10 Essential Golf Swing Tips!

[doktorpat]

Need help with your golf swing? Well you have come to the right place. Here I have compiled a list of what I beleive to be the 10 most important golf swing tips. I hope these tips help you as much as they have helped me. Hey, you might even become the next Tiger Woods!

Positive thinking - If you tell yourself you can’t, you won’t. Think positive and try to make the best out of every situation you’re faced with.

Don’t bring yourself down after a poor shot. Hop back on the horse and do better next time.

Practice, practice, practice. I know you all hate that word, but without it, you won’t ever get to where you desire.

Find golf swing aids that look helpful. You can find many swing aids such as golfing ebooks on the internet.

Make an appointment with the golf pro.

Read all you can. The more you know the further you go.

Master one concept at a time. Once you have that part down, move on to another.

Watch pros swing in slow motion. Really try to capture what they are doing here.

Keep your eye on the ball, especially if you are just starting out.

Try and set up matches with players that are better than you. It will force you to try harder to improve your game.

Well that’s it. I hope these golf swing tips helped you!

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[Eracer]

Thank you so much for that illuminating prose. And all this time I thought that the only way to improve was to give money to people like you .

And here you are giving these secrets away for free.

I'm humbled, sir. Truly humbled.

[token_hottie]

Great tips - haven't ever considered most of them before. I especially liked the one that says "keep your eye on the ball"!!!

Will have to try that next time I go out and see if it helps any. Will let you know how it goes.

-th

[goatster]

the sheer wisdom of those 10 tips has me rethinking my whole game (not). when do i get to pay for the real tips.

[ezra76]

I'll give them a shot, thanks. Lately I've been standing over the ball saying " $hit, I hope I don't slice the crap out of this one..." Then I close my eyes because it helps me to swing harder. I've been watching clips of Camillo in Fast-Forward in order to improve but I still pretty much suck. I often just hang around the pro-shop and wait for a 3-some of 70+ yr. olds to show up and ask if I can join. After I outdrive them all by 162yds. I feel more like a man and ask if they want to play for $$. I get my butt kicked because I never practice putting or chipping. One of them says he knows the pro and can get me a discount on a few lessons but I really don't want anyone trying to change my swing. Plus I don't like the idea of a guy standing behind me, reaching around me and holding the club with me, showing me how to swing. It brings back bad memories of my little league coach.

[warbirdlover]

Here's my "tips"

1. If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

2. The game of golf is 90 percent mental and 10 percent mental.

3. Because bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three.

4. When you look up and cause an awful shot, you will always look down again at exactly the moment when you ought to start watching the ball if you ever want to see it again.

5. Any change works for a maximum of three holes and a minimum of not at all.

6. No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

7. Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during your swing.

8. When your shot has to carry a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.

9. If you're afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: you can immediately shank a lay-up, or you can wait until the green is clear and top a ball halfway there.

10. The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing.

11. The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant elimination of the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to compensate for all your errors.

12. If it ain't broke, try changing your grip.

13. Golfers who claim they don't cheat, also lie.

14. Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot.

15. A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponent's luck.

16. It's surprisingly easy to hole a 50-foot putt when you lie 10.

17. Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a rule is like expecting him to make fun of his own haircut.

18. Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

19. It's not a gimme if you're still away.

20. The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

21. There are two kinds of bounces: unfair bounces, and bounces just the way you meant to play it.

22. You can hit a 2-acre fairway 10 percent of the time, and a 2-inch branch 90 percent of the time.

23. Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple-bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.

24. If you want to hit a 7-iron as far as Tiger Woods does, simply try to lay up just short of a water hazard.

25. To calculate the speed of a player's downswing, multiply the speed of his back swing by his handicap. Example: back swing 30 mph, handicap 20, downswing 600 mph.

26. There are two things you can learn by stopping your back swing at the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.

27. Hazards attract; fairways repel.

28. You can put "draw" on the ball, you can put "fade" on the ball, but no golfer can put "straight" on the ball.

29. A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.

30. If there is a ball in the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker.

31. If both balls are in the bunker, yours is in the footprint.

32. Don't buy a putter until you've had a chance to throw it.

[goatster]

nice tips warbird.#1 is the one i need to follow not only would it be good for my game but id have saved a bunch of $ on dope and booze if i was at a golf course instead of hangin around bored.