Golf Iron Shots - Four Tips to Hit Better Iron Shots

The topic for our article today is golf iron shots. You have hit a good drive and now it`s time to hit a quality iron shot. There are many factors that come into play but, for today, we are going to review four (4) tips that will help us to hit quality iron shots and, in turn, lower our golf scores.

These golf iron shot tips will help you to go through the thought process that will produce quality golf shots. You will be amazed how quickly your golf scores will come down. Just using some common sense can dramatically effect how we play and our golf scores, plus, did I mention, your enjoyment of the game!

Four (4) Golf Iron Shot Tips

1. Stay within yourself.

Don`t try to hit your seven (7) iron one hundred and seventy (170) yards when your best seven iron shot only goes one hundred and fifty (150) yards. Hit the iron that will get to the target with a comfortable swing, no overswinging! Also, when you are determining the yardage for your iron shot, be sure to take into account the position of the pin on the green. By this I mean, even though you are standing at the one fifty (150) marker, you might be one hundred and sixty five (165) yards to the pin if the pin is at the back of a large green, or one hundred and thirty five (135) yards if the pin is in the front. You don`t want to back off of your golf swing but you also don`t want to be grunting!

2. Know how far you hit each iron.

I know you have seen this and it really slows down play. What I am talking about is watching someone pacing of their yardage to the pin and you know, full well, that they have no clue how far they hit each iron shot. So, my point is, that we need to spend some time at the driving/practice range, to find out how far we hit each iron shot. Now, we probably are not going to know how far each iron shot goes, to the yard, like the tour pros do but we can find out within a five (5) yard range. There is nothing more frustrating than hitting a good drive and following that up with a well hit iron shot and the golf ball ends up ten yards short or long. If we expect to hit the correct iron shot, we need to know how far we hit each iron.

3. Play the shot that your lie will allow.

We need to survey our lie and determine how the lie is going to effect our iron shot. By this I mean, if we a playing summer rules, no preferred lies, the lie will dictate what kind of shot we have to play. If the lie is less than perfect, we need to adjust where we play the golf ball in our stance. With a poor lie, we need to move the ball back in our stance so that we will be able to make solid contact. You also need to adjust for downhill, uphill and sidehill lies.

In general, we need to adjust our stance to follow the contour of the fairway for uneven lies, keeping in mind that uphill lies will add loft to your iron shots (hit more club) and downhill will take loft off of our iron shots (hit less club).

4. Play the percentages.

Here's a question. If the best players in the world aim away from some pins then should not we do the same? If the pin is on the side of the green near a bunker, water hazard or out of bounds, it may make sense not to try to hit directly at the pin but hit your iron shot to the safer part of the green. We have to measure, the percentages, our chances of pulling off a shot. The best in the world do it! So, next time you are getting ready to hit your iron shot, stop to think of what is your best percentage play. This alone will shave numerous strokes of your golf score.

Also, remember there is a right and wrong side of the green to miss on. You would prefer to miss the green on the side away from where the pin is placed on the green. This gives you the best chance to get up and down for your par, if you miss the green.

Those are four (4) iron shot tips. There are many more, that we will discuss in future articles. But for now, if you follow these golf tips for your iron shots, you will dramatically increase your pars and decrease those bogeys and dreaded others!

By Mike Lebreck

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How to Improve Your Golf Swing Without Lessons

Are you sick of just playing average golf? Maybe you have a goal to break 100, 90, 80, or even par. Whatever your goal is you need to understand how to improve your golf swing without taking expensive lessons. Here are some tips to help you become your best teacher.
1. You should start by video taping yourself

When you see yourself on camera you can pick out just what it is you are doing wrong and that makes it much easier to fix, then trying to figure it out without a camera. This will be the investment that will make a huge difference in your golf game.

2. Read everything you can about golf except the quick tip guides in the magazines

You need to understand what your swing should look like and what causes the ball to do the 9 different things it can do (the 9 ball flight laws). When you understand these things it is easier for you to under stand why your ball went where it did and what adjustment you need to make to change your ball flight.

3. Practice, Practice, Practice

The more you practice the easier it will be for you to learn how to improve your golf swing and become your best teacher. When you are the one that understands your swing the most it is much easier to make adjustments on the course and you will start to shoot better scores. This all comes with practice and you need to practice not only your full swing, but your short game and putting as well.

