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Learn To Sweep Your Ball Off The Tee

The Proper Stance goes a long way for improving the quality of your drives. You will need to use a different stance when using your driver as opposed to your irons.

To be able to sweep the ball off the tee, well you will need to be hitting up on the ball. To do this you will first need to widen your stance.

A good guideline is to stand with your feet a shoulder width apart. By doing this you will be further behind the ball at address and that will help to hit up on the ball.

The ball will need to be placed further forward in your stance to allow you to hit it correctly and as another guideline it should be lined somewhere in the region of your target side foot heal or instep.

You will obviously need to experiment with the position until you get this right as there will always be some fine tuning required.

Once you get your stance and ball placement correct take a look at your shoulders and see that they are pointing in the direction you want the ball to go.

They should be aligned directly with the path of your intended flight. If your shoulders are pointing to the left of the hole that will be the most likely direction that your ball will land unless of course you slice the ball and it comes back around to the right.

That is another problem and this is assuming that you are in the correct position to eliminate slicing the ball.

In practice use something as a guideline to align your shoulders before you drive. In the driving range this will be easy to do but on the course you could lay your driver on the ground in the direction you want the ball to go and then align your shoulders with that.

Once you have mastered this routine, it will become part of your set-up for long straight drives.

Keys To Mastering Your Driving

The Most Popular Gadgets for Improving Your Putting Game

There are literally hundreds of gadgets that all claim to improve one, if not all, aspects of your golf game. The gadgets can profess to fix everything from your golf swing itself to your stance. Golf is a huge industry, especially in the United States and it seems that everyone wants to get in on the action. But, how do you know if a product that is being advertised will actually live up to its claims? That is what this article will address.

It is said that putting accounts for about 45% of your game in a round of golf. That is a huge statistic that cannot be overlooked. If you are someone who normally takes two, three or even more shots on average when you are on the green then you will definitely want to try to reduce that number. Imagine lowering your score by 18 points merely by improving your putting on each green by only 1 putt.

Many of the gadgets that help the putting game tend to concentrate on improving your stance over the ball and teaching you how to accomplish that perfect “pendulum” swing. Others have inventions that try to “train” your eye to “see” the path of the ball even before you hit it.

Before you can begin to shop for the perfect tool that will improve your putting game; you must first have some idea as to what problems you are encountering on the greens and where you are having the most difficulties. (Isn’t that always the way?

Before you can be helped, you have to become all “introspective” and perform some sort of self-analysis.) If you have no idea where your putting problems lie, I suggest heading to your closest sports supply or golf equipment store. Sure, you could head to one of your local golf courses, see the golf pro for $100 an hour, but first try the sporting goods store.

Even if they don’t have a golf “expert” on staff, there will be other golfers there who are not your friends and therefore will be extremely objective in analyzing your technique. Almost every golfing supply store will have a putting green in the department where you can practice.

Get a salesperson or other golfers to help you to see where you are going wrong. Other people who shop there will completely understand what you are going through and will be more than happy to help you. A golf shop is very similar to the old general store where people are willing to strike up a friendly conversation with anyone who walks in.

Once you have an idea where you need to improve, then you can begin to shop for a teaching aid that can help you. It may be as simple as getting a new putter. The sporting goods store may even have a product that you can try. There may even be others there who have tried the product and can give you some idea of its effectiveness.

Your other option is to search the Internet. Be very careful and try to purchase items from recognizable or well-known sites. As I stated before, the money generated from golf in the US is in the hundreds of billions. Because of this popularity there are many scams – including from infomercials. Even golf channels will air programs for gadgets that may not be as effective as they claim.

Once you have purchased a product remember to practice as much as possible in order to train your muscles and brain to eventually perform those actions without any assistance. Practice, more than anything will help you to turn your short game into something that will be admired.

No More 3 Putts

Golf101Tips.com Article - Golf Putting Strategies

1) Putting Well: In order to be a good golfer, you must develop the ability to putt well, and this calls for daily practice. In fact, to be blunt, if you do not take the time to practice putting, you may as well quit the game and take up knitting or raising orchids – putting is that important to you golf score. So, what are the best ways to improve your putting game?

