BEST Pre-SHOT Golf Swing Strategy | Mental Golf

Learn how choosing the right golf club shaft can increase your distance and consistency. Many golfers are using golf club shafts with the wrong level of flex for their swing. This simple change can be the key to longer drives…

Golf instructors say that to be the best beginners, you must start from the ground and go up. The main reason for this is that going lower to the ground creates more power to your drive. This is only one of the basic tips for driving in golf, this article will feature more tips to help you improve as a golfer.

It is his first tournament title since a Thanksgiving night car accident in front of his home in 2009 that unspooled a scandal of extramarital affairs. Let’s first get the caveats out of the way: No, the Chevron World Challenge is not a regular PGA Tour event. But it is effectively Tiger Woods’ tournament; it was established to benefit his charities, and he is the host.

The first thing that was taught to me about golf was that I need to just RELAX! In my personal opinion, this is something that most of us have simply neglected or have forgotten how to do. Playing golf is more than a hobby, it is a sport that is meant to be enjoyed and can relieve stress that has built up over the last week from work and maybe home, as well.

Contrary to what other golfers believe, weight training for golf would not make you lose the feel of your golf game. In fact, you will be more in control of your body and your movements. You will also develop your balance which is very important when playing golf.

Do you love golf? Saving money? A beautiful backyard that is sure to become the talk of the town? Believe it or not, all three can come together in a glorious harmony that can involve both golf and barbeques at the same time. If you’re willing to put in the time and the energy, you can easily turn your backyard into the miniature golf course of your dreams. And even if you don’t fancy tending to professional grass seed for the green, there are synthetic putting greens and fake turf mats to appease even the smallest of yards. And with a well-positioned golf net to keep your golf balls in your yard and not the neighbors, you can start saving money and enjoying the game!

There is a golf club that is gaining in popularity that we use for getting out of difficult situations on the golf course. The hybrid golf club, also named the rescue club, offers two distinct advantages for the golfer: as a replacement for long irons and to allows us to “rescue” ourselves from difficult situations 150 yards and farther from the green. Every golfer should have at least one of these golf clubs in his bag.

One of the most overlooked aspects in golf today is the implementation of an easy to repeat and extremely effective pre-shot routine. Many of my first time students have revealed to me that they do not incorporate a pre-shot routine into their set-up at all. The pre-shot routine (in a nutshell), is a process by which the player applies a consistent method to help him or her to get into a set-up position that will allow for accurate target alignment, while relieving tension and anxiety to improve the players’ potential to hit an accurate golf shot.

If you’ve been coming to Myrtle Beach and playing golf for a long time you’ve probably played just about everything worth playing, so you would think. If you don’t mind taking a full day, and who doesn’t when it comes to golf, for just a short drive from Myrtle Beach you can play one of the truly great sea side courses in the Carolinas, Bald Head Island Country Club.

Those who like their golf can just not keep away from the course. It would seem they are addicted to their daily fix of putting and teeing. So much so that even adverse weather conditions cannot keep them home. They ensure that they enjoy their round of golf even in the cold. As long as the game is not affected due to wind or rain, you will find the golfing enthusiast at the greens putting away to glory.

According to the National Golf Foundation there are now over 16 thousand golf courses in the United States making up about half of the worlds courses. If you laid all of these courses together they would be the approximated size of the country of Costa Rica.

Do you believe that amateur golfers (including you of course) can build a ‘perfect putting stroke’? As an advanced PGA golf professional who has been coaching amateur golfers for many years, I strongly believe amateur golfers can build a putting stroke that is as close to perfect as many of the top golf professionals. What does it take to build the perfect putting stroke?