Golf Tips

[jhayx7]

Lets hear em.

The best tip I have ever heard was in this months Golf Magazine. On the downswing, about 2-3 feet from striking the ball, imagine your club is a screwdriver and turn it counter-clockwise. This helps pop the ball off the face of your club. I tried this out yesterday and I hit my irons better than ever. I had to go down a club selection and was nailing the best shots of my golf "career" (started last year).

 

[RightIsWrong]

I got this from a golf pro that I got paired up with one day a few years back:

If you are a slicer, you can "cure" it by hitting the range and practice hitting short irons with your feet together. Hit about a dozen or so like this (each should go straight as a line but without much distance) and then slowly and in small increments, spread your feet apart until you get to a "normal" stance.

This helped me cure a pretty wicked slice in one range session and has worked with pretty good success ever since.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

getting your clubs fitted, or getting fitted clubs. Best decision ever.

And ya, that feet-together method is good, but just make sure it's your left arm (if you're a right-handed swinger) that dominates the swing than your right.

This is something I learned from my pro:
I would put a flexible flag/stake or a tee about 4-5 inches to the left of the ball, and the stake is at an approx 20-30 degree angle from the ball. The line that the ball and the stake/tee/marker makes is your ideal swing path (well for me it is because most of my power came from an inside-out type of swing because i'm relatively short @ 5'8'').

I just make sure that my club hits the stake/tee whenever I hit the ball. Of course, I use RightIsWrong's method too.

With this method, I was a very long player (no longer now due to this lame wrist injury and stupid lower back stiffening up).

 

[axelfox]

Try to put the ball in the hole in with as few shots as possible

 

[apologetic]

Don't look for your shot before you're done swinging. Keep your head down.

 

[Gibsons]

Practice your short game.