By Benjamin J. Black

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What is the Correct Golf Driver Loft For You?

I`ll bet , like most of us, the last time you bought a new golf driver you hit a demo club at the range a few times, it felt good and you bought it.

This is how almost all of us buy new golf clubs. But let`s take a look at the driver. It is probably the most important club in the golf bag. Playing golf from the fairway is a lot easier than the rough and also, hitting a 9 iron to the green is a lot easier than hitting a 6 iron. That`s pretty obvious, so what`s the point?

The point is that most of us are not playing with a driver that has the proper loft to provide us with maximum distance and accuracy. The simple reason for this is that golf club manufacturers are not making drivers with the lofts that are correct for most golfers.

Here`s an idea of the range of lofts that we are talking about to provide optimal loft: (source: Golf Engineering)

Clubhead Speed............Estimated Optimal Loft .................Category

• 130-150.......................... 4-7 degrees.......................................men long driving champs

• 110-125........................... 8-9 degrees.......................................men touring pros

• 95-105............................10-11 degrees....................................strong men & women

• 85-90...............................12-13 degrees...................................most men golfers

• 75-85...............................14-15 degrees...................................senior men & most women

• 65-75...............................16%2B degrees.......................................most women golfers

As you can see, most men golfers should be using a 12-13 degree loft with their driver, senior men and women even higher and we know that this is not the case.

Also, what this validates is the fact that the average male golfer is better of driving with his 15 degree three wood. We have known this for years but we really did not know why, now we do. It is all about the optimal loft! There are more factors that control golf driver distance and accuracy, other than loft, but for our purposes today, this is one variable that we can easily control.

Now, we know that we are not going to give up hitting the driver. The grip it and rip mentality is too deeply ingrained in us to give up our driver. But, at least now we can give up trying to hit an 8 degree driver and maybe change to a more sensible 10.5 degree or, even better, a 12 degree driver. The fact is that the lower degree of loft has been working against us and we never knew it!

So, stop fighting gravity and starting using a loft that will provide you with the optimal launch angle. Give it a try I think you will like it.

By Mike Lebreck

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Why You Should Shorten Your Backswing

I'm sure you've all seen it. Let's be honest, many of you probably do it yourselves. You move up to the ball. You get yourself all balanced. You make sure you're in line for solid contact. Then you start your backswing and wrap that club so far around your head that you can see it on the other side!

And what happens? By the time your club head gets back to the golf ball, everything is so far out of whack that you're lucky to make contact at all. I know Tiger Woods does it. I know John Daly does it. But we're hardly Tiger or Big John, are we? we need our timing to be perfect. We need our body to be balanced. And what better way to accomplish this than by shortening that mighty backswing? I know you'll be worried about distance, but I assure you that once you shorten that backswing and start hitting the ball solidly more often, the little bit of distance you may lose will be insignificant.

I discovered the magic behind a shorter backswing quite by accident. Since I live in a colder climate but don't want to stop golfing just because of the temperature, I'm forced to wear layers in order to play sometimes. Naturally, if you're dressed in multiple layers of clothing it's difficult to take such a big backswing. What I noticed was that I with my shortened backswing I was hitting the ball solidly and straighter much more often. Any distance I lost was more than made up for with accuracy. In the end, my scores were lower than normal.

Now, for those who don't have to wear layers, consciously shortening your backswing may be a bit tricky. You'll have to work out a little system where you can mentally stop the backswing before you usually do. I would suggest trying to stop it even sooner than you may want to because momentum will take you a little farther than your stopping point most of the time.

I know it may not look as cool. And I know that decreasing your overall distance isn't something most golfers strive to achieve. But straighter shots and lower rounds certainly are. The next time you're at the range, give a shorter backswing a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the results.

By Ken McCarron

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Green Mapping - An Essential Tool For Making More Putts

Green Mapping can be likened to preparing for a long road trip. The more thorough your preparation, the better chance there is that you will reach your destination safely and on time.

In putting the same dedication to detail is true. The more you know about the greens that you will putt on, the more accurate will be your reads, and the greater probability you will have of making more putts.

To have any chance of holing a putt you must be able to assess accurately the:

• Slope, particularly at the Hole.

