The eyes have it

Hello All:

I have recently been reading up on and exploring the role of the eyes in the golf swing. This interest was sparked by an article I reviewed concerning the proper way to view your target once in the address position. When you watch a low handicap player, they often take their address and then spend most of their time looking out at the target only occasionally glancing at the ball. They will carefully swivel their chin toward the target without changing the tilt of their head and neck to focus on it.

Higher handicpas on the other hand, do the opposite, rarely if ever looking at their real target. The high handicaps target becomes only the ball and they never truly "connect" with target on the course. If they do happen to look at the on course target, they often come completely out of their posture to do so.

Personally I was not using the proper technique. I would raise up out of my posture somewhat when looking out targetward and this created a feeling of losing my place in my routine. Because this felt uncomfortable, I would focus on the ball while maintaining my posture.Once I understood the relatively simple technique of swiveling the head without changing it's relative set-up position I was able to really start connecting my eyes and eventually my swing to my target.

For most other sports we face our intented target using our eyes in the customary level position. In golf, we are perpendicular to our ultimate target and because of the tilting posture of our bodies, our view of things needs to be tilted in this perspective to be effective.

Also, the role of the dominant eye is interesting from a full swing perspective. It is often discussed concerning it's role in putting but it effects the full swing as well.

Does anyone else out there "see" what I'm talking about. I would be interested in any thoughts.

Thanks,
Tim

I see what you are talking about, but I have nothing to add, because if I did add something it would just be describing with different words what you said.
imho, a good post

Tim, I posted about dominant eye theory on another site some time ago. There are many aspects of left eye and right eye dominant players that go into compensating or knowing the effects on ball position for full swing and putting as well as how to adjust to target lines.
Thanks for posting.