Golf Tips

The Importance of Lag Putting

Aside from throwing a few balls down on the putting green before teeing off, the average golfer doesn’t practice their putting nearly as much as they should. Anywhere from 40% to 50% of shots taken during a round...

Listen to Your Body to Prevent Golf Injuries

Golf isn’t the most physically demanding sport on the planet but it does require players to put their bodies in a number of very straining positions. From the shoulders and hips, to the back and neck, even some of...

Cure Your Slice in 5 Minutes

The slice is the most commonly hit shot in all of golf. Prevalent among amateurs, it can often result in some pretty high scores if you don’t know how to control it. A great deal of discouraged slicers just assume...

5 Steps For Hitting Low Shots That Drive Through the Wind

Controlling your ball flight is the key to good iron play, and if you ever want to be able to play well in the wind, you need to learn how to hit the ball relatively low. Sometimes referred to as punch shots, these low...

To Shoot Lower Scores Focus on Your Game, Not Your Swing

Golf isn’t about having a good looking swing. It’s not about hitting every fairway or hitting every green in regulation or making every 10-foot putt either. It’s about recording a score — and it...

4 Tips That Can Instantly Improve a Bad Short Game

For some people, putting and chipping naturally come easy. And by some people, I mean hardly anybody. For the rest of us, we’re forced to chop our way around the green and hope that our ball eventually falls into...

Three Non-Club Purchases That Can Instantly Improve Your Game

Range Finder – Price: $100 – $400 – A range finder is easily one of the best non-club investments you can make. They’re simple, easy to use and extremely effective. You pull it out, look through...

Focus on Speed to Sink More Putts

Distance Control for Putting When it comes to putting, distance control is far more important than aim. After all, the amount that a putt will break depends on how fast the ball is rolling. A lot of players are under...

Know Your Distances to Shoot Better Scores

How many times have you hit a ball that looked perfect in the air but ended up flying the green? How about the number of times it didn’t even make it to the green? Well, it happens to everyone and most of the time...

Why Closer Isn’t ALWAYS Better

            The title of this article isn’t “Why Closer Isn’t Better”. It’s “Why Closer Isn’t ALWAYS Better” (hence the word always). Most of...

How to Hit Better Iron Shots

There are few things that feel more satisfying than a perfectly struck iron shot. Unfortunately for most of us, it doesn’t happen all that often but that can easily be changed. A lot of players like to go to the...

Manage Your Misses to Avoid Big Numbers

Golf is a game of managing your misses. Oftentimes, the best players aren’t the ones that hit the highest number of great shots but rather the ones that hit the lowest number of bad shots. A “perfect”...

Shoot Good Golf Scores, Even When You’re Playing Bad

Golf isn’t about how good your swing looks, or how far you hit the ball, or how many birdies you make, or how many fairways you hit. It’s about how well you score. At the end of your round, there’s a...

How to Get Out of Your Funk

Call it what you want — funk, slump, cold streak — sometimes you just flat out can’t play golf. And it happens to everyone. Even professionals go entire months where they fall off the map, though...

Ways to Break 80 in Golf

The better you get at golf, the harder it becomes to improve your game. That statement might seem confusing but it’s really pretty simple. It’s much easier to go from a 30-handicap to a 20-handicap than it...

Don’t Fight Your Natural Ball Flight

Being able to move the ball every which way is something that any golfer would like to be able to do. Unfortunately, you have to be pretty darn good to do it and even better to control it. So if your one of those...

What Your Divot Can Tell You About Your Swing

Even with the help of a professional, fixing your swing isn’t easy. The task becomes infinitely more difficult when you don’t have someone there watching you, but in these instances, there are ways to figure...

Driving Range Etiquette

Etiquette is important no matter what part of the golf course you are on, including the driving range. And although the atmosphere on the practice range is a little more relaxed than it is out on the course, you still...

Experiment With Different Grips to Stop Your Putting Woes

Theoretically speaking, putting should be the easiest part of golf. You’re close to the hole, there aren’t any hazards to worry about and for the most part, you have a pretty good idea of which way your ball...

Improve Your Game and Have Fun Doing It

Let’s be honest — going to the range and hitting hundreds of balls isn’t always fun. Sometimes you just want to go out, play some holes and enjoy the game. To a lot of golfers, having fun and working...