How Can I Improve My Golf Swing Using Medicus Training Aids?
May 2, 2011 by Parshooters · 2 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 scores. Consistency will always be the biggest problem for any golfer to master. 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 damn golf ball. It never works out that way. The one question that always comes up is “How Can I Improve My Golf Swing?”
A reader of mine asked me recently, “What is the best way to get your body and golf swing into shape after a long winter of non-playing?” The reader is correct, because when just starting to play the new golf season there is going to be a lot of inflammation, pulls, pains and strains. Hopefully, during the off-season you’ve had the opportunities to exercise and do some stretching. However, there is certain muscles you don’t use that causes the stiffness and stress you feel when you are swinging a golf club for the first time.
What Are Some Of The Ways To Reducing The Pressure In Your Golf Swing?
April 14, 2011 by Parshooters · 7 Comments
Playing In The Masters Is All About Being Able To Handle The Pressure!
The Masters is one of the most exciting golf tournaments to watch on television. Besides all of the beauty and pageantry of this historical golf course, and the massive galleries it brings out. Just the drama and suspense of the golfers themselves in trying to tame the beast of Augusta National Golf Club. This year was NO Exception. As many as 10 golfers had a chance to win the golf tournament, as they tried brilliantly to navigate through Amen Corner on the final day. Congratulations to Charl Schwartzel (South African), as he’s the winner of the 75′th Masters.
I feel sorry however for the 21 year old, Rory McIllroy (Ireland). This young golfer played brilliantly for 3 1/2 rounds. At one point he had a 5 stroke lead, and looked invincible sinking pressure putts all over the place. Unfortunately, major golf tournaments don’t start until the 10′th hole of the back nine on the final day on Sunday. So what happened, that he would shoot himself out of the golf tournament with a 43 on the back nine, for a round of 81?
It’s called PRESSURE. It’s a golfing mindset that requires untold amount of attention to every detail of your golf swing, course management and planning out the strategy necessary before the round ever begins. By visualizing in your mind, every shot placement on the fairways and greens. Experience has a way of balancing out the stress and reducing the pressure when faced with the circumstances that surrounds being in competition. Even though Rory didn’t win this time, he must have taken away from this a lot of knowledge for next time when he’s faced with being in this same kind of pressure cooker situation.
What Is Golfing Fatigue And The Cause For Lower Back Pain?
March 30, 2011 by Parshooters · 5 Comments
Joining A Fitness Club Is A Very Good Solution To Stregthening Your Core Muscles And Eliminating Lower Back Pain!
As we are now entering into the early part of springtime here in the Northeast. Most of us golfers have played a few early rounds, and have felt the fatigue that comes with swinging the golf club after a long winter away from the golf game. Most golfers will feel some discomfort in various parts of their body. Amateur golfers, especially seniors will experience chronic lower back pain that will limit the amount of golf they can play in the beginning.
Fatigue often becomes a major foe for most golfers wanting to play. You may not realize it, but those errant tee shots, off target approach shots, doffed chip shots, and missed putts may not all be the result of just bad golf swing mechanics. They have a lot to do with the fact that the four plus hours swinging a golf club in the fresh outdoor air is wearing you down a lot. Execution becomes the main issue. We all know being off just a little bit on any golf shot can have definite negative consequences. When the body gets just a little tired, the potential for your playing performance to suffer increases as does the risk for injuries.
Any amount of fatigue will not bode well for swing efficiency and overall playing performance. All aspects of your golf game will be impacted from tee to green. Walking the golf course will obviously have more of an impact to the fatigue factor, but you still will challenge the body even when taking a golf cart. It adds up when you consider the amount of time on your feet walking up and down inclines, in and out of traps, around greens and tee boxes. Cart paths only on days when the golf course is wet, will only add to the total energy drain.
How Do Having Your Own Set Of Used Golf Clubs Help You To Break 100?
March 26, 2011 by Parshooters · Leave a Comment
In Order To Break 100, You Do Need Your Own Golf Clubs!
Advice For The Beginning Golfer. If you have decided you like this new game, but you really aren’t playing as well as you would like. Your friends are beating you by large margins and you would like to even the score. Then the only way to do this is too start spending on fancy $1300+ golf equipment. You know the new fancy square backed driver with the snazzy stripped shaft that all of the touring pros are using. The driver that is guaranteed to have you hitting 300 yard drives. Or, maybe you should buy the $200 wedge that Tiger or Phil uses, and that $200 putter would make anyone envious.
