Today I hit about 150 balls and the majority were crispy. It’s funny that when you put everything together then you smack the ball how it flies off the club. I Am getting better every time I go and practice. I am methodical and try to remember everything on each shot. I treat each shot as its own and try to understand what went wrong when I hit a bad shot. When I turn my shoulder down and don’t get it pointed at the ball by just a little, I know it. When I go all the way and get that last little bit to point my shoulder at the ball, I feel like I am really reaching back with the club. For me it feels like it is as far as I will be able to go with the club and if I combine that with a little bit of rhythm/ tempo, I hit the living daylights out of the ball. Unfortunately, sometimes I can see the flight of the ball and sometimes I can’t. this happens on the not so great shots as well. Was wondering if there is something I am not doing or need to do. when I am in my backswing I am doing everything to keep that head right where it is and look right at the ball but I don’t think I see myself hitting the ball. Should I? Is that the secret of knowing where the ball is headed? Could it be the sun and clouds?
Any thoughts for me? I also wear glasses.
I have switched to orange golf balls to better pick up the ball in flight and to more easily find it in the fairway.
Sounds like you're making nice progress, Tom!
A steady head - literally and figuratively - is key to playing good golf. You head should remain in place through impact and rise up after the strike due to the turning of the upper torso into the finish and not through any erroneous premature action. The classic poor shot excuse of "I didn't keep my head down" or "I took my eyes off the ball" is typically indicative of a breakdown of the downswing sequence in which the upper torso got ahead of the lower body. Hence the crappy contact.
So, whether or not we are able to actually see it, we should strive to see impact and the divot occurring after the ball and then we should be able to pick up the ball's flight as the head is pulled up by the completion of the motion.