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The Ultimate 101 Guide To Beginner Golf

The Ultimate 101 Guide To Beginner Golf

If you are a complete beginner or novice to golf, this article will definitely lead you to a place where starting and taking the first step becomes easy. Many golfers who have great potential fail to progress and for some that entails even making the greens. They key to having a fantastic golf career either professional or leisure is to overcome the inertia to transcend to the next level from the previous. With some expert, informative and useful advice, that step becomes all the easier.

The foundational steps of golf involves balance, power and driving, addressing the ball, grip, and finally putting (shot techniques will be covered in a different article). Below are these steps elucidated in more detail: 

Balance:

 For a golf swing that maintains consistency and power, balance is the primary underlying element which must be maintained throughout the entire swinging motion. The first step is to position one’s posture such that the centre of gravity is centred over the ball. Subsequently, one’s feet should be apart as far as the shoulder’s width with a slight bend at the hip area (hip tilt of about 30 degrees or one “o’clock” upper torso position) with rear protruding a little; knees at this point should be mildly locked. Next, both hands should grip the club in such a way that they are in line with one’s chin and this should all culminate in natural distribution of weight over the golf ball. The bend is one of the most crucial components of the balance position. One should not feel as though he/she is “sitting” comfortably which would imply the shifting of bodyweight towards the heels of the feet. The latter would stiffen one’s body rendering flexibility impossible with the subsequent swing inevitably be wayward.       

At the time of impact, approximately seventy five percent of one’s weight should be transferred onto the leading foot (ie left foot for right handers and vice versa). One’s head must be behind the ball and hips should be c 10cm forward vis-a-vis the initial position. Consequently, the spine is tilted to double that of the starting stance. Post impact, following the gradual motion of the body, weight shift should naturally flow back towards the heel.

Power and Driving:

The greatest problem faced by beginner golfers in driving the golf ball is that of power. Below are some pointers and steps to follow and check to ensure a great dynamic drive-through:

– Making sure the ball is not teed-up to low. This has become more of a problem of late because the contact surface of drivers (especially iron 1) have pronouncedly increased. This results in greater difficulty in locating the sweet-spot which in relative terms have shrunk. As an approximation, the ball should be teed such that the top half of the golf ball is above the club face when the club is in a stationary position on the ground. This would ensure that the contact point is on the centre of the club head. Evidently the larger club head, the higher the tee.

– Making sure one’s hands are not position too closely to the body in the starting position. This mistake would invariantly produce a smaller arc in terms of backswing and follow-through. The key is not reach-in slightly and not to overdo it; this is easier said than done and requires practice because the natural tendency for beginners is too hang one’s hangs inward for security and comfort. Following the circumference of the semi-circle driving motion will generate quicker and more powerful drives then a path trending across the diameter of the motion-arc.   

– Many beginners lift their front foot on the backswing. This inadvertently leads to a counter-productive weight shift to the front of the backswing resulting in a hook or shank nine times out of ten instead of a drive. One’s front foot should be firmly anchored to the ground on backswing forcing the hip and shoulder to turn in s spring-like fashion releasing great power. One’s weight should be shifted to the backside post impact.

– Accompanying the tee is the ball position. Setting the ball too far back or front would lead to premature contact on the down swing or delayed impact of the golf club after traversing the mid point below the golfer’s chin. It will be near an impossible task to hit a good drive if the above occurs. A perfect position would be the ball equidistance from both feet.

– Lastly, confidence and mental approach to a drive is vital for beginners. Every single shot should be hit with full believe that the drive would go the distance and not stop short of its intended target.

 Addressing the golf ball

– Ball addressing entails contacting the ball so the square of one’s club head is exactly perpendicular to the ball on impact. The same swing applies regardless of whether one is on the driving range, tee or fairway; this applies for all woods and irons from 2 through to 9.

The tip post following the steps above is to keep one’s head down and one’s eye on the spot where the ball sits. One’s head should be in this position throughout the swing. Head lifting and movements during the swing or looking up as the club hits the ball would pull one’s body out of alignment making it almost impossible to hit the ball squarely.

The Golf Grip

is one’s only means of connecting with the club. A sound grip is half the battle won in regards to generating power and accuracy. Wrist swerve is then the main power source and a common mistake by beginners is to grip the club more in the palm than through the fingers. Using our sensitive fingers increases wrist hinging and this produces better tee shots and puts.

