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Sometimes the club feels heavy. Sometimes the club feels light. So in this

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concept video, we're going to discuss this Tiger Woods quote, I'll post the

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little clip here below, but in this clinic that Tiger was giving, he said

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every day the club feels a little different. Sometimes the club feels

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heavy, sometimes the club feels light, and when he's going through his warmup,

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he's kind of like dialing in the feels for that day. And this is a point that

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I've heard a number of different tour pros discuss that the swing feels

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different. It might be, you know, you might have the same swing feels for a day

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or

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two. If you're lucky, maybe a week, but it's rare that those feels persist. So

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I

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always caution my students not to chase feels, but rather under chase positions

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or checkpoints, and understand what feels you've had or could have that will

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help

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encourage those checkpoints. Because if you get the club in the same positions,

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if you create the same impact physics, the golf ball is going to fly pretty

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much

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the same way every single time. But oftentimes I'll find golfers try and

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duplicate yesterday's feel, and yesterday's feel might be producing a very

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different impact position. That's just the nature of feel and how our body

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adapts

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every single day. So what he's describing with the club could be applied to any

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particular area of your swing. Sometimes the club feels heavy, sometimes the

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club

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feels light, sometimes the swing feels more like I'm using my body, sometimes

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it

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feels more like I'm using my arms. Sometimes the arms feel like they're

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staying behind and they're really slow, sometimes the arms feel like they're

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active and they're really quick. All these can coexist and depending on how the

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swing looks, that's going to help you kind of prioritize the feels that you

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might need to add that day. I go back to a famous Jack Nicholas quote where he

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said that most good players have three to five keys that make their swing work.

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And when they're getting warmed up or over the course of the season, if they're

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struggling, it's usually one of those keys that's off. And so when you're going

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through your warm up, you want to run through your keys and prioritize the

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one that kind of needs the most support that day. I would add to that,

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understand your keys and understand your benchmarks or understand how your

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swing tends to look. If you have a tendency to get over the top, you might

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have to prioritize either a release feel or a transition feel or maybe even a

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backswing feel that helps you avoid getting over the top. Some days that might

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be

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more about arm shallowing, some days that might be more about not spinning the

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shoulders or keeping the shoulders back longer. And some days it might be more

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about feeling like the lower body dominates the swing and the arms do a

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little bit less. But if you keep monitoring what's going on and you're

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willing to kind of adjust the feels, you'll get a better overall feel library

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for each of your major keys. And I think when you do that, then you're more

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likely to have feels last for a few rounds of week. Who knows? So this is my

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cautionary tale that you don't want to chase feels but you want to understand

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how the looks created those feels. And then you can use those benchmarks to

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give

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you something to go back to. If Tiger Woods and the other pros that I've had

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conversations with, if they can't get the same feel to work day in, day out, I

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think it's unlikely that you and I are going to have feels that persist for

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very

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long. But the check marks, those will always create the results that we want.

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Let's see if we can test yesterday's feel today. So yesterday that was drawing.

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Today it has a little bit of a fade. I better check my checkpoints to see what

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might be causing the club face to feel a little bit open.