• Line your Ball must take.

• Speed your Ball must travel to the Hole on your Chosen Line.

Certain characteristics of all greens are fixed:

• Shape and Size of the Green.

• Type of Grass.

• Direction of Grain, if any.

• Moundings and Tiers.

Other characteristics change on a day-to-day basis:

• Speed of the Green based on the Mowing Height.

• Moisture content of the Putting Surface.

• Growth Pattern of Grass according to the Season.

• Overall condition of the Green.

For every putt there are always a number of variables that you have to consider. The more you can nail down beforehand basic information about the green and its contours, the less you will have to do when it is your turn to putt.

If you play the same course regularly, it makes sense to get a better handle on how your ball will break on each of the 18 greens. Relying on your memory to recall if a putt breaks left to right, right to left, or is straight is fraught with error.

Professional golfers know that they will putt with greater confidence when they have done their homework before the tournament starts. They make written notes during their practice round of the different breaks at different parts of the green for every hole.

Green Mapping, or green charting as it is sometimes called, involves more than having a sketch of the green. However this is the first step.

On tour there is a yardage book available that shows what is considered to be public information - distance from various markers, depth of greens and so on. For the amateur golfer most courses sell a similar, less detailed, yardage book.

When it comes to the greens the direction of breaks at possible pin locations is not provided. The pros together with their caddie will putt at pin locations previously used for the tournament, either to update their record or to gather the information for first time.

Many of them will use a Putt Reading Device to show the local fall line at each location and the degree of the slope.

For weekend amateurs whose income is not dependent on their putting skill, knowing which way the ball will break in different parts of the green is less essential. That is unless they want to have fewer misreads and hole more putts.

There are a number of GPS systems available to golfers that show distances from Point A to Point B anywhere on the course. They show the hazards and the shape of the greens with depth measurements. On some of the Tours they are now allowed in an effort to speed up play.

However, despite their sophistication the GPS systems don't give you essential information about how your putts will break. This information you must still gather yourself.

This is why Green Mapping is essential to putting better. You should prepare a Green Map for each green and then carry it with you to help you improve your reads and make more putts.

By Neville Walker

Neville Walker has a passion for golf and has played golf on hundreds of golf courses all over the world. His particular interest is writing about how to improve your putting. He runs a web site on the subject which can be found at http://www.better-golf-by-putting-better.com

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Golf - 5 Top Bunker Shot Tips to Help Lower Your Handicap in 2009

Greenside Bunker Shots

Top Tip No.1

Good Lie in Bunker

Open your stance a little by keeping your left foot back ( right handers) and also open the clubface slightly. Swing the club parallel with your feet with an out to in action causing a steeper swing which makes the ball rise quicker and also produces backspin which means the ball will stop quickly on the green. Aim slightly left of target as the ball should tend to fly to the right.

Top Tip No.2

Plugged Lie in Bunker

Instead of opening the face of the club you should keep the club face square.
This shot should be approached with reasonable speed following through keeping the clubface square and therefore digging into the sand behind the ball with the sand and the ball coming out of the bunker together. The very action required to come out of the bunker from a plugged lie means that there will not be any backspin and the ball will roll on some distance.

Top Tip No.3

Downhill Lie In Bunker

If the ball finishes on a downhill lie in the bunker open the clubface and adopt an open stance with the weight on your left foot. The shot should be played near to your left foot trying to follow the slope of the bunker. At impact the weight should be focused on your left foot allowing the ball to be sliced out of the bunker providing you complete a full follow through.

Top Tip No. 4

Uphill Lie In Bunker

For this type of shot you do not need to adopt an open stance or open up the face of the golf club. Instead follow the uphill slope of the bunker and position your body parallel to the slope and swing solidly also parallel to the slope.

The golf ball should come out of the bunker with a higher trajectory and therefore not run on too far

Top Tip No.5

Stating The Obvious!

Whether you are playing out of a greenside bunker from a good lie, a plugged lie, on a downslope or on an upslope or however you are placed in the sand one of THE most important tips is to keep your head still, eye on the sand 1 or 2 inches behind the ball, until the shot is executed.

You could otherwise have an excellent technique but it will probably go wrong if you come up to look for your golf ball too quickly.

