What do you think about during your swing?

[ScienceBoy]

Nothing.

I think about my target before my swing, while doing my preshot routine. I just try and exhale and swing and I guess my target just sticks in my mind.

 

[Cherry13]

relax the hands, and straight left arm.... then push my hip. i tend to 'think' a lot during swing, or certainly just before take away.

Just out of curiousity is it ok to mark your ball with reminders? so an S for straight????

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Sarah from Accounts

 

[Hobbit]

"Slowly back."

Occasionally, on the way down I recognise something is going wrong and change accordingly. Other than that, nothing.

 

[DAVEYBOY]

Depends on what's going wrong on the day lol

If I thin one I think make sure you hit down on the next... My next shot is then hit fat and so the cycle goes on!!!

Ha ha

 

[duncan mackie]

The one in the bunker by the green.

what bunker?

 

[JustOne]

Mostly I'm thinking about that darned 3-putt on the last green :lol:

 

[Val]

Wonder where this will land

 

[Imurg]

Nothing..

So apparently you're either a liar or you play off 28......

 

[Dino39]

Sarah from Accounts

brilliant!!

 

[JustOne]

Sarah from Accounts

Yeh, sorry 'bout that,... it was only the one night though :thup:

 

[SocketRocket]

Just before address I make an image of myself hitting the type of shot I want. During the swing my focus is out at the target, not looking at it but I have a mental focus of where the ball must go.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Try not to think about too much anymore and then trust the work I've been putting in. It hasn't been coming off on the course recently but I am trying not to get too stressed and just believe that it will click in time.

 

[richart]

Sarah from Accounts

Your girlfriend doesn't come on this forum does she ?

 

[One Planer]

when you are on the course playing a round what do you think about during your swing?

Not a thought exactly, but I like to watch the club onto the ball at impact.

 

[SamQuirkePGA]

Sarah from Accounts

Genius.

 

[WideEyedFox]

Nothing specific - I try and keep my mind in a neutral state.

I've already planned the shot before address, then gone through my pre-shot "relaxed" "waggle" "neutral" routine at address. I use a waggle-then-lower the club head as a trigger to kick start my back swing.

For the 2 seconds-ish of my swing I am not specifically thinking of anything. My body is responding to the triggers and my eyes are on the ball. At the top of my swing is a moment of "attack" which is my trigger to start my down-swing and follow through. This is not a "stop and think attack" moment, but more a feeling of focus and drive.

The only time I conciously think during my swing is when I'm trying to change or introduce something new. Once installed and drilled becomes natural.

I'm not saying I hit 100% good shots, far from it. However I can quite happily accept the bad ones as well as I do the good ones. I have the same post-shot routine of smiling at the outcome and looking forward to playing some more golf.

 

[duncan mackie]

having slept on this I now remember that basically it's

'little ball first' then swing

 

[MashieNiblick]

I try to think about rhythm and keeping everything in synch or "connected".

In reality, what I actually think about depends.

On a good shot, I can't remember.

On a bad one, my grip, the lie, the club, the hazards, the wind, the sun, and as P G Wodehouse put it "the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows".

 

[ScienceBoy]

I try to think about rhythm and keeping everything in synch or "connected".

Do your golf clubs have bluetooth?