I'm sure you'll get more technically qualified responses than this but I had a lesson last week which I'm still struggling to come to terms with where the problem was that I'm losing control of the club in the downswing giving completely inconsistent results. I won't go through the technical side of the lesson which closely follows this lesson which was from a link in one of yesterday's posts ... http://www.golfpro-online.com/tuition/lking/ten.html

In the meantime a good 'swing thought' is to just think of completing the swing and not hitting the ball. I find this is a correction that helps when things are going badly wrong on the course. The 2nd simple 'swing thought' is to hit the ball with your hands. A big problem for me is losing control of the club in my hands.

The more astute of you will no doubt notice that not thinking of hitting the ball and then thinking of hitting it with your hands is a paradox. This is true and of course you shouldn't be thinking of anything when you're swinging the club other than visualising the ball reaching the desired target. However, if you go to the range and try both of these thoughts (maybe on alternate shots or practice swings), I think you'll get closer to what a good downswing should feel like before you're ready to get into the more technical aspects of it.