One other common error amongst even the most experienced golfers is a flimsy lead-hand (left for right-handers) grip concentrated in the palm. Consequently, the golf ball is sliced rather than hit. Here are some check points:

– the club should be held alot more by the fingers than the palm.

– the golf club should be resting on the base of the little finger and contact the index finger just above the first joint.

– Post positioning the club on the fingers, one’s thumb should be parallel (in touch and pointing outwards toward the club face) to the shaft of the club.

– Finally, the knuckles of the index and middle fingers should be visible when looking from the top onto the lead hand. There should also be a “V” shape created by the thumb and index forefinger of the lead hand with its tip directing toward the other hand and shoulder.

Putting

This is the finest and most intricate part about golf play and involves finally coaxing the ball into the golf hole. In a sentence, putting is all about feel and touch. That said, putting is also a little more innovative in respect to the golfer compared with any other shot. There are innumerable styles of putting because whatever consistently puts is whatever works for the individual. The process is much less important in this part of the game.

By and large though, general principles are as follows:

– Putters should be ultra comfortable in terms of length and lie angle

– Gripping during putting should be slightly different compared to driving, chipping, slicing or teeing. The golf club should usually sit in the hollow of the palm of the lead hand with the thumb of the other resting across (as opposed to straight) the shaft.

– Ball position should be towards the forward heel with toes parallel to the target hole. One’s eyes should be over the ball in order to aim and ascertain accurately the line of sight in alignment with the putt.

– Judging the putter path is something which is very hard to teach and narrate. However, one that travels a little inside on the back stroke and then down the line on the forward motion usually works wonder. On the backstroke, one has to ensure that the putter face remains square and does not fray wide open.

– Post putting with the non-lead hand, revert to putting practice using both hands however making strokes with grip pressure mainly on the non-lead palm.  

The preliminary steps above should be able to get any rookie up and running at least onto the range and short games…the rest comes with heaps and heaps of club time always keeping the fundamental rules in mind.   

Thomas is an avid golf fan through and through and has been enjoying the game for more than 12 years. Visit www.tipsongolf.org for expansive resources on the game for golfers at all levels.

How to Hit the Golf Ball When it is Positioned Above Your Feet

How to Hit the Golf Ball When it is Positioned Above Your Feet

You get to your ball and you see that it lies above your feet at address. You smile to yourself and think of the fantastic shot you are about to play. Why, because this is considered to be one of the easiest shots in golf. If you follow the steps below, you will not hit the ground behind the ball anymore, and this shot will become your favourite shot in golf. So here we go.

Step 1: With this kind of shot the ball will always tend to draw so make sure that you compensate for this by aiming a little to the right.

Step 2: If you are one of those golfers that always seems to hit the ball a bit fat when it is above your feet, there is a very simple fix. Make sure that you are standing taller and straighter than your normal stance.

Step 4: This is one of the most important things to remember for this shot. Do not bend your knees. You should stand as straight as you possibly can.

Step 5: The other most important thing to remember is that the club will always want to swing flatter and around your body, which is exactly the type of swing you want for this shot. Do not try to make a normal swing as you will not get a good result.

That is all there is to it. If you can remember to follow these steps then this should become one of your favourite shots in golf. I hope this helped.

Jakobus Nel is the owner and editor of a successful golf instructional website. Do you want to play your best golf ever? Claim your two free golf ebooks here at http://www.thegolflesson.co.za that will improve your golf.

How to Hit the Golf Ball on an Uphill Lie

How to Hit the Golf Ball on an Uphill Lie

Uphill lies make the game of golf a bit more challenging. This happens when the ball is positioned level with your feet at address but the slope is uphill. Here we have a couple of simple tips to help you successfully execute a shot on an uphill lie.

The uphill lie is considered to be the easiest shot to play, but if you do struggle with this type of shot the reason for your problem may be that your angle of attack on the ball is too steep. This causes you to hit down into the ground and you hit the ball fat.

Before you hit your shot there are a couple of things you should keep in mind. Firstly, the angle of the slope will cause you to hit the ball a lot higher and shorter than you usually do. You should therefore select a club that has slightly less loft to cancel out the effect that the slope will have on your ball.

Secondly, you will notice that the ball will tend to draw slightly from an uphill lie and therefore you should aim a little right to compensate for this.