2) Plan Your Putting: Study other golfers while they are putting. It looks as if many of them have putting worked out to a fine science. In truth, most good putters have visualize exactly what steps they are going to take before they even grip the shaft of the putter. It really does help to plan each step when it comes to putting, and many professional golfers found out long ago that planning and visualization are one of the best ways to improve their putting game. These two things and lots of practice, practice, practice.

3) Golfing takes coordination: is not as easy a sport as it looks. Those who don’t know a whole lot about the game may think it’s quite easy to hit a ball into a hole with a stick, but those who have played the game know that the reality is far different. Golfing takes good coordination, and practice. Did I mention practice?

4) Use A Modern Putting stroke: Putting is such a big part of the game of golf that well over half of your putting time should be devoted to improving your putting game. Putting takes good eye/hand coordination and excellent motors skills. These can take some time to develop.

5) Indoor putting green: While you could install a personal putting green in the middle of your living room, the next best thing is to take that idea outdoors. Or, if you don’t want to spring for the cost of creating your own mini golf course, how about buying yourself one of those indoor/outdoor putting greens? You get the same effect as a real putting green, and some of the fancier substitutes will even roll the ball right back to your feet after each putt! Set aside a block of time every day to practice, if you can. The beauty of the indoor/outdoor putting green is that you can use it rain or shine, summer or winter.

6) Watch The Pros on TV: It’s easy to watch golf tournaments on television to observe the pros in action and hopefully pick up some tips. It’s easy to read golf magazines and books to pick up tips on putting and golf in general. But, one of the very best ways in existence to become a better golfer is to have tons of patience. Why patience? It takes patience to understand all the many rules, terms, and nuances of golf. It takes patience to practice putting and driving. You cannot improve you golf game overnight, and patience is the only thing that will get you through the hours of practice that are necessary. Patience and a healthy dose of optimism will go a long way toward making you a better golfer.

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What you can do to become a better putter and avoid most of those 3-putts.

Some of us wish we could improve our putting to only three putts, but for most golfers who frequent the links, the dreaded 3-putts are keeping their scores higher than they would like.

It has been found that the average serious golfer putts almost 10 more times per round of golf than a professional golfer does. A lot of the reason for this discrepancy is because the amateur golfer is faced with a much longer first putt than the professional golfer is. That means that in order to eliminate 3-putts, before we do anything else, we need to improve our approach shots.

That will require us taking a closer look at our pitch and chip shots and taking the time and energy to practice them as emphatically as we practice our putting. Always consider your “Greens In Regulation” score and make a point to improve on that number every round.

Studies show that amateurs make short putts only about 20% less often than the pros do. It is the putts over 6 feet where weekend duffers begin to widen the gap and make those putts much less often. If you are a high handicapped player (over 30) you are probably 3-putting more than 20% of your holes, where pros only 3-putt a little over 3% of the holes. This is a huge difference that greatly influences your scoring.

Since it is the long putts where we suffer, it only makes sense to either eliminate the need for long putts with a better approach game or spend even more time on the practice green practicing those long and extra-long putts. In order to do so, for the next month or so only practice striking putts that are at least 40 to 60 feet away from the hole. Do this once or twice a week for a total of 30-60 minutes. You will notice that even though you will rarely make one of these putts, your first putt at this distance will become closer and closer.

For really long putts there are swing tricks and tips that you can employ in order to get a better and faster roll out of your ball while having it still remain in line. One of these super powered putting swings is called Pop Piston Stroke. This stroke differs from the normal pendulum swing as it involves “popping” your right elbow in order to give the ball an increased piston start. This will carry the ball much further for those long, uphill putts.

When long putts become a mastered task, you will find that most of your 3-putts have diminished into 2-putts and many of your former 2-putts may now be 1-putts. This means that if you normally 3-putt (or worse) 4-5 holes per round, you can find yourself knocking 5, 6, or even more strokes off of your round’s final score.

When you improve your long putting skills in tandem with an improved approach game, you may be able to keep those dreaded 3-putts to only one or two holes per round with the ultimate goal of eliminating them altogether.

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