Thursday, May 20, 2010
Being a Perfect Golf Player
There are certain tips that can be made use of in order for a golf player to play good golf. Learners normally take a short time in learning how to play this game. In order for you to play good golf, you need to ensure that you have obtained the best training from the best and most recognized golf institutions. This way, your golf foundation will be strongly established.
The first step of ensuring that you play better golf is considering the golf club. You need to ensure that in order for you to play well; you need to have a good golf club that is comfortable to your hands as you play the game. When moving close to your golf ball you need to ensure that you have looked out for any stone, leaf or broken tree that might be obstructing your path towards the flag that you and your golf ball are aiming at. This way, your move will be accurate and indestructible. When this is ensured, you are now free to make your perfect golf swing. The second step in ensuring that you play better golf is by putting your hands in the correct order. What you are required to do is make a perfect and correct grip on your left hand. Make sure the club is naturally positioned on the ground right behind the ball and ensure that you have placed it in the left hand. This way, the shaft will lie across the forefingers top. With this technique of playing, stability will be maintained while making a swing.
The other thing you need to consider is the position of your right hand. What you need to do is ensure that the right hand grip is correctly set. The way in which you make a grip really matters. Some individuals are known to have naturally shaky hands. Such a person needs to go through training session on how to grip the golf club. The right hand grip is specially used by people who have naturally small hands and children. The mechanism is similar to the left hand mechanism only that it is vice versa. Finally, you are required to develop or have a correct stance. A perfect stance will enable the player to acquire a good balance as you make a swing. In fact, the stance is what matters most as you play the golf game. Playing better golf is very easy.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Golf Tips:Keep on Tee and Fairway
One of the worst things you can do to your golf game is to tighten up or get too tense when teeing off, or when you're on the fairway or green. Instructors have a cure for this; it's a drill called “the hip blocker.”
First fix your knees as if ready to swing at the ball. This will force the body to turn more correctly and increase flexibility. If you're right-handed, while swinging, turn your shoulders back until the left shoulder is under your chin. You should be able to feel a greater stretch along your left side. Do the same thing on your follow-through, but this time with your right shoulder under your chin. With this exercise, in time you will increase your ability to fully coil without using your hips. You'll achieve a new flexibility and at the same time increase the power in your swing.
2.Are you hitting the ball using only one side
Are you one of those golfers who unconsciously is using only one side when hitting the ball? After all, it is probably your strongest side and so depending on it for most of your strength comes naturally enough, right? It's important to use both sides fully in your shots to play well and score well. Too many players, even those who have been playing for a while and should know better, allow their swings to be dominated by their right side. The left arm and side, consequently, remain weak and do not contribute as they should to every shot you make. Right-side dominance causes poor extension and leads to a lot of other flaws in your swing. If you're right-handed, one way to correct this is to practice swinging with your left arm only. Do this a few times and then add your right arm for a full swing. You should begin to feel the difference in your swing and in the power you can now generate.
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Scotland's Pebble Beach
Parts of the Ailsa course were destroyed during both the First and Second World Wars to make landing fields for the Royal Air Service. There are remains of the air fields still there today if you climb some of the hills around the 12th and 13th holes. Mackenzie Ross was tasked with rebuilding the course after the Second World War. In a combination of both luck and no doubt foresight most of the holes along the water were spared destruction. The original course was built c1906, by Willie Fernie, the professional at Troon, although apparently, the Marquis of Ailsa had a private course on the land prior to 1906.
Turnberry, like many early British resort courses, was initially built by the railway companies to generate traffic; in this instance, with the building of the Glasgow and South Western Railway link and Turnberry station. By 1925, the L.M.S. (London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company) owned the hotel. In Dell Leigh's 1925 book of golf courses of the British Isles, you can really see how the pre-war Ailsa course was quite different than today's redesigned course. He mentions that there were 8 holes where you had to hit blind shots. Ross's redesign eliminated virtually all of these.
While not as highly regarded as many other courses in Britain at the time, it was ranked #97 in the world in 1937.
Each hole on the Ailsa Course has a Scottish name, many of which, artfully, plant just that slightest bit of doubt in your mind before playing them:
1. Ailsa Craig (named for the rock in the Firth of Clyde that you look out on)
2. Mak Siccar (Make Sure)
3. Blaw Wearie (Out of Breath)
4. Wo-Be-Tide (Watch Out)
5. Fin Me Oot (Find Me Out)
6. Tappie Toorie (Hit to the Top)
7. Roon the Ben
8. Goat Fell (named for the tallest peak on Arran across the firth)
9. Bruce's Castle (remains of Robert the Bruce's castle are nearby)
10. Dinna Fouter (Don't Mess About)
11. Maidens (The village north of the course)
12. Monument (to the airman lost that were stationed at Turnberry)
13. Tickly Tap (Tricky Little Stroke)
14. Risk-an-Hope
15. Ca' Canny (Take Care)
16. Wee Burn (the little burn that runs in front of the green)
17. Lang Whang (Good Whack)
18. Duel in the Sun (Nicklaus vs. Watson 1977)
As proof that the R & A does add courses in to the Open rota, Turnberry was added in 1977 and has hosted Opens a total of three times: 1977, 1986 and 1994, with another scheduled in 2009. In case the R and A are readers of my blog (since they won't take my calls, this is my only channel of communication), my hope is that one day Kingsbarns will also be added to the rota.
Holes 1-6 are basically back and forth parallel holes which is a good thing because if the wind is blowing it allows you multiple changes in direction to provide some relief. The course really beings at the 5th hole where the next seven are along the ocean, ala Pebble Beach. I especially like the 6th, Tappie Toorie, an uphill par three that plays 231 yards. If the wind is up during the 2009 Open Championship, this is going to make the 240 yard par three 4th at Augusta look like a wee little hole. The hole is well protected on the left side by three small bunkers and from the tee the entire right side of the hole drops away, in shades of the Postage Stamp at Troon.
