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Golf Swing Lessons, Tips & Instruction – Proper Golf Grip

How To Have the Proper Golf Grip www.swingmangolf.com Golf Swing Lessons, Tips & Instruction – How To Have the Proper Golf Grip Learn how to have the proper golf grip and how to hit more powerful and consistent golf shots. Having the proper golf grip or a better golf grip is important to starting your golf swing on the right track. In this video Golf Instructor, Jaacob Bowden will give you a couple golf tips on how to have a golf grip that will let you hit more powerful and consistent golf shots. Leave a COMMENT if this video was of help to your golf game. Get Your Free Article “The 3 Keys To Distance” at http
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How the Internet Improved My Golf Game

How the Internet Improved My Golf Game

Article by Willie Paxton

Are you a beginner or a high handicapper at golf? Are you seeking the perfect golf swing? Have you paid out good money time & time again on golf instruction, on how to swing a golf club and not really seen any real improvement? I was in the same position. For a good 5 or 6 years I listened to the professional, practiced what he said but rarely did my game improve. In the end I became quite used to the idea that I would always be a high handicapper and my game would not really improve to any great extent.

Out of desperation I decided that instead of paying for more lessons I would seek advice and golf swing tutorial from the Internet. I had some basic flaws in my game. Of my tee shots, only around half were good and my second or third shot would invariably be a left of the target. I also struggled with my short game and my putting quite honestly was a joke.

I came across a book on the internet and I was amazed at the improvement in my game. I found it to be a step-by-step guide with detailed photos that taught the correct way to grip the club. The book is a comprehensive guide to golf that addresses all the problems related to slicing, chipping, putting, sand, driving, inconsistency, distance and much more, with simple and easy to follow instructions.

My problem tee shot was down to a couple of things. I either hooked the shot very low and it went only about 100 yards or my swing would come across the left side of the ball causing an enormous slice. I cured the hook with a change of grip. Basically I was turning my hands towards the left and closing the club face. This resulted and a shot that started off OK for the first 50 yards only to swerve rapidly left and dive very quickly to the ground. The new grip I have, stopped this as it made it very difficult to close the face. I also learned how to align the club-face to cure my awful slice. You see I was aligning my club too close to the toe of the club, so this encouraged an exaggerated slice.

My second and even third shots were corrected by examining my address of the ball, I did not realize that I had a very open stance, my feet were in a parallel line pointing to the right of the target, this was like my original tee shots causing the club to have a closed face. So, whilst I was always aiming right of the intended target, my shots would invariably go left. The book highlighted other problems also. I had a tendency to get off balance when putting extra effort into a shot which would result in a shank. The book cured many of my bad golfing habits. I effectively got a golf swing that works for less than the price of a pair of golf shoes.

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If you are new to the game of golf or are a high handicapper and you would like to improve your game with tips on golf, go to http://www.simple-golf-tips.com

The Four Key Factors In Your Swing

The Four Key Factors In Your Swing

Article by Jack Moorehouse

When I mention the word basics in my golf lessons, players start thinking about things like grip, posture, ball position, alignment, and so on. That’s only natural. Golf pros talk so much about these subjects in golf instruction sessions that players assume they’re the focus when the discussion comes round to the basics of a golf shot.

But there are four other basics–plane, centering, radius, and face–that key good ball striking. Players must master the four factors to cut their golf handicaps down to size. These factors, which are sometimes neglected in golf lessons and golf tips, determine consistency. If you’re off with these even slightly, you’ll slice, hook, or mis-hit the shot, regardless of your grip, posture, ball position, or alignment.

Plane:

Plane is the angle your club takes at address. Your swing should have a circular look to it when viewed from a face on perspective. The swing won’t be a pure circle, but it will have a recognizable circular shape. Looking from down the target line, the circle should be tilted the same angle as the clubshaft as it sits at address. This area encompasses the most direct and powerful route back to the golf ball.

The club must remain in this defined plane as it approaches the golf ball on the downswing. While your swing plane may change from waist high in your downswing to waist high in your finish, your club must go through the original plane at address to hit straight shots solidly. So while you may see some odd looking swings by Tour players, you’ll also see that they always return the club to the same plane of address at the bottom of their swings.

