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Originally Posted by snowman  Presumably though you still feel the club accelerating through the ball? |
Yes. Not accelerating is at least one bad habit I managed to shake some time back, even (especially!) for pitches and chips, lobs, etc. The feeling with the driver is that I'm taking a long swing and then coming down in a very relaxed way, with as little effort as I can manage. Mentally, I try to let go of any concern about distance, so I think "I'll let the club decide how far the ball goes; my job is just to put the club on the ball the right way." I don't mean to make it sound easy. It should be, but it isn't, but the difficulty is 100% mental. With the irons it's not so bad, but when I pick up the driver it's hard to get the idea out of my mind that the stroke I'm about to make is
all about distance. That thought is the swing-killer for me. Picking out a small target helps, because that shifts my focus from distance to accuracy, and the two modes of thought tend to exclude each other. In any effort where you are trying for accuracy (darts, pool, free throws, etc.) you automatically
don't think in terms of maximizing force. And when you do think about maximizing force and distance, it tends to push accuracy out of your mind--or that's what it does to me anyway.