Feel the Club head

Out coaching again at our local driving range here in Te Awamutu.

The session I did actually didn't focus on any of the normal do this do that type of golf instruction. What I asked the student to concentrate on was "feeling the club head".

This is not as easy as what most people think. We are so conditioned at looking at and hitting the golf ball we actually have no clue as to where our club head is. Ernest Jone's in the early 30's wrote extensively about the importance of the club head.

I asked the student to close his eye's as a means of really feeling where the club head was in the back swing and forward swing. After about 15 minutes he actually got it.

His back swing slowed down about half the speed of his normal swing. As a direct result of feeling the club head he had to slow down. The forward swing the same results happened.....in terms of feeling.

My student couldn't believe how far the ball went by simply slowing down and feeling where the club head was.

At the end of the day it is the club head that we swing......try this drill at home or the driving range.