In my game I have adopted the simplest possible swing and have insisted that as many shots as possible should be played with fundamentally the same movements Now that I have outlined the idea of teaching by feel you will better understand why I attach such importance to this point

For a good golf swing we have not only to bring the club head down through the same line time after time; we must bring it down so that the club face is square with the ball at the instant of impact—and because the path of the club head is a curve, this means that impact must be timed correctly to an infinitesimal fraction of a second in the sweep of the swing

The most difficult thing about learning golf is to learn to distract your mind from everything except the feeling of what you are about to perform Now no teacher can tell you in exact words how it feels when you make a certain movement correctly

Everything helping the development of good control must be encouraged, everything hindering it avoided Their building up is largely unconscious and unnoticed, in-deed even a successful pupil will often feel that little progress is being made—until perhaps quite suddenly he will be surprised to find himself playing effective, confident golf

Here are some tips to help you develop a dynamic mental approach to improve your golf When a match grows to a climax the great player is apt to become slower and slower

Now to my mind the foregoing are the three basic feels of the golf swing—the pivot, the shoulders moving in response to the pivot, and the arms moving in response to the shoulders These are the basic movements of a connected and therefore controlled swing, and they must all be built into the framework of your feel of the swing

All crack players feel that they swing from in-to-out when driving I have been doing this so long that it no longer feels a "guided" or unnatural swing to me

I have christened it Golf Bogey No 1 because it is the most seductive and destructive medium in the game

Make the backswing at reduced speed and notice and feel how the wrist and hand position changes as the hands go up past the shoulders As a result, in answer to this resistance of the hands and wrists, there is a quick rebounding of the club back toward the ball

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