Becky asked:


I’ve been playing golf for 9 years now and i have become preety good at it but i just need that extra bit of work yet to do so i just wanted to know how to improve my swing.
Thanx ever so much
Becky

Mario

Dirk D asked:


I have been playing pretty good golf lately and a friend asked me to join his softball team because it’s coed and they need a couple more girls. I said yes but someone told me it would mess up my golf swing. Is this true? Thanks in advance.

Rebecca

Helen Hecker asked:


When you’re playing golf badly it isn’t a lot of fun. If you’re like most golfers, you want to improve, not just hack around the golf course. Finding ways to improve your golf game, then applying what you’ve learned and practicing, is the number one way to get ahead of the game.

Overall, you generally want to play golf with confidence. Keep the good energy flowing and don’t give in to any negative thoughts. Golf requires tough mental fitness as well as physical fitness and is often overlooked.

Trust your golf club to do the job it was intended to do. It’s difficult for a golfer to practice hitting shots longer than short pitch shots unless one pays to play golf or pays to practice at a driving range or indoor golf training facility. The most important thing about the golf swing is the angle and not the strength that’s applied to it.

Use the basic ‘hitchhiker’ position when you’re working on your backswing. Try not to grip the club too tightly. The backswing is a rotation to the right, consisting of a shifting of the player’s body weight to the right side, a turning of the pelvis and shoulders, lifting of the arms and flexing of the elbows and wrists.

Putts and short chips are ideally played without much movement of the body, but most other golf shots are played using variants of the full golf swing. Use the muscles in your legs and trunk when you swing. Ask your golf pro to evaluate your posture while swinging.

Many golfers who are strongly left-handed in their daily life prefer the right-handed golf swing. When you swing if you have problems with your left knee buckling, imagine you’re holding a soccer ball between your knees.

To prevent injury and improve swing speed and distance requires your body to be both strong and flexible. Many golfers have improved their golf game by concentrating on golf fitness. Workouts with straight crunches won’t improve your swing or driving distance; concentrate on weighted rotational exercises instead.

Keep in mind that with some golf swing aids, you may still need advice or help from an expert. There are golf swing aids that act as driving range simulators. Golf magazines often review the newest golf swing aids and are reviewed by golfers, making it easy to choose the right one for you.

Be careful about the claims on TV commercials and magazine ads; seek expert advice before you buy because they may not live up to their claims. You can find golf swing aids that will help you with your wrist and arm position. Whether you’re a seasoned golfer or just starting out, pick just one golf swing aid and go to work on your swing.

If you’re looking for an aid to improve your stance they’re not hard to find. Make sure to look for reviews and ratings online for any golf swing aid you’re considering. Sporting goods stores have golf aids to improve your game.

Golf swing aids will improve your golf game. Golf swing aids come in all shapes and sizes including apparel type accessories to correct alignment or a golf club add-on accessory to monitor your swing.

If you’ve hit with your golf driver perfectly once, you can do it every time. If you apply both physical and mental workouts, golf swing improvement will be your reward. Take as many private lessons as you can afford with a good golf pro.

Joyce

TonyTwoSips asked:


I have a knee slide which was “added” many years ago as part of trying to develop a follow through.

I now play of 8 and its killing my swing from being able to hit down on the ball.

Any ideas?

Marjorie

gabejantz asked:


I do not have money for a lesson, but I want to improve my swing, any ideas how?

Timothy

Helen Hecker asked:


If you’re like most golfers, you want to improve, not just hack around the golf course. When you’re playing golf badly it isn’t a lot of fun. Most golfers don’t know that eighty percent of the world’s golfers have a handicap of 18 or more.

Visualize where you would like the ball to land, as you swing. The positive energy you send out will influence your game, just as negative thinking and therefore negative energy will affect it also. Golf requires tough mental fitness as well as physical fitness and is often overlooked.

Putts and short chips are ideally played without much movement of the body, but most other golf shots are played using variants of the full golf swing. Ask your golf pro to evaluate your posture while swinging. Make sure to use the proper technique.

Use the muscles in your legs and trunk when you swing. The most important thing about the golf swing is the angle and not the strength that’s applied to it. Accomplished golfers purposely use sidespin to steer their ball around obstacles or towards the safe side of fairways and greens.

Pick out a spot on the course, preferably the green of the fairway, and concentrate on hitting the ball to that spot. At the end of a swing, the weight has shifted almost entirely to the left foot, the body is fully turned to the left and the hands are above the left shoulder with the club hanging down over the players’ back. After the ball is hit, the follow-through stage consists of a continued rotation to the left.

At the end of a backswing the hands are above the right shoulder, with the golf club pointing more or less in the intended direction of ball flight. Use the basic ‘hitchhiker’ position when you’re working on your backswing.

Most golfers don’t know there are techniques that will greatly affect swing mechanics; you can get an edge by just changing your approach. Don’t underestimate the value of fitness when it comes to your golf swing and your overall golf game. It’s no secret; most of the professional players actively participate in workouts.

Before buying any golf swing aid, check with an expert to get an idea of what problem you need to work on first; backlift of golf swing, momentum of downward thrust or stance for example. If you’re looking for an aid to improve your stance they’re not hard to find. Aids come in all shapes and sizes including apparel type accessories to correct alignment or a golf club add-on accessory to monitor your swing.

