5 Golf Swing Tips to help cure Your Average Golfer woes

As weekend golfers lets face it our swing is never re ally perfect, nor is it repeatable. Even worse while these issues don't surface with every shot we don't know what the cause is or when it will show it's ugly head. Not all is lost though, there is some good news. This article will present you with 5 observations and tips about the golf swing that you can implement next time at the driving range and see if you gain more consistency and control over your swing. The information in this article will give you a great primer on basic golf swing tips, for more detailed information there will be a link at the bottom of this article where you can receive our free video golf tips.

Before I get into this first point, I'm not suggesting that anyone is gripping the club incorrectly. If you're unsure if you are then it's probably best that you take a moment and review the basic golf club grips of interlocking, overlapping, and baseball grip. I'm going to assume that you've settled on a grip that is comfortable to you. What we want to concentrate on is the position of your hands and the pressure you're applying to the club when you swing. To many of us grip the golf club with the vulcan death grip, this causes nothing but troubles. Next time out think as if you're holding something delicate, you want to hold on not to tight as it's fragile, but strong enough so that you have control. If you're used to gripping the club really tight this might seem a little uncomfortable to you at first but trust me the club won't go flying across the practice range, and you'll get used to it.

Now the second part is your hand position. Most of us grab a club, pick the grip we feel comfortable and we're off to the first tee box. Very little time if any is spent thinking about where our hands are positioned on the golf grip. If you're struggling with a golf slice then pay close attention to this next tip. Grip your driver as you normally would, approach the ball and look down at your left hand (right hand if your a lefty). How many knuckles can you see on your hand? If you can't see three then turn your hand back towards yourself until you can see three knuckles on your top hand. What does this do? It creates a stronger grip that will help close the club face faster in your down swing and ensure that the club face is square to the ball at impact.

All golfers who have a repeatable swing have got the concept of weight distribution down pact. Here's a quick overview. Standing with your feet about shoulder width apart you should have even weight distribution of 50/50 on your front and back feet. As you bring the club back for your back swing you should move your weight to the inside of your back foot making for a 75/25 weight distribution. Now this is where the power comes from, as you bring the club down you transfer your weight to your front foot, but there is a common mistake many amateur golfers make at this point that ruins the shot. We begin to lean forwards with our front hip, almost curing our selves. Rather then doing this transfer the weight to your front foot, turn your leading up back wards away from the ball, so that when you've completed your swing your belt buckle is aiming towards the target.

When we start golfing someone always tells us to lay a club down in front of our feet and then walk away to see where we're aiming. Most times we're aimed either left or right of the target rarely right on. This is a tip that since I've heard it have used probably 90% of my shots since. The times I didn't use it I can assure you I was off target. It's difficult when we're addressing the ball to square ourselves up correctly to aim at something that's 100 yards, 200 yards, or even further away. There's a quick and easy way to fix this. Stand behind your ball before you get ready to make your shot, select something either in the tee box, on the fairway or the green that is in line with where you want to aim your shot. Keep that spot in sight and approach the ball, now rather then aiming at the target 150 yards away aim at the spot you chose that was in line with the target. This means you're line is in vision when you're addressing the ball and you can better concentrate on the shot.

A big trouble some beginner golfers have is the lifting motion either in their back or head that causes them to continually top the ball. It's very frustrating, and often the harder they try to correct it the worse it gets. So an easy thing to work on next time at the driving range is use your spine as an axis for your swing. With your knees slightly bent bend at the hips so your leaning forwards over the ball ever so slightly. Through the back swing you should keep this same height, through the down swing the same height, and not until you've made contact with the ball will you begin to straighten out and bring the club through. Practice this and you'll enjoy more consistency with your shots.

Just a quick note that goes hand and hand with the above tip is to understand that keeping your head down is important when swinging back and making impact with the ball. How ever as you follow through and straighten out your body your head should come up as well. Also be sure not to over exaggerate keeping your head down, having your head down to low causes your chin to be in the way of your shoulders rotating and will cause other ill effects in your swing.

Now this one you've also likely heard before possibly during the same round someone told you to keep your head down. It's the old saying 'slow it down'. This isn't something that just amateur golfers struggle with, we all try to swing at the ball a little to hard sometimes. The thing is if we have trouble being consistent when we're swinging slower, what makes us think we'll do better when we swing harder? Exactly, we won't!

Next time you're at the driving range slow your swing down. Grab a long iron or wood and swing at 50-75% of your normal swing speed, don't worry how far the ball goes but notice the consistency you have with the shots. There are a lot of things going on during the golf swing, and if you try to murder the ball each time there's a fat chance you're going to hit it well and straight. Most times something will go wrong and you'll lose a shot, and what's better a shot that went 40 yards shorter but is playable, or one that's in the woods and you have to take a penalty stroke for.

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