This may sound like stating the obvious but it is a very common error made by many mid to high handicap golfers and is often brought about because the player is anxious and nervous about playing bunker shots. Have you ever said "How unlucky was that!? The ball hit the top 2 inches of the bunker face and almost came out!" Now the golf ball is lying way deep down in the imprint of your shoe! Game over!

The fact is that if you had not lifted your head too early you would not have seen the golf ball hitting the face of the bunker. If you had kept your head down until after impact with the sand then the chances are that the golf ball would be heading for the green. Take a look at an image of a professional or low handicap golfer on the TV or pictured in a golfing magazine and you can clearly see that nearly every time after impact the golf ball is travelling upwards towards the green and the golfer is still looking down to where the golf ball had been.

I hope that you found the article to be helpful.
By Roger Thomas Carter

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Golf Training Aids and Why Mental Imagery Is the One That Will Lower Your Golf Score

Golf training aids, we all have succumbed to the glossy adverts. Buy this whatever new club and you will reduce your score guaranteed,buy this video of golf lessons etc etc. I don't know about you but I have fallen for it time and time again. What happens? well I use them for a while then forget or more than likely try something new I have seen advertised. Is this you as well?

The golf training aid we all seem to ignore is our mind, if things start to go wrong our mind and thoughts just seem to get worse. You know the scenario, you have just played the last hole in one over par so you are flying. You stand at the next tee full of confidence you don't concentrate just swing and shock horror your ball flies off into the trees.

This is where the mind set comes in and the use of mental images to keep your golf game consistent.

You are positive and full of confidence so your pre shot routine probably went out of the window hence the duff shot but if you had used your thoughts properly this would be less likely to happen.

When next on the tee try the following:

- Clear your mind and say to yourself positive affirmations like I will hit another good shot, repeat it over and over. This will clear all the subconscious doubts and your predominant thoughts will be positive.

- Now breathe deeply stand on the tee and close your eyes, now picture your next shot in your mind, concentrate on it, so it burns into your brain. It's very important to have a clear mental picture of your next shot, picture the swing, the flight of your ball and where it will land.

All you have to do now is trust your swing and go for it. It works so believe in it.

This golf training aid is now being used by all the major players, the difference is they have mind coaches. Now you can have a your own personal mind coach.

By Michael Potter

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Good Putting is a State of Mind

There's nothing really hard about putting. The average hacker has the physical skill needed to make a ball roll ten feet on the line they intend to roll it on. It is the mental side of putting that lacks for most golfers.

Too many golfers, especially the ones who play once or twice a week, are focused on making a good putting stroke. They assume, I guess, that by making a good stroke they will hit a good putt. Sounds reasonable.

But really, putting is not about making a good stroke. The best way to putt badly is to focus on a stroke you never get to practice. A golfer is far better off to focus their full attention on hitting the ball on the proper line.

Is it really important how good your stroke is if it gets the ball started on line every time? And aren't you far more likely to hit the ball on the line if that is what you focus on the most?

Think back to your best putting day. You will likely remember how the line just jumped out at you. You could see every break and knew it was right. But you probably don't remember how the stroke felt. You probably have no mechanical memories at all of your best days on the green.

That's because they come from the mind, not the stroke. Good putting is a state of mind. For most it comes and goes on its own will. Golfers tend to search for the physical key to their putting stroke while ignoring the mental side that is more important for putting a golf ball into a hole consistently.

Putting is just like any other target game. You will only succeed once you get past the technique and learn to actually play it. The vast majority of all golfers never learn to play the game of putting. They just keep aimlessly searching for the perfect stroke.

By Darell Mckissick

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The Roaring Nineties

The 1990's offered unprecedented levels of revenue and growth to the golf industry. From the late 1980's through the end of 2000 the golf industry benefited from the convergence of three unique phenomenons. The ingredients leading to significant growth in new golf practice facilities and the size and scope of facilities during the 1990's were:

-A Great Economy
-Tiger Woods
-Technological Advancements in Golf Equipment

The nineties turned out to be a great time economically. The proliferation of dot-com companies, the strength of the stock market, and the amount of disposable income many folks enjoyed created a cash rich environment. The golf industry benefited greatly from this free-spending era.