You can find aids that will help you with your wrist and arm position. Golf aids are often for sale at your pro shop or local golf shop. Golf magazines often review the newest golf swing aids and are reviewed by golfers, making it easy to choose the right one for you.

Most of all don’t waste your money on an aid you don’t need or will never use. Sporting goods stores have golf aids to improve your game. Whether you’re a seasoned golfer or you’re just starting out, pick just one aid and go to work on your swing.

Look for golf swing aids at your local golf course. If you’re a golfing novice just starting out, it’s easy to become overwhelmed.

If you’ve hit with your golf driver perfectly once, you can do it every time. Get some golf DVDs and commit yourself to a time to practice what you learn. Pick out something every week to concentrate on and help you improve your golf swing and golf game.

Jessica

ndaiye80 asked:


I swing my clubs pretty fast and i’m not sure what kinda driver would compliment my swing the best any ideas.

Dora

Jon asked:


I just started golfing. I have good form and when I drive the ball it gets the distance, but it always hooks to the right. are there any little adjustments in a golf swing that can help hit it straight?

Hazel

Staffan Moritz asked:


There are many good golf swing trainers, and chances are you will find one that can help improve the areas of your golf swing that you want to work on. Golf swing trainers can help you with golf ball impact, ball position, swing speed, an even swing plane, set up, and many other golf swing basics that will cut strokes off your golf game. With Golf swing trainers you can practice on your own time, even in your own home, saving you the trouble of golf lessons. Also, remember that golf swing trainers are a one time cost, and you can use the equipment over and over again.

Now, Where do you find great golf swing trainers?

The best place to shop for golf swing trainers is on the internet. You can easily browse a large variety of golf swing trainers to find one that will be right for you. Online shopping allows you to easily compare products and prices of golf swing trainers, without leaving your home.

It may be confusing trying to figure out which of the many golf swing trainers will help your golf game and be right for you. However, most of the current golf swing trainers on the market that you will find, will have a brief description of how they work and what part of your game they are designed to improve. Remember, even if you have found the perfect golf swing trainer for you, you will not see improvement in your game unless you dedicate time to practice consistently.

Here are two types of golf swing trainers you should consider:

1. The golf impact indicator is a simple strip that you place on the club face of your golf club. After hitting the ball, the golf impact indicator reveals if you have struck the golf ball in the center of your club face, known as the sweet spot. To achieve a successful golf swing, you must hit the ball with a square club face, and the golf impact indicator will help you do this.

2. A rail swing trainer is a circular rail that outlines the optimal swing plane for a golf swing. You step inside the rail and let your golf club be guided along the rail as you take a swing. This golf swing trainer gives you allows you to feel what the right golf swing plane feels like so you can repeat that during a normal stroke.

Adam

John Lynch asked:


By John Lynch
You’ve been hearing it since you first learned how to swing a golf club - “you gotta keep your left arm straight during the golf swing”. The trouble is; how do you learn to keep your left arm straight? A lotta golfers who think they keep their left arm straight during the golf swing are shocked when they see themselves swing on video…their left elbow usually breaks down somewhere during the backswing…or the downswing. Some golfers are so intent on keeping their left arm straight during the golf swing they become rigid with little shoulder turn. So, how do you learn to keep the left arm straight during the golf swing? First, a little lesson on the physics of the golf swing… Experts on the physics of golf refer to the “Magic Triangle” or “Eternal Triangle” that is formed in an ideal golf swing. This is the triangle formed by the golfer’s left arm, the golf club, and an imaginary line from the golfer’s left shoulder to the center of the club face. For best results, this triangle should be maintained from the start of the backswing to just before the impact area when you release the club head. This will produce a high speed impact with the ball as described in detail by Joe Dante in his top selling golf instructional book - “Four Magic Moves To Winning Golf”.By focusing on maintaining the magic triangle throughout the golf swing you are taken advantage of a powerful physical force…the conservation of angular momentum…the principal that states angular momentum of an object remains constant as long as no external force or moment acts on that object. If the object (club head) is brought closer to the axis (formed by the golfer’s stable spine), it speeds up. If the club head is moved further out, it slows down. In a golf swing, as the player rotates the club, the hands move farther from the body or axis and slow down. This reduction in momentum feeds into the much lighter club and increases the speed of the club head in the last part of the stroke, in a whiplash type of effect, increasing the force of impact on the ball. The truth is, if your left arm does not stay straight during the golf swing, you are losing out on the benefits of centrifugal force because your swing arc is smaller. Think of your left arm as a spoke in a wheel and your swing arc as the circumference of the wheel. By not keeping your left arm straight you are essentially shortening the spoke thereby reducing the circumference. You are also upsetting the positive effects of conservation of angular momentum and thus reducing the speed between club face and ball. Now that you understand the physics behind the benefits of keeping your left arm straight during the golf swing… How do you learn to do so? Assuming your golf swing fundamentals such as grip, stance, and alignment are relatively sound, all you have to do is simply become aware of this magic triangle. Don’t try to force this triangle…just become aware of it next time you go to the range… Then, just before impact, release all that stored energy you will have in the club head, like cracking a whip! After a while you will be shocked at how solidly you can strike the ball… You’ll be surprised how straight your left arm becomes during the golf swing just by shining the light of awareness upon this magic triangle during the golf swing. You will now have a tiger by the tail so use this new found power wisely! Hit ‘em Long and Straight!
John Lynch

Brian