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Tips on Improving your Golf Game

If you have decided to take up golf or even if you are a seasoned vet of the game, you are probably on the lookout for golf tips. I have decided that since I am helping you to learn certain aspects of the game, it just made sense to add a tips section for making your game better.

How can you really hope to be a good golf escort or mystery golfer if your game is only so-so? You don’t want to make yourself or your clients feel silly on the green, so it just makes sense to add some cool tips like these.

Let me tell you that I have used many of these tips and they have certainly helped me out in my game. All of the tips I mentioned here are tried and true ways that have proven to work.

When it comes to your golf game, you can never have too much knowledge, but a little extra never hurt anyone. You can also turn to many instructional videos and websites like PGA.com for many videos that come straight from the pros. I have located many of the tips mentioned here at PGA.com and used them. I practiced them and they really work. I am not a pro, but sometimes it is hard to tell. It is a great resource for your golf game too.

Check out www.pga.com today for some really great tips.

Here are some great tips that you can use to make your golf game just a little bit better if not; a great deal better.

· The first tip is to beware of tips! This may sound strange as I am giving you some here, but it is true. Many well meaning golfers will offer you a great deal of advice, but what they don’t realize is that what works for one golfer probably won’t work for others. The tips I am offering work all around, not just for the advisor.

· You have to have fun. Getting mad all of the time isn’t going to make the game any more fun for you. If you aren’t enjoying the game, you need to find out why, and fix the problem. Staying calm is the key to golf success. It’s just a game so relax!

· Be a great sport. Be respectful to the other players. Don’t try to sabotage the other players when they are taking shots. Don’t criticize or make fun of the way they stand, shoot, or grip the club… your game is not so perfect that you can make fun of other players.

· When you practice, practice at the hardest holes on the course because this will definitely improve your game. You don’t want to take the easy way out; practicing only on the easy holes, thinking you are making headway is pointless because you aren’t. Practice on the hardest tees, and the hardest putts. Put yourself in the traps on purpose, and practice getting out of them. Imagine worst case scenarios and set them up. This is what will make you a better golfer.

· Play miniature golf as often as possible because playing miniature golf is a great way to improve your putting skills. Many seasoned golfers laugh at trying to do this but its true! Good miniature golf courses provide really challenging obstacles that you must put through, under, around and over which will offer a bigger challenge then you think. Some of these are harder to putt than the fanciest greens!

· Keep your eyes open for used training aids that you can find. If they are reasonably priced take advantage and– buy them! Not all training aids will help you, but unfortunately, you won’t know which ones will unless you try them out first. The aids that are available on the market today will help you improve your game a great deal, in a short amount of time.

· Read a lot about golf and play even more. There are lots of techniques that you can learn a lot about golf from. You can find great resources from the sources mentioned above from others like golfing websites, golf books, and golf magazines – but you will learn them faster out on the course! After you read their advice and then try out the suggestions!

· If you can’t get on the course, and you have some spare time and enough room, practice your swing. You don’t need to use a ball for this.

· Consider using a training club during these times to help build strength in your swing as well. The best free golf tips you will ever receive will all include the practicing over and over again

· Hold Up the Ball. Many golfers let their left knee collapse toward the right on the backswing. This causes your shoulder to drop, and makes your hips swing too much and overturn. To fix this, imagine your left knee going out toward the target on the backswing. If you do this right, you should feel tension and stability in both knees.

· Be a Hitchhiker. Think of placing your right hand in a hitchhiker position. This means that when the club is about waist length, you should be able to look back and see your thumb pointing upward to the sky. If this doesn’t work try to imagine that your hand is in a handshake position, with the palm facing neither up nor down.

· Pause at the Top. Swinging too quickly is a common mistake that even the pros make. I'm not saying that you should not swing with power and acceleration that you need to maintain a rhythm. The best way to accomplish this is to imagine taking a bit of a pause at the top of your backswing before changing direction and heading on to the downswing. Do this and you'll find your ball in the middle of the fairway rather than in the rough

· Rock-Solid Right Knee is the key. On the backswing, it's absolutely crucial to keep your weight on the inside of the right foot, and maintain a slight bend in the knee. If you don’t do this you will lose power. As you take the club back, imagine that the right knee is braced and solid like a wall. This will help your upper body coil behind the ball, so you can make an aggressive move that will send it soaring

· Put some muscle into it! Golf isn't an “all in the wrist game” as is often suggested. If you want to get a powerful swing, you need to use your leg and arm muscles to do it. The common instinct of many amateurs is to hit at the ball with only the arms and wrists. That doesn’t always work.

· Hit Low and Into the Wind. Many players feel that they need to hit it harder when there is a breeze afoot but this actually causes them to put more spin on the ball and hit it higher. You want to hit it lower and more controlled, and you can if you put the ball back in your stance a few inches and keep your hands forward. Use a longer club than you would normally and take an easy swing

· Use Club Loft to Your Advantage. When you are trying to get the ball into the air, you will want to hit down and through it. By allowing the club's loft to do the work for you, you'll achieve better contact with it

· Make your Swing's Foundation More Solid. If you want to have a consistent golf swing that always gets results, you will need a smooth tempo and good balance. Practice hitting some shots with your feet close together. This forces you to maintain better balance, tempo, and rhythm.

