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A Guide to Better Your Fitness for Golf

: November 15th, 2009 : MAN : Comments Off

Playing golf can be a really demanding sport both physically and mentally. Doing eighteen holes of golf often means passing four hours or more walking, swinging, and occasionally looking through the wilderness. Golf physical fitness is essential to those who desire to do well each time they play golf. It includes the staying power to walk the course for a lots people. Still those who drive in golf carts require to do some walking on the course to find to their balls. It also includes effectiveness for functioning to make the ball go further down the fairway. It also includes flexibility for each swing means a movement that demand to improve the golf swing fundamentals.

Several golf players do not concern about golf fitness since they are by nature, physically fit. Other players must make on their fitness so they are able to enjoy their time on the golf course. Each golfer should have staying power to complete eighteen rounds of golf. Part of this staying power can be reached while on the course. Doing those 18 holes leads to the toughness of each player. Those players who move in golf carts might walk the course every time, and this will build up their staying power. The walk on the field will be a good benefit to stay fit of every player who walks the whole field.

Golf Players attentive on bettering their fitness will be proud to acknowledge that there are some tools to help them amend their and mental fitness. You can find golf swing aids that give a lot of tips on rising golf fitness. Most of these guides always include illustrations of workouts that will better their fitness. A lot of these books offer workouts that will aim unique movements of the game for betterment. Several exercises will target the movements of the swing and follow through for improvement. Those that implies the workouts would improve their movements.

There are several video intros that golfers can watch to improve their fitness. These videos always display stretching techniques that will amend the physical fitness of every player so their game will be better. The right golf swing guide comes with programs that show specific physical exercises that will improve a golfer’s flexibility that is so significant to the movements of the game. Different programs are available that show pressing exercises that will improve the strength of the golfer. Numerous of these programs are for old golf players who require to amend their golf games. These programs aim problems that are common in older golfers who still wish to play a tremendous game.

Smashing the Ball with Accuracy, Consistency, and Confidence

: August 26th, 2009 : MAN : Comments Off

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“Driving the Golf Ball with Confidence, Accuracy, and Consistency”

The three most important elements to the game of golf is:

  1. Driving the golf ball in play.
  2. Putting the golf ball with consistent speed control (distance).
  3. Pitching the golf ball with loft.

Let’s concentrate on what I consider the MOST important aspect to the game of golf, DRIVING THE GOLF BALL IN PLAY. This element of the game is the number one confidence builder in our sport. As you probably know and have experienced, your score adds up quickly if you hit your tee shots out of play.

Here is a bold proclomation for you -if you read this article/special report every time, just before you play a round, your friends will think they are playing with Joe Durant. Joe has led the PGA Tour in driving accuracies for the past two years. So far this year, he is averaging 79% of the fairways every time he plays 18 holes of golf.

If you are going to change the way you drive the golf ball you will need to implement the following four fundamentals:

 

  1. THE PICTURE
  2. PROPER DRIVER
  3. CORRECT TEE HEIGHT
  4. CORRECT SWING PLANE

 

1. THE PICTURE

If you can see it, you can have it. Before you take your driver, or any club for that matter, out of your golf bag, you better start seeing what you want the golf ball to look like during its journey down the fairway. Of the millions of words and lessons my mother (the first woman to teach at a golf school in the United States) passed on to me, the one phrase that has stayed with me all of these years is THE PICTURE. You must have a mental picture of how you want the ball to fly through the air and where you want it to wind up. When you have a driver in your hands, you have to pick out an exact area you want the ball to land on. IF YOU DON’T SEE THE PICTURE, YOU ARE HEADED FOR BIG TROUBLE.

