Last summer, I went to the dark side and experimented hitting .
I did a few basic and acquired motion sessions to get the feel of it then took what I did on the course for a few weeks. Amazing results:
I shot my best score ever at 2 over par ! (I'm 13hcp!),
Accuracy was like a laser, especially in the short game area,
Distance control in chipping/pitching was very reliable
and most pleasing, I experienced a huge improvement in distance (I remember also hitting my longest drives ever ).
But I was confused by what I felt and what I knew about hitting and thought I was wrong (despite the results!) and went back to swinging but never found the same magic and repeatability hitting has provided to me.
So now I'll give it another try but need some help to clear the fog:
Let me explain what I did last summer and what confused me:
Address at impact fix "ala Yoda's Luke"
Take the left arm flying wedge back in one piece (feeling no roll/swivel), using my right arm until my left arm goes across my chest.
2-M-4 - Body Power: A violent but starting gently (!) Pivot Thrust to load the power package (a strong pressure is then felt into PP#4) then blast the left arm flying wedge out of my chest without doing anything at this moment with the right arm (very important!)
Only and only when the power package starts to blow of my chest (the feeling of PP#4 decreasing) I activate my right arm to supply additional power and drive everything down to the ground.
All this produced a no-roll feel with angled hinge.
What confused me here is that when you use the blast of the left arm of your chest using 2-M-4 you FEEL the clubhead accelerating and you feel centrifugal force.
At that time I thought I was mixing because I was feeling CF!!!
But now, I think I misconfused the effect for the cause:
Cause of the swinging power: Centrifugal force.
Cause of the hitting power: Muscular force (not necessarily the right arm only, right?)
Effects for both: The clubhead accelerating in a circular motion. From then, physics dictates that there is CF in the clubhead!
Is it normal to feel that while hitting or am I missing something?
Can anyone confirm that?