All Beginners Need To Learn The Basics Of Golf Before Playing.
March 5, 2011 by Parshooters · 3 Comments
Learn The Basics Of Golf Can Be Learned On A Individual Or Group Setting!
I started playing golf when I was 12 years old. I lived not to far away from a public golf course, and could easily ride my bicycle with my golf bag strapped to my back to the course. At that time they had a junior golf program that provided a .50 cent pass/round to play unlimited amount of golf.
It provided the opportunity for me to play just about everyday from dawn to dusk. I couldn’t get enough of it, as my passion grew deeply. I would eat, sleep and dream golf. Besides playing I was able to take golfing lessons from the club pro, and during the winter would go to the Y.M.C.A. with my dad and hit golf balls into a hitting net. While here picked up a few more golf lessons.
As a beginner your interested in spending some time with family or friends out on the golf course. However, your not sure of yourself, because picking up a golf club is very foreign to you. Not only your not sure how to hold onto a golf club, but what do you do with it? At this earliest stage of discovery, would you even know how to swing a golf club?
Planning For A Happy Halloween Golf Tournament!
October 28, 2010 by Parshooters · 5 Comments
It’s that ghoulish time of year again, when you have little kids knocking on your door looking for candy. I kind of want to keep some for myself. Thinking back now 2010 golf season was frightening, after mishitting golf shots after shots. Oh Well! I can get over this past golf season, and start preparing myself for the new year in golf . At least I can dream only of good thoughts about birdies and pars, and not the monstrous double and triple bogeys that kills all golf scores.
There will be many Halloween parties going on this weekend. However, have you ever attended a Halloween theme golf tournament? Organizing a regular golf tournament can be quite difficult as there is a lot of work to be done planning how to run it. When the planning is over with, you will begin looking forward to a tournament that should be made a lot of fun, and if advertised properly, it should be able to attract a high level of participation.
The pressure is on to make sure everyone who is coming is dressed up. Halloween costumes are sometimes not the most comfortable outfits to play golf in, but again it’s for the fun of the holiday, and not for trying to shoot at a particular golf score.
Practice With Your Golf Training Aid During The Offseason!
October 26, 2010 by Parshooters · 11 Comments
Winter Is The Best Time To Practice With Your Golf Training Aid!
This is a tough time of year to play golf in the Northeast. Your not totally sure what the weather is going to do from one day to the next. Temperatures are fluctuating from the low 60′s to the 40′s, it’s sunny to rainy in a matter of a few hours. Weather reports can’t keep up, as it’s hit and miss with their Doppler system.
Playing in bad weather is a challenge, but when you prepare yourself properly your round of golf doesn’t have to be a nightmare. All golfers will find it difficult to play effectively in inclement weather. Rain, wind and cold will affect your golfing mindset. The way you dress, your golf swing, the flight of the golf ball, no rolls in the water soaked fairways, and the diminishing speed and breaks of the greens. No amount of practice or instruction can fully prepare you for bad weather playing.
Being prepared for bad weather will make it bearable for you to play when the weather does turn nasty. If you expect that your round of golf may encounter rain, then make sure you have extra towels, golf gloves, hand warmers, rain hood for your golf clubs, and rain suit for yourself in your golf bag. Get comfortable with how your rain suit will affect the way you strike your golf ball. Rain suits today are more flexible, but are still restrictive and will change your golf swing.
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.
Are You Aware Of Your Golf Swing Mechanics When Chipping Or Putting?
May 22, 2010 by Parshooters · Leave a Comment
The hardest part about golf swing mechanics is learning to finesse the golf ball around the greens. This is the least amount of time spent in practicing the chipping, pitching, putting and sand play before playing a round of golf. For most amateurs we don’t allow for enough time to practice before hitting the golf links. As soon as we get to the golf course we jump out of our cars, and go directly into the pro shop to take care of business first. Then we go get our golf clubs and shoes, and maybe get a few quick practice putts in, along with swinging the driver, an expect to be all warmed up.
