Golf Tips On Chipping!

Chipping may not be the most glamorous part of the golf game, but the short game is so important. It’s the key component to shooting lower scores. It’s amazing how a good chip shot can quickly turn a possible disaster into a respectable hole. Chipping close to the hole and tapping in a putt can also maintain a positive attitude towards your round and keep you in a good frame of mind for the next hole.

My golf tips to chipping is keep it as simple as possible. Find one good club that you can believe in every time you use it. Confidence is as important as technique when approaching a golf shot, especially when it comes to the short game. I personally prefer the bump and run shot, and will use my putter off the green as often as I can. (Texas Wedge.) The room for error is diminished greatly, because there is no air time. It’s the easiest club to control. You need to know your stroke and distance to the hole when making this golf shot. There are other various situations on the golf course that you need to know when it comes to the short game. When practicing focus on different shot making skills that you will encounter on the golf course Such as, chipping, flopping, knockdown, lobbing, pitching, punch, putting, sand, trouble and utility shots.

Chipping covers the shots you will play where the ball carries no more than about 10-15 yards around the green. It is a shot that has a short amount of air time and spends most of the time on the ground running towards the golf hole. According to U.S.G.A. statistics, 80 percent of the strokes golfers lose to par are determined by their play within 100 yards of the green. So, why is it the least amount of time practicing, not devoted to improving around the green?

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Does Having The Correct Golf Swing Mechanics In Place Make It Easier For Strategizing On The Golf Course?

Have you ever played on a golf course that you knew nothing about? I’m sure you have during one golf round or another. That happened to me yesterday. We were playing on a very difficult tightly laid out golf course. It commanded several different shot variations.  It had elevated greens,  many combinations of sidehill and downhill lies.  All kinds of obstacles to carry or shoot over. You can tell by my descriptions,  I didn’t have a very good day playing.  I shot at least 10 strokes higher then I should have.  Most of my troubles wasn’t knowing the golf course, and yanking my driver out of the golf bag on every hole. (Dumb!)

My focus or golf mindset was to get the ball out there on the fairway far enough to eliminate the pressure on my second shot. This is the wrong way to strategize when trying to play within yourself.  You do need  a game plan to know when to attack or be conservative when approaching each hole.  Golf course management is gained through knowledge of each hole and what to expect.  Not knowing the golf course.  What I should have done was visualize in a pre-shot routine before addressing the golf ball,  the intended target of where to place the golf ball on the fairway. This can be done by standing behind the golf ball and looking for the safest places to hit to. By looking at your scorecard, the layout of the golf course is usually pictured there, or at the  hole sign next to the tee block.

Your aiming  for the fairway,  because landing a golf ball there eliminates the chances of a bad lie, and it gives you the best angle to approach the green. When you reach your drive you need to study your lie for a minute, and analysis what you want to do with your next shot.  If you don’t think that you can reach the green with your next shot, it’s often a safer play to lay up. This means playing a controlled shot that’s deliberately aimed short of the green, rather than hitting the golf ball as hard as you can and hoping for the best.

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Keep Your Golf Mindset Focused Away From Three Putting!

What will you be doing? In the upcoming months it will be winter time in N.Y. state region again, and many snow birds will be traveling down south to get out of the cold miserable snow.  So, enjoy the weather now by playing as much as you can.  It’s never to early to start making plans for your next golf vacation trip. That is why you need to be prepared for anything unusual that might happen.

The way the economy is today,  you can find many favorable golf packages.   Resort areas are hungry for visitors and they’re  willing to make deals that combines staying arrangements with tee time packages.  Many golf courses are reporting open tee times on their daily starting sheets.

Personally I’ve been to Hilton Head once and want to get back there. The entire southeast coast is the golfing  mecca for any challenges to your golf  game that you want to test.  Warning!  Bring plenty of golf balls with you because there is nothing but water and sand.

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Do You Have The Correct Golf Mindset For Putting? Part 2

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.

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Do You Fear Making Mistakes When Your Golf Mindset Isn’t Correct When Putting?

If you fear making big mistakes in playing golf then your not alone. Tiger Woods and other great superstars who stand to win big paychecks from making or losing on short putts have this same fear as a weekend golfer.  Taking the safe route has its own costs and rewards.

