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Archive for February, 2009

How To Prevent Your Golf Swing From Breaking Down With Golf Fitness Exercises

Saturday, February 28th, 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

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

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

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

Lang edges ahead of Pressel and Creamer in Honda LPGA Thailand event

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Lang edges ahead of Pressel and Creamer in Honda LPGA Thailand event
Lang edges ahead of Pressel and Creamer in Honda LPGA Thailand event

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

Improve Your Golf Swing

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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 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

Golf Basics

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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

Lang edges ahead of Pressel and Creamer in Honda LPGA Thailand event
Lang edges ahead of Pressel and Creamer in Honda LPGA Thailand event

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’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

Golf Basics

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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

After eight birdies, Que leads que on Indonesia Open scoreboard
After eight birdies, Que leads que on Indonesia Open scoreboard

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’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

Two and Out for Tiger

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Two and Out for Tiger
Well thanks a lot, Tim Clark, for ruining what could have been a wonderful comeback story! Actually, congratulations to Tim Clark for a well-earned and well-deserved 4-and-2 victory over Tiger…

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

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

Perfecting Putting

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

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

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

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.

Golf the Legendary Courses on Your Scotland Golf Vacation
If you’re planning a Scotland Golf Vacation, then make sure to at least book some of these legendary courses into your itenarary. Scotland is the birthplace of golf, and no trip there would be complete without visiting some of the famed links we’ve only heard about or seen on TV. Take the oppportunity to play some or all of these gems, and come home from your Scotland golf vacation with a clubhouse full of memories.

Scotland Golf Vacations

Golf Tips

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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.

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

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

Match Play Primer
With the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship teeing off, it’s a good time to take another look at our Match Play Primer. There are sure to be many casual golf…

Personal Golf Styles

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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

Whether Woods wins or loses, NBC expects to showcase him this weekend
Whether Woods wins or loses, NBC expects to showcase him this weekend

Beginning Golfer Shoots Lower Score
Golf is a great way to enjoy time with your family and friends. Whether you play a leisure round of nine holes or are able to enjoy a full round of eighteen holes, the game of golf is rewarding on many levels. The best news is every beginning golfer can shoot a resonable score.

A beginner only needs a handful of items to get started. A few lofted golf clubs, say a nine and seven iron, and a putter. If you want, grab a metal wood, but no more than a five wood. Gather some golf balls, tees, a towel, and throw your stuff in a golf bag. You are ready to play some golf!

Beginning Golfer Shoots Lower Score

Perfecting Putting

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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

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

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

 
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