Getting your Golf Posture Right
Posture is one of the most important things for a beginning golfer to master. For some tips on improving your golf posture, take a look at this video by John Lubin of John Lubin Golf School:
Golf Instruction: Putting Tips
Are you looking to improve your short game while you wait for spring to come? Shawn Clement, Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Center, offers an excellent video of 25 putting tips in 10 minutes. Take a look.
1 CommentGolf Beginner: Gripping the Golf Club
Having the proper grip on the golf club is one of the most important aspects of the game. Learn about how to grip the club correctly in this video from John Lubin of John Lubin Golf School.
Use of Legs in the Golf Swing
In this helpful video, Brady Riggs of inpractis.com shows you how to properly setup and use the legs in the golf swing.
Why isn’t the average golfer improving ?
Mike Pedersen wrote an article last month about the Top 5 Reasons Golfers Don’t Improve and he listed some good reasons why the average golfer is not improving.
As I wrote in my comment on Mike’s site :
The “lack of improvement statistic” story, seems to have been around forever, and while it may in fact be true, there’s a saying about statistics can be interpreted any way you want, or some such variation.
IMO, the statistic would be more meaningful if it was applied to only those golfers who were actually TRYING to improve their games. “
Golf Beginner – Keep Your Head Down
The most common reason I see golfers not able to keep their “head down” (i.e. stable spine angle), is that their body motion is often almost non-existent, the motion being “all arms”, the cause usually being “dead legs” , i.e. “flat footed” or “locked up” knees.
If a (relatively) forceful swing of the arms is made through the ball, and the body and legs do not turn out of the way, then *some part* of the body has to absorb the momentum built up.
Golf beginner – Don’t hit the ball — Swing the Club !
For a new golfer, the idea of swinging the club which then hits the ball versus hitting the ball with the club might seem to be one and the same, but they are very different concepts, and using one versus the other can result in drastically different motions, and habits, which can sometime take a very long time .. or never to change.
In most cases, I’ve found that when a rank beginner’s first encounter with a golf club and ball is combined with
Do you always shoot 4 under for nine?
When I was an assistant pro at Markland Wood back in the 1970’s, I had two pro’s over one day for a practice round for a tournament that the club was hosting.
As we played the front nine, I chatted away with them, giving them “the tour”, and I hardly paid any attention to my own game, and after nine holes I realized I had shot 4 under for the nine !
A golf instructor has to be a great player first … or not?
I recently read an interesting book called “On The Sweet Spot” by Richard Keefe, and he talks about a common cliche regarding golf instruction and playing ability (i.e. “those who can do; those who can’t, teach”).