I had just made a great third shot to within 2ft of the hole on the 15′th hole, it was a par 5 on my home golf course.  I made the no brainer putt to put me two under par for the round. It dawned on me waiting on the 16′th tee that I must be leading the club championship,  and I had the greatest opportunity of my lifetime to break 70,  which I’ve never done before.  It was a realization moment that woke me up out of my dream state that I was in.

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How Can You Improve Your Golf Swing With Workout Programs?

Senior golfers of all ages are now into yoga and golf fitness programs. With age comes a decline in both flexibility and strength. When the body declines, the golf swing goes right along with it. The end result is a big loss in yardage, more mishits, and ballooning scores. Your golf mindset also changes in both attitude and frustration. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard from older golfers who I’m playing with, that are just about ready to quit the game. However, there is hope for all golfers who are ready to change and improve your golf swing.

Do you want to discover the secret to creating more power and consistency in your golf swing? By participating in workouts that’s  geared towards a specific golf program that focuses on strength and flexibility. You don’t have to accept that with age, your body does decline. No way! The golfers who are working out, are the same ones who are enjoying the game again in later life, and taking all of the money in the birdie pool.  It’s amazing to see golfers in this age bracket dramatically improve their driving distance, accuracy and scores.

What is a golf workout? The golf swing is an awkward movement that puts a tremendous amount of stress on the body. To prevent injuries and improve your golf swing speed and distance requires your body to be both strong and flexible. The golf swing is a rotational movement, with your body being in different sequential golf positions.  Since the golf swing is primarily an axial rotational movement, wouldn’t it make sense to focus on rotational strength and flexibility? That is improving your turning ability related to range of motion and  speed. Therefore, anything involving twisting with resistance such as a medicine ball, a dumbbell, or even a weighted club would work. You need to have a  resistance to take your body beyond where it normally goes.

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Are You Aware That You Need To Change Your Golf Swing Mechanics As You Get Older?

The hot weather has hit our area in New York, and yesterday I found myself having trouble hitting a quality golf shot from about the 14′th hole on. At one point I started feeling light headed, and in need of water. What should you carry in your golf bag to help compensate for the heat? You should carry a bottle of water, a light sandwich, peanut butter crackers or candy bar. Anything that can give you a quick burst of sugar energy. You should stay away from drinking beer or any type of alcohol, because this will dehydrate you faster.

For the first ten holes, I was hitting solid golf shots  and my golf swing mechanics was where they should be. However, as the golf round continued on, I noticed there was a loss of power in my golf swing. Which meant the golf course started playing longer, and my golf scores were getting worse by at least a stroke or two per hole. So, what causes this to happen?

Golf is a mindset game vs. being physical.  Your golfing mind  needs to be sharpened periodically.  It’s very easy to lose focus when your golfing round isn’t going the way you believe it should.  That’s why you start feeling drained mentally, because your self-confidence is shakened. At the end of 18 holes, you feel like you just played 36 holes instead. That’s how I felt yesterday.

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Do You Have The Correct Golf Mindset When Putting? Part I

If you fear making big mistakes in playing then your not alone. Tiger Woods and other great superstars who stand to win big paychecks from making or losing on short putts have this same fear as a weekend golfer.  Taking the safe route has its own costs to bear. Even the best golfers will miss the opportunity to make birdies by taking the safer shot to put themselves in best position to not make bogeys. This is done out of fear, because the agony of having to lose a stroke to par outweighs the thrill of a birdie.

Researchers who keeps statistics calculates this type of decision making can cost the average professional golfer about one stroke during a 72 hole tournament. For the top 20 golfers this can be as much as $1.2 million in prize money lost for the year. The analysis shows that all golfers will avoid the possibility of loss by playing conservatively when they have the opportunity to score big by taking the gamble or risk.

Jack Nicklaus was the best when making short putts when the pressure is on. For myself,  I had just made a great third shot to within 3ft of the hole on the 15′th hole, on my  home golf course.  I made the no brainer putt to put me two under par for the round. It dawned on me waiting on the 16′th tee that I must be leading the club championship and I had the greatest opportunity of my lifetime to break 70 which I’ve never done before.  It was a realization moment that woke me up out of my dream state that I was in.

