How Can Technology Improve Your Golf Swing?

With the golden age of caddies long since given way to technology, except for the esteemed private golf clubs. Golfers today have resorted to a wide variety of measures to get yardages, directions and keeping scores.

When playing do you have troubles gauging how far a certain obstacle is, or how far away from the green you need to get to on your next shot?  Are you that type of person with an uncanny ability to estimate how far you need to hit your next shot?

For most people it’s a guessing game but,  it  so much more important when it comes to scoring.  It can make a difference between shooting a great score or being left to frustration and wanting to break every club in your bag.

When I was caddying professionally my job 30+ years ago was to make sure I walked the golf course before my partner even  showed up. Professional caddies would chart a course for their player before every tournament with all of the measurements. You knew the distances of every club your pro swung at.  It was your job to walk the fairways marking down every rock,  sand traps,  trees,  water or any other permanent obstacle that you could gauge from the tees or any other shots from the fairways to the greens.

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How Much Pain Does Your Golf Swing Inflict You With Age?

For many aging golfers when playing golf it can lead to many different injuries, pains and strains.

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It’s Winter, Now Is It Time To Improve Your Golf Swing?

As the new year fast approaches us it’s time to get serious about thinking “How can I improve my golf swing.” For us who lives in the Northeast this time of  year isn’t so easy. However, there are places you can go to swing the golf club during the winter months other than being outside.

Many cities now have indoor driving ranges and after you cool off you can catch a couple of drinks at their sports bar attached to the range. You can go to anyplace that has driving nets or if you have enough room in your basement to swing a golf club you can set up your own private net.

Another place you can go to is any Golf Galaxy retail establishment. There you will find the latest inventory of top brands golf equipment and supplies. There you will also receive help from Your Certified Personal Coaches who are waiting to deliver a Tour-tuned method built from a composite of over 150 professional instructors.

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Rules, Etiquette And Equipment Account For Many Questions From Women Golfers

Golf Etiquette, equipment  and rules make up most of the recent questions received from women golfers. Here are some of your queries and answers.

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How Important Is It To Learn Proper Golf Etiquette Before You Learn To Golf Swing?

Golf Etiquette is a principle that needs to be learned from right in the beginning of learning the game along with how to use the correct golf swing mechanics.

Etiquette is social mannerisms that needs to be taught in order to make everyone else that’s playing with you that much more enjoyable to be with on the golf course.

With the evolution of the game and more average golfers watching golf on television. The popularity of the game has exploded and now everyone feels like that they can play the game just like the tournament professionals.

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Will An Improve Golf Swing Prevent Injuries?

Do you feel pain or discomfort when playing? Then your not alone, because golf injuries is very common.

Golf is played by humans and there’s times that even the best golfers will feel pain. Golf injuries is a largely untapped resource for chiropractors.

Like millions of golfers it’s a sport that can be played throughout your lifetime. Injuries in golf is common because it is one of the few sports commonly played by all age groups.

For most recreational golfers the only form of exercise is playing an occasional 18 holes of golf.

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Is It Worth Practicing At A Golf Driving Range?

I get flat out sick and tired of hearing from so called experts to the game of golf. Who say you shouldn’t practice but, stick to your old routine of going out there and playing. Nonsense! You won’t improve unless you commit yourself to spending as much time as possible to every part of your game. That is dedicating oneself to hitting one golf ball at a time with every golf swing thought being fundamentally sound.

You can’t expect to do anything in life unless your passionate about investing your time and energy into improving,  be it in Sports, Music, Business or using the internet.

You want to lower your golf scores then invest into something worthwhile that will improve your golf swing. That would be Medicus the #1 swing trainer aid in the world. The Medicus Learning System is dedicated to assisting golfers of all ages. “Master the Basics” of golf through a consistent process of education, training and practice.

You’ve always heard that practice makes perfect. However, practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent. So how does a golfer know when his golf swing mechanics is correct or incorrect?

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Golf Tips On How To Drive The Golf Ball?

Hitting the golf ball off of a stationary tee is one of the most difficult skills to learn. That is why using a higher lofted club like a 2 or 3 wood is much easier to hit than a driver or 1 wood.

A smaller headed club with a larger club face degree will elevate the golf ball much quicker, and with more control than a larger club head with less degree.

For those who feel they have mastered the game of golf will obviously tell you how important it’s to get that extra distance off the tee when shooting lower scores.

As the golf courses are getting much more challenging and longer with distances. It becomes even more important you find the right kind of driver that feels most comfortable to you and has the features that will help improve your golf swing.

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Baby It’s Cold Outside Playing Winter Golf?

It’s that time of year in the Northeast part of the country where only the true die hard golfers are still playing. Most golfers have put their golf clubs away and are getting ready to nestle into their warm homes for the winter. Only to dream about what next year’s golfing is going to be like. For many who are retired they are now flocking down into the warm sections of our country, where they are able to keep playing golf.

