This is your first shot of the day even though you’ve had a few minutes on the practice ground. It sounds as if you are only taking the driver because the wind gives you a chance of clearing the main hazard, that normally you would be facing a more comfortable shot to start the day. Therefore, it is likely that as you face this first shot you are conscious that it needs to be a long one. This thought that it needs to be a good hit in order to clear the fairway bunkers will be very difficult to dislodge when it comes to the part of the routine that requires you to “feel what your visualised shot would feel like”, only because it is probably a little outside your comfort zone.
As a result, your conscious mind decides to “make sure” that it is long enough. This will almost inevitably take the form of a “pull” or tug towards the ball at the top of the backswing. We know that waiting for gravity to do its bit at the top of the backswing when nothing much is happening is . . .
