Monday, February 7, 2011

Virtual Golf Can Keep Your Game Sharp

By Phil Ferrel


When the winter months arrive and freeze the fairways, you lie in bed dreaming of next season. You imagine future golf glory. The perfect swing. The ideal put. You think if it could just be next summer already. Of course, if only you could get out on the course now.

But frankly, precisely what are you really doing to improve your golf technique in the winter? Isn't it every single springtime you need to nearly start over yet again, warming up your swing, making oh-so-slight changes in your stance and so on? What a ineffective routine! Every spring, you move through a similar futile routine: warming up the swing, enduring embarrassing hooks and sore muscles; spiting out profanities on the practice putting green and almost pulling out your hair.

You know, you can keep your golf game hot during the winter. You'll continue to be in your prime and even find growth when the frost just begins to melt from the fairway.

Virtual Golf Helps You Remain Physically Active:

So maybe you have a beer gut, but that doesn't mean you can't stay in "golf shape." The key to staying in "golf shape" is by exercising muscle memory.

Each and every winter season, when you tuck your clubs in for a long winter's sleep, your golfing performance also falls into hibernation as well. Then, when your muscles are rudely woken up from that first golf swing of the brand new golf season, its memory often suffers from memory loss.

Now, you're left questioning where your game went. In scientific circles, that's known as atrophy - when muscles decline, decrease, or degenerate, as from disuse. In normal terms, atrophy means you should to use it, or lose it.

By keeping you muscles active, you can prevent your golf game from slipping. You can do this by playing as if you were on a real course.

Of course you don't want to play when the weather conditions are freezing out. Fortunately, technically savvy golfers have already created a solution known as the virtual golf. Golfers can stay warm and cozy inside and keep their game sharp.

Stay Mentally Prepared With Virtual Golf:

A great golfer named Bobby Jones at one time said that golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears. Virtual golf can keep this five-inch course prepared.

Anxiety is created by new and unfamiliar situations. Tension and stress can have a destructive effect on your golf game. So, to better deal with tense, high-pressure scenarios is to become more familiar with them. You may find yourself in challenging situations playing virtual golf such as having to carry 180 yards of water, hitting a tight fairway or sticking your shot on an island green. Having encountered these mental tests virtually, you will be better prepared throughout the summer to deal with equivalent predicaments. Virtual golf can train you to stay loose and self-confident in any situation.

Stay Technically Sound With the Golf Swing Analyzer:

Golf simulators can offer a golf swing analyzer program to help golfers make discoveries in their game. Taking golf swings consistently may keep you in "golf shape," and digging yourself out of rough scenarios may keep you mentally ready. However, in the end you may be hunting for that breakthrough in you game.

Without proper coaching, players can discover themselves running into a hidden wall with their technique. The difference between a average Joe and a pro is what occurs during the contact of the club face against the golf ball.

A swing analyzer lets you see the spin, launch angle, club head speed, ball speed, direction, club face angle, and club path angle of your shot when the club strikes the ball. The onslaught of feedback by the golf swing analyzer seems overwhelming, but it allows you to refine your swing to perfection.

By putting your golf game on hiatus during the winter months, you have to inevitably rebound from that awful golf-less opening on the calendar. Virtual golf is the cure to keep your game sharp.




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