Improve Golf Swing By Correcting Your Slicing Problem!
July 27, 2010 by Parshooters · 15 Comments
The worst feeling in the world is when your playing your best golf ever, and you come to one of the easiest holes on the golf course. With the opportunity to improve your golf score even better than what you have up until now. So, you reach back with everything you can muster in strength, and you knock the golf ball out of bounds with a terrible hook or slice. What happened? Your upset and frustrated after this hit, and your ready to let loose on anyone who opens their mouth. The only problem, it was your own damn fault. You went for that extra distance by over-swinging, and it cost you most likely of breaking your best golf score ever.
It really is sad to see someone go from being happy go-lucky on the first tee to total frustration by the 18′th tee. The game of golf becomes an instrument of torture instead of one of pleasure. Slicing your shots can cause a lot of embarrassment and frustration. If your a consistent slicer, does that frustrate you at all? Doesn’t that stimulate you to put forth a greater effort to figure out how to cure your slice? The whole idea of doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results that only gets worse. You know what they call that don’t you. Insanity. It becomes a major swing problem that does effect the majority of golfers at some point. Yet it’s something that can be fixed fairly easily. Don’t let your slice bring you down with frustration. Learn how to improve golf swing, and eliminate the unwanted hooks and slices.
I’m going to talk about how to improve golf swing by correcting the slicing problem in this post, because I still have tendencies to do this during an average golf round. I haven’t been able to draw or hook the golf ball on a consistent basis for a very long time now. The reason I can’t play a draw, is because I have a broken left wrist that never healed properly. When finishing with your follow through you need to feel your wrists rolling to the left. I don’t have that mobility. I have more of a trained cut-fade shot today which is good, because I can count on this consistently bringing the golf ball from left to right-middle of the fairway. Jack Nicklaus, played with a cut-fade shot, and it didn’t hurt him with regards to accuracy and distance.
Golf Tips On Chipping!
July 6, 2010 by Parshooters · 2 Comments
Golf Tips! Practice Your Chipping For Improving Your Scores!
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?
Does Having The Correct Golf Swing Mechanics In Place Make It Easier For Strategizing On The Golf Course?
June 28, 2010 by Parshooters · 1 Comment
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.
Keep Your Golf Mindset Focused Away From Three Putting!
June 14, 2010 by Parshooters · Leave a Comment
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.
