Golf Tips For Beginners

If you have access to an iPhone or Android phone you can use apps that show you you're on course yardages. I have unlimited data use on my Android phone and I take full advantage of it by using the app called FreeCaddie. This free app, available on Play Store, has been a blessing. I cannot believe how accurate it is. Both I and my playing partner use it. He has an iPhone and me an Android. And when we compare our yardages they are almost always a match. We played with another guy a few weeks back that was using a different GPS based golf app and it was amazing how far off his was compared to ours. I'm not sure what the name of his was though, sorry. But anyway, we all stood on the 150-yard marker and compared all of our phones and ours said 151 yards to the center of the green and his said 163! This explained why all of his golf shots were flying long. This obviously made him pretty upset. By the end of the round, though, he had downloaded the FreeCaddie app was starting to pl

When I was trying to break 100 in golf I would sleep and breathe golf. I would read about it, I was constantly talking to others about the game, I created this blog, and I would constantly practice out on the course and mentally. I remembered that I would put in 100% effort and because of that I reached my goal of breaking 100 on a consistent basis. Yes, my effort gave me great results. But did I continue with that effort? To be honest, NO! I just figured that since I broke 100 that I had now figured enough of the game out to just keep making great results. But this faulty thinking resulted in my game becoming stagnate. Not that I started shooting in the 100's again, but my score never seemed to improve. In fact, my performance became poor and I lost interest in it. Sad to say, I have let this mentality, for whatever reason, to continue with me for a few years now. And as a result, it has resulted in zero improvements and disappointment. But now, after some close examination, I ha

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The biggest game improvement club that I have put into my golf bag has been my hybrid. I was skeptical about using a club like this a few years ago but now I absolutely love it. The best thing about this club is when you learn to hit it correctly, it plays exactly the same pretty much each and every time. It is my favorite club. A lot of golfers that buy a hybrid assume you must hit it like a fairway wood off the ground. I did the same thing. When I first took it out on the golf course I would play the club forward in my stance and try to sweep it off the ground. I would end up topping it. But then I decided to try and hit it more like an iron. I moved the ball into the middle of my stance and concentrated on hitting down on the ball. Wow! The ball rocketed off the clubface and it landed softly onto the green. Boy, I was impressed. Ever since then this is the way I play my hybrid from about 170 yards out and it shines like no other.  But the other method I

How many of you are like me when it comes to trying to hit your chip shots, you grab one of your wedges and you try to get the ball close by feel. No matter how far off the green, you always grab the same club. Do you do this? I've been guilty of quickly pulling my sand wedge and my lob wedge out of my bag and head off to chip my ball. The problem is I'm never consistent with getting my chip near the hole. I either hit the ball too high and it stops short, de-accelerate and hit the ball low with no roll, or I top it and it goes sailing over the green. Don't get me wrong, I also make some pretty good shots as well. But like I said I'm just consistent enough. I was given this tip years ago but I never really applied it on the golf course until recently. I noticed one of my playing partners taking 3 different clubs with him when he was chipping. I asked him later at the 19th hole which clubs he liked to use when chipping and what he told me reminded m

When you have been around golf for any amount of time you end up hearing certain phrases that are supposed to be tried and true golf tips. For example, you may have heard the phrase, 'tee it high and let it fly'. Have you heard it! Like I said, if you've been around for a while, this has been spouted out regularly. I've done it religiously since I heard it. But you know what? For some reason, it never really worked for me. I have a big-headed driver with a great shaft and you would think that teeing the ball up high and hitting it on a slightly upward swing that I'd kill the ball down the fairway. Not!! Yep, I'd concentrate on making sure that my ball was sitting about halfway above my driver's head, I'd play the ball forward in my stance and then I'd let it rip. But I'd never get any good distance. Not to mention that my ball would go high and to the right or left. Man, this game can be frustrating! But then I was t

Since it's been a while since I've taken golf seriously, I've been trying to think of a quick way to inspire myself and to make golf fresh again. After some thought, I was drawn back to when I worked for a golf store and we would recommend to golfers to get their clubs re-gripped every season. Believe it or not, the majority of golfers ignored this advice. I guess that makes me a part of the majority because I personally quite this advice and I haven't re-gripped my clubs in years! Why? Not sure really. Laziness I guess. When you get comfortable with something you tend to stick with what you think is working at the moment, but in reality, it isn't working. So to get my butt back into gear and onto my goal of breaking 90, I have set up a new years resolution to get all my clubs re-gripped. Not only that, I am going to go get my grips fitted to me and my swing. I've done this in the past and it is amazing how good it makes my clubs feel. They