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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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    Putting Exercise You Can Do At Home Or In The Office

    By Foursome | August 5, 2008

    You always hear the phrase “never attempt this at home” but when it comes to improving your short game, this advice need not apply. In fact, anytime you can get a little bit of golf practice in, even while at home, is always a good investment to your game, even when it comes to stretching for golf.

    The following stretching exercise is designed to help you build your sense for letting your putterhead fall through the ball, swing to completion, and hold at the finish – as great putting strokes do.

    It trains your muscles – and your mind – to make sure that your putterhead extends forward along the target line after the ball leaves the face.
    The Exercise

    Get a strong, six-inch rubber band. Take one end and put it around the thin leg of a table or any piece of furniture; something heavy and stable that won’t move with minimal pressure. Put your putterhead through the space in the middle of the band.

    Take your putting stance, with your putter on the left side of the table leg for right-handed people and on the right side for left-handed individuals. Stretch the blade and rubber band forward, as if you’re putting away from the table toward an imaginary hole. Then hold the finish.

    The band tries to pull your putter back, but keep stretching out the band. Stop after you complete a normal followthrough. Hold the finish, and then stretch it out again. Maintain a nice soft grip. You don’t want to break the rubber band; you just want to stretch it out. All you want to do is train your muscles.

    Feel The Results, And Learn From Them

    You’ll see that by trying to use your wrists to pull the putter forward doesn’t work as well as keeping your wrists firm and having them work in harmony with your arms and shoulders. Wristy putting isn’t solid, and it complicates matters, as you can tell by trying to pull the putter forward with your wrists.

    Your hands, arms, and wrists should pull the rubber band as one triangular unit, which is what they should do during a real putting stroke.

    Now take the rubber band off and go hit some real putts on a practice green or on your carpet. Without the rubber band, you feel so much freer to accelerate through the ball, which is what you want to do on ever putt you hit. Keep the same light grip, and let the muscles you’ve trained do the dirty work.

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