Thirdly, you should check your shoulder alignment. The ideal position for your shoulders to be in, is in a position parallel to the ground, ie. the same angle as the slope. Therefore your left shoulder should be positioned slightly higher than your right shoulder. This will prevent you from hitting the ball fat.

A very important thing to remember is that the position of the ball in your stance should be in the middle for the shorter irons and further forward for the longer ones.

Lastly, make sure that after impact you have a high follow through. This basically means let the path of your swing follow the angle of the slope on approach, through the contact area and after impact.

I hope this helps.

Jakobus Nel is the owner and editor of a successful golf instructional website. Do you want to play your best golf ever?

 

Prove that it’s a small world hooking up with a seasoned courier company

Prove that it’s a small world hooking up with a seasoned courier company

Article by Jamie Francis







When a business first launches, there is usually no telling how successful it might become. Unless the people behind it are blessed with amazing foresight, and can anticipate every possible hurdle which their enterprise might encounter, there are so many aspects which can trip them up. One of these is not having an appropriate distribution mechanism in place in order to be able to properly serve the target markets.

It might sound too obvious, but one of the factors which needs to be borne in mind by any business involved in sales and distribution is having the right transport available to ensure that its goods can be sent to the people who want them. In lots of cases, especially for small items, this is not a significant problem. But when a company is looking to make its mark on a market for large or heavy goods, extra help will be essential.

And that’s where the shipping companies and worldwide freight experts come in. Ever since the means were devised to transport heavy products over long distances, businesses have been keen to rise to the challenge of getting large consignments to customers regardless of the potential hurdles they face. One of the most significant challenges which faces a company whose products are not easily handled by human effort alone is how they will reach their customers in one piece.

Fortunately, modern freight transport has brought us the solutions to these problems, offering answers using land, sea and air to the perennial question – how are we going to get it there? In some cases, the cost of sending goods on a long air, sea or road journey, or the nature of the consignment being sent, means that it is a strict one-off occurrence. But just as when the delivery is routine, and undertaken several times a month or week, the same care needs to be taken. Because any international delivery company, no matter how specialised the services they offer, is only as good as its last successful drop.

A new business will naturally be keen to make an impact among its potential customers. But with the internet now offering people the chance to pass on details of their sub-standard experience of any aspect of dealings with a company, and others using these forums as a way of picking suppliers they can trust, there is little room for shortcomings in delivery services, when someone else will quite happily step in and take that business away, knowing that their offering is superior.



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Hooked on Height Via Ferrata, Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

Hooked on Height Via Ferrata, Mount Kinabalu, Borneo

I just try to focus on what we were told at the briefing: never unclip both karabiners attaching you to the cable at once. Even if you unclip both karabiners and then fall off, however, you will survive unless you have also sawn through the yellow rope linking you to your via ferrata guide.

“Via what?” you might ask? Don’t worry. Hardly anybody has even heard of “via ferrate”, as they are known in the plural. That includes Mount Kinabalu visitors from Italy, who should maybe have a better idea because their First World War Dolomite forebears devised them so that they could kill Austrians with greater ease.

A via ferrata (Italian for “iron road”) is a mountain path consisting of fixed steel rungs, rails and cables. Soaring up to 3800 metres, the via ferrata I am entangled with, which is called Mountain Torq (old English for “necklace”), offers fantastic views from vertiginously dizzy heights. Mountain Torq is both the world’s highest and Asia’s first mountain steel staircase.

Opened in December 2007, Mountain Torq is fair game for anyone aged 10 to 70 who is moderately fit and equipped with above average get-up-and-go. You put on a harness and are hooked onto the cable that lines the route, then clamber and scramble or just plonk your behind on every rung, as some particularly nervous individuals do.

Why bother going anywhere near it? Because a ferrata route enables people who have never climbed anything wilder than the office ladder to touch the void, overcome their fear of heights and experience altitude through the eyes of a rock climber. Even if you have to put up with being dressed like a dork, as I am.

My climbing costume consists of three shirts along with a purple balaclava and a pair of fuzzy mittens donated by a female Aussie backpacker. I feel preposterous yet confident.

I have already managed to navigate the UNESCO-listed world heritage site foothills of Mount Kinabalu itself. No mean feat. You must trek for four to six hours up a dizzying array of steps. These steps take all conceivable forms: shallow steps; cliff-like steps into the unknown; steps made of roots; steps of chipped, slimy rock; steps supporting whole colonies of toads.

