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How To Lower Your Handicap In No Time

Posted in Uncategorized on August 12th, 2010 by admin – 1,188 Comments

To lower your handicap, you have to play better consistently. This can be done in no time if you are dedicated to your golf game. For a weekend golfer, lowering the handicap will be more difficult, but it is not impossible.

#1: Take A Swing Everyday
Regardless of whether you go to the range, golf course, or your backyard, make sure you swing a club everyday. This is help you stay in rhythm and gain confidence in your golf swing.

#2: Play Against Yourself
Before you hit the course, give yourself a reasonable for each hole you will play. Try your best to beat that score as though it were your opponent.

#3: Learn How To Use Your Wedges
Practice different shots with your wedges and learn your distances and abilities. Your score will lower with better shots inside of 100 yards.

The Most Important Elements of the Golf Swing

Posted in Uncategorized on September 3rd, 2009 by admin – 1,975 Comments

Breaking down the golf swing is difficult, since a good swing requires so many different things to go right. But if you look closely at some of the best golfers in the world, you will see some common elements.

What do Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington do so well that the average weekend golfer can’t? They put it all together. The first step to having a solid golf swing is the setup. Proper alignment and a good grip will carry a golfer a long way, and this is the first place that poor golfers should look for improvement.

After that, it comes down to good tempo and a solid swing plane. The backswing should be neither too fast nor too slow, and it should be steady. When the club goes back, golfers should practice hitting towards the inside of the ball, instead of coming over the top and chopping down on the ball.

Putting together all of these things is difficult, but in order to have low scores, it’s absolutely essential