The blue tee on the 9th hole is arguably the best tee box in the world (Pebble Beach 18th being the 2nd best). You are hanging on the edge of a cliff with the white lighthouse nearby, the craggy rocks below and one of the most scenic views in golf with the course all around you and the majestic hotel on the top of the hill. To once again quote one of my favorite golf writers, Henry Longhurst, "You find yourself lingering on the tee, gazing down on the waves as they break on the rocks and reflecting how good it is to be alive".
The 16th Hole, Wee Burn, is one of the best on the course. A 409 yard par four that calls for a straight and long tee shot. The drama comes on your second shot. You will typically be hitting from a slight downhill lie to an oval shaped green that is difficult to hold. If you are a little bit short the green is shaped so your ball will roll down into the burn. The same situation on the right side of the green. The left side is protected by a bunker and being long leaves you in the tall and hilly rough. As an added element of danger the green also has portions sloping that can cause your ball to ricochet in various directions. Also, the drop from the green to the burn is probably close to fifteen feet. Unlike the Swilken Burn at the Old Course which is just a couple of feet below you, you are basically hitting from atop a hill, downhill over a chasm to an elevated green. It is something! The net-net of it is that the effective landing area you have to hit to hold a ball is probably no more than 20 feet by 10 feet. I have yet to find a better side (left or right) to approach the green from, probably because there is none.
Without the drama and grandstands of the Open Championship the 17th and 18th are anti-climactic, average holes. None-the-less, the overall experience at Turnberry is one of excitement. The end of the round at Turnberry is enhanced by the thought of sitting happily at the hotel after a round listening to a bag-piper as you recount the day's shots at the 19th hole. Touristy? Maybe, but bring it on.
The inevitable question that arises, "is it better than Pebble Beach?" is a tough call. It depends on the importance you give to different factors. Pebble Beach probably has better golf holes in all (except holes 13, 14 and 15), but I think Turnberry beats it on the scenic beauty front. Turnberry also wins on the speed of play, the caddie experience and overall value for the money.
As golf writer and architect Donald Steel says describing Turnberry - "there is no where lovelier!"
Thursday, May 13, 2010
How to hit down on golf ball
Here’s a picture of Tiger Woods. It’s not the clearest picture, but I want you to notice a few things, and apply these golf tips to your iron golf swing next time you go out and hit balls. Do not try this on the course without doing it in practice first.
Tip #1 Your hands and butt of the club MUST be ahead of the golf ball at impact.
Tip#2 Forward shaft lean. This is where most beginner golfers mess it up. The get no shaft lean at impact, meaning they are throwing (flipping) the clubhead at the ball in a scooping fashion. This is death to the golf swing.
Tip #3 Move ball back in stance slightly with mid to short irons. Don’t be drastic with this, but many beginner golfers have the ball too far forward making it nearly impossible to keep your hands and butt of club ahead of the ball with an improper ball position.
Tip #4 Preset Impact Position. Before you hit every shot on the range with your wedges I want you to get into your impact position. Hands ahead of ball, hips rotated towards target. Get into this position, set it, then take your backswing and hit ball. I took a an overhead shot of what this preset impact should look like. I think it will be an eye-opener for you.
It may look like the ball is way back in my stance, but that is an illusion. In the proper impact position, you’ve rotated your hips, and put 90% of your weight on your left side, so a lot of motion and momentum is now ahead of the ball…ACCEPT…my head, upper body, and my spine tilt is still away from the target.
Also, look at the lines I’ve drawn. The thin white line is a square clubface at impact. Most beginner golfers have it wide open and that’s why they slice the golf ball. The solid white line is showing proper angle of the shaft from looking above. Notice the angle. The yellow line is where most amateur golfers are at impact. Straight which results in a flipping of the club at impact, adding loft, possibly causing a thin or bladed shot, and definitely a loss of distance.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
How to get power in your golf swing
Learning how to get power in your golf swing is easy. Kenny Perry is not the fittest guy around, but he bangs it LONG! He’s a perfect example of creating lots of power, and with an unorthodox golf swing to boot!
He averaged 293 yards off the tee on the PGA Tour last year. Not bad for a 49 year old who’s carrying an extra 30 pounds! What’s his secret to hitting 300 yard drives? I can tell you he has a very late release of the club, which is another term for lag in the golf swing. To improve driving distance, wrist lag is a very effective way to do it.
Focus On Your Right Wrist
To get lag in your golf swing, focus on retaining your right wrist angle at impact. One of the biggest “power leaks” is casting the club from the top. You come into impact with a straight right wrist, with no clubhead speed; and actually this is now what we call a flipped club at impact. There is no retention of power, because the clubhead will no “slow down” going through impact, causing a massive loss of speed and power.
Make A Full Shoulder Turn On Backswing
One important key to power and distance is learning how to make a full shoulder turn in your golf swing. This is not as hard as you think, even if you’ve lost flexibility. Remember… it’s not how high you get your hands or club at the top of your swing, it’s getting your shoulders to turn at least 90 degrees, with 45 degrees of hip turn. That’s all you need. This is not that difficult.
I’ll give you a little “secret” on how to easily make a full shoulder turn. Focus on your right shoulder rotating back and around immediately upon takeaway. This will release all the tension in the lead shoulder, which is what 99% of all golfers focus on when they try to make a big turn.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
speed up on the green with a putting aid
INDIO, Calif. – I just played an 18-hole round of golf on a fabulous golf course, but I can’t post the score.
Why? Because on every green I aimed at an enlarged cup – a large, eye-catching, rubber target called the Big Cup.
