What should you feel in the golf swing?   What I mean by feel is the senses that you feel in your body.  If you are walking, you feel the pressure of the bottom of your shoes on the ground.  You feel the pressure of your feet in the shoes.   You feel the movements in all parts of your body: ankles, calves, knees, hips, body, and arms.  You also feel your body moving forward.  The golf swing is no different.

The feel of the golf swing starts with the setup.  You need to feel the proper grip as your hands are placed on the grip and the grip pressure is enough to control the club but still allow your wrists to move.  Feel how far you stand from the ball so you can aim the club head behind the ball and perpendicular to the target line.  You feel the stance that you make in relation to the end of the club.  Your posture has your hips pushed back to allow your spine to tilt forward and allow your arms to hang from your shoulders.  You feel the weight distributed along the bottom of your feet with your ankles supporting the structure of your body.  Creating the feelings in the setup is the function of your pre-shot routine.  The pre-shot routine must be the same for every full swing shot.  Practicing your pre-shot routine should be a major part of the time you spend on the driving range.  Yet, very few golfers practice their pre-shot routine.  No wonder they have problems being consistent.  You must practice your pre-shot routine until you can feel your setup without thinking.

The golf swing back swing and down swing starts from the ground up.  This means you feel the back swing begin by engaging the bottom of your feet up through your ankles to the rest of your body.  Also, you must feel the bottom of your feet initiate the down swing by providing a solid base through a firm left ankle to unwind the right hip, right upper body, arms and hands to whip the club towards the target.

In order for you to create the whip of the club, you must first build up energy by feeling the upper body rotate around your spine while you feel your lower body resist the coil.  As your right hand raises the club, feel your left hand resist.  This resistance by the left hand creates a feeling of your left arm and left side being stretched.  As soon as you feel the maximum stretch, initiate the down swing.

The amount of time, starting when you feel the start of the back swing until you feel the club contact the ball, is a period of approximately one second. This is a rhythm that you should feel.

As you can see, the golf swing has a lot of feeling associated with it, more than the feeling of walking.  Whether you are walking or swinging a golf club, you must feel the motion and not think.