It’s the most used phrase at golf ranges all over the land. Used by incompetents and addressed to experts.
“It doesn’t feel right.”
Of course it doesn’t feel right, you numpkin. You’re a 28 handicapper. It should feel totally different, it should feel horrible, it should feel like you’re playing upside down and inside out. If what you’re currently doing feels normal, then, Mr High Handicapper, you want to be feeling as un-right as possible.
So here I am, having just done chapter 8 on the downswing with Knightsbridge Dave and Knightsbridge Steve, and things feel awful.
They sketch out the move between the transition and the release into the impact zone. And – hey presto – it doesn’t feel right. So I’ve spent the past week swinging away in the kitchen as it pours outside, trying to retain that feeling – that feeling of not feeling right.
I don’t want to get too technical here – you probably need pictures to understand what I’m getting at – but it’s all to do with my left arm. Stand behind me on the ball-to-target line, looking at my right shoulder. The left arm should go up and come down on the same angle, 45 degrees between the horizontal and vertical. My left arm, though, tends to get thrown over the top and come down almost horizontally before breaking at the elbow to make way for a cricket cover-drive.
Make sense? Oh well, You may need to wait for the book, and the pictures.
The point I’m making is that it feels awful. It’s a lovely feeling. I just hope I can hold onto it for another week. Who knows? By then, it might just start to feel right.
this is the conclusion I have come to - I need to stop my shoulders rotating at the start of the downswing... that and maybe the right elbow being tucked in more - but I am finding it really hard not to use the shoulders too early, let alone get the hips to be open at impact... maybe the issues are related?
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