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Team Up With Tiger – Gifts For Golf Pros

Team Up With Tiger – Gifts For Golf Pros

Article by John Smith

Golf is one of the most popular sporting pastimes among men and women of all ages, which is perhaps why many such players consider themselves ‘professional’. Indeed, unless these people are in fact professional golfers, the majority of players who spend their time on local and national courses will have only a medium to good level of skill. Thus, whilst teaming up with Tiger Woods, not Tony might not be a realistic option for many golfers, there are a large number of players around the world who possess the credentials to play golf seriously.

Furthermore, due to the passive aggressive nature of competition in the sport, playing seriously is what many of these golfers end up doing, so for this reason it Continue reading “Team Up With Tiger – Gifts For Golf Pros”

How to Buy a Golf Bag

How to Buy a Golf Bag

Article by Robb Thomas







Whether you have three clubs or fourteen, you’re going to need a golf bag. And while the quality of your bag shouldn’t directly affect your game, how comfortable it is and how well it fits can significantly impact your morale as you play through the golf course.

Few things can make a game turn sour faster than a strap digging into your shoulder for 18 holes and having to carry your extra golf balls in a plastic bag. So, keep reading to learn about the three basic types of bags as well as some helpful tips on how to choose the best golf bag for your needs.

Golf Bag Varieties:

1. Carry Bags

A carry bag is small, lightweight and typically made from plastic, canvas or nylon. It can usually accommodate a basic set of essential golf clubs and a few accessories like balls, towels and tees and often comes with its own stand to hold it upright while you make your shot.

Because the carry bag is portable and easy to carry, it’s the bag of choice for golfers who like to walk and carry their own bag. Essentially, the carry bag is the equivalent of packing light.

2. Cart Bags

The cart bag is a mid-sized bag and designed to fit either on a wheeled, hand-pushed golf cart or on the back of a motorized golf cart.

It can be fairly bulky and is often difficult to carry, but it offers more space than the lightweight carry bag.

3. Staff Bags

The staff bag is the largest style of golf bag. It is made to fit a full set of fourteen golf clubs along with all the accessories you need.

A staff bag is doable with a caddie or a motorized golf cart, but it can be somewhat unruly for the solo golfer, becoming more of a burden than a blessing.

How to Choose the Right Golf Bag

Choosing the right golf bag for you comes down to use and price; but first and foremost it’s about how you plan to use it. Often the smaller bags are less expensive, but if you plan to walk yourself around the course, they’re the better choice, and there are beautiful, high-quality carry bags available.

The price or quality of your bag isn’t going to affect your game, but you should pick a bag that fits well and can carry everything you need to have a comfortable game, like an umbrella or an extra jacket. Before you purchase it, walk around the store with your bag and make sure that you like the fit and the way the strap feels on your shoulder.



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Reading Putting Distance – An Essential Golf Technique

Reading Putting Distance – An Essential Golf Technique

Article by BQ Browning







How often have you been so close to winning a game of golf – there’s just the final putt. You take your time and breathe deeply, you concentrate and contemplate your stroke – and then you come up short! Worse still, you just miss the hole and have to watch your ball go rolling past the hole, leaving you with a return putt that is further than the original to which you gave so much thought and effort. Putting is one of the basic golf techniques that is sadly neglected by beginners and experienced players alike.

A huge number of games are lost on the putting green and in most cases it is down to the wrong distance, rather than to the direction of your ball. One of the great truisms of golf is that ‘You drive for show and putt for dough’. The weight of your putt is just as important as direction. Many new golfers rapidly get a ‘feel’ for the direction their ball will travel and how it will roll, even on the most unpredictable of greens. No doubt you have seen it yourself when a relative newcomer to the game leaves the ball within inches of the hole even on a sloping green time after time, getting more and more frustrated as the game goes on. What you don’t see quite so regularly is a miss with the ball coming to rest a few inches beyond the hole.

Learning to read the distnace on the green is one of the most basic golf techniques there is. So many factors come into play when making up your mind about the distance your ball will travel on the green. You need to factor in the slope, the quality of the green, is it wet and slow or dry and fast. Even the number of players that have been through the green ahead of you has an effect depending on how well they repair their pitch marks. Fortunately with the increase in the use of soft spikes we don’t generally have so many spike marks to contend with these days. Not least among the factors you must consider is the time of day – greens inevitably speed up as they dry off from the morning dew and the difference by afternoon on a warm day can be quite astonishing.

The main factors you have to concentrate on after taking the conditions into account are reading the line and the distance. Reading the line comes with experience of the game and the course. There are a couple of greens on my course that have deceptive swings which always give the local player the advantage as they are very difficult to spot when you’ve not played the course before. Reading the distance should be a great deal easier but it requires one thing that many new golfers don’t like to do – putting practice. Going to the range and bashing balls a huge distance with your driver is great for the ego but it won’t win you a game, and there is nothing more frustrating than leaving those putts on the edge of the cup, even if it’s a friendly round with your regular partners.

Time spent on the practice green is never wasted, especially if you are playing in a tournament. You should always practice on the day, in the conditions that you will be playing and on the type of grass that is on the greens of that course. You will never see a Pro go out on the course without spending time on the putting green and those guys don’t waste their time practicing golf techniques they don’t need to. Even ten minutes on the practice green will give you a feel for distance in the current conditions.

One of my playing partners learned the hard way never to leave the ball short. As a small boy, who didn’t get a great deal of pocket money he occasionally played with some members of his father’s regular fourball. They had a simple but effective system. If your ball didn’t reach the hole, you paid a ‘fine’, not much to them but a lot to a small boy. The winner took the ‘pot’. These days he never leaves a putt short! Quite simply if the ball doesn’t reach the hole – it won’t drop. I was always taught that you should aim about two or three inches beyond the hole and that way it should just roll gently in.



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BQ Browning grew up in a Golfing family and has been involved with the game for many years. News views and information are willing shared with fellow addicts at Golf Techniques and Tournament Tips. You will find a treasure trove of golf information written with wit, humour and wisdom.