Back to Swinging
 

Well, I'm officially back to swinging the club. I tried hitting/switting for a couple of years. Here are the pros and cons from what I see.

Swinging-+20 yards of carry on driver and 10-15 yards on irons:)
Swinging- more easy birdies, more eagle putts:)
Swinging- need to practice more:(
Swinging- occasional where did that come from shot, both good and bad:eyes:
Swinging-more 300 yard drives:)

Hitting-Way more accurate. I've lost more balls this spring than I have the last two years.:(
Hitting- Never liked the fairway woods or hybrids much unless they were off a tee.:(
Hitting-Wedges were lasers:)
Hitting-Forearm tracing works well with rfa takeaway.:)
Hitting-seemed like I was always on plane.

So this summer will be spent working on short game and putting. I'm going to try and play golf, not golf swing.:golfcart:

Yah, you have no idea how many times I've gone back and forth.

I really really wanted to like hitting. I'm 6'5 and very strong, not that flexible and I know I was built to hit.

That said I never could quite get it. I always felt awkward doing it.

Perhaps I never gave it a chance but I'm not stretching and really working hard to become more flexible so that I can swing.

I'd rather be a bad swinger than a good hitter I guess. :eyes:

Ha ha. Great post. I'm a swinger who constantly works on my hitting stroke but never took it to the course. I finally pulled the trigger on my hit stroke last week in our weekly mens club tourney. I used it for everything less than a full wedge shot. Worked pretty good, solid. Pulled a few shots and my flight was a little low.
Now I'm fooling with adjusted address hitting. Feels great. We'll see

I went from swinging to hitting 5 weeks ago and really liked how I was progressing. I hit the ball more solidly and straighter. The only problem was a lower ball flight and that sometimes got me into trouble hitting to elevated greens. I found many of the same things elygc1 mentioned.
My TGM instructor recently told me that I am a natural swinger and told me I should change back. He gave me about 5 things to work on. (he saw that I naturally turned my wrists on the takeaway)I left wondering if he has a personal preference to "swinging".
I admit that I was disappointed because I thought he would just refine my hitting action and away I would go. Now I have to get my clubhead lag back with pp#3 that I didn't seem to have to pay that much attention to with hitting. Back to square one.

I use both - hitting for shorter distances (from 110 in) and as a short high 5 wood (200-210), the former for scoring and the latter as a 'go to' shot. I use hitting acquired motion from 10-60 yrds several times a round. Zeroing out Zone 1 and using RFT has to be the most accurate shot in golf. :golf:

Yep. Used my hit stroke again in yesterday's mens club tourney. Adjusted address this time for everything less than a full wedge. Also used it for a couple drives and a couple hybrid clubs. So straight and solid and adjusted address seemed to fix the low ball flight I was getting from my impact fix address position (must've overdoing the shaft lean). I just wish I could the same distance I get with swinging the longer clubs. I just can't give up that karate chop driver swing yet. :)

Here's an update.

First competetive round 75 with 4 penalty strokes (Bad drives)

I tried forearm back on plane for the big dog today and feel like I can still be a swinger. I feel like I can hit the stripe on the fairway doing the rfa on plane with the right forearm takeaway.

Have an event next weekend. Course is short and tight, need to hit it straight, so hopefully this works. Irons feel really good with low hands, shaft pointing at belt line.