Golf Tips for Beginners

When you have been around golf for any amount of time you end up hearing certain phrases that are supposed to be tried and true golf tips. For example, you may have heard the phrase, 'tee it high and let it fly'. Have you heard it! Like I said, if you've been around for awhile, this has been spouted out regularly. I've done it religiously since I heard it. But you know what? For some reason it never really worked for me. I have a big headed driver with a great shaft and you would think that teeing the ball up high and hitting it on a slightly upward swing that I'd kill the ball down the fairway. Not!! Yep, I'd concentrate on making sure that my ball was sitting about half way above my driver head, I'd play the ball forward in my stance and then I'd let it rip. But I'd never get any good distance. Not to mention that my ball would go high and to the right or left. Man, this game can be frustrating! But then I was told that this was only ...

Obviously, you do! Or else you wouldn't be reading this right now, right? I've go to tell ya, this is one area that alludes me a lot of times out on the golf course. I miss the short putts when I should automatically make them. It always seems to happen when I make a good drive off the tee, followed by a great 2nd or 3rd shot down near the green (or on the green sometimes), and then a nice chip or long lag putt to around the cup. I line up for the short putt, to end the hole with a pretty decent score, but then I miss the putt. Sometimes twice!! Are you feeling me?!? Ugh!!! Well, here is a simple drill that I've been trying recently and it has made a huge improvement in my making short putts. It's not 100% foolproof, but when it comes to golf what is! Here's the drill: Go to the practice green Find a hole that is relatively flat Take your putter and line up about 1 foot away from the hole Without using a ball, make a few practice strokes ...

In one of my previous posts I mentioned practicing golf. When I say practice I don't mean just going to the range and hitting ball after ball. That's not going to do it! What I mean is: practice golf with a purpose. Here it is put simply: If you are a beginner, practice the basics If you are a little more experienced then practice the basics and some more specific things If your extremely experienced, then practice the basics, fine-tune the specifics, and turn them into a habit Some things that I consider basic are: Find a fairway wood (which might be your driver or not) that you can hit consistently off the tee Find a mid-iron (4-6 iron) that you can hit off the turf Find a short iron (7-9 iron) that you can hit with ease Find a wedge (PW, SW, LW) that you are comfortable with Getting the feel of your putter by doing long, medium and short putts Yes, as a beginner, choose only 1 wood to hit, 1 mid iron, 1 short iron, and 1 wedge. Practice hitting ...

If you have access to an iPhone or an Android phone you can use apps that show you your on course yardages. I have unlimited data use on my Android phone and I take full advantage of it by using the app called FreeCaddie. This free app, available on Play Store, has been a blessing. I cannot believe how accurate it is. Both me and my playing partner use it. He has an iphone and me an Android. And when we compare our yardages they are almost always a match. We played with another guy a few weeks back that was using a different GPS based golf app and it was amazing how far off his was compared to ours. I'm not sure what the name of his was though, sorry. But anyway, we all stood on the 150 yard marker and compared all of our phones and ours said 151 yards to the center of the green and his said 163! This explained why all of his golf shots were flying long. This obviously made him pretty upset. By the end of the round, though, he had downloaded the FreeCaddie app was start...

Since it's been a while since I've taken golf seriously, I've been trying to think of a quick way to inspire myself and to make golf fresh again. After some thought, I was drawn back to when I worked for a golf store and we would recommend to golfers to get their clubs re-gripped every season. Believe it or not, the majority of golfers ignored this advice. I guess that makes me a part of the majority because I personally quite this advice and I haven't re-gripped my clubs in years! Why? Not sure really. Laziness I guess. When you get comfortable with something you tend to stick with what you think is working at the moment, but in reality it isn't working.  So to get my butt back into gear and onto my goal of breaking 90, I have set up a new years resolution to get all my clubs re-gripped. Not only that, I am going to go get my grips fitted to me and my swing. I've done this in the past and it is amazing how good it makes my clubs feel. They actually fe...

When I was trying to break 100 in golf I would sleep and breathe golf. I would read about it, I was constantly talking to others about the game, I created this blog, and I would constantly practice out on the course and mentally. I remembered that I would put in 100% effort and because of that I reached my goal of breaking 100 on a consistent basis. Yes, my effort gave me great results. But did I continue with that effort? To be honest, NO! I just figured that since I broke 100 that I had now figured enough of the game out to just keep making great results. But this faulty thinking resulted in my game becoming stagnate. Not that I started shooting in the 100's again, but my score never seemed to improve. In fact, my performance became poor and I lost interest in it. Sad to say, I have let this mentality, for whatever reason, to continue with me for a few years now. And as a result it has resulted in zero improvements and disappointment. But now, after some close examina...