As a result of all the impromptu training I feel “in the zone” but have made progress hard by rejecting the “Walk the Torq” beginner’s route in favour of the deceptively named “The Preamble”, which meanders for 1.2 kilometres through beautiful rhododendrons and the bone-like branches that snake everywhere in the mossy humidity. Make it through the jungle and you arrive at a gleaming succession of rungs that single-handedly takes you from 3,200 to 3,800 metres above sea level.

By the standards of via ferrate, The Preamble is “difficult” (the official rating). All the more so for me because I have chosen to double the calories by going up, not down.

When I started climbing in the starry dawn the muted light softened the contours of the abyss. Now that the sun has risen, I can easily get a sense of the immensity if I look down. Whether to look down or not is a big question. Some climbers adamantly refuse to, keeping their eyes rigidly glued upwards. After a while I start to look down regularly as, in a funny way, I come to like the fear so induced. It certainly makes me feel very alive and in the present. I totally forget about the financial and relationship problems that have been nagging at me for weeks.

It’s really perfect, this via ferrata lark. You get the adrenaline buzz of doing something which your senses are screaming at you to desist from, while maintaining perfect safety. Thanks to your hooks, the farthest you can fall is two feet. After a while I let go and lean back on the lanyard, just to see what it feels like – it turns out it’s a bit like sitting in a comfy sofa. I enjoy the effortlessness of being supported by the mountain and sway from side to side a bit just to heighten the experience. After a while I realise there’s nothing to be scared of except fear itself – and maybe the scorn of the purists who insist on climbing unaided. After reflecting for a while I decide that such soloists need their heads examined and that I thus don’t really care what they think of me.

Before embarking on my “big wall” climb I was obliged to fill in the standard “if you die, tough” document with a next-of-kin section, which made me wonder how many climbers come to grief on Kinabalu. Nobody seems to know – or at least be willing to tell me.

Wilfred Tok, the 39-year-old Singaporean mountaineer behind Mountain Torq, says that many people, even the British Commandos who virtually run up the mountain, experience the banging headaches associated with altitude sickness (much to their shame when they see 70-year-old Japanese ladies acclimatising perfectly). Anyone with a history of strokes should not try the Kinabalu via ferrata, as the rapid altitude rise is dangerous for such people.

My curiosity is aroused by a book I find in one of the mountain huts – “Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained” by the late Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary. Sir Edmund’s non-fiction thriller is awash with accounts of redoubtable men having magnificent accidents. After one recounted fall, a rescued climber named McFarlane, who seems to be dying, quips that he much prefers being carried down a glacier to walking.

That’s climbing. Even if you have a ruptured spleen and bloodied skull, the rule is: keep on smiling and remark, say, on how you’re looking forward to meeting attractive nurses or doctors in hospital. Every cloud has a silver lining – even the black one that triggered the avalanche.

On my jaunt, the closest event to an accident occurs when the rope linking me to my guide snags on a bonsai tree sprouting from the rock face. Awkward, but no big deal. I regularly forget to unclip my karabiners and with a lurch run up against one of the superglued bolts that help keep the cable hugging the mountain.

Thanks in part to such hitches, my “assault” takes three hours to complete, making it the longest three quarters of a mile I have experienced since nursery school walkies. I should have stocked up with chocolate from the mountain hut’s strange little canteen, where I had been somewhat surprised to see a squirrel walk into a cupboard.

I don’t feel fit. I don’t mind wheezing like a bellows when attempting to talk to my younger companions, but when I realise that someone twenty years older than me is fitter, I get a bit gloomy. I wish I hadn’t spent most of the last 42 years consuming too much beer and lamb madras.

Exhausted, I almost stagger from the top rung onto the slate moonscape at the rock face’s top, where a climber set to follow in my footsteps, only downwards, asks how it was. “Tough,” I say.

Fifteen minutes later, from a distance, I can still see him and his friends marooned on the plateau. My guide explains that people find the descent scarier than the ascent. The laser-like sunshine leaves nothing to the imagination and many first-timers just freeze. Others, when confronted with the chasm, cry – men as well as women. I’m pleased I haven’t blubbed, it would have been almost as embarrassing as when I got all teary when the Kylie Minogue concert tickets I was trying to buy last year sold out.

