**unsolicited opinion incoming**

I only stop by to say something, because I have just recently connected some dots that have really helped me diagnose where to apply emphasis when certain results happen.

I also had a hard time discerning a proper throw at target vs. throw at ball sensation, like it sounds like your saying. In addition, I also tended to pull my shots left. I feel that the two are actually somewhat separated, although ultimately connected.

First, how to establish throw to target. For me literally swinging a sledge hammer really helped me get the feel. this was before this wonderful video with the double overlap. Once I got the sledge hammer feel, I would try to take it to the range with a golf club and couldn’t replicate the sledge hammer feel. What I found was to pay attention to the intensity of grip in my left (lead) hand during chip shots. For me, having a strong grip (in this case relating to intensity not position) during a delicate swing, proved to be very challenging. I tended to want to either girp hard swing hard, or swing light grip light. Focusing on a ‘toned’ grip as Shawn has put it, really helped. The key here though was to really focus on only the lead hand grip strength. When I watched Shawn talk about toned grip, I always applied it to both hands. focusing on the one hand, really helped me feel the “swing” of the lead arm. It’s almost as if your left arm (lead arm) is the sledge hammer, and you’re using your legs/body to swing it, while your right hand or trail hand “propels” it. Marrying this feel to where I want the ball to land resulted in a much easier and more tangible feel of “tossing at the target”. It wasn’t ambiguous, it was VERY easily identifiable. So much so, that if you question it, it likely isn’t right yet.

This leads me to what to do with the pulled shots. What I found, was once I could easily identify a correct “swing to target”, which at this point took the chip shot formula above and put it into a full swing by going “chip”, “pitch”, “gentle full”, “regular shot”, I realized, that i simply had my ball position too forward. This was resulting in pulled shots. adjusting my ball position just a little back (maybe half a ball to a ball) resulted in perfect draws.

My main thrust here is that once you get the feel down, which for me simply came from focusing on “gripping the lead hand tightly” with gentle effort in the actual swing, the rest of the game begins to fall into place quickly.

Also, as a bonus and this is probably mind numbingly simple, but face angle on a golf club means the sole of the club not the top. For years I would close the club based on the top-line, only to realize I was closing 50 or 60 degrees when it looked like 30. Realizing this has revolutionized everything. SO SIMPLE.

Anyway, good luck and keep going, i spent basically 3 years working through WIG concepts before they fully began locking in and boy shawn is right, it’s so great when they do!