Face:

Face is the second important factor. To gain control over the clubface at the moment of impact, your hands must be at the same position when you make contact with the ball as at address or may be a bit forward. Returning your hands to the same position guarantees that your clubface is pointing in the same direction as when you set up to hit the ball.

There are three ways you can hold the club at address–with your hands on the left side of the grip (weak), the middle of the grip (neutral), or the right hand side of the grip (strong) for right-handers. The best grip is the one you can produce naturally shot, after shot, after shot. If you look closely at the pros, you’ll see players with different grips, yet they still hit consistently straight shots. Why? Because the way you grip the club matters less than the how your hands are at address. If you have a strong grip at address, you better not have a weak grip when making impact; otherwise, you’ll end up with either an opened or a closed clubface at impact.

Radius

Radius is the distance from your left shoulder (for right handers) to the end of the clubshaft. In other words, it is the distance from the center of your golf swing to the outer-edge. Your lead arm must be in line with or trailing your arm at impact, known as “maintaining radius.” Bobby Jones, the great amateur, called this “good timing.”

Maintaining radius enables you to strike the ball solidly. Many recreational players that I give golf lessons to try to force the shaft of the club past the lead arm prior to impact. This effort causes the clubface to travel up not down, resulting in a fat or thin shot. A loss of radius causes a hook, slice, loss of distance, and wide assortment of other poor shots.

Centering:

Centering refers to the spine and head at address. While you may have some lateral movement of your head and spine in your swing, consistent hitters keep these areas, or their centers, steady. A steady center involves two things. From a down-the-line-look, the amount that you bend forward from your hips at address is constant throughout your swing. From a face-on perspective, your center (spine and head) remains as constant as possible as well. Your swing, as I’ve explained in my golf tips, revolves around your center.

While the basics like grip, posture, ball position, and alignment are important, they only prepare you to take your swing. They increase your chances of hitting a golf ball when the more important basics are in order, producing accurate, solid shots. To lower your golf handicap, you must the other “basics” of the swing–plane, fact, radius, and center.

About the Author

Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book “How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros.” He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately.

Simple Golf Swing Review

Simple Golf Swing Review

Article by Mike Mancini







Golf is a fun game and it’s a funny game. How so? Well, it’s a fun game because you are challenged constantly both mentally and physically. You get to play on nicely landscaped areas and you have the opportunity to enjoy a sport with friends, usually. However, it’s a funny game because it can be the most frustrating sport on the planet. You would think that hitting a golf ball would be one of the easiest things to do. Hitting it is one thing, but hitting it where you want is another story entirely. Enter in “The Simple Golf Swing”. David Nevogt, a golfer, golf instructor and golf writer has written an eBook claiming a simple, yet effective set of golf instruction that almost can anyone can use, regardless of skill. This Simple Golf Swing Review will detail Nevogt’s claims that bogey golfers can improve their scores by anywhere from seven to twelve strokes.

At first glance the eBook is relatively innocuous, in the sense that it simply is an eBook. After reading through it once, however, this Simple Golf Swing Review has come to realize that the method taught and the drills and techniques discussed are very simple and to-the-point. The author’s goal is to keep the golf instruction easy to understand, simple and quick and this definitely shows in the product.

However, how can an online book fix what golf instructors and people who I know are much better at the game than I have tried to fix? Well, the Simple Golf Swing Review has found that it does work for many, actually. The crux of the system is simplicity. Most golf swings, when analyzed, are images of elbows and arms and clubs all over the place. What the product does, though, is simplify the process by concentrating on the spine. Specifically, the spine is used as the central focus of the swing, keeping the swing consistent. The book takes you through some simple drills to do to help solidify this focus. The great thing about it is that it is an easy and quick way to get your swing going in the right direction. Straighter shots and bigger impact are two elements that you will come to see fairly quickly.

The Simple Golf Swing review is literally for anyone. Yes, it is geared toward the average or below average golfer, who doesn’t have hours and hours of time to spend on the driving range. It’s also for the golfer that doesn’t have hundreds of dollars to pay for instruction and it’s for those who want some of the fun back in their game. In addition, because of the drills and easy to understand system, along with bonuses that offers instruction on all aspects of the game, it is indeed a product that can be used by golfers across the board. If you want to improve your game, I would go grab it now!



