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How To Choose The Right Golf Wedge
Improving your short game is something that can be most effectively accomplished through intensive instruction at a golf academy. In addition to the golf academy experience, anyone can improve their short game by choosing the right golf wedge. If you have ever watched a pro tournament, you have noticed that players can hit shots in succession with each one stopping just inches away from the hole.
If you have wondered how this is possible, well, the golf wedge is the answer to this question. Golf wedges are clubs that are specially tailored and designed for the short game, which makes sense when you consider that approximately 70 percent of shots in a golf game are done from within 150 to 100 yards in. In other words, it is all well and good that you can drive over 250 yards from the tee, but it will not help you in your short game.
If you only have one wedge currently, you should definitely consider the purchase of more wedges to be essential, and if you are smart enough to bring your wedges with you during your next golf academy course, you will be able to learn the correct techniques for, and specializations of, each type in greater detail. If you have between 15 and 20 feet, for example, then you will want a lofted club, or one that has a face angled back from the vertical, like a sand wedge.
The loft of a wedge and the groves on the face of the club both work together to produce a spin rate, since the loft of a wedge is just another way of measuring the angle at which it hits the ball of off the ground, which in turn determines the trajectory of the ball and the amount of roll it produces. This is the reason why golf wedges are offered in degrees that vary from 47 to 64 degrees in order to better cater to surface conditions, as well as the distance and angle required to reach that distance.
What your golf academy instructor will tell you, and what all pros and serious golfers know, is that Golfers with a low handicap, less than ten strokes over par should have four wedges. Mid handicap golfers in the 11-25 handicap bracket should have three wedges, and golfers that are new with a 26 handicap or higher should begin with both a pitching wedge and a sand wedge.
By: Phoenix Delray
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How To Improve Golf Swing With Visualization
If you are looking for answers to how to improve golf swing, you are definitely not alone. There are plenty of golfers out there who are having this exact problem and are looking for a solution.
The key in better golf is in the focus itself, just being focused in the game and not getting distracted. Like any other game that requires high level of mental focus and concentration, like chess or any other competitive sport. Example for golf – when you are in the field and your mobile phone rings, your boss or your employee gives you some info. If info is critical, or urgent or even a simple message that makes you think about work instead of the game, then you just lose it, your game just goes down the tube.
Focus in golf just means being able to concentrate on the game without being affected by outside “noise”. The bigger battle, however, is often the “inside noise” that sometimes gets created unconsciously.
For example :-
You are now in front of a pond (water hazard). To clear the pond, you have to hit 200m. If you are a weak player, you don’t want to take chance, because you are not too confident of hitting the ball over 200m. So you take 2 x 100m shots to go around the water hazard. But if you are not weak, but also not too consistent in your long shots, then thats where the devil takes over your mind.
You are “greedy” and want to clear the hazard in 1 shot instead of 2 (the lesser number of shots the better), so you can beat your competitor. If you cant focus on the job at hand, then when you start to address the ball, you get intimidated by the stretch of water in front of you and start to get less confident in your attempt, and doubts gets into your mind. This “loss of focus” affects the muscle co-ordination and consequently, the swing, and the ball lands in the water. Then the player cursed and the snapshot of the failed attempt is sent to his mind and then carried forward to the next hole, and the next game, and so on
So how did being focus and how visualization help Joyce?
Another aspect to better golf is visualization – you need to form the “shape” of your shot before you hit it.
Example :-
Scenario
Your ball is on a spot where the hole is 200m in front but towards your left side.
If you just hit straight 200m, your ball will end up missing the hole. So you break your play into 2 shots – hit the 1st shot 100m straight in front of you, then face left and hit the ball towards the hole. Better players like a professional golfer can hit golf ball in fairway a curve shot so that the ball can skew towards the left and land closer to the hole. To do this, he must first create an image in his mind on where he wants the ball to land. This visualization is crucial, else the ball may end up in a bad position, like inside a wooded area among trees or in tall grasses. Then he goes through the swing in his mind – and imagine he hits the ball, it goes through the air, takes a slight turn to the left, falls on the fairway, bounced three times, rolls forward and stop 50m away from the hole. Now, what actually happens is usually quite different from what is visualized in the minds of the average golfer. The average golfer, often do not visualize the entire process. Instead their minds are cluttered with their daily “noises”, unable to focus and concentrate.
If you are not seeing improvement in your golf game, you need to step back and think about what happen when you are in the fields. Observe what your mind is thinking and take note. Then try the visualization process and if possible, get the Attraction Accelerator to help your mind stay focus.
