Golf Tip Swing

Archive for May, 2010

Now you have just warmed up and the starter calls you to the tee box. Everyone is watching you, it is your turn to hit. Your nervous because you want to hit a great tee shot to start your round. You don’t want the players your playing with to think your a duffer. What do you do to calm the nerves and hit that quality shot?

First thing you need to do is be positive when you stand on the tee with your driver, only visualize the perfect shot. Do not even think about the hazard or the trees. Just look straight down the fairway and pick the spot you want your shot to land. After all you have practiced and you know how to hit this shot, you’ve done it hundreds of time at the driving range and you know exactly how far down the fairway this shot will go.

Before you address the ball, try standing behind it and visualize the shot. When you stand over the ball only concentrate on where it will land nothing else.

To help with overcoming your first tee nerves, try doing some control breathing. Take long deep breathe and relax your body. Feel the relaxing feeling of the perfect swing. Tensing your muscles will only affect your rhythm and prevent you from releasing the club properly at impact.

Finally, swing with the perfect tempo, never try to kill the ball, swing with the tempo of the 7-iron and you will feel the driver striking the ball in the perfect spot sweeping it off the tee and down the center of the fairway, dead center perfect in the spot that you visualized it would land.

Until next time,

See you on the links,

John

I am so excited today, I know golf is what this web site is about but, my son’s team
won the 10-11 year old championship. Way to Go White Sox!

They were down 2-0 until the bottom of the fourth and just started to rip the ball.

Final Score Whitesox 10 BlueJays 3.

See you soon,

John

Ok, imagine you are on the practice range and you can vision your golf shots traveling well over the 250 yard marker and straight as you never hit them before. You get out to the golf course and spray your first drive wide right and into the tree line. Don’t you hate when that happens? In this article, you will receive a few tips to convert your potential on the range into low scores on the course.

One of the first things you should do is warm-up. By this I mean stretching, and then hitting a few chip shots to sharpen you up mentally, then go over to the range and hit a few shots starting with pitching the ball and then gradually move up to power shots. Then slow down a bit and hit some more chips and finally stroke a few putts to get a feel for the greens. After your warm-up you are ready to face the first hole with confidence.

A good start to converting your potential to the course is a consistent pre-shot routine. Practice this pre-shot routine on the range and continue it on the course. Build a mental picture of the shot you want to hit, take a few practice strokes. Get behind the ball and visualize the way your shot will go. Address the ball and make sure your alignment is correct, waggle a few times to get comfortable and then hit your shot.

Pick out a pro on tv and watch how they prepare to hit a shot, see how they approach the ball.

Notice that if they are distracted, they start again with the pre-shot routine.

In the next few posts I will go over some of the strategy you can use off the tee.

Until next time, see you on the links

John