Archives for Golf Tips for Beginners - Page 4
Straight Left Arm in Golf?
For a more 'connected' swing (a swing where-in the arms and body turn smoothly, in-synch), try and keep your arms in front of your chest. What this…
Fixating the eye behind the ball
For some reason, a lot of instructors ask you to focus your eyes on the back of the ball during the golf swing. More important than the eyes,…
Where is your center of gravity?
When you are standing erect, do you know where your center of gravity lies? How about when you lean over? While the answer to these questions may be in the…
Sense of Timing in Golf Shots
Hitting it CRISP is all about timing. Timing (in golf) is specific to the timing of the weight transfer – especially your weight transfer back to the left ; And…
The day of the golf tournament–Two key concepts for playing competitive golf
Everyone knows that competitive golf is a different game from regular golf (Bobby Jones famously remarked that there are TWO types of golf – tournament golf and weekend golf). There…
Books every golf hacker must possess
If you sit through business meetings contemplating your golf grip (or tweaking your posture at address), you will find the authors of these books to be long-lost soul mates. For…
Chapter Titles from ‘On Learning Golf’
If you are a student of golf, then you have probably wondered about things such as rhythm and timing, the mental makeup of the golfer, wrist action, the in to…
The Lower back as the GROUNDING element in the golf swing
No matter what your golf setup procedure is, you need some element that GROUNDS you. GROUNDING refers to the ability to stay glued to the ground as you swing this…
To hit it straight, do NOT line up –simply make a good swing ( taking your range swing to the course )
Aiming or doing anything involving directing the ball is a swing wrecker. Have you wondered why you hit it flush on the driving range but not so much on the…
Golf is a game of feel–work on reproducing the feel, not on reproducing specific positions
Most of us do not put much work into reproducing a ‘feel’. We work on reproducing certain ‘positions’ – both during the backswing and during our ‘through’ swing. This effort…