What happens next, most of the time it becomes a rocky picture horror show. With our expectations now reduced down to trying how to figure out what to do next in order to survive. For the majority of amateurs or weekend golfers this happens a lot for the first few holes before we’re adequately warmed up. The only way to combat high scores is being able to have an adequate short game to make up for the mistakes being made from tee to green. Most of the amateurs I play with hit the ball well enough from tee to green, but when they get within 50 yards of the green they seem to struggle. They’ll tell me, “I don’t have time to practice these shots, I’m not a pro, and they do have all the time in the world to stand and work on these shots, so they do develop the consistency in their feel.”
The goal when chipping or pitching in golf is to get the ball to travel the least amount of distance in the air and have it roll along the green. The problem with most golfers they’ll anticipate their chip shots, and will have the habit of looking up too soon to see where the ball is going. One major problem with this is that golfers will forget about their golf swing mechanics. What typically ends up happening as a result is that by looking up, the leading hand wrist bends, causing the golfers hands to flick through the chip shot. The end result is that the club head is picked up too steeply, and a blade type shot occurs which sends the ball on more of a line drive trajectory. The reason is that the wrists bend or break before contact is made with the golf ball or ground in an attempt to delicately place the ball onto the green. The solution is to make sure your wrists don’t break, especially the leading wrist, and that your follow through continues just like a normal golf shot.
Golf Instructions For The Short Game.
May 18, 2010 by Parshooters · 1 Comment
Learn Your Short Game Mechanics For Improved Play!
Most of us golfers will struggle mightily with trying to lower our golf scores, and our handicaps to the point of frustration. What most golfers don’t stop to realize is that your short game is at least 50% of your golf scores. Without a good short game which includes anything within 100 yards of the pin placement on the green, chipping, pitching and putting, your ability to score well will diminish significantly. For most average to high handicappers the ability to scramble is paramount to what you do on each and every golf hole. You can expect to miss the green during a golf round more than two-thirds of the time.
We will spend endless hours on the driving range hitting drivers, to the point of exhaustion. We’ll work diligently on our golf game to prove to ourselves that those new hybrids really are much easier to hit than our long irons. We hit golf ball after balls trying to gain some much needed confidence in our fairway metals, and we are quick to buy that new set of irons that is guaranteed to be much more forgiving and deadly accurate.
I have been fortunate over the years to watch, learn and implement the same golf instructions and tips from some of the best short game artist on the tour and amateurs alike. I’ve played on my home golf course where the greens were very narrow width wise and had a lot of different kinds of mounds around them. In order to score you had to learn how to chip, and putting played a huge part in the scrambling of getting up and down. Hitting a long ball off the tee and in the fairway does make playing the golf hole a lot easier. No Question! However, in order to improve your golf scores it’s a lot more than just being able to hit good quality golf shots.
Does Fear Prevent You From Having A Proper Way To Swing A Golf Club?
February 9, 2010 by Parshooters · 6 Comments
Fear in making mistakes in life is a big part of being human . This I profess, that I’m not an expert on and therefore can’t give advice. You can do a google search and find millions of pages on this information. What I can give to you is my experience with regards to fear when playing the game of golf. Golf and reality have a way of blending into one another. I’ve seen all kinds of different attitudes from the most generous and forgiving to those you wouldn’t want to get near with a 10ft pole. Who are arrogant, frustrated, mean spirited, nasty and their outright ugly on the outside. I have a saying,”the better golfer you become the more of an asswhole you become!” Although I do know many golfers amateur and professional who are the kindest people and I’m proud to be their friend.
Playing in a mens club for almost 30 years, you do form a bond with the golfers your playing with. It’s like any other social function where you do get to know them and their families. Where you attend events and golfing get away trips. Playing collegiate golf I’ve had the opportunity to play on some of the finest golf courses in the Northeast.
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 not knowing how to have the proper way to swing a golf club. The 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.
