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It happens to the best, air. Have you not seen when Tiger drives the ball into the next county? Even the best players in the world make a lot of mistakes.

I'm talking about small and big differences. If you can feel a bad stroke while you're executing you are not far away from feeling a bad stroke while doing the back swing. Perhaps you can feel that already. And perhaps you can even sniff whether you're going to be successful before you start moving the club.

As you get better you may be amazed by how small differences you can feel.

I am at a stage where I usually can feel a lot of early indications about what's waiting at address. At my best I see/feel a good impact coming. Sometimes when I struggle, I get a visual of a snap hook. What I feel is a reflection of how I am aligned and how I have programmed the motion. So part of the programming and the alignment is controling me but it should be the other way around.

Part of the improvement for me is to become better at reversing the relationship: Feel the stroke I intend to make and then program the machinery for proper execution.

I don't think I'm so developed in the feel department. Probably because the mechanics were so wrong. Maybe I'll soon get better regarding the feel you are talking about. All I know is that when the set-up with the right alignments is/looks ok, the chances for a good shot (via good motions) are much better.