[airair]

Air,

Your question seeks a semantic nuance that will differentiate Power and Force, both as they are and as they are used -- or misused -- in the Golf Stroke. I'll avoid that question for now, but to the extent they are different, it ain't by much. In a word, both are formidable.

Meanwhile, let me opt instead to address the psychological and physiological war at work within us as we play the game:

Hitting the ball as hard as you know how is not "killing the ball"

Trying to hit it harder than that is.

I have a vague feeling of a difference between power and force in the OTT move, which seems to be using upper body force in hope of getting a powerful hit, but just messes things up in reality. (But it can probably be explained in other ways..)