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Some Options For Choosing The Right Beginner Golf Equipment

Some Options For Choosing The Right Beginner Golf Equipment

Article by Edward Meyer







Many people think they need more equipment than they really do when they first start golfing. While you can find many fun looking gadgets, you won’t need those until you’ve mastered the basics of the game. You won’t really benefit from the more advanced equipment until then. As you pick out your starter kit, keep these important tools in mind.

The first item you should spend money on is a decent driver. The first thing you need to be aware of is that there are some “specialty” drivers which aren’t quite certified by the PGA. Depending on where you are and what your goals as a golfer may be this might not be a problem for you. Everyone has his or her own needs when it comes to driver. Most of the time drivers with flexible shafts permit for more distance although less power. If you have problems with hooks, slices, or rogue balls you might prefer sacrificing distance for added control by using a steel shafted driver.

You should also take a bit of time to delve into the most comfortable shaft length for you to utilize prior to spending money also. This will take some testing to ascertain what the best length is, yet it will be time well spent in terms of lower amounts of back pain after 18-holes.

Another good investment is a golf ball finder. Special eyeglasses make it easier to spot your ball by eliminating the grass from your view. Golf ball finders help beginners for two reasons. You will save money by losing fewer balls as you learn the game, for one. The other reason is they help you keep track of where your ball goes after you hit it. It can also be used to identify problems with your swing if you have issues with your ball veering left or right of where you aimed it.

After everything else, you’ll need to purchase a ball marker. In fact, if you play golf with other individuals you want to recognize which ball is yours, in particular when the others you are playing with landed in a terrible place. Ball markers will aid you in saving money as you can more effortlessly ascertaining your ball from others but additionally assist you in keeping a more precise record of where you ball is ending up. This allows you to keep better track of how accurately you’re hitting the ball and which direction it has a tendency to go off course.

Beginners will find many pieces of golf equipment that they consider buying. This is one sport where there are all kinds of bright, shiny, and distracting gadgets and gizmos to choose from. Start out buying only the equipment that is necessary for beginners, then as your game improves, you can work on building your inventory. Starting with these basics will have you ready for the nest level in no time.



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Three Interesting Tips For Choosing The Right Golf Equipment For New Golfer

Three Interesting Tips For Choosing The Right Golf Equipment For New Golfer

Article by Steve Gilbert







Great Tips to Help You Choose the Right Beginner Golf Equipment

Golf channels and the internet advertise all sorts of beginner golf equipment pieces and sets. The problem is that most of these packages include a lot of equipment that beginning golfers aren’t ready for or won’t benefit from. It’s best to start with a few basics pieces of beginner golf equipment and add to it as your game improves.

The first thing you need to invest in is a good driver. The first thing you need to be aware of is that there are some “specialty” drivers which aren’t quite certified by the PGA. Reliant upon where you are and what your aims as a golfer may be, this might not be an issue for you. Everybody has their own needs when it comes to drivers. Most of the time drivers with flexible shafts permit for more distance although less power. If you have difficulty with hooks, slices, or rogue balls you may wish to let go of distance for more control by using a steel shafted driver.

You should also take a little time to explore the most comfortable shaft length for you to use before you make your purchase too. This will take some testing to ascertain what the best length is, yet it will be time well spent in terms of lower amounts of back pain after 18-holes.

Your next investment should be in a golf ball finder. Special eyeglasses make it easier to spot your ball by eliminating the grass from your field of vision so your ball shows brighter. Golf ball finders help beginners for two reasons. You will save money by losing fewer balls as you learn the game, for one. You will be better able to see where your ball goes after you hit it, as well. This can help you identify problems with your swing like hooks or slices if your ball is consistently veering off course to the left or right of where you believe you are hitting it.

Ultimately, you’ll want to buy a buy marker. Truly, if you play golf with others you want to know which ball is yours, especially when the others you are playing with landed in a really bad spot. Ball markers will assist you in saving money as you can more simply making out your ball from others although it will furthermore aid you in keeping a more correct record of where your ball is ending up. This lets you to maintain better records of how correctly you’re hitting the ball and in what direction it has an inclination to go off course.

Beginner golf equipment doesn’t have to cost a fortune but buying the right equipment can add years of enjoyment to your game. It can be easy to get distracted by all the fancy bells and whistles available, whether you’re new to golf or returning to this great game. If you stick to the beginner equipment discussed above, however, you’ll be in great shape.



