10 Golf Instruction Tips

Here are 10 quick golf instruction tips to help you to play better golf and improve your golf game. If you have any bad habits in your golf game at the moment, you’ve probably learned them when you first started to play golf. There is always good news, and that is that anyone can break bad habits and learn good ones.

Adapting these golf instruction tips into your game will definately help to lower your handicap, and make your next rounds more enjoyable.

Golf instruction tips
1. Setting yourself up for the right alignment for any shot is vitally important. Stand back behind your ball, visualise a line from your target back to the golfball, pick a spot on the ground about 6 inches in front of the ball on that target line, square up the clubface with that target first, then take your stance with your shoulders parallel to the target line. Imagine a set of train tracks, don’t align your feet to the target but parallel to it.

2. It is always better to aim away from potential problems. to do this tee the ball on the same side to where the problem is. This will help to keep the ball in play and avoid penalties.

3.In your swing, relax and think of a smooth and fluid action. Lead your backswing with your hands and arms, take the club back on plane relatively slowly, not to quick. Your shoulders should be passive and not lead. Make a full shoulder turn, shift your weight to the left, then throw your arms and club down onto the back of the ball. Remember that your shoulder movement will determine the direction that your club, and therefore the ball, will travel.

4. Remember, bad wrist action equals a bad shot in most cases. Keep the left wrist fairly flat in relation to the back of the left forearm and the back of the left hand, don’t swing the club back further than a normal shoulder turn.

5. For your second shot from the fairway, using fairway woods, see fairway woods instruction for your iron shots see irons instruction

6. One thing to be mindful of is the grain of the green, it’s important as well, as it effects the roll of the golfball. Shiny grass means the grain is running away from you, and dull grass suggests the grain is running towards you. Putting with the grain is faster and your ball will roll further. Those putts against the grain roll slower and travel less distance. To learn more visit putting instruction.

7.Reading a green properly can, and will test your ability. Some greens are very deceptive but just keep in mind that a golf ball will generally roll away from a hill, common sense, and usually towards a water source. Some golfers use their putter as a pendulum to help determine the slope of a green, how helpful this is depends on the player. So, keep this in mind and adjust as necessary.

8. Place the golf ball on the green and take your stance in such a way that the shadow of your head covers the ball. Make your swing keeping your eyes on the shadow. If the shadow moves off the ball you have lost the proper swing center. If you keep the shadow on the ball, even though it moves a little, you have maintained the correct swing position.

9.The putting stance is similar to your normal set up, feet shoulder width apart, bend from the hips, your arms should hang freely and relaxed, acting like a pendulum. Your grip, which ever you choose, interlocking, reverse grip etc, should remain soft but in control. Swing from the shoulders not the hands.

10. Your last golf instruction tip is, just enjoy your golf no matter how your round is going, your next shot could be the best one you have ever hit. It is a frustrating game, perfection is not achievable but the more you learn and practice, the more you will enjoy it.

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