So what’s up here? The Big Cup is placed on top of a regulation cup and essentially doubles the size of the hole. It conclusively demonstrates the influence of putting on the final score, and it also serves as a wonderful practice aid for lag putting.
I played at The Plantation Golf Club here in Indio with Rob O’Loughlin, inventor of the Big Cup. Also joining us was my good friend Chuck Carroll, who works at PGA Tour events for the Darrell Survey as a golf equipment surveyor.
O’Loughlin flew to the desert after a winter in Madison, Wisc., so he couldn’t hit the side of a barn with a 20-foot putt. Meanwhile, Carroll plays right-
handed and hits 300-yard drives, but he putts left-handed and can’t make a six-foot putt.
So I emerged as the champion putter of the day. Where was the R & A’s Peter Dawson with my Claret Jug, anyway?
At the PGA Merchandise Show in late January, O’Loughlin tried to give one of the Big Cups to Dawson, who regards O’Loughlin with the same suspicion he would direct at, say, a venomous snake.
O’Loughlin is the man who almost singlehandedly convinced the USGA and R & A to approve the use of distance measuring devices in amateur golf. In the
process, O’Loughlin, the modernist, got to know Dawson, the traditionalist, quite well.
As founder of Laser Link, a rangefinder manufacturer, O’Loughlin is always looking ahead to new technological developments in golf. In the case of the Big Cup, though, he took a step backward.
Enlarged cups have been tried before. They have even been used in professional tournaments. They never caught on.
For O’Loughlin, the Big Cup is a practice device. Yes, it can easily be used on the course, but its greatest value probably comes on the practice putting green.
Lagging a long putt to a regulation cup can be an imprecise exercise. Using the Big Cup, the target looks immense. It provides a much improved sense of distance.
The Big Cup is circular with a pronounced rubber ridge all the way around. It has a hole in the middle and is placed right on top of a standard cup.
A ball must have enough speed to climb over the ridge, but not so much speed that it rolls over the ridge on the opposite side. O’Loughlin says he designed the cup to accept what is known as Dave Pelz optimal speed – the speed at whcih a missed putt would go 15 to 18 inches past the cup.
Pelz, the noted putting instructor, has been spreading this speed message for years. The Big Cup, according to O’Loughlin, helps reinforce the theory.
Playing an 18-hole round with the Big Cup changes the game dramatically. I holed a 16-foot birdie putt on the first green and a 45-foot birdie putt on the third green. Suddenly I was 2-under-par, and in real life I am never 2-under-par.
We found ourselves trying to sink every long putt and every chip shot. It was fun.
The Big Cup is widely available in golf shops and retail outlets. Its suggested retail price is $27.95, although it can be purchased for $19.95.
As a change of pace and as a putting aid, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
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McPherson went to Mike Wright, who helped turn McPherson’s good friend Angela Stanford into one of the top players in the world. McPherson’s swing was mostly built on guidance from her father, David, a former plus-4 handicapper, and through old-fashioned trial and error.“I think most of it is being athletic and just figuring it out,"she said. “Whether you put me bowling or whatever, I’m going to sit there and try it untilI figure out how to do it. It’s a hard-headedness and a stubbornness.
“I don’t like failing.”
Kristi Coggins, McPherson’s coach at South Carolina, videotaped McPherson’s swing once while McPherson was in college.
It “kind of messed her up for a week or so,” Coggins said. “Her swing is so natural. She’s the definition of – like coaches always say – ‘get a swing and own it.’ She was always aware of her tendencies and had the gift to correct them.”
Said McPherson: “I just want to get the ball from here to there. I don’t care how it does it.”
During the season, McPherson’s preparations are limited not only by her simple approach but because of the physical limitations of rheumatoid arthritis.
“I played one 18-hole practice round all year,” she said. McPherson said she warms up for 40 minutes – 15 minutes hitting balls, 15 minutes putting, and is at the tee 10 minutes early. “It took (Thane Aalyson, her caddie) a while to get used to that. We don’t practice when we’re done, either.”
The player: Kristy McPherson
Age: 28
In the bag:Callaway FT-iQ Driver (9.5degree);Callaway Big Bertha Diablo Fairway Wood (15 degree);Sonartec HB 001 hybrid (21 degree and 23 degree);Ping G15 Irons (5-PW); Ping Tour wedges (52, 56 and 60 degree); Odyssey White Hot XG Putter; Titleist ProV1 ball.
Top results: T-2, 2009 Kraft Nabisco and ’09 Wegmans LPGA; 16th on ’09 LPGA money list; No. 19 in Golfweek/SagarinPerformance Index; member, ’09 U.S. Solheim Cup team; seven-time winner at South Carolina, including two SEC titles (2001, ’02); three-time first-team All-American.
The hook: Left hand in control
McPherson grew up playing a draw in an attempt to get more distance. That draw soon grew into a hook, a shot that almost drove McPherson out of pro golf. Her draw was too low and lacked the spin for her to contend consistently in professional golf.
McPherson used to roll her hands in the takeaway (left), pulling the club inside. Now she tries to keep the club on the target line (right).
McPherson is now one of the LPGA’s best ballstrikers (ninth in driving accuracy, 16th in GIR last year), all because of switching from what she described as a “right-hand-dominated” swing to one in which her left hand has control.
“My biggest tendency was flipping the right hand (in the release),” McPherson said. “Now I feel like I’m swinging the back of my left hand toward my target, and keeping the clubface square longer.”
McPherson’s swing improvement starts with the takeaway. She used to roll her hands and get the club inside quickly. The club would fall under the proper plane on the downswing, which would force her to flip the club at the release.
Leg drive: Release the hips
McPherson’s competitive nature did some damage to her swing. In college, she had reconstructive surgery on her left knee. Though the doctor recommended six months off, she returned to golf two months later, When she returned, McPherson found it difficult to shift her weight into her left knee on the downswing.
