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Improve Your Golf Swing

September 24th, 2009


Golf has become the most challenging game in the world that involves the number of people that participate in the activity. This is partly because those who pursue the game of golf accept frustration as part of the challenge and fun of playing the sport. Buy used golf clubs and improve your game with better clubs!

So many people are dedicated to the pleasures of playing golf, so it stands to reason that most would want to discover ways to enjoy gold without the frustration sometimes occurring in the sport.

There are many, many books and magazines that have been published for this reason. You can spend time reading about and practicing golf, but problems will always occur as you participate in the activity. Interestingly enough, that is part of golf’s fascination.

Nothing is more gratifying for established golfers than to have a perfect golf swing and to be able to keep the swing intact through adjustments or corrections. The experience will be self-rewarding over and over. The mechanics of a golf swing, however, is as unpredictable as the weather and as capricious as the wind. Sometimes even professional players will feel like they cannot control their golf swing like would want.

Understanding the golf swing, which admittedly takes a lot of time and effort, will help you overcome most problems in golf by either preventing them or correcting the issues. In the beginning, you prevent problems by using basic fundamentals to develop a sound, consecutive swing, and you correct further problems by using fundamentals to adjust or correct very specific parts of your swing that relate to these problem areas.

Because of the complexity of the swing and it’s somewhat capricious nature, not even experienced professional golf players are able to find and correct recurrent problems in golf, and they have long since learned that the problems must be corrected because the swing cannot be forced to conform.

Many golfers find that the more they force a golf swing into conformity the more problematic it becomes. When chronic problems do occur and cannot be resolved in practice, it is truly the mark of an expert player to accept limitations and know when to call for help.

Yes, even professional players seek professional help for their own golf swings. You might be surprised to know that seeing a flaw can sometimes be easier than feeling one in the swing. Even average golfers hoping to develop their golf swing with the basics, should be selective in finding a good instructor just as a pro golfer would. When selecting a professional instructor, you should insure that their knowledge is grounded in the basics of golf.

Free Golf Instruction How to Putt

November 7th, 2008

Aim At The Hole

Too many beginning golfers spend lord knows how many minutes trying to line up their putts only to miss putt after putt after putt. The problem is over analysis and here’s what you can do to correct it. 95% of the time you should aim the golf ball right at the hole and spend your time trying to judge the downhill and uphill slope of the greens and the speed you’ll have to putt the ball with to get it in the hole. Most of the time when weekend golfers are trying to play a sideway slope they end up over compensating for it and miss horribly.

Don’t let that happen to you!

Aim straight for the hole and focus your time and energy on guessing the right speed you’ll need on your swing.

Imagine The Hole Is A One Foot By One Foot Square

Your goal here is to cut down on all your three putt holes by using one putt to get the ball within “tap in” distance. Obviously if you have a chance at the hole in one stroke then drain it but be honest with yourself. Use your one shot to get the ball within the “square” and then tap it in for a respectable two putt hole. Beats a three putt hole any day…

Visualize Yourself Sinking The Putt

Before I take my putt I see myself sinking the putt in my head. I try to trick my mind into thinking that I’ve already sank that putt before. In my head I try to focus on the speed of my swing and the pace the ball will need to fall into the hole. In my mind I’ve already gone over how far back my swing has to go and much of a follow through there will be.

Take A deep Breath Before You Putt

I actually do this before every swing but it really works to relax my swing and to calm me down. In my mind I try to focus on everything in  my swing that I’m trying to be cognizant of (you know what I’m talking about) and I take a smooth, confidant swing.

Count up your putting strikes next round and then practice these tips. See if you can reduce your putts by 9 in the next 3 months

Golf Tip – How To Improve Your Backswing

November 2nd, 2008

One of the easiest things you can do to improve your golf game is fine tune your backswing. You’ll find many golf tips online about how you can improve your backswing but the best thing you can do is stick to the basics. This holds true for beginners and amateurs alike.

Mustering as much power and accuracy as possible while maintaining form and balance is the goal of every golfer that steps foots on a golf course. To be able to do this you have to be able to put all of your force into your swing without coming over the top of your swing.

Coming over the top describes a swing flaw which causes the clubhead to veer off to the outside of your target line during the downswing. The result is an atrocious slice.

You can avoid such a shot by learning how to avoid coming over the top and keeping your clubhead from moving outside of your target line. You can accomplish this by mentally focusing on coming at the ball from the inside

More accomplished golfers can do this each and every time they try, but coming at the ball from the inside may be easier said than done for the beginning golfer. Only through practice can you learn how to effectively swing from the inside but the result will be a perfect drive that parts the fairway down the middle!

There are certain drills that you can do to help you train your swing and one such drill is outlined below:

1. Take 3 tees and placed them into the turf approximately 3 to 4 inches apart from one another, and in a perfect line at a 45° angle with your target line. If you are a right-handed golfer then the line should be pointing to your left foot. Make sure that you have enough room in between each tee so that you can swing the club through.

2. Now it is time to find your swing path. Take out your 5-iron and initiate a few swings by attempting to hit the top portion of the middle tee. In order to do so, your clubhead must pass between the outside tees in a pathway best described as “in-to-out” in order to avoid contact with them.

By practicing this technique and hitting the middle tee in this fashion on a consistent basis, you are making contact correctly from the inside. If you happen to hit the outside tees then you are still coming over the top and need more practice on your swing.

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