By: Alison Lee
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Golf Instruction, Here’s an Easy Way To Discover and Then Fix Your Biggest Swing Flaw
Imagine, just for a second that you are a golf swing instructor. And you have made arrangements to conduct an on course golf swing lesson with three of your good clients.
All three are in need of golf instruction and you are fully prepared to give them the works today.
It’s a great day! You feel thankful that you have this opportunity to spend time out on the course.
That driving range stuff can really get old.
And here they come. Three wannabees. The good news is that they are best friends. And they get along with each other very well. So it should be a really good day. Right?
Well, let’s see what they’ve got today. You think to yourself that you just wish they would get the grip right. And the setup. If they could do that it would sure make your life easier.
Your objective today is to compare the three with one another. To see if you can find some commonality in their respective swings. And then, perhaps, you can streamline a program for all three so that when they practice together they would have a clue what they are doing and even help each other to some degree or other.
So here’s how it goes.
You are all on the first tee. Jake tees it up and rips it to the far right. That’s interesting, he hit it so far right that it’s in the driving range with about a million other white golf balls.
Charlie is next and hits a weak slider about 150 yards into the fairway. Ok he gets to at least hit the same ball again.
And last is Kent. He takes about an hour to get set up. He fidgets and fidgets. Grips and re-grips. And then hits a power house snap hook so far left that it actually went over the water into the lawn of one of the residences. So I guess Kent can hit it again if he can find a way to get over there.
This goes on and on for hole after hole. These guys are having a great time. They don’t seem to really care much about where they are hitting the ball or what scores they are putting up. Except for maybe Kent who is mad as hell that he is hitting a snap hook on every shot.
I’m beginning to wonder what I’m doing here. It would be too bad to insert anything negative to their good time.
But they are paying so I might as well get into it. Wouldn’t you ?
Here is what I see. All three hit the ball differently. Kent hits a snap hook, Charlie hits a weak slider and Jake hits huge slice.
The interesting thing to me is that their problems are exactly the same although their ball flights are entirely different.
You see Kent’s snap hook comes from closed clubface and a swing path that is outside in or ” over the top” and it is compounded by little to no weight shift from the right side to the left side.
Charlie has a similar problem, yet his ball flight is totally different. His weak slider is a result of an open clubface, also an over the top or outside in swing path, but his weight shift is backwards. He has a reverse weight shift. He goes to the front foot on the takeaway and then to the back foot on the downswing.
It’s an ugly looking thing.
Jake is a powerful guy. He hits the ball very hard every time. It always goes left to right and it travels a great distance, to the right. Jake takes a mighty whack at it. His motion is hard to see because of the speed of the motion. But it is apparent that after he hits it the clubhead has stayed low and around his body in his finish. And the ball always goes left to right.
This indicates an over the top move and an outside in swing path. He has considerable weight on his back foot, although not as much as his playing partners. He still exhibits the symptoms of a poor weight shift and the classic over the top pattern.
All three of these guys have a knack of getting the ball close when chipping. I suppose it’s because they get tons of practice since they are rarely on the green in regulation.
My conclusion to their individual swings and the fixes is that they all have the exact same troubles. Even though their ball flights are very different. This means that, generally, they can use the same fix to remedy the problems.
The one common problem is poor weight shift. This puts the golfer in a poor position to hit from the inside and so he is forced to throw the club outside the target line to inside in order to even hit the ball.
There is a difference between a reverse weight shift and no weight shift but not so much that the fix isn’t the same. Sometimes a reverse weight shift is caused by the early spinning of the hips in the downswing.
But if we address the weight shift issue it will take care of that.
Ok. So our boys have a slice and a hook. They all have poor weight shifts. They all have an over the top swing paths. What’s the fix?
A good weight shift will cure most of what ails them. A good inside swing path will too.
I can go to any practice range in America and see these swings all day long. It is the single most common swing problem in golf.
First move down? Bump your hips laterally and drop your right elbow to your right side.
Get rid of that weak grip and make it more neutral or a tad strong. Turn your right elbow toward your right hip at set up. ( try that)
Make sure you are set up square or slightly closed.
Lesson over.
By: Paul Macleod
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Golf Instruction – Green Reading, By Jeff Ritter
Green Reading. Jeff Ritter shows you a simple 5 step process to reading greens with ease! Visit Jeff’s site www.jeffrittergolf.com
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