Instead, she would fall back and leave her weight on her right side (pictured, left).
McPherson is working on a more active lower body on the downswing, but not in the way many amateurs might think.
Many amateurs, in an attempt to shift weight to their lead leg and create power on the downswing, try to “drive” through the ball. Instead, they often slide too far in front of it, leading to weak shots to the right.
McPherson likes to feel her right hip “releasing” (i.e., turning). This move gets her weight off her right side and allows her to have a passive, lesshandsy release. When she would stay on her right side in the downswing, she had to flip at the ball with her hands.
Now, she wants to feel the clubhead swing back on the target line while her hands stay close to her body, and she wants the same sensation on the downswing.
Better bunker play: Let the club do the work
McPherson’s bunker game – especially on short, soft shots – has improved thanks to some of the changes to her full swing.
McPherson used to take the club too far inside, which would cause her to hit too far behind the ball and not create much spin. McPherson described her old bunker shots as “chunk-and-runs.”
Now, McPherson takes the club more to the outside and steeper and “lets the clubhead fall underneath (the ball).”
“I keep the clubface open, don’t let it pass my hands and let the clubhead do the work,” she said.
McPherson’s follow-through is shorter now because she is letting gravity accelerate the club, instead of swinging through the ball.
Belly putter: From aid to savior
Pride or principle might preclude use of a belly putter on the course, but the midlength flatstick can be a valuable training aid. McPherson started using a
belly putter in practice, to feel the proper release. Shortly after, the putter made its way into her bag permanently.
“With the short putter, I aimed left and pushed the putter down the line,” McPherson said. “With the belly putter, if you push (the putter) down the line,
it’s coming out of your belly.”
Because the belly putter is anchored to the body, it helps sync her stroke with her body turn.
Short putts: See the line
McPherson uses a common drill to help with short putts. She puts balls in a 6-foot circle around the hole to hit putts with different breaks. The important thing for her is seeing how the ball enters the hole. On slower greens, the ball usually will enter toward the front of the hole; on faster greens, it
usually enters on the side. Paying attention to the ball’s entrance point helps her better visualize her putting line on the course.
Chips: Reading the lie
McPherson’s short game has improved because she is better at anticipating how the ball will react out of certain lies. This has come from better preparation in practice rounds.
“I try to work myself into different lies so I’m not caught off-guard when I get in the tournament,” she said.
“I just learned to read the lie more, to see how it’s going to land, how it will release.”
It’s a simple task – mixing up the lies during practice – but one that players often neglect.
McPherson also has tweaked her chipping action. She used to play the ball forward in her stance and take the club outside the target line, which caused her to scoop shots.
Now her chipping stroke closely mirrors her putting stroke. The shaft is more upright at address, and the ball is farther back in her stance. “I just turn my shoulders, which causes the club to work inside,” McPherson said. “Then I just turn through it.”
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Friday, May 7, 2010
Improves structure by Physical training
How can you improve your structure to play better and safer golf? A quick physiology lesson is at hand.
Earlier, I talk about fascia. More specifically, your body's fascial system contributes to your flexibility, mobility, posture, and function. Fascia, or connective tissue, is everywhere; it is the net that holds your body together.Fascia's main job is to retain your body's normal shape, providing resistance to various stresses. In order to change your body structure and improve your ability to play golf, you benefit most by following a specific sequence of physical training, called "Release, Reeducate, and Rebuild",or, "The Story of Gary McCord's Career":
Release: First, you must release your connective-tissue restrictions.Specially designed flexibility exercises help reduce tension in the inelastic portion of the fascial system that resists lengthening. You must perform these stretching exercises at low intensity but for a prolonged
duration. Many people with significant fascial tightness need to sustain a single flexibility exercise for a minimum of three to five minutes before the layers of fascia begin to relax. A gentle, sustained stretching technique is far more effective than a short-duration, intense stretch because it more effectively and permanently lengthens the tough connective tissue of the body.
Rebuild: Last, you undergo a program of rebuilding exercises, or strengthening exercises designed to solidify and then reinforce your physical structure and dynamic swing motion. These exercises can also improve your swing speed for added distance and improve muscular endurance for better swing control and performance toward the end of around and/or during longer practice sessions.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Aiming properly is difficult
I've played pro golf for more than 25 years, which means taking part in a lot of pro-ams. (In a pro-am, each professional is teamed with three or four amaeurs.) And in every single one of those rounds, I saw someone misaligned at address. Sometimes that someone was me! Aiming properly is that difficult.Generally speaking, right-handed golfers tend to aim too far right of the target. I don't see many of them aiming left — even slicers, whose shots commonly start left and finish right. Invariably, people tend to aim right and swing over the top on the way down to get the ball started left. What makes aiming so difficult? Human nature is part of it. Getting sloppy with your aim is easy when your mind is on other things. That's why discipline is important. Taking the time and trouble to get comfortable and confident in his alignment is one reason Jack Nicklaus was as great as he was.
Watch him even now. He still works his way through the same aiming routine before every shot. And I emphasize routine. First, he looks at the target from behind the ball. Then he picks out a spot a few feet ahead of his ball on a line with that target. That spot is his intermediate target. Then he walks to the ball and sets the clubface behind it so that he's aiming at the intermediate point. Aligning the club with something that is 2 feet away is much easier than aiming at something 150 yards away.
How Nicklaus aims is exactly how you should work on your aim. Think of a railroad track. On one rail is the ball and in the distance, the target. On the other rail are your toes. Thus, your body is aligned parallel with — but left of — the target line. If you take nothing else away from this section on aiming, remember that phrase. Cut out the left Figure and tape it onto the ceiling over your bed. Stare at it before you go to sleep.
