(Mis)understanding connection – 864,991 times in a row

I have heard and read about the importance of connection in the golf swing, say, about, at a rough guess, 864,992 times.

I have understood what connection means, say, there or thereabouts, give or take… 1 time.

That one time came at the end of last week, while interviewing Dave Wilkinson and Steve Gould at Knightsbridge Golf School. Actually, strictly speaking, it came after interviewing them. While interviewing them was the 864,991^st time I had heard-or-read about connection.

We were discussing how to add power to the structure of your golf swing. Today, re-reading my notes, I think I get it. I get the fact that my swing has always – bar the odd fluke – been disconnected. Particularly when I am trying to hit long.

Simply put, my chest has hurtled through impact but left my arms behind. That comfortable pressure between the biceps and the chest wall? Never happens, especially when I’m trying to hit the cover off the ball. I abandon any sense of connection somewhere during my distance-crazed downswing.

Now I don’t think I’m a particularly foolish man. Why is it, then, that, after listening and watching Dave’s demonstration, I suddenly sense the importance of this bicep-chest wall pressure? Why is it that the penny has never dropped before? Perhaps it was something to do with the way they explained it.

I’m heading out to the range this afternoon, come hell or high water, to see if this works.