· Swing through the Ball. Consistent, powerful swings usually have one thing in common in that you extend the body through the ball after hitting it. A good way that you can use in order to perfect this is to put a tee about eight inches in front of the ball you are hitting. Try to hit not only the ball but also the tee. This will help.

· One of my favorite drills that I use to help work on my putting is to putt a dime rather than a ball. This method is great for improving focus and concentration!

· Another good putting drill is to sink five in a row from different distances

· Place the ball on top of a dime for putting help, and then keep your eyes focused on the dime all the way through your stroke. Try to avoid the urge to follow the ball with your eyes immediately after impact which is especially good to do on short putts. Just watch for the dime, rather than following the ball with your eyes, head, and shoulders.

· Three-foot putts can really mess with your mind if you let them do it. One strategy that is often used by legendary putter Seve Ballesteros is to imagine a bulls eye attached to the back of the cup. This image actually encourages you to accelerate the putter through to the hole and keep the clubface moving square to the hole.

· Try blind putting. By practicing putts with your eyes shut, it's easier to feel your body movements. You should sense your shoulders working like a pendulum do. The next thing that you will know you will be getting the ball into the cup!

· Keep Your Head Still. A still head is a crucial component to having a solid contact and consistent putting. Focus on keeping your head still well after impact is made with the ball. Moving your head causes the shoulders to open and your putter to cut across the ball.

· Downhill putts tend to be fast and the most difficult. Try doing what many of the pros do. They hit the ball on the toe of the putter, not on the sweet spot. What this does is lessen the jump on the ball and stops it from going way past the hole.

· If you are having trouble with putting distance control you should try rehearsing a few strokes without using a putter. From here you can take a ball in your hand. When you think you have good feel for how hard to roll it, put the putter back in your hand and use the same motion to hit the ball.

· When you are lining up breaking putts, favor the low side of the hole. Generally it is known that as a putt is breaking near the hole, gravity is going to help you if the ball is above the hole. If the ball is breaking away on the low side, gravity is going to hinder your efforts. Your not a pro so go low

· Reading the green is hard enough to learn, so try and remember that the break and the speed are the two factors you need to master when you read the green. Taking a few putts on the practice green before you actually play can give you an advantage at reading the speed of the greens on any day. It's better to make adjustments on the practice green than on the first hole. When you are reading a green, get behind the ball and squat. You can see the finer aspects of the green this way. Look at the putt from the side. This will help you better gauge distance. Watch your partners' chips and putts as well. When you putt, whether the result is good or bad, pay attention and mentally record what happened

· Keep the eye over the ball. Hey this is a ball sport. When you putt two things are necessary: Your eye must be directly over the ball, and you must stroke the ball to make it rotate end-over-end. When your eyes are over the ball, you have a much better chance of stroking it accurately and imparting end-over-end rotation.

· One of the keys to getting out of bunkers is to keep the clubface open. When you close the face, you get a lower trajectory and the club will actually dig in the sand. Imagine that the clubface is a mirror, and that you're going to see your own reflection in it when you have done your shot. This will ensure that you take the club all the way to eye level and that you've kept it open all the way to the finish.

· The next time you're in a bunker, focus on sliding a thin divot of sand from under the ball and onto the green. Open the clubface a few degrees and line up slightly to the left.

· By taking the club back more abruptly when you swing you can increase your chances of getting under the ball properly and impacting the sand more precisely.

· Many golfers make the sand trap shot more difficult than it has to be. This is because they were taught that the only way to come out of a trap is by hitting the ball with excessive force. You have to shoot under the ball with power but not force. Whenever the bank of the trap is low and there is enough putting surface between the trap and the hole, a golfer would make more sense to play a variation on a chip shot with the club head contacting the ball cleanly and lofting it onto the green. You just have to allow for some roll.

· A chip from the sand is played the same as a chip from any other lie, however with two differences. First of all, you grip the club low on the shaft, as far down as the bottom of the leather if this is comfortable. Second, you will want to glue your eyes on the left half of the ball rather than on the right half as you do on ordinary shots. This will help you to deliver a clean, descending blow, and that is the foundation of all chip shots.

· When you are taking on this shot you will want to be sure the club you are using has a good enough loft to get the ball over the front lip of the bunker. You do not want to strike the ball perfectly just to find out that it smashes into the face of the bunker and dribble back to your feet.

· If you are to hit your ball 150 yards out of a bunker towards the green you must catch it cleanly without taking any more sand than you have to. In order to catch the ball cleanly, you should stand tall and grip a couple of inches down the handle.

· Don’t shuffle your feet down into the sand as you would for greenside bunker shots where you are trying to hit the sand before the ball. You want to stay still for this shot. Play the ball an inch further back in your stance that normal to help guarantee you catch the ball, not the sand. Keep the swing short.

The tips that you have read above will not make you a perfect golfer, but they will help you with some of the finer aspects of the game. In becoming a better player, you will have more fun. I hope these tips help you as well.

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