I aim to provide you with golf articles and reviews, in a clear and concise manner. I hope you like the site and find it useful and helpful. Thanks for visiting.I like this golf swing tip because it is easy to remember and it works. If you find yourself addressing a golf shot and pondering what to think about next, try this. To initiate the backswing, on every golf shot through the bag, turn your right pocket back, if you are a right handed golfer. To begin the downswing, turn the pocket back to the ball. What could simpler. It’s also a great way to block other thoughts out of the mind before you play your golf shots. Go ahead, and give it a try.
Don’t get me wrong. I love golf and like most keen golfers I want to improve my game and reduce my handicap. Isn’t that the ultimate goal of all fit and able golfers? I also like to read about golf swing tips that I like to think will help me play better golf, and I share what I learn on this website.
There’s only one problem with trying to apply these golf swing tips to my own game and that is age. The mind is willing but the body, as I get older, tends not to be so willing. There are a few twists and turns of the arms and torso that I can’t manage today so well as I could say five years ago. Age creeps up on us all, without exception, and that includes golfers like you and me.
So what are the implications of this? As the body winds down and complains more when we get older, the best we can do is try to keep the muscles and the mind as fit as possible. Looking after your general health is important to longevity any way. There’s a fine line between quitting walking a round of golf for the luxury of sitting in an electric golf cart between shots. You might wonder, if you opt to ride round the golf course instead of walking, what will happen to those aching limbs. Will they seize up quicker, and does the effort of making yourself walk slow down the process. I don’t have the answer to give you, though I prefer to walk for as long as I am able.
Underlying this is the enjoyment playing golf gives to thousands of enthusiasts who take to the golf courses around the world on a regular basis. It doesn’t matter how you look at golf, as escapism, a chance to get to know a work colleague better, as a means to make new friends, and so on. There are lots of different reasons why people take up golf. This only serves to highlight the positive benefits of golf to all who would partake in this great sport. You don’t have to be a Tiger Woods or Rory McIlroy to get the most enjoyment out of the game.
To return to the original theme of this article, on golf swing tips and whether the body is going to allow you to apply what you read or see to your ultimate benefit on the golf course. That’s for your body to tell you. It makes me a little envious when I see body positions I would like to copy, such as a full body turn, but know I now cannot. Still, that doesn’t stop me enjoying my golf, and taking advantage of the golf swing tips that I can apply to my golf game, even if they are confined to putting and the short game only.
If you are thinning your wedge shots, the chances are you might be swinging the same way you hit your drives. It goes without saying that the angle of approach on the down swing for wedge shots needs to be more acute than with the driver. The driver golf swing is essentially a sweeping motion, while playing wedge shots with a driver swing results in thinned shots, and as we all know to our cost, these can have disastrous consequences on the scorecard. Assuming everyone has hit this kind of golf shot at some point in their golfing career.
Specifically:
“When hitting a shorter club, the angle of attack has to be between 6 and 7 degrees downward and the path has to be slightly out-to-in. This means the club has to travel to left after impact.
If you open your stance and try to hit down on the ball, you will be squaring the club to your target at impact. So the driver swing is totally different than the iron swing.
When you are on the practice tee go back and forth between the driver and the wedge. You should develop the technique for both clubs now that you know what to work on.”
Playing across the ball from out to in causes the ball to fly higher, and is just the golf shot you need to clear bunkers and other hazards. You never know when this shot is likely to be useful during a round of golf and it’s a good shot to try and perfect in advance.
While there might be nothing new in swinging the golf club with one hand, there are positive benefits for the golfer. It doesn’t matter which hand you try first so long as you only use one hand. In fact, try both individually and see which works best for you.
My favourite swing action is with the left hand. If you are right handed, swing with the left hand only is the natural way to swing the club head. One thing you’ll notice is you can’t rush the swing. If you are a quick swinger, this drill will slow you down, dramatically I suggest. Another benefit is that you will find it difficult to over swing using one hand only. Swinging the club this way gives you a greater awareness of what you are doing throughout the golf swing, in terms of where the club is at various stages of the backswing.
Another key area of improvement in golf to look for is in building strength in the arms and hands, as this exercise targets just those muscles that golfers use to strike the ball. Timing and balance are also improved.
“There are a few things to take note of before when practising one handed:
Don’t take too many swings when first trying this. Hitting balls with one hand is fun and challenging, but if you hit too many, your arm will be sore the next day. Start off with 10-20 swings and, as your arms and hands get stronger, add more.
Grip down on the handle. Start with your sand wedge and grip down on the handle; this will make the club lighter.
Let your body finish to the target. Often a golfer will try to hit a one-handed shot and just move their arm, not allowing their body to rotate so that their chest and belt buckle are facing at the target. When practising, allow your chest to turn back and through and finish with your torso and belt buckle looking at the target.”
If you haven’t tried this method of golf practice before it might feel a bit strange at first. You might find you need to try it a few times before you get the feel of it and the swing tempo, but that’s precisely why you are doing trying it anyway.
This article is intended to give a general outline of how to hit a 6 iron. Whether this is off the fairway or from the tee, the method is the same.
If you are learning to play golf you soon realise that each club needs to be played differently. There are certain golf fundamentals that need to be in place to hit a golf ball correctly, then the golfer needs to be able to play each club in the bag to a competent degree.
I am not a golf teacher and this method of hitting a 6 iron is my own, but is written here in the hope it might help someone’s golf game.
Grip.
The grip is one of those fundamentals I mentioned above. I use my normal overlapping grip to play this club.
Stance.
There is lots of advice about how to stand to the ball, but for the 6 iron I like to have my weight mostly on my heels with my feet a shoulder width apart. I think this is a good rule of thumb for considering how far apart to have the feet at the address position, especially given that we are all physically different from one another, and of differing heights.
In normal weather conditions, I position the ball midway from my right heel at the mid point between my feet. I do this to give myself the best chance of hitting the ball before the turf. Every golfer dreads hitting the ground before the ball.
The Back Swing
Before beginning the backswing, I check that I am lining up the shot to the intended line of flight, with my feet square to the ball. This is the setup for a straight golf shot. When you get good at playing this club you can experiment playing an intentional draw or fade with a six iron. But first, you have to master the basics. I happen to believe that beginners at golf should first get used to playing at least one golf club well, before trying to play them all well at the same time.
I take the club back on the inside swing path and stop when my hands are at shoulder height. By then, my body weight will have shifted, to an extent, to the right leg, and while my left shoulder will be pointing to the ground, the hips will have rotated ninety degrees to the right.
Downswing
The down-swing is initiated by a leftward movement of the hips, and with the wrists still fully cocked until they are at the height of my hips, I then deliberately whip the club through the ball, and then follow through, keeping my head down. This uncoiling of the hips is the power base of the golf shot, and is where the power and accuracy of the shot originates. If you get this right, you will play good golf and you are on the way to a lower golf handicap.