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School For Golf

School For Golf

Article by Gary Wells







Lets Talk Golf Etiquette

Another beautiful day, out on the golf course, and I’m feeling like a million bucks wearing my bright yellow golf shirt, plus the girl I want to meet, is just a golf hole before me.

There she goes, off the tee box. Right down the center of the fairway on number 2 hole. The last time I was out here, she faded it right into the bunker, just next to my favorite ball placement. I missed my golden opportunity to meet her at that time. I pull hooked the ball on the opposite side of this fairway.

Maybe we’ll meet a couple holes down. She has to return back down number 3, and I ought to be teeing off number 2-tee box at the exact same time. Maybe I’ll impress her with a wonderful drive, straight and long down the fairway. Worst-case scenario will be another long hook out into her fairway this time. I wonder if she’ll stop and watch me fly the trees, hitting back at the green?

Anyway, enough day dreaming. We are here to talk about golf etiquette.

Many people recall old movie images of golfers in plaid pants, sweater vests, billed caps, and other stereotypical apparel of golfing lore. While clothing on golf courses has changed over the years, proper golf apparel continues to be expected. As well as greater the prestige in the golf club, the greater the expectation you can abide by their dress code.

Most clubs and courses, even the public ones, require that golfers follow a dress code. The most common rule is the collared shirt. Many courses require long pants, not jeans, and golf shoes.

5 Minutes Early Is Late

On the subject of actually starting your game, the primary rule of etiquette is to show up on schedule for your tee time. Meaning you’ll have already done everything else in preparation for the start of starting a golf game. You’ll need time to park your car, warm up, practice, buy balls, change, and grab a cart. Being early is a matter of consideration for others.

Leave Cell Phones In The Real World

The exclusion of cell phones from golf apparel is another common courtesy on the links. Cell phones is required to be left in your car or locker. If you do must bring 1 onto the course for emergencies, keep it turned off.

When you’re on the course, you will need to understand how the other golfers within your group will wish to play. Some let the best score tee off on the following hole, while others let whoever is prepared tee off first. You can offend players by not following their rules, even if their rules are, from your perspective, wrong.

Time-Honored Conventions Make Golfing Unique

An obsession with quiet is another characteristic for which golfers are known. Like most traditions, this one is according to necessity. When your object would be to hit a small object with an extended pole, you will need all of your concentration. Even when golfing with friends, respect the basic rule of keeping quiet during shots, and standing out of the direct line of vision.

Today’s golfing rules of etiquette can seem archaic — a throwback to days of old. They harken back to a slower paced time when consideration for others was perhaps easier. While in the 21st century, golfing provides us some time away from the bustle of everyday living. Though golf is highly competitive, it’s, nonetheless, a gentleman’s — and gentlewoman’s — game.

Thanks for listening.Cash

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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~Will Rogers



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How To Develop A Brilliant Golf Swing

How To Develop A Brilliant Golf Swing

Article by Gerald Mason







For a good golf swing we have not only to bring the club head down through the same line time after time; we must bring it down so that the club face is square with the ball at the instant of impact–and because the path of the club head is a curve, this means that impact must be timed correctly to an infinitesimal fraction of a second in the sweep of the swing. Also the club head must be accelerating at the moment of impact.

So we have not only to set up the mechanism to make a good swing, which we can all soon do if we only swing at the daisies, but we have to time this swing to the fraction of a second. Now I think that most of us overrate the value of good mechanics in golf and underrate the value of accurate timing. I was once watching, with a pupil of mine who had a most perfect swing, a fellow whose action was not pretty–to put it kindly.

But he kept hitting nice long shots down the middle. “Not much to look at,” I remarked to my pupil. “I would not care a damn what I looked like if I could repeat like that chap!” he replied.

The awkward one could repeat his best shots time after time. His mechanics were ungainly but his timing was near perfect.

Well, you may say, if that is so, why should you go to so much trouble to give us a good mechanical swing? The answer is that good timing plus a good swing is better than good timing plus an awkward swing.

The best swing, mechanically, is the one that pulls the ball a little and then makes it turn a bit to the left at the end of its flight, but if you get your maximum golf happiness out of a swing which slices the ball all around the course, there is no reason to alter your mechanics!

If you do want to make an alteration, it may not be an extensive one. I remember one day at St. Cloud an someone came and begged me to give him even fifteen minutes–which I did out of my lunch time as he seemed so insistent.