Don't make the mistake that I see countless golfers making: aiming their feet at the target. If you aim your feet at the target, where is the clubface aligned? Well to the right of where you want the ball to go. This type of alignment will usually sabotage the flight of your ball.
Friday, April 30, 2010
To improve your golf,start with a weight training
Golfers need to wake up! If they want to end the frustration of shorter drives with no power, they need to start a golf weight training program right now.
I'm not referring to going to a gym 5 days a week for 2 hours each time.
Weight Training 3 Times Per Week
To see an improvement in your golf swing power and distance, you only need to do 3 maybe even just 2 days of weight training per week. You can do that right?
Out of 7 days per week doing something 2-3 times for 30 minutes is attainable by any golfer who truly wants to play better golf.
In Your Home Not A Gym
With just a few pieces of inexpensive fitness equipment (stability ball, dumbbells and tubing w/handles) that's all you need for your in-home golf fitness gym. You can even get this stuff at your local Target store.
Having it in your home will remove ALL excuses of time or convenience. With this hurdle out of the way, all you need now is a credible weight training for golfers program. With this in your hands, you are now ready to embark on your new golf power and distance program.
No Machines Allowed
If you want to improve your swing the quickest way, you'll not use any machines to do it. Machines will not strengthen your golf swing specific muscles. The ONLY way to strengthen those muscles is to get in positions similar to your golf swing and use resistance like the dumbbells, tubing or even the ball.
I see so many golfers heading to the gym and plopping down on machines in hopes for more distance. Not going to happen!
where the power comes from in your swing
These mechanics are extremely important to your golf success, but they are not the source of golf swing power.
Once you've understood the real source of power in your golf swing, it will be easier to understand why the other elements are so important. The best way to master transfering this energy is to get good golf swing training by a coach who can show you the secrets to generating and channeling maximum golf swing power.
When you've learned how to swing a golf club with confidence and efficiency, you'll have more and more fun each time you step out on the golf course.
Monday, April 26, 2010
The spirit of Watson's Golf
Everyone wants to apperceive Tom Watson's abstruse to arena above golf at 60.
Here it is: competition.
"That's all it takes," Watson says.
Maybe those questioners should abdicate allurement and pay attention. Watson, able-bodied accomplished the PGA Tour's cut line, has connected to adhere with the game's abundant adolescent stars at the bigger events.
Watson absent a adventitious at his sixth British Open appellation endure July, falling in a playoff to 36-year-old Stewart Cink. Earlier this month, Watson opened the Masters with a 5-under 67, one off the advance captivated by his Champions Bout colleague, Fred Couples.
Watson chalks up the able play to the fields he and Couples face anniversary anniversary in the 50-and-over set.
"That's what I've said about the acumen I'm still out there and accept done able-bodied in some of the kids' above championships," Watson said. "I still accept the ability, the befalling to compete."
He and Couples, 50, both plan to abide testing themselves adjoin the game's best players.
Watson, a seven-time above champion, accustomed an absolution into the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, website of his active win over Jack Nicklaus in 1982, if he abundantly chipped in from the asperous at No. 17 to yield the victory.
It is Watson's aboriginal U.S. Open back 2003 - and addition adventitious to abruptness those who anticipate the 50-and-over set should achieve into weekend amateur at the club.
Couples, like Watson demography allotment in the Legends of Golf, abiding doesn't anticipate so. He's arena on the PGA Bout the next two weeks at the Quail Hollow Championship and The Players Championship.
Couples backward in the Masters mix center through Sunday's final annular and eventually accomplished angry for sixth at Augusta National.
"I anticipate if I am accepted good," Couples said, "there's a lot of places I can still do well."
For Couples, his stops on the PGA Bout beggarly he'll play seven beeline contest - something he hadn't done back 1992, if he won the Masters.
"I wish to see if I can play with the adolescent guys," Couples said. "But not that much."
Couples has enjoyed the brotherhood and added above attributes he's begin so far on the Champions Tour, something that's continued appealed to golf stars axis 50 who wish to accumulate their careers going.
"It's beneath pressure," said Tom Kite, who won the 1992 U.S. Open. "That's what the Champions Bout is."
Couples has aswell accustomed his new bout a addition with his hot start, including three victories and a additional abode in 5 alone Champions Bout events. He may appearance up at a few added PGA Bout stops this season.
"But next year will be carefully on the Champions Tour," Couples said.
If he's annihilation like Watson, that will accumulate Couples' bold aciculate as ever. He's averaged abutting to 300 yards off the tee this anniversary and, forth with accomplice Jay Haas, gone 6-under on Savannah Harbor Golf Resort's par 5s.
"That's basically it," Couples said simply. "Drove it actual well, kept it in play and again birdied a lot of par 5s and fabricated a lot of nice par putts."
Watson apparent a absolute beat for him backward in his career, accomplished if he won his above championships and a lot of of his 39 PGA Bout titles. Once he begin it, Watson begin the ability and bendability to accumulate abutting abundant to the latest bearing of mad bombers.
"I acquaint a lot of the adolescent guys, if this guy (Watson) would accept hit the brawl in his backward 20s and aboriginal 30s like he has in his 50s, he'd accept won 20 tournaments a year," said Andy North, a backstab U.S. Open best and accepted ESPN golf analyst.
Watson shrugs off the words of his Legends accomplice - the two teamed to win this accident in 2008 - and credibility to an attitude he's approved to backpack throughout his career.
Is annihilation bigger than "to be able to play a bold for a active and accomplish some money at it?" he said.
Few accept been bigger at it than Watson, who entered the year accepting becoming added than $22 actor in his career.
