I agree with that, and here’s my thought about why. Golf is a dynamic, unconsciously governed skill when done well. Like driving a car. We call it “feel”, but maybe a better way to think of it as autonomous control of a lot of subtle movements that need to be repeatable with very high precision and accuracy to be have success playing golf. And most people are going to be better at repeating those movements if their conscious brain gets out of the way.
If the feel is good, your body is going to be more easily able to use your kinesthetic sense to keep track of the clubface, low point, and path. If you’re keeping track of all of those and hitting your movements repeatedly, your strike quality will be high, and your smash near maximum. Smash near maximum? You’ve got great ball speed then, and it’s simply a matter of tinkering with launch and spin to get on that narrow graph line that optimizes both and optimizes distance.
But if the feel’s off…you’re going to feel like you’re fighting with yourself to move the club. Which isn’t fluid, takes a lot of effort, and isn’t efficient.
These feels are different for everyone. Me, I evidently am really sensitive to weight distribution in the head AND swingweight. Stupidly so. But I’ve picked up a golf club, had my wife add or take off lead tape until my hands go, “That! Leave it at that!”, and damned if the swingweight scale for the woods and hybrids isn’t between D4.0 and D4.8. On a slope. With the Driver lighter and 4H heavier. Driver feels much better without the giant weight hanging off the ass-end, and a lot more weight on the sole just behind the face. Shrug.
Stupid. But it works, so it’s not stupid.