His trouble was that every now and then his iron shots to the green would finish in the bunker to the left of the green. For three years he had failed to find a permanent cure. So on the advice of a friend he came to me. It did not take me long to see what was wrong and to explain to him that now and again his foot-and-leg work was sluggish, and in consequence the club head came in too soon–to put his ball a little to the left.

After that brief lesson I never saw him again, as he was on his way back to the States from Paris. But he left me a note of thanks and a handsome present, and when I inquired of the caddy who had been out with him in the afternoon learned he had broken 70. Some time later I saw his photograph in the American Golfer with the news that he had won the West Coast championship.

Too much thought about the mechanics is a bad thing for anyone’s game. Now the reason why golf is so difficult is that you have to learn it and play it through your senses. You must be mindful but not thoughtful as you swing. You must not think or reflect; you must feel what you have to do. Part of the difficulty arises because, apart from simple things like riding a bicycle, we have never learned to do things in this way.

The beginning of the swing movement is in the feet; the movement passes progressively up through the body, through the arms, and out at the club head.

What we try to do is to make the club head come down in the same path time and time again–in such a way that the face of the club comes squarely into the back of the ball every time.

We have one fixed point (the feet) and one moving point (the club head) which we desire to move along the same line time after time. So the golf swing might be compared to the drawing of arcs with a pair of compasses. The reasons why we cannot be so precise in our stroking as the compass can, are that we are supported on two legs instead of one and we are full of flections and joints!



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How To Improve Your Golf Swings And Lower Your Handicap

How To Improve Your Golf Swings And Lower Your Handicap

See yourself break 80 by improving your golf swings.

 

Just between you and me. In order to be able to break 80 or do better than your current score, you will want to know how to improve your golf swings and in the process you will lower your handicap.

 

Do you hit the ball farther? This is not always the solution. More problems may develop to increase your score. The ability to hit the ball with consistent accuracy is the answer to lowering your handicap. Easily said, but is achievable with practice.

 

Reduce or eliminate slicing, hooking, and topping the ball.

 

A tendency to slice the ball and doing it constantly needs immediate correction before it becomes ingrained as unwanted habits. If a professional golfer is available where you golf, request to have that person observe you and offer remedies to correct your golf swing and body positioning flaws.

 

Hitting the golf ball and have it travel straighter is the goal unless you want the golf ball to curve sharply to the right or to the left. There are occasions when you want to hit the golf ball directing it to either side of straight, but it takes a lot of control to do this shot intentionally.

 

Remember what it was like in the beginning? We all topped the golf ball because we released our flexed knees lifting the body upward causing the bottom of the golf club to thinly hit the top of the golf ball and the ball slowly rolled. We learned how to correct this flaw and proceeded successfully to the next lesson.

 

Correcting your golf swings is also a matter of refining and perfecting your grip, the address, the takeaway, the top of the backswing, the downswing, and the impact to finish. Practice these basics until they are familiar and comfortable to you.

 

Set up a constructive drill program for yourself. Attend the practice range prepared to practice with purpose. Here is a suggestion list to include in your practice sessions.

 

Check your posture or body alignment.
Timing needs to be rehearsed.
Develop rhythm
Smoother swing from beginning to golf ball contact.
Improve consistency and distance.
Hit the ball directly towards the intended target.

 

Stop reading and think about the above list. Choose one item and one or two irons and design a feasible practical drill. After you have practiced and can grade yourself an “A”, select another item on the list and add another iron or two and design another achievable drill. Develop a good practice plan and stick to it.

 

Do not set up impossible goals to practice in one session. Practice with accuracy. Constructive practice is essential as the golf swing habits you develop are realities on the golf course.

 

Investment of your active participation of time in practice will be necessary to develop the perfect golf swings you desire. Invest in yourself by engaging a professional golfer for lessons. Play golf as often as possible to gain experience.

 

The result of a perfect golf swing is when you hit the club head in the exact correct spot on impact with the exact amount of speed and send the ball flying straight to the designated target. Perform this golf swing many times and you are on your way to being an outstanding golfer.

 

If you have been looking for other techniques as to how to improve your golf swings with the goal to lower your handicap visit the sports section of Tricia Deed at http://www.infotrish.vpweb.com/ and review Welcome to the GolfSwing Book.

 

 

 

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