[Daryl]

Feel does not monitor mechanics. Feel only represents a mechanical movement. Mastering a mechanical movement into feel requires that you monitor the mechanical-feel translation (during practice). Without revisiting the translation, the crisp mechanically correct movement that the feel had once represented becomes vague. Ballet dancers practice mechanics endlessly under a critical and watchful eye to only perform for a few hours using feel alone.

Something about golf unlike other arts is that a few components done very well can compensate for a component done not very well. That go-to swing is a matter of emphasizing those few found components which can be reproduced very well while de-emphasizing those which are not. Educated hands can sometimes make up for a bad pivot. For example, that sculled shot may not have reached the green, but it still remained straight and the ball is within up-and-down range.

I once had a round of golf in which my feel was so good that I was able to focus on the game itself and not at all on mechanics. I thought to myself “what an enjoyable round of golf”.