garyt1957
Yeah, I’ll video my swing with a ‘feel’ change and it looks the same. But it’s actually not. Some changes we make are so subtle they’re not visible to the naked eye in many cases.
This is why golf is so frustrating. You’ll have a feel that works great for awhile and then poof it’s gone. Feels like you’re doing the same ‘feel’, but the results aren’t the same.
It could be the ‘feel’ is really causing something you can’t detect. So the feel isn’t real. What’s actually happening is the feel caused something else in your swing to change.
So when the good result disappears you’re in the dark because although you can replicate the feel whatever the by product that caused the good result is no longer happening.
Not sure I explained that right. But this is why you always hear the saying that feel isn’t real. I had this happen a few months ago. Was on the range (which I rarely do) and decided to try a feel with my irons.
The feel was simple. Take the club back with the face or my right palm looking at the ground. Took it to the course and it was magic. But I know how this works. It was just a matter of time before it disappeared. Sure enough it lasted two rounds and then it was gone.
The frustrating part was when I was on the range it felt so effortless to replicate. Every shot was solid and continued on the course.
So obviously there was something I couldn’t feel that was causing the solid contact. We have to remember the difference between a good shot and bad shot can be a matter of a fraction of and inch in our swing. Something we can’t perceive.
For those of us who have a lesser repeatable swing, the fun part is finding these feels that produce great results. And always hoping against hope that one day one of these epiphanies is the real deal and lasts forever. Lol