Tiger Woods provided an excitement never seen in the golf industry ever. Yes, we grew up watching Arnie and then Jack dethroning Arnie, but the excitement generated by Tiger was unprecedented. Many people who never thought about golf as a legitimate participatory sport considered the possibility. Many tried for the first time to hit a golf ball. Golf could be for anyone. Ranges saw many new faces on the tee line. Instead of coming out for recreation only, many people used ranges to take the plunge into the game of golf. Practice, group and private lessons, first excursions to golf courses with your instructor resulted in a ranges bottom line growing to new extremes.

For golfers the technological advancements of the nineties were truly awesome. Golf actually became easier for the common person. Clubs became easier to hit and the love affair with distance (fueled in great part by Tiger) became cemented in our psyche. From over-sized metal woods to cavity-backed perimeter weighted irons and next best thing in putters. The changes came fast and furious. Club designers and manufacturers were putting out new designs annually. Golf club marketing reached new heights in creativeness and sheer volume. Golfers were replacing clubs at a record pace. Before the nineties clubs were replaced every eight to nine years. Through the nineties, this number declined by three quarters. Buying more than one driver in a year made sense to many. Putters were dispatched to the basement without any remorse after one or two bad rounds. We were convinced that technology would solve all of our problems. A few visionary retailers and manufacturers decided to break the mold and offer golf equipment traditionally reserved for sale at "green grass facilities" to the common person at sporting goods stores. Dick's Clothing and Sporting Goods pushed hard for the right to sell the best equipment. Additionally, Dicks realized the value of having PGA pros on staff to fit and sell clubs. Once again, the paradigm was broken. Now PGA pros could retain their certification away from a "green grass facility." Major manufacturers got the marketing right. We all knew we needed whatever was the newest wedge, putter, utility wood, custom-made clubs, etc, etc.

Ranges benefited from prolific sales in several ways. First, those ranges prepared to plunge into retail, custom fitting and custom club-making were able to capitalize on the excitement and energy in the industry. Second, people practiced more. They had new clubs and had to get used to them. They wanted to try new clubs. Finally, many people just wanted to try golf because of the Tiger-mania. Ranges became the natural place for people to try hitting the ball and taking some lessons.

By Paul Ciminelli

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Golf Swing Tips - How to Get a More Consistent Swing and Lower Your Score

Whether you are just starting out as a golfer or you have been playing for years, chances are that you are interested in finding away to cut a few strokes off of your scorecard. One of the best ways to actually do this is to create a solid swing that will allow you to know exactly where you are sending your ball every single time.

The first thing that you have to understand is that each swing is different for each type of shot, driving the golf ball and putting it are obviously quite different but so is chipping and hitting your irons. There is no one swing that can do everything there are multiple types of swings that excel at a certain shot. You just have to learn how to do each one properly.

The first part of the swing that you will have to begin working on is your grip. You have to be able to find a grip that is most importantly comfortable to you. The key thing to remember is that your palms should always be facing each other, no matter what.

The next thing to address is your stance, you must keep your chin up, shoulders square, and knees always bent never straight, and understand that your power is coming from your hips. This will set up the consistent part of your shot because if your body is in the same position it will allow you to recreate the same stroke.

From here you must create the backswing itself be sure not to twist or turn too much in the process as this will create a shot that will hook or slice which is something you want to avoid unless your into that sort of a thing. Keep your right leg exactly in the same position and be sure that your backswing has a slight arc to it. Be sure that both your feet are evenly distributing your weight and that when you are pulling your club back that your arms and hands of both sides move as one piece.

In your downswing be sure that your right arm stays straight till the very end where it can slightly unhinge. Your left hip should turn slightly in the direction of your target and your right knee may turn just a little at the end as well. In this process your left arm should be long and relaxed as well.

Be sure that your club follows the exact same path going down, that it did when it initially went up, another way that your shot will become more consistent.

In order for you to fully maximize the potential of your swing you must practice it every single day whether you are in your backyard or out on the golf course. Also I highly recommend looking into getting some videos or books that can help you go more in depth on the entire swing giving you step by step instructions.

By Lee L Campbell

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Improve Your Golf Swing Simply and Easily Today

If you have ever plaid golf you know how important your swing is, if it is hit the wrong way in the slightest bit that ball will be no where near where it was supposed to be landing. Often that means that your balls taking a swim or you going to be out taking a walk in the sand.