Wait just a minute! I’m sorry, now is not the time to run up more debt on the old credit card. Superior equipment will help an average, better than average or superior golfer. You don’t qualify! In order to justify top end and expensive golf equipment, you need to first have developed a consistent golf swing. Right now no two balls are going anywhere near each other from your golf swing. Do you really believe it is all of the clubs’ fault, and not you?
A good professional or golf shop employee will want to fit the clubs to your body and swing. Matching the clubs to a reliable trustworthy swing will allow the clubs to produce superior performance for that one golfer. Would you like to match the clubs to your shanked shot, fat shot, or flubbed shots ? Oh, and what putting stroke are we talking about here?
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?
Do You Want To Hit The Irons With Better Accuracy And Consistency?
February 16, 2011 by Parshooters · 7 Comments
Designs of golf courses can be found to have many different variations. They can be wide open for most beginners to championship level layouts with tight fairways, elevation changes, forced water carries and treacherous bunkering around the greens. Of course the more challenging a golf course is designed, the more it will require of your shot making skills. A unique perspective to the game of golf is that there is always a different strategy for every golfer on any given hole.
One of the major elements that golf course architects use to make the game more interesting , challenging or difficult, is to create uneven surfaces in the fairways and adjacent areas. Think back on your own last few rounds, and try to count how many times you were required to play a shot from an uneven lie. It could have been either uphill, downhill or sidehill. If you have been playing some of the tougher courses in your local area, the answer probably is way too many to count. Each type of lie will produce a different ball flight, and it will require alterations to your address position and golf swing.
My biggest weakness to my own golf game has always been trying to hit the mid to long iron shots. I don’t feel comfortable enough like I do in hitting fairway woods. I tend to find when I’m playing with others in my group, that I’m always using one to two clubs more with my iron play.
Does Balance And Timing Have ALot To Do With Your Golf Swing Mechanics?
February 4, 2011 by Parshooters · 1 Comment
Balance and Timing are the two most important components of your golf swing mechanics. In order to produce enough power to generate the kind of yardage your looking for on every one of your golf swings. No matter if it’s hitting off a golf tee or using a chipping iron, your going to need too feel comfortable when addressing the golf ball and starting into your backswing. It all starts with having solid golf swing fundamentals in place.
Most golfers will step up to the golf ball without any thoughts or prayer of obtaining maximum yardage. By trying to use brute force they attempt to knock the cover off the golf ball. Which most often ends up in disastrous results. Over-swinging will only reduce your power. By rushing into your golf swing which causes improper weight shifting, it will only produce such common mishits as cutting, fat shots, ground before the golf ball, hacking, slicing, toe shots, topped shots and worm burners. Golf is based upon having a good sound mental focus, and with the proper amount of knowledge and training of your golf swing mechanics. Which can only produce the kind of end results your looking for.
The golf swing is a combination of balance, fluidity and strength, and they must be in that combined mix for your golf swing mechanics to produce the kinds of golf shots that are kept on target. Again, one of the most frequent errors to a golf swing is the consistent over-swinging of the golf club. Relax as much as you can during your golf swing. You do have some power, however accuracy is the name of any golf game. Set your goals to expend very little effort when swinging the golf club. Learning to hit the golf ball the right way will feel very easy and smooth.
Is Golf Instruction The Best Way To Learn How TO Improve Your Golf Swing Mechanics?
January 31, 2011 by Parshooters · 1 Comment
Do you have to take golf lessons? Of course not. Can you pick up golf and improve on your own? Of course, and many do. I’m a firm believer that the best way for golfers to improve upon their golf swing mechanics is by taking golf lessons. This can apply to someone just beginning or has been playing for a very long time. I frequently get lessons from my club pro when my golf swing goes out of kilter and needs to be readjusted.
Golf is a game not easy to master. You will learn more effectively by taking private golf instruction than you would in a large or public group. The reasoning is, if you could have the undivided attention of your instructor in any part of your golf swing, and could have all your questions answered directly as they come up. Don’t you think you would get a much deeper understanding of your golf swing mechanics, and have far greater memory retention of the lessons learned?