As continued as they've got a abode to break crisp, Watson thinks it's not such a abruptness if above PGA Bout stars shoot in the 60s above their 60s
"That's affectionate of why I assumption I'm here," he said.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
I got my golf equipments online
I buy a set of Golf clubs yesterday.But,it has been raining last for 4 days and I must stay at home.But I cann't help to watch and touch my new golf equipments again and agian.So exiting!Spend limited money but get 14 golf clubs,from driver to iron to wedge and so on.All of these are from m brand named golf companed,Ping,Callaway,Taylormade,Nike.
It was my first time to buy goods in the online store.Last sunny Sunday,one good friend of mine asked me to experience his new discount golf equipments on the mini course next to my home.I could not belive when he tolk me he spend less than three thousands on these 13 golf clubs.They are famous brand.Callaway FT-iQ Driver,TaylorMade R7 CGB MAX Irons,Callaway Big Bertha Diablo Fairway Wood,Odyssey White Hot XG Putter,he showed off to me.How could I stay?How much I want to have a set of golf clubs!But I was so disapointed evey time I wondered in the local golf store.They are too expensive for me.Now,as my friend's recommendation,I got a total set of golf clubs.The customer service is nice.She heartily and patiently answered my uber-newbie questions.After determining the quality and after-sales sevice,I paid nearly $3000 to buy 14 golf clubs.Less than one week,I received them. Now,what I do is waiting the sunny day.My boy and girls,if you are eager to have your own golf clubs,get in actions.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Girls say yes when invited to golf
It is common to hear women express that they can't accept an invitation to play golf because they are not good enough. Here, I'd say that it doesn't matter. You can enjoy the game with score over 120. You can follow the advices to accept golf invitation. You can do it as men.
1. Play in Your Comfort Zone It's okay to feel like a beginner and announce it up front. Actually, it's even better to describe yourself as an educated beginner. If on the course you have trouble keeping up with your golfing partners, be prepared to pick up your ball. Simply put it in your pocket and announce you will tee it up on the next hole. This is perfectly acceptable in casual golf games. If you are not finishing the hole, make yourself valuable by tending the flagstick when you get to the green.2. Avoid Tournaments Where You Must Play & Count Every Stroke
During the early stages of learning the game, it just doesn’t make sense to be a stickler about rules – like counting every whiff and playing every bungled shot. So steer clear of these easily-avoided situations! Instead, look for tournaments with a scramble or best-ball format. Four-player team scrambles are very popular at corporate and charity golf eventsHere's how a scramble works. Each foursome usually has players of varying abilities. Each player in the foursome tees off, and then everyone hits again from the spot where the best of the team's tee shots landed (that's often the shot of one of the strongest players in your team). This is repeated down the fairway until all four balls are on the green, and then until one gets in the hole. (You only count your team's best shots from the tee into the cup.) If you are a good driver,like Callaway FT-i Driver ,you can end up as the star of your team, even if you miss fairway and tee shots.
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Girls say yes when invited to golf
It is common to hear women express that they can't accept an invitation to play golf because they are not good enough. Here, I'd say that it doesn't matter. You can enjoy the game with score over 120. You can follow the advices to accept golf invitation. You can do it as men.
1. Play in Your Comfort ZoneIt's okay to feel like a beginner and announce it up front. Actually, it's even better to describe yourself as an educated beginner. If on the course you have trouble keeping up with your golfing partners, be prepared to pick up your ball. Simply put it in your pocket and announce you will tee it up on the next hole. This is perfectly acceptable in casual golf games. If you are not finishing the hole, make yourself valuable by tending the flagstick when you get to the green.
2. Avoid Tournaments Where You Must Play & Count Every StrokeDuring the early stages of learning the game, it just doesn’t make sense to be a stickler about rules – like counting every whiff and playing every bungled shot. So steer clear of these easily-avoided situations! Instead, look for tournaments with a scramble or best-ball format. Four-player team scrambles are very popular at corporate and charity golf events.
Here's how a scramble works. Each foursome usually has players of varying abilities. Each player in the foursome tees off, and then everyone hits again from the spot where the best of the team's tee shots landed (that's often the shot of one of the strongest players in your team). This is repeated down the fairway until all four balls are on the green, and then until one gets in the hole. (You only count your team's best shots from the tee into the cup.) If you are a good driver,like Callaway FT-i Driver ,you can end up as the star of your team, even if you miss fairway and tee shots.Website: Wholesale Golf ClubsHot Products|:
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Are your golf scores stable
Have you anytime wondered how you play your best one day and the next time you can’t play account a hoot? You would anticipate that you would be able to yield that aforementioned beat aback to the advance and get about the aforementioned results. How is it that there can be ten acclamation or added aberration amid aback to aback rounds?
Is it that the advance is different? Yes, tees and pins are in altered anniversary day. Conditions can alter day to day as well; things like wind and rain will affect your play.
The better acumen admitting is that your physique is altered anniversary day and that makes your beat altered as well. The aberration can be attributed to your beat tempo. You charge to break in accompany and in accent from annular to annular to consistently play your best.
It makes faculty to pay accurate absorption to this aspect of your golf swing. So abounding discount this beat axiological acceptable balked and abashed with an capricious golf swing.
Tempo can be a harder accountable to explain because there is a huge “feel” aspect to it. It is not just about speed; fast, average or slow. You accept a accustomed beat tempo, one that feels bland and rhythmic, that gives you optimal brawl arresting ability. If you beat in bounce if feels effortless while the brawl flies straighter and further than usual.
It ability advice to ascertain tempo. The best analogue I’ve heard is that bounce is the time it takes to complete a abounding beat alpha at takeaway all the way through to the chase through accomplishment position.
It is accurate that bounce varies from amateur to player. It is aswell accurate that it varies from day to day with the aforementioned player. The key actuality is to admit if your bounce is either faster or slower than it should be and accomplish the able adjustments.
