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1.	Bookmarks: 0	Keys To Improving Distance From The Tee Players taking my golf lessons often confuse length off the tee with muscle power. They’re not the same. While you may never drive the ball as far as John Daly, quite possibly the Tour’s longest driver, you can generate additional power off the tee—and improve your golf handicap —by developing a sounder technique.Here are 7 keys to a great drive:• Widen your stance for stability• Point your left toe slightly toward target (for right-handers)• Hover the clu...
2.	Bookmarks: 0	Why You Need A Golf Handicap Your golf handicap is a barometer for your game
3.	Bookmarks: 0	The Types Of Grass And What It Means To Your Game The type of grass you play on affects your game. That’s especially true when it comes to putting, where the type of grass can dramatically affect your putts. Knowledge of how the different types of grass affect your game, gained through all your golf lessons, golf tips and personal experience, can help lower golf scores and golf handicaps.Although every locale is different, there are grasses that can be used on almost on any course. There are also grasses that can be used...
4.	Bookmarks: 0	The 3 Types of Handicaps There are 3 types of handicaps out there. They include: (1) honest handicaps; (2) sandbagger handicaps and (3) Hollywood handicaps.
5.	Bookmarks: 0	Synchronizing Your Arms And Body Whatever your golf handicap is, you’ve probably experienced days when everything on the course seemed to fall into place. You’re golfing with a fun-loving foursome. You’re playing a great course on a great day. And you’re driving, chipping, and putting well. In fact, you’re doing everything well. It all seems so easy.And, then, for no apparent reason, you lose it. You can’t do anything right. Your drives miss the fairways. Your approach shots fall way short. An...
6.	Bookmarks: 0	Six Keys To Pitching From The Fairway Accurate pitching reduces your golf handicap. Turning three strokes into two by pitching close to the pin cuts strokes from your scores. Cut enough strokes and you’ll lower your handicap significantly. Learning to pitch accurately from the fairway is crucial to improving your game.Pitching accurately from the fairway, as I mention in my golf lessons, requires good distance control. That’s not easy to achieve. The tendency is for your swing to be either too long, in which ...
7.	Bookmarks: 6	Selecting The Right Putter For Your Game Buying a putter that’s right for you isn’t easy. You need to do your homework to find one that fits both your budget and your game, which means learning the different types of putters and clubheads available and their advantages. But doing your homework is worth it because having a good putter, as I often say in my golf lessons, shaves strokes off your golf handicap.The key considerations when looking for a putter are price, quality, type, clubhead, and alignment system. ...
8.	Bookmarks: 1	Review Of Golf Training Aids- Can They Really Help Lower Your Scores? Today’s marketplace is flooded with training aids. You can find one for nearly every part of the game. And more and more are being introduced every day. While a training aid won’t lower your golf handicap overnight or replace golf tips, it will help improve your golf game if you work with it faithfully.Below are five training aids golfers often ask about in my golf lessons. Designed to improve your swing or a phase of your swing, these products help correct faults, groove...
9.	Bookmarks: 0	Principles Of Accurate Chipping Here’s a question I sometimes ask when giving a golf lesson. What do pro golfers Jose Maria Olazabal, Tiger Woods, and Sergio Garcia all have in common? Answer: They don’t hit into trouble often, but when they do, their short games save them, and accurate chipping is one of the most potent weapons in their short game. In fact, most players with low golf handicaps chip accurately.The chip shot is one of the easiest shots to learn in golf. It’s also one of the most crucial....
10.	Bookmarks: 0	Learning To Control Your Swing To Improve Your Golf Handicap The most difficult thing about learning golf is to learn to distract your mind from everything except the feeling of what you are about to perform.Now no teacher can tell you in exact words how it feels when you make a certain movement correctly. You will have to use your imagination to interpret what he says, and if he is wise he will encourage you to use it.Let me give you an example. I want to teach you to pivot from the hips. Now I can show you how it is done and ...
11.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Read Greens Like A Pro Ever hit a putt you thought was going in only to have it drift wide right? If you have, chances are you misread the green. My golf lessons teach that reading greens takes skill, good judgment, and experience. Since there’s no formula for determining the direction a ball must start based on the slope of the green and the distance to the hole, reading greens is key to sinking more putts. And sinking more putts, as my golf tips emphasize, produces a lower golf handicap.Let’s...
12.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Practice Golf Properly Practicing your golf game properly is vital to improving. Knowing how to practice increases self-confidence, reduces scores, and lowers golf handicaps. It also increases the fun of playing as you see your scores drop on each round. I consider it so important that I discuss how to practice with all my students during golf lessons. Unfortunately, some students don’t always follow my advice. They either focus on the wrong things during practice or they practice without purpo...