Important Tip: During the course of a round of golf, you can find yourself driving the ball well, but all of the sudden you are faced with a difficult driving hole. Shortly after I turned pro, I played a practice round with Tommy Bolt the 1958 U.S. Open Champion. We came to great par four, 435 yards long, water down the right side of the fairway from the tee to the green, out of bounds markers down the entire left side of the fairway from the tee to the green. After I teed my golf ball up I said to Tommy , “What do you do here with O.B. left and water right?” Tommy looked me straight in the eye and said “Son, if you see the water and the O.B. markers, you better go find another line of work.”

That stuck with me to this day, and I wanted to pass it on to you. Don’t worry about the challenges, just think about what you want the ball to do. I have benefited immensely during my golf career, and I want you to gain the same benefit from this as well.

2. PROPER DRIVER

Now that you can see the picture, let’s see if you brought the correct brush to paint with. If you are still trying to buy 100 more feet every time you walk into a golf shop. It is time to stop-NOW! If you have a driver that is metal, has a graphite shaft, and the grip is new then you own what it takes to send the golf ball straight down the fairway.

Let’s back up a foot or two. The loft on the golf club will play a major role in how accurate you are. If you are struggling with your driver you might consider buying a driver with at least 10-12 degrees of loft. The less loft a driver has the more you are apt to slice and hook the ball. If you are driving the ball well you can buy a driver with less loft.

An important side note: If you are driving the golf ball short, low and to the right the shaft might be too stiff. If you are driving the golf ball too high and to the left the shaft might be too weak.

Another item to consider if you have small hands, have the club repair shop regrip all of your grips with either a junior grip or a small grip. If your hands are large, have the shop regrip you clubs with oversize grips.

Bottom Line – befire you focus on distance generation, worry about getting the ball in the fairway first. Chances are, you own the equipment right now, that will give you the fairway shots you’re striving for. Remember – It’s the swing, not the equipment. The equipment helps once you have a good swing, but you’ll never FIX your swing with an equipment upgrade.

3.CORRECT TEE HEIGHT

The tee height does not seem like such a big deal, but it plays a huge roll in whether or not you drive the golf ball consistently down the fairway. Something so simple can often be the biggest challenge.

The two major mistakes are teeing the golf ball too low or teeing the golf ball too high. You may have heard that golf is a game of opposites. This is a tremendous example. Let me explain why. If you are constantly swinging your driver too vertical into the ground in the downswing, you probably tee the golf ball to low. Almost all golfers with a vertical driver swing fear swinging underneath the golf ball so they tee the ball low in hopes of catching it square. For those of you with this challenge, the next time you are on the golf course, tee the golf ball up a little higher and sit back a little bit more on your heels and keep your weight there in the downswing. After your shot has landed, look down to see if your tee is still in the ground. If you are always conscience of leaving the tee in the ground, you will not pop your tee shots up anymore.

If you are topping your tee shots to the right you might have the ball teed too high because you are trying to hit the ball on the upswing. The next time you go out to play, tee the ball down a little. After the golf ball has landed, make sure your weight is on your left foot and meaning you have transferred your weight correctly.

4. CORRECT SWING PLANE

With this final tip I feel confident you will be on your way to driving the golf ball straighter and with more consistency. The golf club in your bag that swings the most vertical, (up and down) is your sand wedge. The golf club that swings the most horizontal (around you-baseball swing) is your driver. The mistake I have seen most amateur golfers make is that they swing their driver like their sand wedge and they swing their sand wedge like their driver.

A couple of things to remember when you are addressing the driver:

  1. Chin up
  2. Turn your right shoulder in the back swing level
  3. Swing the golf club around you/not up and down
  4. Leave the tee in the ground after you hit the ball

When you are ready to begin your backswing, keep your swing thoughts to a minimum. Force yourself to think about swinging more horizontal.

At the beginning of this article I promised you would drive the ball more with more confidence, accuracy, and more consistent if you read this article every time before you tee it up this summer. This stuff seems simple, but give it a whirl and let us knwo your results. You’ll get a few really good results.

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Happy Golfing-

Bobby Eldridge

Head Professional-PurePoint Golf

 

 

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