How then do you really release the club?

[golfie]

The mechanic of the swing is hard for beginners like myself, whatmore if one tries to appreciate what it is or should be like to release the club onto the ball.

Almost all the time, you see the ball been swept off without a clue as how it happened any more than one can feel having a control over the swing at release. Everything happen so very fast; club release to impact in a fraction of a second.

However, on rare hits the reverse happens....
Your body seem frozen as if not doing much with only a feel for your hip, arm and "time". You could feel the hip turning "slowly", trying to hit the ball. You could feel your left arm "slowly" pulling the club for speed through the ball. At times you even had the luxury of time to ponder whether you would want to pull the club or not! And all these supposedly happened in a fraction of a second! The sensation is surreal, the swing is effortless, the ball distance very much further than usual.

The former is real, repeatable but without control of the shot and the later almost non repeatable (for the moment) but with full control of the shot.

Both offers no sence.

How then do you really release the club?

[Mr_Change]

Re: How then do you really release the club?

I have the feeling of the club traveling down the same line that it went up on.

[pgmetcalf]

Re: How then do you really release the club?

When you're at the top of the backswing take note of the distance between your wrist and and upper arm. When you start the downswing try and keep that same distance by turning the body towards and left of the target, keeping independant arm action out of it. It's impossible to keep the angle as you come into the ball and the clubhead should be dragged along the target line for a split second. This is called late hitting - the disired effect.

Most amatuers use their arms too much which is generally called casting or hitting from the top and leads to inconsistency and where the shots stops can be a real lottery.