The emphasis is clearly on getting results. If a student’s golf swing needs to be dramatically changed or altered, and if a student’s approach to the game needs to be re-adjusted or completely rearranged. Then the natural course of action should happen between you and your instructor. You should have him there as your own personal coach, mentor and cheerleader.
Is It True Your Golf Swing Mechanics Starts With Having Good Balance?
January 24, 2011 by Parshooters · Leave a Comment
Having Good Balance Is The Key To All Sports!
One of the most important aspects of the golf swing is having good balance. The definition for good balance is a state of bodily equilibrium or equipoise. Having equal distribution of weight. A mental steadiness or emotional stability. Relaxed habit of calm behavior or judgment.
Balance is the key to any sport you play. You must have the right amount of equilibrium to go either to your right or left with out falling. Having enough flexibility to make those necessary changes, and feel comfortable in repeating those same movements over again. Training not only your muscles to physically respond, but your mental capacity to command such actions with out thinking about it.
Balance and posture are two of the most important physical traits that seems to elude most golfers. The most important thing to remember when addressing the golf ball is to relax. There is nothing that will hinder your golf swing more than having a tense body to begin with. Learn to loosen up by doing some stretching exercises, and some simple pilates or yoga to get the blood pumping. Make sure too align the core of your body muscles in balance with your mental state, before starting any golf round or practice.
Pilates vs Yoga. Which Golf Stretching Exercise Program Is Best For Golfers?
December 15, 2010 by Parshooters · 3 Comments
Pilates vs Yoga. Do Golfers Need To Do More Golf Stretching Exercise?
Golfers of all ages are now finding out the benefits of getting involved into some type of fitness program that’s specifically geared towards golfers. 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 they are just about ready to quit the game for good. However, there is hope for all golfers who are ready to change and improve upon their golf game and lifestyle.
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 balance, endurance, flexibility and strength. 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 their clubs 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 upon your golf swing speed and distance, it will require 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 resistance in order to take your body beyond where it normally moves.
Learn To Play Better Golf By Keeping Your Golf Swing Mechanics In Shape During Winter!
November 1, 2010 by Parshooters · 14 Comments
My golf season is over with, and for the majority of golfers who lives in the Northeast as well. From now until springtime this is the hardest and longest time period of inactivity. Personally, I don’t like working out at a gym, or get into a routine regiment of lifting weights. I don’t find it enjoyable nor relaxing. I like to go on long walks with my two dogs, and I’m fortunate to have an Indian trail near my home. However, during winter it can become impassible and treacherous to walk on. Therefore, even that amount of exercising will diminish.
Do you feel pain or discomfort when playing? Then your not alone, because golf injuries is very common. Even the best golfers who are in shape will feel discomfort and pain. 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 it’s the only form of exercise when playing an occasional 18 holes of golf.
Most weekend or seasonal golfers, will put themselves at risk by trying to swing as hard as professional golfers, often after hibernating all winter. Sitting behind a desk or lounging in front of a TV all week. They’ll go through the whole winter without taking a golf swing, and when the nice weather comes they’ll go out and play 18 two days in a row. Then on the weekends, they’ll drive to the golf course, jump out of their cars and start banging balls without warming up. This type of golfer is a perfect chiropractic candidate.
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.
Improve Your Golf Mindset In Order To Break 90.
October 6, 2010 by Parshooters · 8 Comments
As my 2010 golfing season is coming to a fast close, I can reflect back on this year as not being a good year scoring wise. I have to admit it has been a very long time that I have averaged in the low 90′s for anyone golfing season. Sure I have my excuses of not playing more than once a week, or committed no time to practicing my golf swing mechanics. The very things I write about in my posts, and have the audacity to not do what I’m trying to get my readers to understand and implement in their own improvement to changes in their golf swing mechanics. For that I’m Sorry!
Most golfers who struggle to break ninety are relatively experienced and have been playing for quite a while. Any golfer who has been playing for some time will have developed certain swing characteristics that will shape the flight of their golf shots. In most cases, those trying to break 90, it will mean you’ll have developed a cut spin or slice. Most golfers who cut the ball will dislike the flight of their shots and do everything possible to change their golf swing to hit a draw. One of the most important things to consider when trying to break 90, is learn to live with your golf swing mechanics and not fight it.