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Golf Instructions For The Short Game.

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.

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The Proper Way To Swing A Golf Club Starts With Having Good Tempo!

Last weekend was  great for me!  I got to do what I love best, and that is playing a round of golf with my friends. Being for most of us in our foursome it was the first time playing after the winter break.  Most of us weren’t very good. We hit a lot of bad errant shots mixed in with some good ones. We kept score but, we were all higher than our normal scores.

What I noticed the most however, because the golf course was playing long due to standing water and some wind. That we were all overcompensating by swinging harder than normal to make up for the extra yardage, and because of it bad swing flaws were quite evident.  Instead of swinging natural and with good rhythm.

Instead we were all  rushing our golf swings, and the timing or tempo of our golf swings were totally out of sync.  The erratic tempo we were exhibiting was due to hitting solely with our arms and trying to blast every shot as hard as you possibly can.

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Buiding The Proper Way To Swing A Golf Club Through Trial and Error!

What is the difference between a one plane or two plane golf swing? Moe Norman was one of the greatest ball strikers and teachers on the Canadian P.G.A. tour.  His philosophy was to keep the golf swing as natural and simple with no overtaxing swing motion. The one plane golf swing is a pure rotary motion, with a body release as you continue to rotate left, after impact.  The one plane is viewed as being easier to understand and implement when trying to improve your golf swing mechanics.  It requires less timing or tempo,  and it isn’t entirely dependent upon what your lower body is doing with regards to being coordinated with the rest of your golf swing mechanics.  Such as your hip, shoulder and spine rotation, and because of this it reduces the amount of stress that’s placed upon your lower back muscles and joints.  Therefore for older golfers it can help to eliminate golfing injuries.

What is the proper way to swing a golf club? A golf swing is an unnatural motion that can only be perfected through practicing.  The two plane swing or traditional  golf swing,  is a continuous flowing pendulum motion. The two plane swing  is the golf swing we are all taught. When your first learning,  you need to develop faster hip motion and the timing of the lower body with the rest of your golf swing mechanics.  Different golf swing elements do make up a golf swing.  Everything from your grip to your balance, hip and shoulder rotation,  proper stance, to external factors like wind and pin placements. It all makes up how you approach your golf swing.  It is a repetitive motion that places stress on the same muscles over and over again.  As a result, those joints and muscles will get tired, and can lead to different injuries.  A proper way to swing a golf club can be learned and worked on individually. Unlike a baseball swing or a jump shot,  hitting a golf ball is not a natural movement and you must acquire muscle memory only through practicing and training.

Building a  golf swing is like that of building a house.  You need to have blueprint plans on what foundation needs to be built first. Then it’s followed by the actual structures of four walls and a roof.  When you look at the professional golfers you will notice that each of them have  a distinct technique with their golf swing.  Many of the pros have unique golf swings and each of them are able to at some point  win a major event or tournament.  This means that the golf swing is not about a certain way of swinging,  but more about individual techniques that best suits them.  For amateurs many elements will factor into your own specific golf swing.  Your height, weight, the type of golf clubs being used, and whether you are right or left handed, etc,  this does come into play for every golfer.

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The Only Way To Perfect Your Golf Swing Mechanics Is By Investing Into Your Own Time and Energy At A Driving Range!

When your working on your golf game at the driving range, you first start with doing some stretching exercises.  Then begin slowly by hitting a short iron that doesn’t  take a lot of energy to swing a golf club.  Continue taking your time hitting golf balls, and make sure to breath in the fresh air by relaxing. You don’t have to keep pounding golf balls to the point your exhausted, and your hurting from swelling in your fingers, hands, legs or lower back joint muscles.

It’s good to work on your golf swing but, it doesn’t have to be a workout like you would get at the local gym. If you would only take your time,  you can learn a lot by just watching other golfers swinging and mishitting their golf balls all over the driving range area.  I will watch for the different methods golfers will use when they swing their golf clubs, and some of the golf swings are fairly good but, others need a whole lot of work. I usually think to myself that if only they could change the way they practiced they would become so much better golfers.

