Thursday, October 20, 2011

Want To Get Better At Golf? Try Golf Instruction, Putting Lessons And Golf Video Training

By Greg Lamport


A large number of pro golfers insist that putting is the most important part of your golf game. More important than your golfing swing. How you practice can also affect your game. Getting golf putting instruction goes a long way to improve your game. Here are some tips for beginners or even pros. Since putting skills account for 50% of your game, so, let's focus on putting.

Putting Lessons First practice calculated putting exercises by making use of putting drills in order to improve your putting confidence. Putting drills will help you focus you on routines that eventually becomes ingrained into your brain.

'Drive for show putt for dough' as the popular adage implies. The main focus is to see the line you want the golf ball to follow in your minds' eye figured out and to keep your head still when you putt. When standing over your putt with your eye on the ball and visualize the path to the hole. Visualize - think distance not speed.

Some pros even teach putting with your eyes closed to get a consistency feeling to your stroke. Experiment with a drill of hitting a number of 10-foot putts with your eyes closed. That will help develop your feel and get your mind off the mechanics of the stroke.

Don't lift your head to see where it wants to go and what line it's on. Concentrate on the spot where the ball was after impact rather than following the ball with your eyes. When you're not looking and pulling your body up you'll make more putts. After you hear the ball rattle around in the cup, then you can lift your head.

Practice Your Aproach Address

A minor yet highly important part of golfing instruction is your stance. Spend some time during your practice session making sure you have a good, well-balanced putting stance. Don't just go out there and start putting, but take time to positions yourself.

Maintain a straight back allowing your hands to swing under your shoulders is the simplest of positions to employ.

If your hands are outside your shoulders (that is, farther from your body), it will take on a different stance resulting in an inside-square-inside stroke. A normal stance about the width of your hips is the stance you should take.

Get A Grip

Always check your grip. A consistent grip is important. Like the address position, this is an important part of putting that often gets overlooked and cause inconsistent results.

Your club works similar to a pendulum motion. Your grip should not be too tight, and your arms should be relaxed. A smooth one-piece action should be your stroke. Keeping your wrists stiff, your arms move backwards creating your shoulders to work like a pendulum. Dropping your left shoulder gets the motion started.

Observe you mechanics and be sure that when you are closing your fingers you don't force the club into some angle of lie, of loft, other than its designed one. Try using a very light version of your normal grip.

Go With The Short Putts

How to break 80. Your putting practice routine should focus more on short shots than on long ones since percentage wise, that can affect your score the greatest. Master the short putts and apply those control skills to the long putts.

Carpet Putting

The great Sam Snead said, "I figure practice puts brains in your muscles," and so by practicing your putting gives you a consistent and repeatable putting stroke. - Sam Snead won a record 82 PGA events and about 70 others worldwide.




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