While a number of players put away the sticks after Thanksgiving, there are still golf courses that remain open year round. Their virtually crying out for your winter golf business.There are golf courses that are frequently free of snow much of the off season. Some of these courses might have temporary greens, and many others allow play on the regular greens and tees.

There is no reason to be blue with cabin fever come January. There is a fraternity of golfers who still get together even with snow on the ground with a stick as a flag stick that allows for the game of golf to continue. Golf can be played despite a layer of crusted snow over much of the area. The ground maybe hard and the golf ball is frozen dead. Which doesn’t allow it to fly very far.

There’s just too many ways to spice up the remaining days of Old Man Winter with a bit of Old Man Par for that to happen.

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Are You Developing A Successful Golf Mindset?

Golf is the one of the oldest games in world history still being played today. It’s a game steep in storied traditions and played by the wealthiest to the poorest who can afford to pay for green fees and clubs. It was born on the heather-clad, rocky shores of Scotland in the mid 1500’s and the game has evolved through hundreds of years. Queen Mary herself is credited for the birth of the game. She would get so mad and frustrated at English politics that she would go outside on the castle grounds and hit stones with sticks.

Golf clubs were formerly made of hickory wood are now composed of military space-age metals and composites made up of graphite and titanium. Golf balls also evolved from feathers to rubber wound threads surrounding a rubber core are now as advanced as the golf clubs.

Only one thing that hasn’t changed in the hundreds of years since the sport began, and which can momentarily turn grown men and women into frothing, enraged lunatics who have seemingly lost all sense of decorum and reasonable behavior. That is the simple mistake of a golf club failing to connect and striking a small white ball properly. Sending it not on a straight true path but on a wildly curving arc into the woods, or even worse out of bounds. It has turned more than one Dr. Jekyll into a seething Mr. or Mrs. Hyde, hurling golf clubs into the air, breaking them like matchsticks over their knees, bellowing obscenities into the air instead of yelling fore.

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How Can I Improve My Self Confidence In Golf?

Do you feel frustrated if you can’t drop more strokes in golf?  Then your not alone most golfers can’t no matter how much they try to improve by playing or practicing even more then they have time to allow to devote to their  game.

A golfers mindset is critical, not only improving one’s self confidence in your ability to play the game but, how your going to react when you start playing poorly and the golf strokes start adding up. How are you going to feel when you lose out to another player’s bet or you have to buy the first round of drinks?

My friend Andrew Scott, a regular golfer like you and me had exactly the same problem and got even more frustrated after every round of golf. It seemed to him that he was suppose to practice a certain way on the driving range. But when he went  out on the golf course his struggles became even worse. He started hitting with the wildest slices into water hazards, sand traps and out of bounds.

His power was null and void because he kept hitting the ground first before the ball.  Most times topping and never getting the ball airborne. He had no control especially around the greens. He shanked a lot of pitches and chip shots. His self confidence was lacking because he missed a lot of short putts. There were rounds where he had over 40 putts.  All caused by anxiety, fears  and self doubts. At times you could say he was yipping which should only happen when you get older in life not when your younger.

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Are You Having Fun Playing Golf?

I’m not going to write about golf equipment or tips or anything else for that matter that can help you improve your golf swing.  I would like to talk about something that is really thrilling to me to be witness of.  Have you ever taken part in a 300 game in bowling or hit the perfect golf shot resulting in a hole in one?  If you have I would love to hear your story. Please describe your experience in the comment box below.  For that matter any unusual kind of shot that has had a profound impact on your memory bank.

For me I have seen all kinds of hole in ones in my life.  I’ve personally have 4 hole in ones.  I still remember my second hole in one. It was on a 220yard sixth hole par 3.  I used my 3 wood.  It happened back in 1991 when the public course I still play on today had no fairway watering system in place.  In the middle of summer it gets rock hard and of course you get a lot of roll on your ball.

Back  then I was known in the golf club as “King of the low ball.”  I always hit every one of my golf clubs on a low trajectory to get that extra roll. That is why today I still struggle in hitting the high trajectory, because now they have the watering system in place. If someone was standing in front of me back then, I probably would cut that person in half at the waist. My ball would never go any higher.

So, I teed off and I remember they were working on fixing the ground. There was probably a 4 ft dirt mound in the area of the woman’s tee box.  My ball barely missed the top of the dirt mound went out about 120 yards and ran like a scared jack rabbit for the last 100 yards. It disappeared as soon as it ran up onto the green. You see this hole is very flat with no trouble around it. At the time I was playing with an orange color golf ball, during this time period Jerry Pate made it very fashionable to play with different color golf balls. There was no one around the green waving us up and the peripheral vision didn’t allow us to see over the green.

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Golf Grip Is Very Important Part Of Your Golf Swing Mechanics?

How imporatant is the golf grip related to your golf swing mechanics?