Wouldn’t it be abundant if your bounce were at its aiguille every day? Golf would be a lot easier and handicaps would be lower too. Abundant with the daydreaming. The accuracy is that to be acquainted of the changes in beat bounce and to apperceive how to acclimatize or actual is the difficult part. We focus so abundant on mechanics that we discount this key aspect of the golf swing.
Here are a brace of drills to advice you get in tune with your beat tempo.
Four Brawl Drill
You should tee up four assurance in row at the range. Begin by hitting one application just 25 percent of you abounding beat speed. Move to the next and use a 50 percent swing, afresh 75 percent on the third and abounding acceleration on the last.
Focus in on the aberration in feel for anniversary of the swings. Remember you are to acclimatize your acceleration from the alpha to the end. Don’t decelerate on the declivity just aces a acceleration and stick to it throughout the swing.
How did those swings feel? Did you accomplish solid acquaintance with all of them? Notice the ambit for anniversary shot?
Melody Drill
Put your beat to the bounce of a song you enjoy. Choose a song that fits with the adapted bounce of your golf swing. I accept done this with abundant success. One is takeaway, two is the top of the backswing, three is appulse and four is the accomplishment position. Try singing this in your arch in the address “One and two and three and four”. It will advice you acquisition and advance your beat rhythm.
Follow Through Drill
This is addition ambit drill. Address the ball. Raise the club arch off the arena abundant to beat it over top of the ball. Beat it advanced accomplished the brawl about a foot. Afresh alpha your backswing aback over the brawl to a abounding and complete backswing and afresh assassinate the declivity into the brawl as normal. Repeat often.
You should pay accurate absorption to the feel of the weight of the clubhead. At the two credibility area the club changes administration the alteration should be bland and in time with the club. This will advice you to get in tune with the club and the able beat tempo.
Swing bounce is an capital but generally abandoned fundamental. If you wish to play able-bodied consistently you will charge to be in tune with your physique and the beat bounce it is producing. Apperceive your best beat bounce and acclimatize on those canicule if things just aren’t all in accompany as they should be.
These drills will advice you tune up your beat tempo. We all charge a tune up now and again. Improved brawl arresting and scoring is abiding to follow.Golf waterproofs clothing is on sale
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
When do you change your golf clubs for a new one
Every golfer has his or her own golf equipment, the most important golf equipmentof the game is golf clubs. So, golfers should make sure that the clubs are in perfect working. Thant will help you with your game.
We all know that your golf clubs are the most important piece of equipment. So you have to take good care of them, not only to clean and maintain your clubs, but also to examine your clubs regularly.
Most beginners want to know how often to check the clubs. It is depend on you and your clubs. Take goof care of your clubs, the best clubs for you, such as TaylorMade R11 Driver ,will make all the difference to your game.
When do you want to change your golf clubs, there are a lot of different ideas. Some people like clubs, whenever there is a new model, they went to buy, also there so many golf clubs for sale,they like new clubs, maybe you will think that they will spent a lot of money buying golf clubs, actually, they don't,
they can buy some discount golf clubs if you .Some people will keep the same one for 15 years.
If you play golf once a week, you’d better y change your grips once every five months. Most shafts will carry a life for about five and a half years, if you really like the club head.
You should, check the lie and loft of your clubs every year because a seven iron could turn into six irons after repeated use.
To make sure your golf clubs are kept in good condition, you must pay particular attention to the list below:
Check the shafts, make sure that there are no indentations that could cause weakness.
Grips, if there are no splits or worn areas on the grips, it is ok. If you are having trouble holding your golf club you may need to change your grips or have your grip size checked.
Lie, if the lie is misaligned, it can affect your shot, so you should check it carefully.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Emotions are Pushed to the climax by Mickelson
The American left-hander birdied four of the last seven holes to win his fourth major title, and a third Green Jacket, in front of huge galleries that included his wife Amy and three children.
A stroke behind pacesetting Briton Lee Westwood overnight, Mickelson fired a flawless five-under-par 67 in the year's opening major to post a 16-under total of 272 at a sun-splashed Augusta National.
Cheered on by the crowds as he walked up the 18th fairway, the popular world number three put the seal on a heart-warming win with a 10-foot birdie putt at the last.
He thrust both arms skywards in triumph before hugging his caddie Jim Mackay and he then walked off the green to embrace his wife, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.
"This has been a very special day and a very special week," a beaming Mickelson said after being helped into the Green Jacket by 2009 champion Angel Cabrera of Argentina.
"To have Amy and my kids here to share it with, I can't put into words. It just feels incredible, especially given what we've been through in the last year."
"To be able to share this kind of joy means a lot to us," added the American, who was dressed entirely in black with a pink ribbon stitched on to his cap to promote breast cancer awareness.
Westwood, who had been seeking his maiden major title and Britain's first since Paul Lawrie won the 1999 British Open, finished in second after carding a 71.
American Anthony Kim closed with a sparkling 65 to finish third at 12 under, a stroke in front of world number one Woods and KJ Choi of South Korea, who returned matching 69s.
"I am a little bit disappointed because I came so close to winning the tournament," said Westwood, who had tied for third in his two previous majors and trailed Mickelson by one at the turn. "I didn't get off to a fast enough start today."
"Phil hit some good shots around Amen Corner and they are not easy shots that he has pulled off there so he is a deserving winner."
Wrapped up title
Mickelson, who won his first two Masters crowns in 2004 and 2006, effectively wrapped up the title with back-to-back birdies from the par-three 12th, where he rolled in a curling 14-footer.
He narrowly missed an eagle from just three feet at the par-five 13th, after hitting a stunning blow with a six-iron from 207 yards through a four-foot gap between two pine trees, before holing out from a similar distance coming back.
That put him two strokes clear before he picked up another shot at the par-five 15th, where he reached the green in two and two-putted, to tighten his grip on a third Green Jacket.
