Impact !! The moment of truth. The defining position. The one and only position that actually matters throughout the entire nano second it takes to complete the Golf Swing.

Golf Swing Instruction hardly ever shows you this position. Golf Swing lessons never allow the time to give you a visual of this all important position.

Impact!! Absolutely the only position in the Golf Swing that makes a difference.

Impact!! The Moment of WOW! It is the second in time that proceeds one of your biggest disappointments or one of your most cherished memories.

It is the one point in time that you have counted one to accomplish a practiced result.

Your last golf swing instruction gave you little to no idea what this vital moment was supposed to look like. Golf Lessons are supposed to give you a degree of consistent performance. It is why you pay $60.00- $ 100.00 bucks an hour.

But yet, no golf lesson, golf instruction, golf tip or any golf swing instruction ever stops you in this key position and says " there, this is what it is supposed to look and feel like"... do they?

Come on ! This is the only place anywhere in the golf swing that all good players do that is nearly exactly the same. Jim Furyk and Miller Barber swing the club way different than Tiger Woods or Ernie Els.

But if you look at them at Impact.. man, they are almost exactly the same.

You would have to deduct from this that the impact position must be pretty darn important if the best players in the world are all doing it the same way. No matter what the rest of the swing looks like.

Agreed?

Ok .. so what does it feel like? And better yet does it feel like it looks?

When you do it right at full speed, I can tell you that it feels GREAT! And the results are nothing short of awesome.

So ..let's see if I can get you into the impact position. Just so you know what it feels like and so you can have a look at it in a mirror and know what the feeling looks like too!

You do not have to be anywhere near the course or the driving range. Just at home, anywhere your home. You will not be needing to swing the club.

Go Grab a club. I'll wait.......................

Ready?

Get into your very best setup position. Good grip, good posture and good athletic position.

Now here we go.. move just your hands and the grip end of the club ever so slightly ahead of the ball position toward the target. The head of the club should remain in it's set up position.

Ok now turn your left hip to it's left just a little, this would put you in what you may know as the "open" position, this should also have moved your right knee so that it is tuning inward a bit and pointing more or less at the ball.

While you are doing this make very very sure that your shoulders have remained square to the target line. I will repeat this for those speed readers. Make sure your shoulder remain square to the target line.

The slight movement of your hands toward the target will have moved your right shoulder a bit down and around. This is fine. If you shoulders end up a little open, very little, this is also ok.

So it will look like this: hands are ahead of the clubhead and hence the ball, this is an indicator that you lead the down swing with your hands in a downward motion and have maintained the right wrist angle at least at impact. Very Good.

Your left hip has turned out, indicating an excellent clearing of the hips making room for your arms to drop down into the slot created by this clearing.

Your shoulders are square or very near square to the target line, indicating that you have stayed behind the ball and have not spun out of the swing or hit from the top. This is a power position as it allows for you to hit from the inside and against the body.

Spinning the shoulders or hitting from the top is a very serious power drain.

There.. now you know!