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Mastering The Three Wood

Mastering The Three Wood

Why – because players who hit a lot of greens in regulation tend to have lower golf handicaps. Those who don’t tend to have higher golf handicaps. The 3-wood is a great club for aggressive players. It’s also a great club for senior players who may have lost some flexibility and power over the years, but can still play well.

The 3-wood is the second longest club in your bag, so it can be hard to hit for some. Hitting a crisp 3-wood from a tight lie is especially challenging, as I tell students attending my golf instruction sessions, no matter how good you are.

You can use the 3-wood in man situations. Since it’s shorter than the driver, it’s easier to control, so you can use it off the tee on tight fairways. Using the 3-wood ton the tee may cost you some distance, but it increases your chances of hitting the fairway.

In fact, some players who can’t hit a driver hit a 3-wood off the tee instead. Players also use the 3-wood to chip with when on the fringe, in a fairway bunker if the bunker’s lip is low, and on long par-3s when there’s a head wind. But the 3-wood is used mostly off the deck on par 5s, when you need a good second shot. Another common use of the 3-wood is on long par 4s, where you need a long second shot to reach the green. Hitting a good 3-wood there can put you on the green in two, something neither a long iron nor a hybrid can do.

If you can master the 3-wood off the deck, you can save a lot of strokes. Sweep The Ball From The Fairway Unlike irons, which require a downward blow, the 3-wood (and other fairway woods) need a sweeping motion that strikes the ball as the clubhead moves parallel to the ground.

Below are five keys to hitting the 3-wood:

1. Keep your weight balanced

2. Position the ball opposite your front heel

3. Keep you head and body behind the ball

4. Pull the club through with your lead hand

5. Extend your arms on the follow-through

To hit the 3-wood off the deck, you must take a wide stance similar to that used for a driver. Position the ball opposite your front heel or in some cases, slightly back from this position, and your weight balanced comfortably on the balls of your feet.

Start your swing on a low path that almost skims the grass to replicate the shallow path you want to take on your downswing. Keep your back shoulder level and pull your right hand (left for left-handers) through with your other hand. Above all, stay behind the ball after impact. Brush through the ball and extend your arms toward the target on the follow-through – something a lot of players I find in my golf lessons must work on.

Not Designed For High Shots

The 3-wood is designed to hit a line drive type of shot. But you don’t need to feel that you have to help it get the ball in the air. The 3-woord has more than enough loft to drive the ball forward for distance. If you need to hit something with more loft, use the 5-wood. It provides less distance but more height than the 3-wood.

In the right circumstances, the 5-wood can be just as effective as the 3-wood. The 3-wood is a great club in the right hands. It’s not as versatile as a hybrid, but it’s more versatile than the driver. Don’t be afraid to hit it. Used wisely, it can set you up for short shots into the green on par 5s or serve as the club of choice off the tee. If you’re serious about improving your game, master the 3-wood. It will shave strokes from your scores and your golf handicap.

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How To Break 80

How To Break 80

Article by Lane Wright







Golf is one of the most difficult sport in the world to master. It takes a great deal of skill, mental fortitude and perseverance to excel. You need great hand-eye coordination, balance, athletic ability, and creativity. Many golfers have a goal of breaking 80. However, many golfers play poorly and are unable to achieve this goal. Do you play poorly? Answer each of these questions:

Do you play golf 2-4 times/month, but have never broken 90 or even 80? Do you work the ball (fade, draw, general trajectory)? Do you have at least 3 or 4 putts per round? Do you rarely hit greens in regulation? Do you make a birdie once in a blue moon? Do you not really know where the ball is going when you swing (hit and hope)? Do you consider yourself an advanced player and typically shoot in the low or mid 80’s frequently, but are unable to break 80?If you can identify with even one of these characteristics of a poor golfer, then it may be time to try to improve your game.

The techniques in How To Break 80 will help you lower your handicap quickly. There are more than 60 million golfers in the world, and fewer than half of them will ever break 100. Only a third will break 90, and only 5% will ever break 80. The information contained in How To Break 80 has helped hundreds of people to Break 80.

How To Break 80 is more than a collection of golf tips, golf lessons, or golf instruction. It is your personal guide to lower scores. This book will teach you the simple steps necessary to create more consistency with your golf swing. These steps take only about 30 minutes. The book provides drills to ensure that you can incorporate these new techniques into your game. This book is not a basic guide that shows you 4 simple steps. It is a complete manual on how to shoot your best scores ever. It covers all aspects of the game enabling you to develop a solid all-around game. All contents of the book are designed to do ONE thing…..lower your scores!

How To Break 80 contains the following:

A New Twist on Fundamentals: Think you know the proper way to address the ball, grip the club and set up? Guess again.4 Proven Techniques to Get You Into the 70’s Instantly: Step-by-step instructions on specifically what to do in terms of your swing.Shotmaking Secrets: How to draw and fade the ball so you can attack any pin you see and add distance when you need it.Dealing With Trouble Shots: Learn how to turn adversity into birdie with these proven techniques to save you from even the toughest of bad breaks.How to Develop a Solid Short Game: Learn how to get up and down from nearly everywhere.The Simple Formula for Short Game Shots: Simplify the complex short game shots for handicappers of all levels.Mastering the Chip Shot: Foolproof way to consistently chip the ball so you catch it cleanly every time and put the right amount of roll and loft on your shots.The Putting Secrets of the Pros: Learn specific techniques and drills so you can expect to drain every putt you swing at.Secrets to Reading Greens Properly: Learn how to read greens so that before you even hit the ball you’ll have unfair advantage over your competitors!Highly Effective “Putting Results” Practice Game: Learn to approach every putt as if you’ll make it, even if you’re 35 feet away! Learn step-by-step to improve your putting instantly.A Mental Gameplan: Learn the simple and tested methods to keep your brain on track to play your best golf possible. A good swing alone will not keep you in the 70’s for long.Perfect Practice Techniques: Learn step-by-step the techniques to prepare yourself to break 80. Learn how much time to spend on each drill and specifically how and what to practice leading up to your round.Professional Pre-Shot Routine: Learn what the pros do before every shot (mental and physical actions) that you can apply to your own game.How to Handle Bad Shots: Hitting bad shots can emotionally and mentally ruin your round and enjoyment of the game. Learn a bulletproof method to not only handling these tough times, but also turning them into opportunities for lower scores.Sand Play Success: A specific checklist to get up and down from any bunker. How to deal with trouble bunker shots such as a buried lie, hard sand and more!The 10 Essential Components of Breaking 80: Absolute must-haves for your game and how to incorporate them effectively.Which golf clubs you choose is important, but you need to know how to use them. This book will help show you how to improve your golf score. Here is a link to show you how to obtain your own copy of How To Break 80.


About the Author

Lane Wright writes about a variety of topics including How To Break 80 by writing articles about golf atPING Golf Clubs and many other topics.

How To Get In Shape For Golf In Less Than 30 Days

How To Get In Shape For Golf In Less Than 30 Days

Article by L.G.Bentley







How To Get In Shape For Golf In Less Than 30 Days

The sport of golfing is originally from Scotland, however, countries from all over the world is taking this sport in serious dimension. It doesn’t matter what level you are at now (novice, intermediate, or a social-grade weekend golfer), Superior Golfing is packed full of quality step-by-step lessons, tips, detailed color photos, and other resources to get you the results you need fast. An additional means to ensure that you have an excellent day of golfing is to take lessons to improve your game. Golfing is good for your health.

Clubs

So the first step to being a sports star is to buy some clubs that fit you. Just look for a set of decent quality clubs to get you started. It wont be long and we will all be out swinging those clubs, losing golf balls, and cheering for the one great shot we made. Other than putting and the choosing of clubs, you control your golf proto play through the entire course.

Shot

A few brief moments could make all the difference between a masterful or a mediocre shot. Discover how you can get more distance out of your shot EVERY time you tee off. Before you step up and have a bash at the ball, have you thought about your pre-shot routine. You will enjoy the game so much more when you are able to understand what you need to do to play good shots, so why delay. The lessons are the most interesting bit, as they allow you to execute specialty shots.

Drive

When it comes to your golf drive, if you are like me you have two crucial objectives: To increase your accuracy To increase your distance Taking Golf Instruction To A New Level The original Superior Golfing beginners book received favorable comments from people all over the world, which sparked me to continue developing it. A successful golf drive doesn’t need to be as impossible or as intimidating as you might think. There are long range drivers used for the first shot, putters for short shots to end the hole, and discs for every possible situation in between.

Players

Players from beginner to advanced can all find something to enjoy on a golf course when they are out playing. Most golf courses offer instruction for players at all levels, from beginner to expert. Each new game boasts of certain courses, new players, enhanced graphics and better swinging systems, but they all end up looking and playing basically the same. Golfing is a boring spectator game so bring on the players that can create excitement and make people want to watch.

Part of the joy of golfing is getting close to nature. The best time of the year for golfing is from September to November and March to May when the sun is not too hot, but pleasantly warm and the main tourist surge has disappeared. Contrary to what many may believe, golfing is a sport that could trace its roots during the most primitive of ages.

Enjoy

If you start to lose a few balls, just take a deep breath, exhale and enjoy the view. You will enjoy the game so much more when you are able to understand what you need to do to play good shots, so why delay.

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L.G.Bentley has been an active Internet marketer for five years.

Looking For the Best Putter Instruction?

Looking For the Best Putter Instruction?

Article by Paul Hobart







The importance of Golf putting instruction can be easily evaluated through a little arithmetic and a few truths. Putting consists of half the game. On an average par 72 golf turf, 36 strokes are permitted to get the ball from the tee to the green, and the other 36 strokes are meant for putts. Now the two or three foot putter strokes are just as important as the 200 or 250 yards shots. Striking the ball is important but unless you roll the ball into the hole, you don’t score do you?

Every time you hit the golf course you look for a better score. That is only possible if you roll the ball into the hole sooner, cutting down on strokes.

One time tested method to achieve this is to make some birdies. Now don’t panic at the mention of birdies. Irrespective of your handicap you can accomplish those birdies. Let’s find out all about getting birdies on your scorecard.

The fundamental rule in putting is to keep the lower part of your body absolutely still up to the highest possible limit. So when trying to improve your putting abilities, you will be trained in stabilizing your body. All putter greats have very tough lower bodies. It is up to you to decide whether you will be a putter driven by shoulder or by hand. You may even belong to both categories. This is a matter of personal style and comfort. But always remember, whatever your swinging style may be, your lower body must be motionless till the last possible limit.

Short Putting

Golf putting instructions consist of three easy means of sinking the short putts regularly. They are a) contacting the center of putterface; b) contacting the square putterface which is in line with target and c) speeding up the club head by impact. Following this golf putting instruction in conjunction with the other included points will improve the overall putting skill of a player.

Putting in rhythm

Three fundamental basics for a proper golf stroke are a straight back, straight through way and square putter. These are the pillars of golf putting instruction. One basic that is overlooked but is as important if not more is rhythm. Rhythm is responsible for the control over the stroke of putting. Also it is responsible for plotting speed and distance. Rhythm is the backbone of a high quality stroke. Thus putting in rhythm is very important if not the most important.

The difference with Swing

You will not feel any centrifugal force functioning, which happens during a golf swing, when performing a putting stroke. So your performance at the address chiefly determines the action of your putting stroke. When following players on a tour, it is easier to stick to regular denominators in the strokes. Of course there are exceptions to all rules, but in most cases the salient features figure largely in the locations of the great putters. They formulate four crucial setup lines. This constitutes a basic golf putting instruction.



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Golf Swing Lessons, Tips & Instruction – Cure Your Golf Slice

Cure Your Golf Slice Golf Swing Lessons, Tips & Instruction – Cure Your Golf Slice Learn how to cure your golf slice and how to hit golf shots straight more consistently. Most golfers have a problem with slicing the golf ball. The golf slice is the biggest problem amateur golfers have. In this video Golf Instructor, Jaacob Bowden will give you 5 different ways in how to cure your golf slice and hit more consistent golf shots. Leave a COMMENT if this video was of help to your golf game.

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The Golf Fix: Fix Your Slice

Michael Breed shows how to hit “through the door” to fix your slice. Watch the Golf Fix Mondays at 7 pm ET on Golf Channel. For more help with your game, visit golfchannel.com/the-golf-fix.

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