Preparing for the Perfect Golf Vacation
Your perfect golf vacation with your friends starts and stops with you. Toss the vacation package brochures in a heap and design your own ideal golf getaway. This is the final of four articles to assist you in providing an outing for yourself and your friends that will make you want to do it every year (as we have for 19 years running).

From the last article, you are now at the minus one month point. So far you have rallied the troops, picked the dates, selected the lodging and golf courses and are in the final preparation stage.

Preparing for a Golf Vacation

The Evolution of Golf
The game of golf began its destiny in time towards becoming popular around the world. In 1744 the rules of Golf were put into writing for the first time ever. At this point in history, the first thirteen laws of golf were drawn up for an annual competition. The first documented record makes references to modern golf. It was during the mid to late 1800’s that the game of golf really became world renowned.

The Evolution of Golf

Improve Your Golf Swing
Golf can be a terrific game but the most frustrating to see improvements. Some of the frustration comes from too many people giving too many ’swing adjustments’.

Follow these few tips and you should start to see your golf shot greatly improve.

Improve Your Golf Swing

Jerry Newham’s 7 Key Golf Swing Stages
There are 7 key stages to the golf swing. Popular golf coach, and Director of Coaching at The Sussex Golf Academy, Jerry Newham explains:

Address / Setup
Tilt forward from the hips, keeping the back straight and the chin up. Flex both knees with weight evenly spread between both feet. Arms hang freely under the chin. Active body, passive arms and hands.

7 Stages to Golf Swings

Perfecting Putting
Golf putting is the only shot that’s possible to execute without flaws. Some of us start off as kids putting and some of us are pretty darn good at this even at a young age. This golf shot is often what leads us to our lifelong addiction to this wonderful game of golf.

Perfecting Putting

Personal Golf Styles
Developing your own golfing style, do you really need to? Seems like an obvious statement, but sometimes beginners think they just need to imitate a professional golf player, and they’ll instantly have golf success. There are no shortcuts to becoming a good golfer so obviously the above statement is incorrect.

Personal Golf Styles

Golf Gadgets for the Golfers Who Have Everything
Who wants them? Who needs them? These little devices come in as many shapes, sizes, and forms as there are stars in the universe. Unlike short-game training devices or swing aids they do not work directly on teaching you the proper techniques of the golf swing. However they are indeed incredibly creative in unexpected and very imaginative ways. They are made to make the crazy game of golf more fun, a lot less strenuous and simply easier to play.

Golf Gadgets

Proper Golf Swing - One of the harder things to Master
Most beginning golfers don’t realize how much skill and technique goes into a proper golf swing. It looks so easy when you see experienced golfers or pros swing - it even sounds quite simple when the theory of the technique is explained to you. But watching it and hearing about it, and actually doing it yourself are indeed two different things!

Proper Golf Swings

Why Golf Practice is Important
How many times have you been at a driving range and witnessed stall after stall filled with tired looking golfers endlessly pounding balls. Many golfers, in spite of of their proficiency level, are guilty of wasting their practice time. Most have chosen the large bucket and believe only of launching all those small pellets with the big stick.

Golf Practice

Improve Your Golf Swing and Driving Distance with Golf Stretches
The golf swing is arguably one of the most difficult athletic actions to perform. The golf swing requires you to draw the golf club through a long range of motion with proper technique and exact timing.

Any error in swing plane, timing, or sequence will cause your golf swing to suffer, and suffer it will. Unfortunately, the result of your golf swing suffering will be errant shots, poor golf scores, and frustration on the golf course.

Hit Harder and Further with Stretches

Golf is Good for Your Health
Lucky for the golf lover, golfing is not only recreational, but also a great healthy activity. A key to success in using golfing to reduce stress is to get all the exercise out of it that you can.

Golf Is Good for Your Health

Proper Golf Swing - One of the harder things to Master
Most beginning golfers don’t realize how much skill and technique goes into a proper golf swing. It looks so easy when you see experienced golfers or pros swing - it even sounds quite simple when the theory of the technique is explained to you. But watching it and hearing about it, and actually doing it yourself are indeed two different things!

Proper Golf Swings

History of Golf in Scotland
While many countries have a valid claim to an early game that resembles the game of golf, the origins of golf are without a doubt routed in Scotland’s past. The fact is, golf probably derived from other countries and stick and ball type games. However, while these are stick and ball games, they are missing that vital ingredient that is unique to golf. The hole. It was the Scots who introduced the golf hole into the game we now call golf.

History of Golf in Scotland

Perfecting Putting
Golf putting is the only shot that’s possible to execute without flaws. Some of us start off as kids putting and some of us are pretty darn good at this even at a young age. This golf shot is often what leads us to our lifelong addiction to this wonderful game of golf.