The key to avoiding these situations is to create a swing that is not only going to be great but something that is consistent and that you could repeat on command. After all what is the point of having a good swing if you can't do it every single time that you are hitting the ball?

The place where people really concentrate on their swing is the drive because you don't have to worry about hitting it on a surface that isn't perfectly flat - you just have to think about where you want the ball to be sitting on your next shot. If your shot is consistent then you can worry more about course management and ball placement then whether or not the ball will be in the trees or not.

You will find yourself having a whole lot more fun out on the links with a good swing. It tends to let you avoid those afternoons of searching the high rough for the ball that you hooked, as well as the itchy legs that tend to accompany those days. As well as letting you have more of a chance in a real competition with your golf buddies.

By Lee L Campbell

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Subliminal Affirmations Are Powerful - But Can They Improve Your Golf Game?

The game of golf is 90% a mental game, so learning to dominate the inner game of golf is important. Many golfers struggle for years until they learn how to use mental golf techniques to their advantage. So don't spend any more money on the latest golf driver, golf training aid, or lessons until you know how to implement the mental game of golf.

So, what do subliminal messages have to do with golf, you may ask? Tiger Woods has used subliminal affirmations since the age of 13. Many other top PGA professionals also use powerful mental techniques - in fact, it is what separates the top 5% of golfers from the rest of us.

What is Subliminal Affirmations?

The way this technique works is that the (audio) messages go straight into your unconscious mind and bypass your conscious mind. The unconscious part of our mind controls our habits and behaviour.

Your mind is sometimes filled with negative garbage that tells you that you can't do this or that, and it is persistently putting you down. But, since the affirmations are subliminal, they sidestep your conscious mind and go straight into your unconscious mind, where there is no resistance.

Your brain will then pick up any messages that get through to it, and immediately use them to construct new thought patterns and behaviours. In the case of subliminal affirmations for golfers, the complex movements of the golf swing will become a natural habit, just like riding a bicycle. Once your unconscious mind is trained properly, your golf game will work on autopilot - so you don't have to think about it.

The Power of Subliminal Affirmations

Did you know that subliminal techniques were used in advertising? They were so powerful and effective that they have in fact now been banned. You have also probably seen subliminal programs that put you through a complete sleep cycle in only 20 minutes or others that you listen to before going to bed that make you sleep deeply all night long.

Other audio programs use subliminal messages to help you with business success, self confidence, relationship building, or love life. So, you can see that these are powerful techniques - but if you are reading this, you probably want to know more about how this can help you improve your golf game.

Amazing Golf Mind

There is in fact a program called Amazing Golf Mind that can indeed help you take your golf game to a higher level. By listening to this program for just 20 minutes, three to four times a week before going to bed, your golf game will improve and your score will drop - and all without practicing! Learning the mental game of golf techniques can be difficult, but with the Amazing Golf Mind audio program it is easy as falling off a bike!

By Mick Euan Tait

Mick Euan Tait is a golfer who writes about different golf techniques, including the mental game of golf. Visit his website to learn more about Subliminal Affirmations for golfers and to read a review of the Amazing Golf Mind audio program.

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Golf Swing Tips - Learn How To Be More Consistent

Are you a golfer? Do the green grass, the challenge of the sport, the camaraderie of fellow enthusiasts, the nineteenth hole and the other eighteen too, the sunshine, and the fun of it all beckon to you? Let's face it, there is nothing quite like a day on the links. There are no golf-haters, just people who haven't picked up a club yet. And whether you are a seasoned professional or a newbie, you will always be seeking a better swing. That is part of the fun; challenging yourself to get a better golf swing all the time is part of the allure of this amazing sport.

If you are like most of us, however, you have your good days and your bad ones. Your swing will be great on Tuesday evening's guy's night at the course, but when Saturday rolls around and it comes time for a couple's game, your swing seems as if it has curled up and died. What you need to do is learn to make a repeating swing and be more consistent so your game improves more and more as each day goes by, rather than getting better one day and back to the same-old same-old the next time.

If this circumstance sounds like yours (you know it does), there is a place you can turn to in order to get the best advice ever and really learn how to make a repeating swing and be more consistent in your swing. You can pick up the book Creating a Perfect, Consistent Golf Swing: Discover the Secret to Hitting a Golf Ball Perfectly Every time You Swing.