It’s very important to make sure that your grip is holding the golf club properly. Without the proper balance in your hands your golf club can do a number of bad horrific movements in your swing from beginning to the follow through. It can happen without you even realizing it, with the worst being the deadly cardinal sin in golf the  SHANK!

You can adjust your grip rotationto make your grip stronger by rotating your upper  right hand wrist to the left and if your golf swing mechanics is properly executed it will cut down on the left to right cut or slice.  If  you have too strong of  a grip causing you to pull or hook.  You can rotate your wrists on both hands to the right and if the rest of your golf swing is execueted properly it cuts down your pulls or hooks to more of a draw that we all strive for.  Rotate to much to the right and now your back to cutting and slicing.

The tension or pressure in your hands should be holding the golf club as light as holding a little birdie in your hands.  Don’t CHOKE IT! Hopefully, you don’t hold onto the steering wheel of your car with a death choke but, allow the wheel to have some freedom of movement so that it can work the way it’s designed.  It’s the samething for a golf club.

A correct golf grip is an essential golf mechanism leading to a proper golf swing.

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This is How You Make Millions With Your Golf Swing Mechanics?

Swing + Friends – These bloopers are hilarious

Do you want to know what the perfect golf swing looks like?  Then click the URL above and enjoy this short clip.

This is what hours of practicing on the driving range and playing can do for any golfer who is willing to invest in the time and money. You can’t improve unless your willing to sacrifice in hitting golf balls after golf balls using specialized golf clubs for improving your golf swing or taking lessons from licensed professionals.

It is something 90% of the time your not going to be able to do on your own.  You can buy the most advanced clubs on the market today but,  it won’t improve your golf scores.  Most golfers have programmed themselves to swing at the worst possible tempos, breaking down with their body mechanics at certain points in their golf swing, over swinging,  under swinging,  head movements, feet moving, all arms, not bending right, not moving through the swing with your shoulders turning, no follow through. Does any of this sound familiar?

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How Well Do You Know The Rules OF Golf?

What do I do when my  own playing partner calls me on a golf ruling?

My name is Ken and  I have a ruling problem that I would like clarified. I was involved in a  best ball golf tournament and I hit a wicked slice off the tee on a hole that has out of bounds stakes down the right hand side of the fairway. In the out of bounds area were a number of trees. My shot sliced itself out and it appeared from the tee that it definitely was OB.  So, I hit a provisional ball and then went to look for the original ball under the 5 minutes time limit for looking.

We found my original golf ball and to my surprise it was still in bounds.  My moron playing partner calls me out with his own interpretations of the golf rule.  He tells me that I must play the provisional ball because obviously the ball must have hit a tree that was ob and bounced back in bounds.  I went along with him in order to keep peace.

Who was correct?   Does anyone reading this know the answer to my dilemma?   Leave your comments below?

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Do You Have Trouble With Yardage Markers?

When playing do you have troubles gauging how far a certain obstacle is, or how far away from the green you need to get to on your next shot?  Are you that type of person with an uncanny ability to estimate how far you need to hit your next shot?  For most people it’s a guessing game but,  it  so much important when it comes to scoring.  It can make a difference between shooting a great score or being left to frustration and wanting to break every club in your bag.

When I was caddying professionally my job 30 years ago was to make sure I walked the golf course before my partner even  showed up.  You knew the distances of every club your pro swung at.  It was your job to walk the fairways marking down every rock,  sand traps,  trees,  water or any other permanent obstacle that you could gauge from the tees or any other shots from the fairways to the greens.

You mark all of this down in a little black book.  Then everyday early in the morning before each round you graph out each hole’s pin placements.  Measure out by using the old traditional way of one foot in front of the other how far from the front, sides, and back of the greens. You also observe where the pin placement is, by writing down if it’s on a hill, swale or what kind of breaks to the hole when putting. Where is the flat part of the green or safest place to hit the ball to.

There was a combination of both guess work and knowing your player’s skill level.  It can make all the difference in where he finishes in the tournament and how much money he earns.  Which has a direct bearing on how much money you make, since most of the time you earned by commissions only.

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How is your putting stroke?

Many golfers   don’t realize that almost 50% of your golf scores occurs from your putting.  Almost 70% if you include pitching and chipping around the greens.  Yet this is the least practiced!

Everyone is focused on having the latest in driver technology.  They feel if they can pound their drives around 240 yards or more that everything else will fall  into place in shooting par golf.  This couldn’t be further from the truth.  Your best golfers have that magic around the greens, its what separates themselves from the high handicappers.

Let me ask you, “how is your putting?” If your leaving a lot of putts  around the hole but, their not falling in. It means that there is one additional stroke you have to add onto your score.  Over 18 holes it can mean the difference between breaking your low score  or having a frustrating round.

There is no right or wrong way to putt, and there is not one standard grip but many to choose from.  It all depends upon  your comfort zone and being able to see the lines of the putt on the green.  Putting is all mental and strategizing over breaks and inclines and slopes of how best to lag your putts close to the hole is half the battle.

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