Perfecting Putting

Perfecting Putting
Golf putting is the only shot that’s possible to execute without flaws. Some of us start off as kids putting and some of us are pretty darn good at this even at a young age. This golf shot is often what leads us to our lifelong addiction to this wonderful game of golf.

Perfecting Putting

Interesting Golf Facts
The World’s Longest Golf Course is the International Golf Club in Massachusetts, a long par 77, 8325-yards, from the tiger tees.

Interesting Golf Facts

Beginner Golf Basics
If you wish to increase the exercise benefits of golf you can elect to walk the 18 holes. When you are selecting a golf bag you will first need to determine if you are going to walk the course or ride, your preference here is a determining factor in whether you need a carry or cart bag. Golf bags are obtainable in a range of materials so pick one that is suitable to the weather in which you will play majority of your golf.

Beginner Golf Basics

Golf Basics
I would like to focus the jest of this article on the basis of the golf swing… the grip. With spring in the air and golf on our minds let’s get this year off to a good start by not overlooking the basics.

Unquestionably the biggest mistake I see in people’s golf swing isn’t in their golf swing itself.

Nope. Not at all.

More often than not the mistakes happen before the swing even begins. The first mistake is made in how the golfer holds the golf club.

Golf Basics

Golf Stance Tips
Many newer golfers (and a few older ones, too) have a tendency to misalign themselves when they take their stance. Normally, what they will do is aim way right of the target and they do this for a reason. Players who are misaligned from the get go and aim right are usually players who try to swing with their arms. When they do this the ball will almost always take off to the left. So what they are doing with this “right side” target trick is trying to fix a problem before it even happens!

Golf Stance Tips

Improve Your Golf Swing
Golf can be a terrific game but the most frustrating to see improvements. Some of the frustration comes from too many people giving too many ’swing adjustments’.

Follow these few tips and you should start to see your golf shot greatly improve.

Improve Your Golf Swing

Golf Swing Aids
Many golfers practice a great deal, and still never achieve the swing that they want to possess. If this sounds like you, you may benefit from golf swing aids. There are many golf swing aids on the market today that will help you greatly improve your swing - in less time in most cases. Choosing the gold swing aids that are right for you, however, often presents a challenge.

Golf Swing Aids

Preparing for the Perfect Golf Vacation
Your perfect golf vacation with your friends starts and stops with you. Toss the vacation package brochures in a heap and design your own ideal golf getaway. This is the final of four articles to assist you in providing an outing for yourself and your friends that will make you want to do it every year (as we have for 19 years running).

From the last article, you are now at the minus one month point. So far you have rallied the troops, picked the dates, selected the lodging and golf courses and are in the final preparation stage.

Preparing for a Golf Vacation

How to Fix a Weak Golf Grip
For the average golfer, the grip is probably the most overlooked fundamental, yet it’s one of the most important techniques to good golf.

An incorrect grip, especially one that’s too weak, sets up a chain reaction that makes it difficult (if not impossible) to hit the ball straight and with any reasonable distance.

How to Fix a Weak Golf Grip

Proper Golf Swing - One of the harder things to Master
Most beginning golfers don’t realize how much skill and technique goes into a proper golf swing. It looks so easy when you see experienced golfers or pros swing - it even sounds quite simple when the theory of the technique is explained to you. But watching it and hearing about it, and actually doing it yourself are indeed two different things!

Proper Golf Swings

Perfecting Putting
Golf putting is the only shot that’s possible to execute without flaws. Some of us start off as kids putting and some of us are pretty darn good at this even at a young age. This golf shot is often what leads us to our lifelong addiction to this wonderful game of golf.

Perfecting Putting

Improving Your Golf Driver Swing
Approach every tee shot with a clear picture in your mind of what you want the golf ball to look like in flight. Choose the proper driver for your swing.

Improve Your Golf Driver Swing

History of Golf in Scotland
While many countries have a valid claim to an early game that resembles the game of golf, the origins of golf are without a doubt routed in Scotland’s past. The fact is, golf probably derived from other countries and stick and ball type games. However, while these are stick and ball games, they are missing that vital ingredient that is unique to golf. The hole. It was the Scots who introduced the golf hole into the game we now call golf.

History of Golf in Scotland

Jerry Newham’s 7 Key Golf Swing Stages
There are 7 key stages to the golf swing. Popular golf coach, and Director of Coaching at The Sussex Golf Academy, Jerry Newham explains:

Address / Setup
Tilt forward from the hips, keeping the back straight and the chin up. Flex both knees with weight evenly spread between both feet. Arms hang freely under the chin. Active body, passive arms and hands.

7 Stages to Golf Swings