Guaranteed to Cut 7 Strokes from Your Score

Sunday 20 November 2011

Golf Swing Tips - Improving Your Golf Swing and Lowering Your Score

Are you frustrated with your inability to improve your golf swing? Don't worry, even the pros need golf swing tips sometimes. Even the best golfers in the world hire golf swing coaches.


The golf swing is made up of numerous different parts that all have to fit together correctly in order to hit a consistently good golf shot. So how do you go about fixing your golf swing?


It's important to understand these different parts of your golf swing. For most people, it's this lack of understanding that makes their golf swing inconsistent. If you've played golf for any length of time, I'm sure you've had those days where you are swinging the club well and hitting most of your shots clean.


And then you have days where just the opposite occurs and you can't seem to hit one good shot. If you don't understand all the aspects of a good golf swing, you don't know what you are doing right when things are going well, so that you make sure to keep doing them.


You also don't know what you are doing wrong on those bad days so you can't fix it. Instead, you change things at random, hoping to find something that works. And most of the time, you make things worse.


While golf is a difficult game to master, if you have the time and patience, you can learn the fundamentals of a good golf swing. By repeating these golf swing tips repeatedly, you'll hit a bett golf shot and do so more often.


You need to focus on:


Your Grip


Your Stance


The relationship between your hands and arms


Your Alignment


Your mental game (think David Duval)


My favorite technique to learning how to swing properly is to watch pros who have fundamentally sound golf swing technique. Watching someone swing the golf club properly and then trying to imitate the swing is a lot easier than trying to remember 47 different things you are supposed to do as you bring the club back.


It frees up your mind to muscle connection instead of overwhelming you with lots of do's and don't's, which just makes it very difficult to actually swing the club.


I've found this to be very important in teaching almost any physical skill or sport. One of the biggest obstacles to getting better at golf or any other sport, is being overwhelmed by everything involved in a golf shot, tennis shot, basketball shot, pitching, etc.


If you can quiet your mind by focusing on an image you want to duplicate instead of having a million do's running through your head (arm straight, hip turn, bend front let, etc.) your golf swing will become much more fluid and less mechanical, making it easier to hit the ball properly.


No comments:

Post a Comment