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

Sorenstam wins penultimate outing
Annika Sorenstam tastes victory in her penultimate tournament before retiring as she captains the International team to victory in the Lexus Cup in Singapore.

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

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

Best Golf Courses
So what are the best golf courses in the United States? Take a look at our top picks! Check out our list of top 10 Golf Courses.

Best Golf Courses in America

PGA Tour tries another fix to add excitement to FedExCup in 2009
PGA Tour tries another fix to add excitement to FedExCup in 2009

Fix Your Golf Slice
Fix Your Golf Slice With Basic Corrections

A golf slice can often be cured by some simple, basic corrections in set-up.

For instance, while a golfer can occasionally compensate for a poor swing, you cant play well with a poor grip. It is important, if you want to fix your slice permanently, that you take the time to check your grip using this simple drill:

Take a blade of grass and trap it between the fleshy pad on the underside of your right thumb and the top of your left thumb. Now, complete your grip and swing the club to the top of the backswing. If the blade of grass has remained in position then your grip is secure and firm, but if the grass has fallen out, this is a sign that your hands are separating, which causes the club to move about at the top of the backswing.

Fix Your Golf Slice

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

Sorenstem’s 45-foot eagle forces tie in Lexus Cup
Sorenstem’s 45-foot eagle forces tie in Lexus Cup

Golf’s Most Important Rule! - Golf Ball Contact
Ever wonder how to get that great distance and control on the course? It all has to do with golf ball contact. Everything depends on how and when you hit the golf ball, and you’ll see it in your results.

Hit Down to Get the Ball Up:
This may sound a little bit crazy to some but, with every club except the driver and putter you should be striking the ball with a slightly downward blow. What this does is, it allows the loft of the club to work as it’s supposed to and launch the ball up into the air. Proper golf ball contact will also increase distance because when the ball is hit at impact, the descending movement compresses the ball witch in turn releases more energy sending the ball further.

Golf Ball Contact

Putting Tips
As you already know, the act of putting is a series of combined efforts. From getting the right stance to following through properly, putting is an entire series of techniques and flow, and they all have to come together in order to sink that ball. But there are two areas in putting that have almost nothing to do with the mechanics of putting, and, yet, they are crucial to keeping your putting strokes down. They are: judging speed and estimating the break.

Putting Tips

PGA Tour tries another fix to add excitement to FedExCup in 2009
PGA Tour tries another fix to add excitement to FedExCup in 2009

How To Prevent Your Golf Swing From Breaking Down With Golf Fitness Exercises
It happens to all of us. We loose our golf swing, make some type of unknown modification in how we swing the club, and everything falls apart. What can we do to prevent our golf swing from leaving us?

Remember this saying as you continue to read this article; “Proper Preparation Precedes Success and Confidence”. Think about this phrase for a moment and then keep reading.

How to Prevent Your Golf Swing from Breaking Down

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

Customizing Your Golf Clubs
Learning how to build golf clubs a little bit tough to do at first, but with some time and effort it will save you money, allow you to customize your clubs and gives you a great deal of satisfaction.

Just make sure that you follow all of the steps the first time around, and then you can experiment once you get more confident in how to build golf clubs.

Customizing Your Golf Clubs

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

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

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

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

Golf Tips
Is it that time in the summer where you are ready for some golf tips. Fear not, you are not alone and there is help out there! Take a quick read through these golf tip articles.

Putting Tips
As you already know, the act of putting is a series of combined efforts. From getting the right stance to following through properly, putting is an entire series of techniques and flow, and they all have to come together in order to sink that ball. But there are two areas in putting that have almost nothing to do with the mechanics of putting, and, yet, they are crucial to keeping your putting strokes down. They are: judging speed and estimating the break.

Putting Tips

World Cup leaderboard
Latest scores from the World Cup of golf at Mission Hills in China. (From official website)

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

Thompson rallies to win Champions Tour Q-school
Robert Thompson shot a 2-under 70 on Friday to win the Champions Tour qualifying tournament, rallying on the back nine in the final round to finish one stroke better than third-round leader John Morse.

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 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

Daly wants focus on his golf at Aussie Masters
Daly wants focus on his golf at Aussie Masters

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

World Cup leaderboard
Latest scores from the World Cup of golf at Mission Hills in China. (From official website)

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Golf’s Most Important Rule! - Golf Ball Contact
Ever wonder how to get that great distance and control on the course? It all has to do with golf ball contact. Everything depends on how and when you hit the golf ball, and you’ll see it in your results.

Hit Down to Get the Ball Up:
This may sound a little bit crazy to some but, with every club except the driver and putter you should be striking the ball with a slightly downward blow. What this does is, it allows the loft of the club to work as it’s supposed to and launch the ball up into the air. Proper golf ball contact will also increase distance because when the ball is hit at impact, the descending movement compresses the ball witch in turn releases more energy sending the ball further.

Golf Ball Contact

Review: ClimaProof Storm 3-Way Convertible Jacket
The ClimaProof Storm 3-Way Convertible Jacket is from adidas Golf, and it promises protection from rain and chill, but with more versatility and without restricting the golfer’s swing. Does it…

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