Sunday, May 11, 2008

Learn Simple Golf Tips That Beginner Golfers Can Use To Play Better Golf

Beginner golfers can easily be overwhelmed at learning the golf swing. Simple golf tips can speed up your process and get you hitting the golf ball reasonably well. In fact, all it takes is a couple of easy tips to transform your golf swing if you are a beginning golfer.

The key ingredients to a consistent swing are:

Grip
Stance
Ball Position
Posture

Notice how the abov don't cover the actual golf swing?

If these basic fundamentals are not ingrained in your body, you have NO chance at hitting a consistent golf ball. None at all! You MUST get these down first, before you move onto swing mechanics.

Golf Tip Resources

Most golfers are eager to give tips to anyone who will listen. The bad thing is they are not qualified to give any tips at all. They are not golf instructors, nor do they have the educational background to know the swing and how to apply it to different golfers.

Taking golf lessons is a good start, but can get quite costly. I received an email the other day from a golfer overseas who spent $1300 on lessons and couldn't hit a solid ball to save his life! He was serverely disappointed to say the least!

Reading golf magazines is another way to find dozens and dozens of golf tips, but my big pet peeve is over-analysis. Most golfers have one major swing fault. Whether it be a slice, hook, chunky, thin, over-the-top, lateral slide, whiff, block, push, pull, or a whole host of other inefficient swing faults. So you go to the magazine and you see all these golf tips that are not related to your specific swing fault but you give them a try anyways.

Now you have just created more swing faults and confusion!

See where I'm going with this? Golf magazines cannot be personalized to your specific problems. No way! Therefore, it is not advisable to read these magazines and get even more confused.

The Golf Channel is another source but I categorize it right along with the magazines. They give you a ton of golf tips and drills to confuse you, but not geared to your specific swing faults. The golf channel is addicting, but don't try every tip they give as you'll become much worse.

Golf instruction books are one of the best because you can go right to the section of book that pertains to your swing faults. Golf tips for beginners this way is the best by far!