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Pre Round Tip
Stretching before the first tee should be dynamic, or movement oriented. This is the best way to prepare your body from a neuromuscular standpoint.

Swing Training Tip
For effective golf, the club has to be pulled, not thrown from the top of the swing! All top players create this pulling action by unwinding the downswing from the feet upwards; most poor players destroy it by throwing the club at the ball with the upper body before the lower body can get into the act. Throwing the club at the ball from the top of the swing with the upper body destroys the width and path of the swing arc and the approach angle. It is one possible cause of the slice, loss of distance and many other related faults. After a time it becomes as much a psychological problem to break as one of technique. Proper golf swing practice can break that psychological barrier and positively promote the feel of correct swing mechanics. When the club is swung with one hand only (i.e. the trailing arm), the upper body is naturally held back at the start of the down swing allowing the lower body to lead and create the all important initial width.
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Avoid the Sloppy Swing
The infusion of perimeter-weighted clubs into the market has been a boon for all golfers. Miss the sweetspot and these forgiving clubs will still produce a pretty good result. In contrast, wooden woods and blade-style irons are not very forgiving: Mishit the ball even slightly and you’ll see a noticeable loss of distance, direction, and trajectory. Because of this difference in performance, many players, even Tour pros, have made the switch to perimeter-weighted woods and irons. If you’re among them, be sure you don’t get sloppy. Because the quality of contact with perimeter-weighted clubs doesn’t have to be quite so precise, there’s a tendency to downplay the importance of making solid contact, and that can lead to sloppiness, swinging too hard, poor clubhead path, swaying, and so on. Never forget about the quality of your swing. To help instill this concern, take a wooden driver and blade 5-iron every time you go to the practice range and spend a few minutes hitting each. This should help keep your swing honed and your focus on making solid, square contact with every club. Clubhead Speed and Distance

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Distance … pure distance. You want it, you need it, and you don’t know how to get it. Tiger Woods has it and plenty of it. Jack Nicklaus was one of the longest of his time and played a game that most were unfamiliar with, frequently disabling his opponents with monster drives. Perhaps there is a direct correlation between driving distance, earnings potential, and career accomplishments. Whether you are a weekend golfer or seasoned amateur in search of more power, please inspect your game for some of the following hot spots to maximize your energy and efforts.

Equipment research and space technology have continued to develop and enhance the chance for all golfers to hit the ball further than ever. Throwing money at the game by purchasing the latest and greatest equipment is one direction most golfers travel at one point, usually in desperation. Taking a golf lesson from a PGA Professional would be less frustrating and would be a better investment of your money and certainly your time, especially if you are constantly surfing the Web for prices. Everybody needs to play a golf ball, so the one affordable recommendation in equipment I would pass along is to use the correct ball for your game. Try one of these new solid core balls that Tour players are praising or, if you haven’t heard yet, test-drive the new Precept Lady (for you male golfers if you are man enough.).

If you feel you are still missing out on those precious extra yards or think that you deserve a few more bounces down the middle from that $500, 45″ titanium ball launcher, then annually review the following facts. Adding distance to your game requires observing a few basic fundamentals that improve your chances. When evaluating a student’s game, look for strengths and weaknesses in the armor that might lead to failure under pressure. Checking hand strength, club length, driver clubhead speed and shaft frequency allows us to get the cold hard facts and an understanding of potential mismatches. Any “weak spots” discovered will show up worse if you start without inspecting these fundamentals.

To achieve maximum clubhead speed and efficient energy transfer to the ball, make sure to incorporate these key ingredients into your practice lessons:

Square Club Face, Square Swing Path

At impact there is no substitute for a clubface that is square to the target, and a square swing path. Face angle at impact can directly influence, faster or slower, a golf ball’s initial velocity. Couple proper face angle with a correct swing path and you will gain serious bonus miles per hour of ball speed. Use a computerized system to measure and monitor the relationship between club head speed to ball speed, recently coined the smash factor. Open clubfaces and an out-to-in path will cause glancing blows that decrease the distance a ball will travel.

Hit the Sweet Spot

Aside from an assortment of club lengths, weights, lofts, and shaft flexes that assist in maximizing your length, the next most important criteria for distance is centeredness of contact. Hitting the ball in the sweet spot, a challenge for most, will create better control of the ball flight and improve your distance. Try using some impact tape on your clubface if you are curious about how regularly you contact the center of the club.

Hands First

Another weak spot found at impact in most amateur’s swings is the inability to get their shafts to lean toward the target as they strike the ball. Trapping or pinching the ball will naturally deloft a club, effectively giving you more smash factor. Making sure that your hands win the race to impact before the club head is critical and common in all good ball strikers.

Combine Power and Control

In order to achieve these classic fundamentals and increase your distance, make sure to check your swing mechanics regularly. To attain higher clubhead speed, proper setup is mandatory to maximize your efforts. Once the swing is in motion, make sure to shift your weight properly, keep your swing arc as wide as possible, and accelerate through the ball using body rotation. The Pirelli Tires company has a slogan that says, “Power is nothing without control”. This also holds true for the golf swing. All the speed you gain will only be useful if you can keep the ball in play.

Proper Weight Shift

Monitor a proper weight shift by primarily using your upper body as the engine of the backswing to load up energy into your rear leg. Having a low, one-piece takeaway promotes a wider swing arc and actually gives you a head start in the direction of your weight shift. Most short hitters snatch the club head up early in the backswing, causing their arms to fold inward to their chest, decreasing their swing radius and eliminating a proper weight shift. Try to use a video system to keep working on the backswing moves until you can make clean crisp contact.

After creating a good coil of your torso (X-factor) in the backswing, it is important to use your lower body as the engine of the downswing. The hips and shoulders can rarely be too open at impact, so start cranking up your rotation speeds and driving your weight back toward the target simultaneously. Testing the biomechanics of over 200 Tour Players including their rotation speeds through impact and have discovered that professionals on average turn 28% faster than the amateurs we teach. Sometimes equipment will help, but a golfer must also give it a good rip if they expect to gain yardage. So if you want to increase your clubhead speed and overall distance then quit being so nice to the ball and pull a Nike — “Just Do It”.

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OK, so you had a bad round. But you don’t know exactly WHAT was bad! Next time out, turn your scorecard into a diagram. Under the section where you put the players name, place the following: Hit Fairway, Hit Green, and # of Putts. Then, for each hole, you can check that particular column or row if you hit the fairway, or if you hit the green.

You can also put down the number of putts it took to get in. You can get detailed. For example, under “Hit Green” you can put the number of shots it took you to get there. On a par 4, it typically takes two (not for me!!). If it took you 4 shots to get there, put ‘4′. You’ll have an excellent understanding of where your game needs work!!

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