13.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Deal With Sloping Greens Reading slopes correctly is vital to putting well. All putts start out straight, but the green’s contour curves the ball. If you’re going to improve your putting and lower your golf handicap, then you must learn how to read a green’s slope.Reading a green’s slope comes with experience, like a lot of things in golf. The more you play, the better you’ll become at it, as I stress in my golf lessons. Nevertheless, there are some proven techniques I’ve used that wil...
14.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Cut Five Strokes From Your Game By The Weekend If you're serious about lowering your golf handicap and doing so quickly, master the three scoring clubs—the driver, the wedge, and the putter. These clubs have the greatest impact on your golf game and provide the greatest opportunity for cutting strokes from your scores. Mastering these clubs will improve your game as much as 5 strokes per round. Specifically though, let’s focus on the wedges. Knowing which wedge to hit in different situations is really the best way to ...
15.	Bookmarks: 0	How I Lowered My Golf Handicap How did I lower my golf handicap?How will you lower your golf handicap?What would your life be like if you played more Golf?Wait you say, you don't have enough time to play more golf?Have to go to that job, that You Love So Much? Now think about this for a moment, golf is one of the greatest games ever!Wouldn't you agree? The sport of Kings.Fresh air, exercise, out with friends and possibly doing a little business networking.So how are you going to play ...
16.	Bookmarks: 3	Golf Handicap Systems Help Even Out Scorecards For Competitive Golf Play The golf handicap system is implemented at golf courses, for golf tournament play. Trophies and prizes are awarded at the end of golf tournaments, based on golf scores. In order to make the golf game fair play, the handicap system is based on the ten lowest differentials of the last twenty games on an eighteen-hole course in one season. Some golf associations will accept fewer golf games. It can also be used for fair play outside of golf tournaments. The following is a short ...
17.	Bookmarks: 0	Fix Your Finish To Improve Your Golf Handicap How you finish often reveals what’s happening during your swing In fact, I often key on a player’s finish in my golf lessons to determine exactly how to help he or she can improve their game. You can do the same for yourself—if you know what to look for.Below I describe four of the more common finishes I see when giving golf lessons, possible causes of the finish, and ideas on how to eliminate, the swing faults that cause them.High FinishThe high finish position is ...
18.	Bookmarks: 0	Do You Have A One-Plane Or Two-Plane Swing? The concept of plane confuses some players. It also confuses some players that come to me for golf lessons. Many are unclear about what it is and what its impact is on your golf swing. Whether you understand the concept of plane or not, swinging off plane is never good. Focusing on two points—spine angle at address and the position of the left arm on the downswing—clears up the confusion about swing plane and explains its effect on your golf swing and your golf handicap. ...
19.	Bookmarks: 0	Chip Shot Boot Camp - The Fundamentals Are you frustrated with your short game? It happens quite often to amateurs and pros alike. You feel like you have put in your time at the practice facility and do not know what to do next. Knowing the fundamentals of a chip shot will help you get the golf ball close to the hole or chip in. This will quickly lower your scores and your golf handicap.Many golfers are confused on what the actual definition of a chip shot is. To make sure we are all talking about the same thi...
20.	Bookmarks: 0	Can Well-Maintained Greens Lower Your Scores? I don’t often mention green maintenance in my golf lessons. Nor do I often discuss it in my golf tips. That’s because golfers want to talk about hitting the ball instead. But the care and feeding of a club’s greens—how they are mowed, watered, fertilized— can have a major impact on a player’s golf handicap, especially if he or she plays the same course a lot.Speed is the key factor when considering green maintenance. Usually, players want a superintendent to in...
21.	Bookmarks: 0	Building A Repeatable Swing Like Tiger Woods Tiger Woods hits his irons straighter and more accurately than most pros. By swinging the club exactly the same way, he’s able to repeat his golf swing again and again and again. The more he repeats his swing, the more often he generates predictable results. For Tiger, predictable results mean more tournament wins and higher earnings. For the rest of us, it means better scores and lower golf handicaps.Building a repeatable swing is ultimately the goal of all golf instruct...
22.	Bookmarks: 0	Ball Position For Different Clubs Ball position is a critical component that’s often overlooked by players with high golf handicaps. Ball position decides a shot’s initial direction. While theories on ball position abound, you need to find one that’s right for you. Ball position affects a clubhead’s swing path, as I explain in my golf lessons. If the ball is too far back, the clubhead moves on an in-to-out swing path at impact, sending the ball to the target’s right. If the ball is too far forward, ...