89. I stress the importance of the club head becoming an extension of your arms and hands by saying that if I was to stick a pin in the clubface; the player holding the grip should go “Ouch!”

I believe that in order to succeed in golf, the swing has to be an instinctive response to the particular shot that you desire.  The analysis of technique should only go as far as is necessary to give an understanding of how various actions impart the spin that gives the ball its shape of arc. This idea when really understood creates a oneness between the club and the player. I stress the importance of the club head becoming an extension of your arms and hands by saying that if I was to stick a pin in the clubface; the player holding the grip should go “Ouch!”

To take this to a clearer level, the physical action should be a response to how the clubface should move into and through the ball in the required fashion that gives the shape of shot we want. (Bear in mind that a straight shot is not a sensible option.)

Good golf is played in this order:

• The layout of hole (visual)
• Subconscious recognition of desired shot that best suits hole
• Instinctive feel of what clubface has to do to bring shot about
• Instinctive physical response to create the required club face action
  

Or put in another way;

1. Stand on tee
2. Visualising instinctively the best shot required of that hole
3. Seeing in your mind the clubface in action to achieve the desired shot
4. Feeling required of body action to deliver the clubface action
5. Then JUST DO IT

Many players say you need to have a grooved a (singular) swing; I say there are as many different swings used by top players as there are shots they can visualise.

Extract from ZEN AND THE ART OF ARCHERY "If one really wishes to be master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough.  One has to transcend technique so that the art becomes an "artless art" growing out of the unconscious".

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki