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How to Choose Golf Clubs

How to Choose Golf Clubs

How To Choose Golf Clubs

One of the most confusing things about getting started in golf, is not knowing how to choose golf clubs that are most suitable for your game. Even for people who have been playing golf for a while it can be difficult to know what to look for.

In this article I’m going to run you through the steps you should go through when you are choosing what golf clubs you will buy. By using this organized approach you will be able to choose golf clubs that will be good for your game…and hopefully good for your bank account.

Know What You Need

Too many people buy golf clubs for the wrong reason. Then what ends up happening is the club doesn’t suit their swing, they have to sell it, losing a little bit of money, and they have to look for something else.

You should always match a club to your swing – never the other way around. Think about your game and where your weaknesses are. Talk to your pro and see what they think. Hit some balls with the pro watching and get their opinion. Use a launch monitor to get some numbers.

All this information can then be used by an experienced professional – either a club maker/fitter or golf pro – to match you up with the most suitable equipment.

Trial & Error

Once you know what you need, make up a shortlist of equipment that meets these requirements and give them a try. Before you choose a golf club you should always try to get it in your hands and hit balls with it, even if you are going to buy it online.

See if your golf club has some demo stock in the pro shop you can use. Or visit one of the big retail outlets with indoor facilities you can use to trial the club. By doing this you will cut down the money you waste on the wrong products

Price Research

Narrow your shortlist down to one or two finalists, and do your price research. Check all sources, both off and online. Get a good idea of what the price range for the product is.

One thing I would always do is take the best price you can find on the internet, and see if your local retailer can match it. All things being equal buying from a retailer is better – it makes after sales service much easier if there are ever any problems.

If you can wait, look to hold off until the end of the season when prices will take a fall. Or check for new models that may soon be replacing the one you are interested in – your product may be in line for a clearance price cut in the not too distant future.

With money tightening up the way it is, following the above approach will give you a good approach to finding the right club for your game, and hopefully save you some money in the process as well.

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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.

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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?

 

Golf Swing Slice – How to Fix a Slice and Improve Your Golf Game

Golf Swing Slice – How to Fix a Slice and Improve Your Golf Game

The golf swing slice is damaging to your game and your prospects of scoring well because as you know it costs you huge amounts of distance in every round you play.

Some amateurs delude themselves and consider that they play with a fade..but most of the time it is a plain old fashioned slice.

Many professional golfers play with a fade..but what many amateurs fail to realise is that a real power fade is a shot that for most of it’s flight is straight and at the end, and only then, of it’s flight does the ball fall gently to the right.

So the first thing to do if you are losing a lot of distance in your golf game and your ball always curves to the right in flight, quite dramatically in adverse weather conditions, is to recognise that you have a golf slice..and not a power fade which some professionals play with.

How to fix a slice and improve your golf game comes down to developing a draw shot which will immediately see you adding 10-20% increased distance to your long shots, and in some instances, if your slice is really bad the improvement in ball striking and distance will be even more marked.

To fix your slice you will need to recognise which of the fundamentals such as grip, alignment, posture or stance is causing your slice. You will also need to look at your swing path and commit to some basic and simple drills which will improve your fundamentals and allow you to firstly identify and secondly fix your slice.

If you slice you are at the top of your game..it is very difficult for you to improve but to help you fix your slice..

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Stop Slicing And Get The Proper Golf Swing

Stop Slicing And Get The Proper Golf Swing

Every golfer wants to execute that perfect and proper golf swing and execute it every time they play. It is the kind of swing that can be used either with an iron or a wood. With this proper golf swing, you should be able to tee off, suitably adapting to the weather and the course. It is the kind of swing that should be able to get you out of any difficult situation. It is the kind of swing that is simple yet versatile and dependable, the ideal proper golf swing.

But this is not going to happen if you are prone to slicing.

Getting that proper golf swing is not easy and it takes a lot of practice to get the mistakes out of a bad swing. But it is not as difficult as you think. It all depends on what you do during the swing.

Simplify

Keep your swing simple; this is one tip that will always work. Keeping a swing simple takes away the unnecessary movements that not only wastes energy but also make the swing bad. It is not necessary to bend your elbows during the swing. Neither is any extra step necessary. These unnecessary movements can skew your shot.

Rhythm

If you feel that trying to improve yourself will not work, then get yourself a coach to teach you the finer points of how to improve golf swing. The two essential aspects of a proper golf swing are position and balance. But lack of rhythm can spoil all your efforts. Make sure that you have a smooth rhythm to go with your swing and to fix whatever you are trying to fix. This can be in the form of humming a tune, singing a song or counting. But doing it will help you get the proper golf swing.

Position Of The Hand

Another feature that should never be forgotten is the position of the hand and the wrist. Wrong positioning of the hand or the wrist can cause a twisted club in your hand. This will result in the striking of the ball at an angle and not dead centre, making the ball to go in any direction except the one it should – straight ahead. Practice till you get it correct every time.

The best hand position is to interlock your hands with the little and ring fingers of your dominant hand connected to the index finger and middle finger of your complimentary hand (it is not called the weak hand). With a little practice, your problem should be solved. If you get this hand position correct, you can improve on accuracy and distance.

Straighten Your Spine

Keep your spine straight and let it act as the axis of your pivot. This is something that no golfer should underestimate when it comes the execution of the proper golf swing. Think of yourself as a pendulum, with the spine a your axis. This golf swing instruction, if faithfully followed, should improve your game a great deal.

Rotation Of The Hip

Now that you have got your spine acting as an axis and your hands interlocked and firmly gripping the club, you must concentrate on removing the rotation of the hip in your quest for the proper golf swing. Golf is not boxing where a lot of punch can come from the swinging of the hips. If you swing your hips in golf, you will get only your slice and your hook. Therefore keep your hip rotation to a minimum. But this is not the beginning and the end of golf.

Find out just how much hip rotation you can allow before it spoils your proper golf swing. Follow these tips, practice regularly and see if it does not improve your game by getting rid of the slice and by being more accurate and achieving a good long shot.

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How to swing the club like Tiger does?

How to swing the club like Tiger does?

From corporate head-honchos to Hollywood celebrities, from retired veterans to toddles, lives of masses have been touched by the golfing craze. And not of has it been a temporary interest, it has stuck to millions like an addiction. So are you among the one’s already bit by the golfing bug or are you yet to be touched by the charm and glamour of this captivating sport? No matter what category you fall in, we would equip you with all that you need to hit the green in elegance and style.

So, before you big farewell to your baseballs and basketballs, do understand that this sport might not give you the same kick of adrenalin like other fast sports. So if patience is something you lack, you better weigh your options before putting in hours and hours learning this sport of the calm and composed. Contrary to the common myth that golf is a sport for men, a study reveals that 4 out of every 10 golf players are women. With huge money involved in professional golfing, family golf sessions with every member of the family competition on the course don’t sound a bad idea too.

Confused on how to get geared for the greens? The first success mantra for being a successful swinger on the fields is to be strong in the head. You need be relaxed at all times on the field and be fit, not only psychologically, but also physically. You have to be relaxed and focused on the goal and never let the game take a toll on your mental peace. A golf game is first won in the head and then on the field. Next, and one of the most important is practicing your maneuvers. The way you stand is almost as important as how hard to hit the ball or how well you manage to swing it. Pick up from the people who have been into it and improve as you go.

It will take a little time and effort but with experimenting and self-improvement, there is no reason you can’t swing that club and smile.

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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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Want to Know More About Long Putters?

Want to Know More About Long Putters?

Article by Paul Hobart







If you are looking for an opportunity to choose from some of the best putters that is out there in the market you should check out one of the sales that display putters. The range, style and size found here include everything that one needs for in a putter. In fact with better variety of greens the short putters are out; most people are opting for the long putters nowadays.

The long putters are better than the shorter ones mainly because they help to control wrist movement by concentrating the force on the stomach or the chest. These long ones are provided with what is known as a split grip for better support. Therefore, the wrist does not interfere with the swings. There are three main kinds of putters normally found these days:

* Regular- These are around 36 inches long

* Long- The length of this variety ranges between 38 to 45 inches

* Extra Long- These are of course the longest at 52 inches

Long putters focus the grip and the swing on a single central point so that it relieves the fine motor muscles of the hand and prevents it from being de emphasized. It is best to indulge in trial sessions with these putters on the green to get the hang of it. These putters allow one to swing the shoulders freely like a pendulum which is prevented by short putters which only allow average quality handsy strokes.

The correct way to take grip of a long putter is to use your left hand to control the grip and your right hand to hold the handle as you normally would with any other club. Ideally the putter height should be till the chest pocket of your golf t shirt while you are standing at a slightly bent posture. You should also go ahead with any other kind of grip that you are comfortable with, with the putter. A lot of people hold it like they would hold a pencil.

There are two ways of pressurizing the head of the putter:

* You can either pull or push you right arm holding the handle of the club at all times while doing this in order to strike the ball.

* You can also use your shoulder in a rocking motion to do the same.

The idea is to keep the torso of your body unmoving so that it can act as a pivot for your swing. Using the shoulders to rock the motion and hit the ball keeps the right hand rigid. Both techniques ultimately provide the same result: to keep the upper body unmoving and using the limbs or the shoulders for the swing.

You can use the long putters instead of the short ones so that the wrist movement is restricted to the minimum. Extra long putters also serve the same purpose; both using a particular center point of the sternum or the stomach. However, one needs to practice regularly in order to get a hang of this new technique of taking a shot. Without practice it is quite a task to get rid of one’s golf handicap.



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Golf Sense Program – Fix Hook Golf Swing

Golf Sense Program – Fix Hook Golf Swing

One of the most common problems when you are just learning how to play golf is the hook. A hook usually develops when a player build up a slice and then take some measures to eliminate it. If you play golf and have a similar problem, you need some fix hook golf swing techniques. Below are some of the steps to get rid of this problem right away.

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The first thing to do is to check the strength of your grip. When your grip is too tight you begin to develop a hook. Squeezing our golf club too tight will cause the ball to go more to the left as you try to finish your swing. You should hold the club firmly but too loose either. Just think of it that you are just merely holding it and no one is going to take it away. After that, make sure that both of your feet are at equal distance to the ball. This is called squaring yourself to the target. Most golfers do not notice this common mistake and begin to hook the ball.

Another fix hook golf swing tip is to make it a point that your club is at a 90 degree angle before it hits the ball. If this is not properly observed a golfer is hitting the ball with the club head turned more to the left making it a hook. Practice not slicing the ball with a couple of swings and it will help eliminate the hook.

Also remember to be not so hasty on hitting the ball and do not try to hit the ball as hard as possible. Use your hips and observe the proper follow through. This is the basics of golf that should not be forgotten.

Finally, go to the driving range and practice. Follow these fix hook golf swing tips with diligence and dedication. Soon you will be playing great golf, and good luck.

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