By Wesley Kennedy

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How to Create a Lag in a Golf Swing

Have you ever had the opportunity to go zooming around curves in a sports car with the top down on a beautiful spring day? You know that feeling you get as the car responds to your touch and you feel like the vehicle is really just an extension of yourself? You become the car and the car becomes you? Well, that is kind of similar to how a great lag in your golf swing feels.

Every golfer, even the most green one out there on the greens, knows that you need to be able to hit that tiny little ball straight and far. In fact, a great deal of energy is invested in straightening out the path of the ball, and having a successful lag in your golf swing is the way to get that ball to follow that narrow path.

If you want to know how to make a lag in your golf swing, here is the secret. Learn from the apes. One of the things that makes us very different from the apes (all animals really) is the fact that we have an opposable thumb. The thumb, along with the index finger, allows us to do all sorts of things that the apes have much more difficulty doing.

Unfortunately for us golfers, that opposable thumb also makes us lazy. We rely on it for everything. It dominates us if we are not careful. So, what does this have to do with how to make a lag in your golf swing? Simple. Don't use that thumb for a while. Pretend you have only your last three fingers on your right hand and hold the club with them and swing.

By Wesley Kennedy

Practicing this unusual grip will lessen your dependence on the thumb and make that golf club an extension of your body, just like that expensive sports car that hugs the curves so well. For more free tips for golf swing improvement, visit http://TipsforPlayingGolf.com.

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Feel a Proper Golf Swing - Rhythm, Balance, Swing Plane, Core Strength and Power

Golf is a beautiful game because we never stop learning. While visiting several fellow golf professionals in Palm Springs to play and practice I immediately fell in love with a new tool called the Orange Whip. Working with over 40 students a week on their games I could not stop thinking about how many different swing faults I see. Common swing errors include: grip, coming over the top, casting, balance, rhythm, tempo, timing, swing plane and most of all developing more power (which all golfers want) through core strength and proper sequencing of the golf swing. Simplicity in golf instruction has always been a focus for me when sharing information. Rather than getting a dissertation of what to do the new tool immediately provided the feeling as to what to do.

When working with my students I explain it (audible), demonstrate it (visual) and get them to feel the difference (kinesthetic). The greatest improvement takes place when my clients understand why we are addressing the required change (creating trust and confidence in the change) because our bodies will not do anything properly until the mind can visualize it. We must be able to feel the correct motion and only then, almost instantly, drastic improvement takes place.

I feel this training tool is so revolutionary that I personally contacted the owner and developer so that my clients and students could order the tool at a discount. As a fellow student of the game I am always researching, experimenting, studying new swing theories, buying various training aids, furthering my own education and putting it to test with my own game in three arenas: practice, playing and the ultimate test tournament golf.

I love this game and am very particular which golf products I personally recommend. I believe in this one and have already seen an incredible change in my clients and my own feel. I would love to hear your feedback. I just wanted to share this with all fellow golfers.

Great Golfing,
Paul Holtby, PGA

By Paul Holtby

http://www.paulholtbygolf.com

805-208-5055

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Golf Tips For Beginners! 3 Powerful Tips!

These golf tips for beginners will help you out if your just getting started playing golf. Remember that any sport can have a learning curve so do not stress it if things do not go as planned as soon as you start playing.

I will go ahead and tell you that golf is one of the games that requires the most skill of them all. This is great because it gives you a chance to truely master and outshine your peers in the game! With that being said lets go ahead and go over 3 powerful golf tips for beginners that you need to know!

- The grip is important! Sure it might not seem to be important but it is! Hold the club and make sure the club head is lying down on the ground. When you close your first your club should be held with your first two fingers and palm.

- Your stance is also very important. Make sure your feet are shoulder width apart. This is known as the square stance and is a great way to get started.

- Last your golf swing is really important for beginners! You didn't see that coming did you? Ok so you need to start the backswing with your back and shoulder muscles mainly. When you go back to swing you need to shift your weight to your right foot for balance. Once you have around 90% of your weight on your backfoot you should release.

Ok so I know these directions were a little vague and I advise you to check out my bio box below for a free guide. I hope this short little guide has helped you see the 3 powerful golf tips for beginners that you need to use!

By John J Thompson

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