Can You Play Better Golf By Learning Your Golf Swing Mechanics?
August 31, 2010 by Parshooters · 21 Comments
* Half way in the backswing
* Top of the backswing
* Half way on the downswing
* Golf swing impact position
* Finish position
Perfect Golf Swing Mechanics – Half Way on Back swing
* In the perfect half way back position the clubface should be vertical with the toe pointing to the sky, which means the face in a square position.
* The shaft of the club should be pointing at the ball to make sure the club is in the correct swing plane.
* Learn to swing slowly into this position and hold it for several seconds. Repeat the drill ten times.
Do You Know How To Hit Quality Pitch Shots In Golf?
August 25, 2010 by Parshooters · 7 Comments
Learn To Hit Quality Pitch Shots To Improve Your Golf Scores!
I consider myself a good short game player. However, this year due to lack of playing time and not practicing the way I’m used to. I’ve really struggled on the golf course in trying to break 90. I’m not comfortable or use to playing this kind of erratic golf, where for the last few years my golf scores were in the low to mid 80′s. A lot of my troubles have been around the greens. I could score low, because the majority of times I could get up and down in two. This year I’ve seen more two and three putt greens, because my pitches have left me on the greens with longer putts. Chipping and Pitching well is paramount to how well your going to play. Most of it’s in your head. Confidence is built on having a good solid golfing mindset in knowing that you can trust your ability to hit quality pitch shots around the green.
For most amateur golfers hitting the golf ball a certain distance isn’t the problem. Where most golfers experience trouble is around the greens. That would include chipping, pitching and putting. A lot of mistakes from tee to green can be made up for in improving your golf scores by getting down in two from 40 yards in. The pitch shots is that little shot golfers use to make birdies possible and salvage pars. This shot does get a lot of use during a round of golf, because our accuracy beyond 150 yards will diminish when trying to hit to a specific target on the green.
You do need to learn too become a consistently good short game player, because no one can consistently hit every green in regulation. It requires you to have finesse, or a touch of feeling in your hands, wrists and head (brain). It requires a correct golf mindset when trying to place the golf ball close to the hole. Practicing your short game with the wedge should take almost equal amount of time spent, as you would with your driver or any other club in your bag. When mastering the standard wedge shot there are other variations such as the bump and run, punch, cut and lob wedges to practice.
What Do You Need To Know In Owning A Driving Range?
August 16, 2010 by Parshooters · 12 Comments
Operating a driving range can be fun, time-consuming and be a profitable small business. Golf ranges are popular small businesses because the labor and overhead costs to operate are modest at best. As the population of golfers continues to grow at a rapid pace, there is a need for more practice facilities. A driving range is an area where golfers can practice their golf swings. When enough time for a full round of golf is not possible, it can become a physical activity for working out. Working out at a driving range is one of the best ways to improve your golf swing mechanics, with or without the guidance and advice of a certified licensed golf professional.
Many golf courses do have a driving range attached to them or they can be found as stand-alone facilities. A driving range needs to be at least 400 yards long. It equals two acres of land or more, to accommodate sufficient numbers of golfers to make the facility profitable. The location needs to be chosen carefully. Your location needs to be in an area where sufficient population lives to support your facility. Visibility is another important concern. Your signage will be an important draw. A golf practice facility must be visible from busy streets or major highways, versus one that is hidden away. Make sure the area you choose will allow you to have lights on the facility at night. A key advantage driving ranges have over the public and private golf courses is that they don’t close when the sun goes down.
Building a golf driving range can be as simple as buying a parcel of land and putting mats down to hit golf balls, or as difficult as building a multiplex hitting stations with target greens. Most preferences will be determined by the builder of the driving range, but there are certain basics that are necessary for the construction of any driving range. Therefore start up costs can be modestly low to being exorbitant in their pricing ranges. It all depends upon what your public is looking for in terms of being able to hit golf balls, and what finances you have available to service their demands.
Do You Know How To Improve Your Golf Swing?
August 10, 2010 by Parshooters · 12 Comments
Golf can be the most exhilarating and yet the most frustrating game you can ever play. Week after week we drag ourselves out to the golf course only to try and improve upon our previous weeks score. Consistency will always be the biggest problem for any golfer. Professional golfers will spend years working on their craft trying to find the perfect golf swing. For most of us, it would be nice to just say hit the golf ball. It never works that way. The one question that always comes up is “How to Improve Your Golf Swing?”
There is literally thousands of how to books, dvd’s and magazines on the subject matter of golf swing mechanics. Myself, I’m a visual type person, that needs to be shown what to do. You can’t correct your golf swing by just reading. You also need to take an idea with you to the driving range, and practice on those certain swing mechanics. However, there is a negative to practicing on your own swing mechanics if it leads you back to your old bad swing faults. Practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent with your golfing memory. That’s why for any serious golfer who wants to improve upon their golf swing, you must practice not only with the correct swing techniques learned from reading and watching, but with tools to help you build a solid golf foundation.
That is why training aids is so important in the learning process. I’m a firm believer in the Medicus System, because I know it helped me out a lot. I used to have a terrible slicing problem, and then I would find myself over-compensating into duck hooks or smothering the golf ball. If you are having trouble with your golf swing this is a must tool that you need in order to improve your golf swing. The Medicus will give you instant feedback about what is wrong with your golf swing and how to fix the bad swing flaws. By using the Medicus it does straighten out your golf swing, to the point that you’ll find that you have more control and accuracy.
Will Using The Single Plane Swing Improve Your Golf Swing?
August 4, 2010 by Parshooters · 7 Comments
The golf swing is the most over analyzed athletic motion in all of sports. Millions of dollars every year is spent developing new technologies in an attempt to improve your golf swing deficiencies. For years, information on the single plane swing has been scarcely available to the general public’s knowledge. If you’ve been playing golf long enough, you’ve realized that there is something missing in your own golf swing. Some days it’s good, but most days it’s really bad. You go from one swing tip to the next, but nothing ever works for more than a couple of golf rounds.
With the single plane you don’t just use your arms and shoulders in regards to using the same swing plane. It’s a golf swing where the mind and body work together on the same swing plane. It’s the easiest golf swing to memorize. It not only will fix any bad swing faults you might have, but you’ll find that you have more accuracy and control over any golf shot you ever wanted to master. It’s also a proven fact that using this swing by older golfers, there is a lot less pulled muscles and strains. Senior golfers can now enjoy playing a lot longer into their twilight years.
It’s not a secret that with age comes a decline in physical capabilities especially in your golf flexibility. The biggest and most noticeable changes is in the backswing. This can rob you of massive yards off the tee, and the golf swing flaws will occur due to lack of flexibility in your hips. The end results caused by bad swing flaws is hooking or slicing of the golf ball. For most golfers this will happen to all of us during a golf round where we have no idea what happened or where the bad swing flaw started? Swinging from over the top is a downswing movement with the upper body getting way ahead of the lower body. During my last two golf rounds this smothering of tee shots has happened too me as well, because physically I’ve not been working on my conditioning and strengthening workout programs.
