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    Choosing Which Club To Use

    As you progress each shot down the fairway, the distance between your ball and the flagstick becomes shorter and shorter. This means that your goal is to hit the ball as far as possible from the tee shot. Then on all subsequent shots you will need to adjust your swing for accuracy and precision, not distance.

    This requires that you utilize different clubs for different shots. The club faces are made from either metal or wood. Different materials on a golf club will have different effects on how far the ball will travel, and how high it will go.

    Choosing An Iron or Wood

    Generally speaking, the higher the number on the club, such as a 9-iron for example, the higher the ball will go into the air, but with much less distance than a lower-numbered club, such as a 3-iron.

    If you are new to golf and are a little confused about these numbers and what clubs to use, don't worry, in time you will have a specific feel for each and every one of your 14 clubs when playing on the golf course.

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    Expert Golf Tip: Stick With The Shots You Know

    By Foursome

    Have you ever read an article that started out with something like “Secrets To Lowering Your Score” or “Professional Golf Strategies That Only The Pros Know”?

    These titles seem misleading, but the truth is that for many of you out there are indeed “secret” tips that can bring you from a beginner to an intermediate player (and beyond) in as little as one day on the course.

    Never Hit A Shot That You Have Not Yet Practiced

    This is one of those expert golf tips that can be hard to get used to. Let’s face it, it’s easy to see an opportunity that may or may not work, but we try it anyways, watching the ball sink deeper into trouble.

    Here is a perfect example:

    I play golf every weekend with the same group of players. A few of them have been my best friends for over 20 years, with one person in particular, Steve, who basically taught me everything I know about golf.

    Steve always makes it a point to share his insights and tips from playing golf for over four decades. But even Steve occasionally falls into the trap of hitting shots he has not practiced. Just this past weekend he started a tee shot that sliced a bit. The second shot landed the ball with a few trees in between Steve and the green. Before taking that third shot he thought to himself: “If I could just make this next shot with a long iron, firing it straight as a bullet, then it will at least get to the front of the green.”

    Now how often do you think Steve practiced hitting a punch shot with his long irons, which in fact traveled straight as an arrow? Never!

    The result? As you may guess, the ball did not go as as planned and at the end of the game he passed along his wisdom of experience, once again, saying: “Did I ever tell you about the expert golf tip of never attempting a shot you have not practiced?”

    We both had a few laughs…

    The Point Of The Story Is…

    Playing golf in this manner may seem like a scared way of approaching the game, but trust me – even professional golfers do not enter a contest and play shots they have not become familiar with in practice (but of course they have all day, every day, to practice, so there are very little shots they have not worked with).

    The point here is this: You would never expect to give a bike to a child that never rode one before, push them down a hill, and expect them to stay on without practicing beforehand, right? The result would be an accident of course!

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