• Recent Posts

  • Useful Golf Tips

    3 Basic Basic Tips

    Like any other sport, golf has basic rules that should always be adhered to, even if you are not a competitive player and just like to hit a few rounds on the course in your leisure time. It makes the game fair, challenging, and respectful to the other players you are with.

    Here are three such rules:

    1. Do not cheat by switching balls during a hole. The rules state that you must play with the same ball from the tee off to the final putt. Wherever the ball lands on each shot, that is where you play it from.

    2. Always carry a scorecard with you. It is not absolutely necessary, especially if you do not plan on keeping score, but even if not, having a scorecard is a great way to track your progress.

    3. The best way to progress in golf and improve your short game is to compare older scorecards with your current game. In other words, if you just hit the course yesterday, and today bring along that scorecard. You now have an opportunity to look at every shot made an improve on mistakes.

  • Categories

  • Archives

    • Tips & Practice

    « Previous Entries

    How To Play A Chip Shot – The Professional Way (2)

    Thursday, May 28th, 2009

    Place Your Weight On The Left Side
    Another thing that helps create a descending blow is having your weight on your left leg. The best way to do this is just to feel like you are leaning slightly toward your target. Any time you think about weight and its placement, it follows naturally to wonder how [...]

    How To Play A Chip Shot – The Professional Way (1)

    Thursday, May 28th, 2009

    Open Up Your Lower Body
    Usually when you hear about opening your stance it’s a reference to your entire alignment. With a chip shot, however, that’s not the case. This shot is used with such a short swing that you couldn’t possibly affect the “shape” of the ball flight, which is the normal reason for opening [...]

    Course Management: Tips To Help You Take Your Golf Game More Seriously

    Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

    Course management is the skill of thinking your way around the golf course and in the most effective manner possible. The world’s best players, in addition to possessing excellent technique, are also top level tacticians, mastering highly effective strategies and squeezing every last drop of potential out of a round by playing to their strengths.
    The [...]

    Chipping From Off The Green: The Classic Biter Shot

    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

    The “Biter” is a classic chip shot that is the shot you want to play when you have “very little green to work with”, as they say on golf sporting commentaries.
    What that means is that there is very little room between the edge of the green and the hole on the side where your ball [...]

    4 Most Common Chip Shot Mistakes (And How To Fix Them)

    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

    Poor results on the golf course don’t just happen on their own. When you skull a chip shot that goes running across the green, or stub a shot, it usually happens for one of the following reasons, and knowing them will help you avoid them:
    Standing Too Far Away From the Ball
    If you get your body [...]

    « Previous Entries