Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Golf Swing
All-time golf great, Jack Nicklaus, once said, “The game is meant to be fun.” He also said, “Don’t be too proud to take lessons. I’m not.”
There are a great many golf training aids you can find online. Certainly, some are better than others. If you’re not feeling the fun yet, or somehow you seem to have lost it, these tips on how to improve your golf swing can help breathe life back into your game.
1. Get a grip! Jack Nicklaus would agree—a good swing starts with a good grip. How do you find that correct golf grip and keep your hands from fidgeting and re-gripping before you swing? Paying attention is one approach, but this can only take you so far. If you’re hands are moving off of the proper grip, then compensate in the other direction.
A far better approach would be to have something on the club that guides your hand to stay on course. Yes, such an aid exists—Thumb Caddy. Your hands also need to be limber. Try drooping your hands and shaking them from side to side like airplane propellers continue for 5–15 seconds until the hands feel loose and slightly tingly.
2. Standing. Your whole body needs to be relaxed and that goes for your legs, too. With your hands under your chin, slightly flex your knees. Maintain your balance and keep your shoulders above your toes.
3. The swing. Arms and elbows close together, elbows pointed at their adjacent hips. In the backswing, your hands should flow through a plane parallel to one passing through your shoulders and the ball. Let your hands lead your arms and shoulders. Rotate your hips toward the ball for the needed power. The left wrist should aim at the ball as the club makes contact.
4. Follow-through. Continue swing past impact, wrists uncocking as you hit. Shift weight to leading foot, turning the trailing foot with toes to the ground, top toward the drive. Trailing arm close to the body. Force comes from the turning of the body.
5. Attitude. Always stay upbeat and patient. If someone is behind you and impatient, tough! Let them wait. Keep your attention on your game and on enjoying it.
6. Relax. Remember, you’re here to have fun. A tense body cannot control the swing. Stay away from caffeinated drinks. “Coffee” jitters degrade accuracy.
7. Stay upbeat. In a sand trap? Trees? Water? Stay positive. Concentrate on solving your current challenge.
8. Smile. Impossible? Then just laugh. Make it the biggest belly laugh you’ve ever done. So what if other people see you. Your laughter will help them smile, too.
9. Have fun. Okay, so this point has already been made. But here we emphasize it. Throw seriousness in the lake.
10. Visualize the desired result. Picture the ball going into the hole every time. Your body can only help if you tell it what you want.
Jack Nicklaus once said, “Focus on remedies, not faults.”
Wendy Jones is a freelance writer who writes about a variety of subjects, including golf training aids.
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