•Chip Shot Boot Camp - The Fundamentals
Are you frustrated with your short game? It happens quite often to amateurs and pros alike. You feel like you have put in your time at the practice facility and do not know what to do next. Knowing the fundamentals of a chip shot will help you get the golf ball close to the hole or chip in. This will quickly lower your scores and your golf handicap.
Many golfers are confused on what the actual definition of a chip shot is. To make sure we are all talking about the same thing, what is the...
•Chipping Lessons That You Can Not Play Without!
We have all heard during our chipping lessons that you must get the ball rolling on the green as soon as possible. We have heard it from our golfing buddies to our local PGA Professional. Is it always a good idea to get the ball rolling as soon as possible and why is everyone so emphatic that this happens?
Once you have missed the green, you first must decide which type of shot you need to hit. Here are the questions that you need to be asking yourself to get the most from your chipping lesson...
•Five Quick Golf Tips
We get asked all of the time for quick golf tips. The question usually comes from someone who has to play in a corporate golf tournament or they are someone who does not play often and they are going on vacation and will have a chance to play a round at a prestigious golf course and are looking for quick golf tips. Here is a list of five free quick golf tips to enjoy your corporate event or vacation.
1. If you have any time before your event to practice, you do need to take advantage of this....
•How to Get a Proper Women's Golf Club Fitting
Women's golf club fitting has been ignored by the manufactures for a long time by not offering many options. In just the past few years this has started to change. Do not get me wrong. Against the offerings for men, the manufactures are still lagging with product for women's golf club fitting. However, this should not discourage the ladies as a properly fitted set of clubs will help you shoot lower scores and have more fun.
"Why do I need to be fitted for my set of clubs?" is a question that I...
•How To Hit Lob Shot Today!
All good golfers, especially those on the PGA or LPGA Tour, are very good ay hitting a lob shot or a flop shot. The lob shot we will discuss will be from about 30 yards and will be players with a 56 or 60 degree wedge. Many say the lob shot is a risky golf shot however, if pulled off correctly, it will help you to lower your scores.
Most scratch and low handicap golfers will agree that it is easier to judge the distance to if a golf ball while it is rolling on the ground as opposed to trying...
•Junior Golf Lessons
Not everyone can have junior golf lessons and become a child golf prodigy like Tiger Woods. It is most important to keep the game fun when introducing your child to junior golf lessons and playing golf. Have you ever noticed how a junior just taking up the game of golf? If allowed, they will take a very natural golf swing. The young golfers are not thinking about golf instruction or golf mechanics. Let your child enjoy learning the game by their own trial and error until THEY are ready to take...
•New Golfers - How To Keep A Golf Scorecard
Sometimes as you are beginning to play the game of golf, keeping score for a round may seem daunting at first. After reading this article, you should find scoring for golf can be easy. Many players do not keep score when they first start because they are already nervous and frustrated by their golf swing. Remember no matter what skill level you are at, having fun is the real name of the game.
We will begin with explaining the scorecard. Obviously, not all scorecards are alike. However, they...
•Perfect Your Golf Swing Alignment
If you ask the players on the PGA Tour to name what they believe to be the most important golf fundamentals, there is no doubt that golf swing alignment would be towards the top of the list. However, most amateurs either do not know or do not admit how important golf swing alignment is to their success.
It is amazing how you always have certain things that stick with you that you have heard from your different instructors. On the topic of golf swing alignment, one of my old instructors used to...
•Pitch Shot - Get It Close High Or Low
To become better at executing a pitch shot, you will need to learn how to control the initial trajectory or launch of the shot. Have you noticed that on Tour most players will use a sandwedge or a sixty degree wedge from around the green? Sometimes they will throw the ball up in the air and have it stop quickly and other times it will run the majority of the way to the hole. Here is how they do it.
A lower trajectory, you must first place the ball back in your stance with sixty percent of your...
•Putting - The Must Haves
Roughly half the golf strokes you take during a round of golf occur with your putting stroke while on the putting green. If you want to improve your handicap, improving your putting is the quickest way to have your golf scores come down. You can hit a bad drive and still make a par however hit a bad putt and you can not make up that stroke. Putting training aids along with the tips below will improve your putting stroke and lower your handicap.
Tips for your putting setup:
First, as you...
•The One Way to Improve Your Putting
The Tomi putting training aid is a innovative putting teaching aid software for the serious golfer or teaching professional. The TOMI Pro is a robust system that offers a very detailed analysis of each putting stroke.
The TOMI putting training aid was developed by professional instructor Marius Filmalter, a well-known expert the mechanics of the putting stroke as well as the psychology of golf. Marius has helped to instruct golfers on the PGA, Champions, and LPGA Tours, and has personally...
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