Unless we have practiced so much we could hit the ball with our eyes closed, we have a tendency to use our hands to make sure the club hits the ball in somewhat the right way.

Big mistake.

That introduces too much variation in the clubhead’s impact positions because you will never be able to train your hands to bring the clubhead into the ball the same way every time, which is what we want to do.

Not only that, but you slow the clubhead way down. Your hands can swing only so fast. I will mention your arms in that regard, too.

By hitting the ball with your swing, that is, letting the overall swing bring the clubhead through the ball, you introduce consistency because is not that hard to train big muscles how to do something over and over again the same way.

In addition, you get maximum clubhead speed because nothing is holding back the two-lever system from letting the clubhead fly through impact.

Before I go, I want to be clear that I did not say to hit the ball with your big muscles. Use them only as a means of bringing the clubhead into the ball consistently so you have the confidence to let the clubhead free-wheel through the ball, as Bobby Jones once described it.