented game, and it's driving me nuts from a consistency perspective.

 

For example, I'll go to the driving range and work on my irons. I'll find a feel that works for the session, and I'll go home feeling good about my game.

 

The next week I'll go to the range and work on my irons with the same feel. But nothing works. So I find another feel that works, and then the rest of the session goes well, and I'll go home feeling good about my game.

 

And the cycle continues. I find a feel that only works for that day that doesn't seem to carry over into subsequent sessions. Consistent search for something new that works on that day.

 

I hate that I can't find consistency in my game and that I'm dependent on fleeting feels each time out.

 

Just wondering how you rid yourself of "feels" in your game?

[PreppySlapCut]

Your feels have to be rooted in proper mechanics. If you’re simply swiping at the ball with a different intent until something works you’re going to be chronically frustrated.

[finleysg]

If you can explain how the "feel" works -- how it squares up the club, improves impact, creates a club path you want, whatever -- then it's a feel worth remembering and working with. If you can't, then you're just chasing a ghost.

[BB28403]

your muscles are stretched more or less on any given day. So your feels may change .

 

For instance if you can rotate 180 degrees one day and then the next you wake up stiff. And can only rotate 160 degrees . Maybe why your feels change.

[KenRobie]

You have to tie your "proven" feels to the "actual" swing picture for which they were developed. Each and every swing will be slightly different and so will the feel that goes with it. If your feels are more general in nature your swing philosophy will become more adaptable to the swing picture of your current shot.

[Santiago Golf]

You have to have feel to play golf. Every golfer has to have feel.

 

There is no such thing as Technical vs feel

 

All technical is, is quantifying and defining a feel to compare and understand them.

[uitar9]

When your feel is working, what is your ball doing?

 

I call myself a feel player. I concentrate on trying to hit the ball at a target. I set up the same way and generally, know my club distances. I only practice by hitting at a target. Don't really care what I might look like.

[juststeve]

I've never known a good golfer that didn't play by feel. Although mechanics count it is feel that allows up to produce good mechanics on the golf course. Without a feel for what you want to do how to you produce the "good mechanics" you want to produce?

 

Steve

[Swingman420]

Feel is everything. The club is felt through the hands.

One thing that gets to me is the semantics. Golfers tend to use feel and intent interchangeably.

A lot of times people use the word feel when talking about intention.

To me changing intentions all the time is a bad idea.

Having a bit of a focus change while using the same intent great.

[MadGolfer76]

The only feel that matters to me is impact. It is the only time that feel actually is real. "That was fat...that was thin...that was high/low on the face...etc."

 

I do a lot of work getting into a proper impact position and just holding it for a couple minutes at a time, and in front of the mirror. I also do a lot of "reverse" practice, where I start with impact, and take it back to the top from there. So long as I know what impact is supposed to feel like on different shots, it isn't too much of a chore to get into to. I don't care so much about right elbow here, or left heel pressure there...for me, they are all covered by that one overall body feel of impact.