February
19

Whether you play golf for business, recreational or professional reasons it is best that you know the essential things that can help you to play better golf. Regardless of your reason for playing golf, you always want to win.

So here are some tips to help you lay better golf:

Prepare Yourself
If you are not prepared to play mentally and physically, you won’t be at your best. So anytime you have any golf game at hand do whatever it takes to get you prepared, make sure prepare yourself both mentally and physically, winning starts in the mind but is carried out physically by the body. Both must be well pared to be at your best.

It’s In The Swing
The most used part of the body in game of golf are the hands You need to have it well exercised and get them ready for the game. The general misconception is that since golf is a less physical sport than football, basketball and the likes, exercise is not needed. Ready your hands before the game starts in order to have powerful and perfect swings. Swinging is a good exercise to help achieve this. Practice swinging your hands as a good exercise to set your muscles ready for those great drives. After all the game is in getting the swing right.

Getting Your Swing Right
If you are going to be at your best at the game of golf, there is a need for you t get your swing right. Normally there are six parts to a swing in golf. These are: the correct alignment of the golf club; correct posture and position, back swing, take-away, impact and the follow through. Getting this right will guarantee perfect swings throughout the game and help you play better golf.

Know Your Clubs
The golf club is very important in the game of golf. If you are really interested in enjoying your game, you need to know your clubs well. It’s in knowing your club that you know your swing and how to direct your drives.

Know Your Course
Just important as the clubs in the game of golf is the golf course. Great players are those who take time to study their course. Knowing your course has the advantage of letting you know where to avoid in the course and where to focus your drives. When you know your course well, you know where the trouble spots are and how to avoid it. This helps you to play better golf because you will be having a nice game.

Don’t Be Intimidated By Those You Are Playing Against
To be your best at the game you must never allow the people you are playing against to intimidate you . No matter how good they are, don’t let their track records intimidate you, if you do you will lose focus. Make sure your focus is on the game, playing your best and not at your opponents what they have done in the past. “Here and now is what matters” should be what you should keep telling yourself. You will be surprised how beatable these people are when you don’t allow them to intimidate you.

February
19

Many people envy the champions like Tiger Woods because of his world championship winning golf swing. To the avid golfer, the joy of watching these pros in action and seeing the way they swing the club to hit the ball is a joy like no other. To a true lover of the sport the perfection of the swing is the Holy Grail of golf. The golf swing is the defining skill that separates the greenhorn from the veteran and the golfer from the poser.

Because of the popularity of golf in almost all of the countries of the world, many people have come up with instructional guides, books and CDs that could help improve the golfer’s swing. Some of them are effective with some people and some of them are not. The reason behind this difference in the output is the human anatomy. There are no two people that are exactly alike in the same way no two golf swings are alike. Because of the body structure of some people, there are techniques that really don’t work for them.

For example a stocky golfer would have a hard time matching the flexibility and nimbleness of a slender golfer and in return the slender golfer will have a hard time matching the power of the swing of the stocky golfer. Because of the stockiness of golfer A, he is able to use his broad shoulders in smashing the golf club far, but because of the nimbleness and flexibility of golfer B he is able to reach farther behind his back to give his club a wider range of motion for the swing creating a higher velocity impact on the ball.

Two golfers may get the same outcome in distance but the technique used is different for each when they swing. This difference in technique is because of the difference of the body type.

Another way to look at your golf swing is with the help of mathematics and a little bit of physics. When you look at it this way you will be able to see the impact of the numbers on your game. A study shows that most professional golf players achieve a club head speed of 100 miles per hour at the very bottom of their swing right before they hit the ball. Tiger Woods can swing up to 125 miles per hour which implies he can hit 25 mph faster than other pros.

He achieves this by reaching farther back on his set up that most golfers. Physicist have already studied golf in relation to the angular motion and the torque force that changes the angle of the club when it hits the ball. Velocity is also an important factor in your golf swing. Almost all club heads weigh the same and for a golfer to hit the ball farther they need to achieve maximum club velocity or they must have higher club head speed at the bottom of their swing.

One of the most common misconceptions that a golfer has is snapping the wrist right before impact is like pressing the nitro button in the straightaway lane. When golfers do this they are actually slowing down the velocity of the clubhead making the golf swing lighter. This is a bad habit that should be avoided.

This usually happens when a golfer is standing to close to the ball during the golf swing.