Why do they say hitting is the harder path to learn?

[grantc79]

I have heard this from multiple sources and it just doesn't seem true to me.

I have tried like crazy to learn to swing and I have spent countless hours working on my take away, hip slide, hip turn, so on and so forth. The list of alignments and whatnot to monitor seems almost endless.

With hitting literally I just freeze the alignments, take the right forearm to the top, get my hips going, bring the bent right wrist to the ball. That's it.

I can go without hitting for months and come back and shoot the same score hitting as I can swinging despite not putting any practice into it. On the course I think about tempo and my delivery path, that's it.


I especially struggle horribly with a driver/woods as a swinger but literally have all the confidence in the world hitting them.


So is hitting really the tougher path?

Is it one of those things where its easier to learn hitting but harder to master hitting?

I just don't get it.