How Do You Break 90? In order to break 90, any flight of the golf ball is acceptable as long as it remains consistent. What is required is a good short game, and golf course management. Learning to place your shots on each hole for optimal results. Knowing when to gamble and take risks, and knowing when to play smart conservative golf shots. The key to breaking 90 is to make sure you don’t take more than bogey on any given hole. Eliminate the double and triple bogeys, because they are golf score killers. However, mistakes do happen that will ruin your chances of shooting less than 90. You do need to find a way of eliminating those 3-4 wasted strokes from your golf round immediately. This is known as your wheels coming off, because it hits you, when your not expecting those mishits from happening. If your target is to break 90, you do have the ability to do so. What you need to do is learn how to make the most out of your golf game. This does take time and patience. The best way to speed up your developing or learning curve is by putting in the time too practice.
How Do You Hit Low Trajectory Shots Using Your Same Golf Swing Mechanics?
September 24, 2010 by Parshooters · 9 Comments
Impact Is The Moment Of Truth In Golf! For every golfer who plays this great game, the one question is going to be different. Do you like to hit it high or low trajectory shots? If you hit low trajectory shots it doesn’t mean your golf swing mechanics are faulty. It also doesn’t mean your de-lofting the golf club from a 7 iron to a 5 iron for example, that’s a myth. Hitting a low trajectory shot, just like hitting it high takes practicing and a lot more creativity. It’s similar to the bump and run around the greens, but only with longer distances.
98% of my golf shots are hit low with a lot of overspin, for both the irons and woods. The public links golf course I play on before they put the watering system in, used to bake during the summer time. The fairways used to get real hard to the point where they used to crack. Your golf balls would get extra rolls anywhere from 50 to 100 yards, depending upon the trajectory of your golfball flight. I was known in my golf club as the “King of the low ball.” Now it has all changed, and your lucky to get an extra 10 yards of roll. However, I haven’t changed and probally never will. I enjoy hitting the low line drives, I feel, I have more control and consistency. There is less room for error, because you don’t have to worry about those lousy high bounces or wind conditions.
Golf is difficult enough when playing conditions are benign. Toss in a little wind, and shots of any distance can become problematic. Personally, I like tough conditions, because they separate shotmakers from the rest of the field, and they allow me to use my creativity. I developed my low ball to give me an edge during those type of conditions. Hitting these shots begins with a single thought in mind, “keep it down and under control.”
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.
How To Improve Your Golf Swing Using The Iron Byron Swing Machine!
June 23, 2010 by Parshooters · 9 Comments
If you’re having trouble with accuracy and consistency then you might want to step off the golf course, and head for the nearest driving range to get some practice time in on your golf swing. Since you’re probably on your own practicing, unless you decide to take a golf lesson from your local certified professional golf instructor .
The secret to improve your golf swing is to figure out where you might be going wrong and then practice until you’ve corrected that bad swing fault. You want to make all of the necessary changes that are affecting your golf swing more consistent, and develop a golf mindset that will give you a repeatable golf swing that you can take out onto the golf course with you.
Are you a perfectionist when it comes to practicing? Do you spend a lot of money on new golf equipment looking for that Holy Grail of Golf? Do you spend countless hours reading everything about golf in books, watching a bunch of videos, tried every tip and training aid you can get your hands on? Spent countless hours searching for the perfect golf swing, or trying to learn the proper golf swing mechanics? How about trying to cure your golf slice or fix any other swing flaw? If this is you, then the Swing Machine Golf will give you a new lease on your golfing life!
Can Using The Medicus Actually Change Your Golf Swing?
June 16, 2010 by Parshooters · 28 Comments
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. The least cost effective way is to spend countless hours at a driving range, before you take your game to the golf course. If you have just been striking golf balls after balls on the driving range and your golf swing is getting worse. You need to stop whatever your doing!
I’m sure you’ve 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?
Golfers in the past had to rely on the theories and interpretations of their teaching professional, books and videos which gave conflicting information. Bad golf tips from friends and other golfers, who were trying to help, but were actually giving bad advice. All these have led to the confusion, frustration and inconsistency of the golfer’s mindset. Do 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 analysis by breaking your golf swing down, understand what your trying to improve upon, and then implement the changes you’ve learned.
