Golf Swing Tips For All Golfers

The easy golf swing becomes one continuous swing once it is set in motion. To the novice, it might seem as if anyone could pick up a golf club, swing it, and hit a golf ball without any difficulty whatsoever. As all golfers know, this is not true. Make no mistake, there is a lot going on in the golf swing, and it all needs to be in harmony when you strike the golf ball.

So what is the easy golf swing? If someone were to ask you how to define the term, what would you say? Well, I don’t have your reply to this question, so here goes. I would start with the golf grip. The golf grip needs to be learned, simply because the mechanics of the golf swing make that necessary. As we know, there are many variations of the golf grip, but that belongs to another topic.

Next comes the way you stand to the ball, which is known as the golf swing stance. You need to stand to the ball with the correct golf stance. This does not mean to imply that there is a proper golf stance, rather it varies as to how tall you are. That makes sense when you think about it because golfers with shorter arms need to stand closer to the ball then those with long arms.

When you are ready, the club is taken back. This is called the back swing. When you reach the top of the backswing, some golfers pause very briefly, others do not, and the club begins its descent, returning the club face to the same position as it was at the address. Note, I am describing what should happen if the result is to be a straight golf shot. As many golfers know to their cost, it does not always happen this way.

After impact, if the golf ball flies straight on target, give yourself a pat on the back. Well done. For many of us though, the ball bends to the right, called a golfers slice, or the ball bends to the left, which is called a golf hook shot.

For an excellent example of an easy golf swing, look no further than this golf swing video clip of Bobby Jones.

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How do you feel about playing blind holes? Playing your golf shot from a position where you will not be able to see the ball come to rest once you have hit your golf shot, over a ridge, for instance. Like most golfers, I find these shots a little daunting, though it helps if you walk forward before you play the shot and see for yourself the layout of the land in front of you.

This also helps me to visualize the golf shot before I play it. It is like taking a mental photograph. Once you have looked back to where you are about to play the shot from, then forward to where you are aiming, the problem then is picking out a landmark that you can aim for so that you know you are aiming on target. I typically look for a tall tree in the background as a marker, aiming straight at it, or to the left or right of the marker. If there are no obvious landmarks, then that calls for more ingenuity on the part of the golfer.

Since researching the GPS for golf, in particular the Garmin Golflogix GPS 8, I realize there is another dimension to these golf shots. The lay up. The golf course gps allows me to lay up to say, fifty yards from the green, depending if there are any hazards in my path. Call this strategic thinking, or safety play, if you like, but I see it as a strategy to save me wasting golf shots and keep my ball in play.

Some golfers might see lay ups as a defensive style of play, but I think this is a sensible option. Going back to the playing over the ridge example above, one way of playing the hole would be to play to the top of the ridge, where you can still see your ball, then play the next shot to the green, from where you now will be able to see the green in front of you. Do you sacrifice a shot by doing this? Perhaps. But at least you are less likely to lose your ball, or hit it out in a hazard, or worse, play it out of bounds.

It makes a difference of course, when faced with these shots, on how well you know the hole you are playing. If you have played it before, that makes a difference. This type of strategy might make more sense if you are playing a course that you do not know. As always in golf, it calls for judgment on your part, with a view to returning the best golf score you can.

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