What do you need to do in order to practice the correct golf swing mechanics? If you’re going to work on your golf swing then every golf club in your bag needs to be used practicing. That is the number one problem,  that I see with the vast majority of all golfers on the driving range hitting golf balls today.   Their only focus is about using their drivers,  and trying to hit the golf ball out of the driving range.  Their there to hit the snot out of the golf ball, so that they can brag how far they hit it to their golfing buddies.  If this is what your doing,  then I have some bad news for you. You’ll never improve your golf swing mechanics.

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Does Learning Through Yoga Mindsets Will Lead To An Improved Golf Swing Mechanics Overall?

For the serious golfer the game is a dedication to improving one’s golf skills and mindset. It’s an opportunity to get away for some 4+ hours from the daily grind and stress of  everyday living. Most of the time this isn’t done and instead we bring our anger, frustrations and temperament with us out on to the golf course. Instead what you observe most of the time is frustrated golfers heaving golf clubs, making vehement self-incriminatory remarks, swearing, and throwing temper tantrums that would rival those of a 2-year-old.

Focus is the last word you would use when observing images of the frustrated golfer. Golfers who don’t learn to appreciate the mental aspect of  golf will remain frustrated or give up completely before mastering the game.  Perhaps no sport is more wrought with mental hazards than golf. The game introduces a constant struggle between the conscious mind analyzing, alert, logical, understanding and the subconscious mind that deals with the intuition and the implementation of your long-term memory with regards to the golf swing mechanics.

The constant battle of giving yourself up to time in practicing and the amount of depth  for available instructions contributes to golf’s reputation as an intensely mental game.  There are volumes of  detailed videos and books on the sciences of the game.  Golf is a multi-billion dollar industry of golf equipment and one-on-one coaching is considered incomparable to any other sports.  Yet all the instructions in the world won’t help you if you allow stress to seep into your game. Even though golf fundamentals are learned in the conscious mind, they are stored in the  regions of the subconscious mind.  Yet by incorporating elements of yoga into different positions,  you can develop the mental discipline that golf demands.  The Flow of Concentration.

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What Do You Need To Do To Improve Your Golf Swing Mechanics?

If  you want to improve this year in golf then be prepared to invest your time into learning your golf swing mechanics. Before you can improve you need to understand, analysis by breaking your golf swing down and then implement the changes you’ve learned.  How do you do this? You can do this by taking golf lessons from a licensed professional, going to a golf school for a few days, or by increasing the amount of golfing your doing. The third option isn’t really a very good option, because you’ve built a permanently flawed swing into your memory banks.  The first two options is the best way to learn but, it can cost you a lot of money over a period of time.

Then what is the best way to learn when first starting to play? 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. The least cost effective way is to spend countless hours at a driving range. However, you’ve always heard that practice makes perfect.  This is a fallacy, because 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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Does Fear Prevent You From Having A Proper Way To Swing A Golf Club?

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.

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How Important Is The Golfing Mindset When Trying To Improve Golf Swing?

Golf is a game made up of rules and standards. It’s more than that however! Golf is a mindset and self-confidence game.  It’s made for those golfers who want to take on challenges away from the everyday grind and problems that we must endure in our lives.

That is why for an average golf round of 4+ hours we can forget about everything else in our lives and just focus on one’s own self interest in trying to improve golf swing or scores.  You can call it arrogance and self-absorption but, the original inventor of this game did come from royalty.

There are many composites that are built into the psychology of a golfer’s mindset:                 Confidence     Consistency     Fearlessness        Focus       Positive Mental Attitude     Trust    Visualization

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How Much Of A Factor Can Inclement Weather Have On Your Golf Swing?

As I watch from my window to the outside world, I’m only dreaming of the warm spring days that won’t becoming to New York for at least another three months. You see we were just hit overnight with 4″ of snow on top of the snow we received from the last snow storm.  Where I live today it’s a balmy 17 degrees outside.  Ouch!

That is why I’m thinking about bad weather conditions in golf. I’m sort of correlating between the two weather conditions of today and what it’s like when you have to play in all kinds of bad weather. Playing in bad weather is a challenge but, when you prepare yourself properly your round of golf doesn’t have to collapse.

All golfers 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 and the 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.

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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 golf 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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