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Tips For Golf - Tips for golfers
On golf courses the world over, golfers continue to play, look to improve, and try to find the elusive tips for golf that will hopefully unlock their golfing potential. Whether they’re planning on changing their swing, purchasing better golf clubs, changing their attire, or trying to improve on their fitness, all because they sense that they may have hit a plateau.
This same problem happened to me and probably every other golfer at one point in their life. I continued with my frustrations unbeknown for the several years until that is, I discovered one of the greatest tips for golf perhaps I have ever seen.
During these several dark golfing years I discovered that I could play well for the most part of 6 or 7 holes. But then I would hit one bad shot or miss one simple putt and my game just turned for the worse the rest of the round. My whole day of golf was knocked off track because of one simple mistake, and I could never get back a good rhythm going again. Several times I tried having a few beers at the 13th, my frustration disappeared but my game got worse.
After 10 years of golf I learned to realize that the mental game of golf is one of the most important aspects.
The numero uno of tips for golf that I came to learn was how to overcome the mental game of golf. I found that a good relaxation tape on golf was the way to solve this problem before a game. It taught me how to concentrate and completely focus on how to hit a good golf swing, especially after a really bad shot. Some of the techniques I used where focused techniques as well as tapes and various other methods.
The best mental tips for golf I can give you would be to fully concentrate on the shot you’re taking and never think about the shot you hit previously or the shot you’re going to hit next. Just focus on hitting the ball where you want it and let that be that.
Some more great tips for golf:
Short Game Tip
One major problem with beginner golfers is in their chipping. Whether you hit fat shots (hitting the ground before the ball), or you skull the ball over the green, there’s a great little drill that can help you. It’s known as the Flamingo Drill.
When chipping keep your weight shifted onto your front foot. Practice standing on your left foot with your right heel in the air behind you, just like a Flamingo would stand. This will help you obtain the feel of what it is like to hit shots with your weight firmly on your front foot and helps greatly with good chipping shots.
Putting Tip
A great tip for putting is the Bullseye trick Three-foot putts or more can really mess with your head if you let them. A really good golf putting tip to solve this is to imagine a bullseye attached to the back of the cup. This then encourages the player to accelerate the putter through to the hole and maintain the clubface’s movement square to the hole. This technique is used and recommended by one of the all time great putters, Seve Ballesteros.
Golf Swing Tip
One of the biggest mistakes people make in their golf swing is rushing their backswing. Some people think (consciously or not) that if they speed up their backswing, it will speed up their downswing and this will make them hit the ball farther. Nothing could be further from the truth. The speed of the backswing should be at a steady rate, not real fast or real slow. Most people tend to backswing too fast. Any time my golf swing begins to break down; the first correction is usually to slow down your backswing and relax and take your time.
For beginner golfers it’s important to always start off with a few golf lessons first of all with a professional golf instructor. You will then be able to build on a good basis of golf knowledge which will stand you in good stead for improving your game in the future.
Thank you to Wesley McDermott for this "Tips For Golf" article
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