June 2009
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Playing Better Golf 101 Tips – 3
21. The very first lesson you should learn when starting golf is to get really comfortable swinging the club.
22. Any good player learns to identify the characteristics of another good player and will emulate him/her on some aspects.
23. Before you start thinking about your individual game, make sure you understand important details of the game like ball spin or shot patterns.
24. You can analyze your game but that would be useless unless you know how to improve on it and more importantly, start doing it naturally.
25. Do not worry about how many strokes you take at the beginning, concentrate on the quality of them. As the quality of the swing improves, the number of strokes will start coming down.
26. You should never try to completely eliminate your bad shot. It may not be possible to do so or at least in a finite amount of time. Aim to keep improving on it till it gets reasonable.
27. Stop trying for a great shot but aim for shooting your best shot. If it ends up landing close to the hole, it was your best shot. If it ends up winning you a championship, it will be a great shot!
28. If you are a beginner, set the level you want for yourself. If it is too low, you may achieve it very easily and will not have anything to spur you on. Keep it little high just so you have to work hard to get there. Higher goals will bring you greater results.
29. Do not aim for sudden improvements like wanting to turn your handicap of 10 into one of 7 – you may end up going up to 12.
30. While taking a swing at the ball, do not view the ball as your object of conflict. Instead relax, hold the club comfortably in position and with perfect hand-eye co-ordination, let the club take natural swing with the ball just being in the way.
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Written by GolfSwing on June 20th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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11. If you are constantly being told that golf is a difficult game, you may actually end up believing it. Do not listen to anyone who is negative but go out and try it for yourself.
12. Think of some positive associations or mental images that will help you stay positive even when the going gets tough on the course.
13. While practicing your swing action, you may practice without a ball and will concentrate only on the swing. However, on the course, with the ball in front, you may tend to concentrate on the ball. Swing practices are best done with the ball to be hit.
14. Aggression to a limited extent is good if it spurs you on – it can also tend to distract you, destroying your concentration.
15. If you are a beginner, do not be fooled that powerful strokes go the longest distance. Power matters, control of the stroke matters even more.
16. Do not be pressured by a good performance or a bad performance. Every shot should be treated on its own merit.
17. Reading instructional books or following instructional videos is good but only to a certain extent. Just following a constant set of instructions is not going to improve your game – your instinct and the way you follow it will.
18. Practice putting as much as you can from as many positions as you can. You are probably here for the shortest period but it may seem like the longest period of your life.
19. Set hard goals but not unachievable ones. They should make you sweat and at the end of it, your sense of accomplishment will spur you to do better.
20. Too much analysis can cause damage by concentrating too much on bits and pieces of an action instead of concentrating on the end purpose of that one action.
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Written by GolfSwing on June 11th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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Playing Better Golf 101 Tips – Part 1
1. Your understanding of the concepts of golf should be complete. Most of the time, poor play comes from applying logic to misunderstood concepts.
2. Only practice can make you perfect. You may have to hit a lot of bad shots before you can master one reasonable one.
3. Do not try very hard to understand the game. Just play it naturally and the understanding will come to you.
4. When you see a top professional hit a perfect shot, he is turning into reality what he had visualized in his mind a few minutes back.
5. When you are told that you have acquired a good swing, you may not even realize it. Constant practice has just improved it so much.
6. Do not just read what top professionals or coaches are saying but try to understand it by implementing it.
7. Do not underestimate the effort required to play good golf – you may end up finding the game difficult and even quit it.
8. Take time when you are not playing to work on your mental strategy by analyzing every shot you played on the course. Maximize the shots you can play well so that you can play better under pressure next time.
9. Improving your play involves not only knowing what to learn but how to learn it.
10. Merely powering the club will not help you hit longer. Try hitting with long clubs but with quiet swings.
Written by GolfSwing on June 4th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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