Clean Up Your Card By Practicing These Golf Swing Basics
June 30th, 2009 by Stewart K Tyrone, under Travel and Leisure. No Comments
The gane of golf continues to be increasingly popular, unfortunately the numbers of high scoring hackers continues to rise as well. High scores are easily avoided by remembering to practice some golf swing basics.
There are many aspects that you have to master in order to be a good golfer. You need to master the short game, playing out of the sand, fairways, and of course the tee shot.
The driver is the longest club in the bag but is difficult to hit well consistently even Tiger Woods occasionally pulls one into the trees, so for beginners there is only a slim chance of hitting the fairway on a consistent basis. Many people opt for a 3 or even 5 wood when starting out, they have more loft and are easier to hit.
It has been proven that for every 6 balls struck of the tee 2 will finish in the water and another two will be lost in the trees.
If you don’t have any positive practice regimes in golf, there’s a good chance your driver will end up bent around the nearest tree after every drive.
So how can you master the perfect drive? Let’s look at a few golf swing basics to help the cause.
The first essential step to take is to tee the ball up higher, a lower tee leads to a smothering of the ball, you want to sweep it off the tee.
Many golfers tee the ball far too low wich often produces a hook or one of those annoying scuffed shots where the ball travels about 20 feet, just enough to reach the very long rough just in front of the tee.
Every beginner is familiar with the scuffed shots that bump just a few feet in front of them.
Secondly make sure you position the ball correctly, for a driver is should be just inside your front foot, not in the middle of your stance.
This is the improper place to put your ball when using the driver. Many people don’t realize that you want to hit the ball on your upswing. They think that if they just hit the ball in the middle of the swing, they’ll be good to go.
As a driver has little loft you must try to hit the ball from the bottom to gain the necessary height.
The distance you are able to get on the ball will also increase over time with experience and as your swing improves.
Another area to pay attention to is that you are placing the clubface squarely to the ball.
Maybe if they did there would not be so many golfers hitting from the woods with their second shot.
Hold your club up by the ball when you address and you’ll see how straight you’re holding the club.
Take these golf swing tips into consideration the next time you hit the links. Hopefully with a little practice doing it the right way, you can start to shave strokes off of your game.