"When I get here to Augusta, I get very relaxed and feel very comfortable," said Mickelson, whose fourth major title puts him one ahead of Ernie Els, Vijay Singh and Padraig Harrington and behind only Woods in the modern era.
Kim began another calm, sunny day at Augusta seven strokes off the pace but he surged into contention with a sizzling birdie-birdie-eagle-birdie run from the 13th.
Choi, aiming to become only the second Asian male to win a major after compatriot at Yang Yong-eun last year's PGA Championship, briefly joined Mickelson in a share of the lead before slipping back with bogeys on 13 and 14.
Four-times champion Woods, playing his first event in nearly five months following startling revelations at the end of last year about his serial philandering, endured a roller-coaster day.
He started out poorly with three bogeys in the first five holes before holing out from the fairway to eagle the seventh and then recording birdies at eight and nine.
After mixing bogeys at the 11th and 14th with a birdie at the 13th, he collected another eagle when he coaxed in a 15-footer at the par-five 15th before signing off with a six-foot birdie putt at the last.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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Tiger Woods's interview before comeback
The verbal comebacks were a result of some serious prepping by his agents. Humility, it seemed he was told, will be your greatest asset. So go out and display it.
The world's best golfer resembled a cross between a beaten high school bully and the straying husband who had been caught with his pants around his ankles — on about 15 occasions at last count. He said he was sorry because there simply wasn't any other option. If there was, then the conceit that drives Woods would have ensured he took it and lived to fight another day.
Woods' self belief and strength lay stripped away as he subjected himself to the painful, unforgiving scrutiny of the media. It was his baptism into the world of intense stress. This was the reality check that he needed and not the 15-minute televised address that he made in the presence of his mummy where the press had been barred.
Full circle
On Monday they tore into him with a savagery displayed by hyenas — as they fight each other for bigger portions when preparing to feast on a big kill — eating into his conscience, probing the deep, dark recesses of his hitherto impregnable mind, looking for signs of extreme discomfiture. They took away chunks of his self-esteem with every question.
For many in that room it was almost as if life had come full circle. There were two ingredients that went into the making of the Tiger Woods legend: his flawless golf coupled with the support of the media.
The man who once treated questions from the fourth estate (dealing with matters strictly related to golf, since there was absolutely no inkling that he was mortal) with contempt and reserved his special, patronising look and tone for the hapless reporters who found that their brilliant queries had been invalidated and thrown back in the form of a counter enquiry (this was the way Woods treated press conferences) had resorted to calling them by their first names. It was all up close and personal.
"Okay. Well Christine."
"I know a lot of you in here are my friends and will always be my friends."
"You know Tom I fooled myself."
"Do you want me to answer the first part or the second part. You did a long winded one, Bro."
There they were gathered around the room, writers who had all contributed to the making of a legend and in front of them he sat, a lonely, pitiable figure — a myth.
In the past they had written about the steel in his character, his mind and his spirit. The very elements that were instrumental in fortifying Woods' impregnable defence (his eyes always had that glint, but on Monday they were lifeless) had been reduced to dust thanks to the incessant verbal carpet bombing.
He had forgotten that those who shape you are the only ones who can bring you down.
But Woods still has one more weapon his armoury: his golf. It is the only element that can be instrumental towards his resurrection. The man's character may have shrunk but his talent may not have been tainted as yet. It is the only tool that he can use in the exorcism of the demons that have taken ownership of his soul.
Smart enough
Woods is smart enough to know that his golfing skills have not deserted him yet. His self-belief, at least on this front, lies intact.
Just as he was beginning to wilt under the intense gaze of the press and in the eyes of those who peered into their TV screens all over the world to study his emotions the much awaited question was put forth.
Golf wise, what are your expectations this week?
"Nothing's changed. Going to go out there and try to win this thing."
There was a brief glint of hunger in those eyes. All he needs to do is find that roar.
Friday, April 2, 2010
The different types of Golf and American Golf
In contrast,the movements originated in the United States, have more stringent standards.For example,basketball and American football,in the event, every minute must be calculated and tenth of a second is the key to victory.In addition, the venue also is painted over the line, 3-point line on the basketball court and every 5 yards of a sub-yard line on a football field do not allow the slightest deviation.The referee should watch closely on the players with the golden eyes.Does it reflect the American people to do things more serious and persistent?
The golf in British and American develop so far,the golf course designs are different because of their different cultural and emphasis.United States court is beauty and emphasis on artificial modification;British court respects for nature and retains the original look rough.So every year,the U.S. media has criticized the British Open from time to time,such as shoter of the total length, mediocrity and lack of changes of design,etc.has attracted a lot of arguments between the fans.
I remember years ago,in orde to hold an interview on England's high court,I stayed in a small town hotel.There,the guests from around the world,nine out of ten came to play golf were talking about golf on evey morning.Scots counting on they were born in the birthplace of golf always looked down on the U.S. courts.When they ran into visitors from the United States,they casually said: "There are only two kinds of golf in the world-Golf and American Gol.You can play American golf in the U.S.But if you want to really experience the Golf,you must come to Europe."
Among the four golf majors,the British Open is glorified as "The Open Championship" by the world which is metaphorical for the world's only golf Open.However, the U.S. media has nicknamed the British Open as the "British Open Championship",enph the the English name on "British (UK)".The Europeans see it as disrespect,the wars of the words between them are endless.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
09 Burner Driver
09 Burner Driver has a high fault tolerance;its face is embedded famous Inverted Cone technology;its face area is the largest one in the Taylormade's history;which ensure that even if the player hit the ball deviated from the center,the distance is still very excellent.In addition,the use of the double- cover technology also saves a lot of weight,so that engineers can make a lower and deeper center of gravity.