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Get your club shaft parallel toward target

Point your club shaft toward your target at the top of your backswing. That puts you in position to swing your club down on the proper plane along the correct path.

Golf | 2016-06-01 17:07

IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME

To play your best golf, you need to remember what you did correctly so you can do it again.

Golf | 2016-06-01 17:04

IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME

The introduction of radar technology exploded the myth that you can simply watch a ball’s flight with the unaided eye to “crack the code” and determine what happened at impact. Pre-radar players such as Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead and Bobby Jones discovered the code on their own through experimentation. By his own admission, Ben Hogan took 10 years to “dig it out of...

Golf | 2016-05-25 17:54

Improve your playing ability

To take your playing ability to the next level, you need to learn to draw the ball. To hit a draw, start your club back more to the inside. Get your clubhead inside your hands when the club shaft is horizontal. Also, you need to keep your clubface square to your swing path. Don’t try to keep the toe straight up by rotating your forearms.

Golf | 2016-05-25 16:55

IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME

The purpose of the grip is to guarantee control of the club without squeezing it to death. A good golf grip activates the correct muscles of the upper hand and forearm. But since there are no muscles in the fingers (just tendons that clench/unclench the hand), when you attempt to control the club with your fingers, the squeeze is on via the muscles of the forearm. It's the he...

Golf | 2016-05-18 17:33

Focus on improving your position of impact

Good players preserve their wrist cock through the hitting area. Their left wrist rests bowed with the right wrist bent. Importantly, they hit the ball, keeping both hands slightly in front of it. Put differently, they keep their clubhead lagging behind their hands in the impact zone. You need to do the same to create enough power and speed, hitting your ball far and straight.

Golf | 2016-05-18 16:37

Golfer Shin Ji-yai wins out on Japanese tour

South Korean golfer Shin Ji-yai collected her second win of the season on Sunday after winning the Hoken No Madoguchi Ladies in Japan.

Golf | 2016-05-15 18:09

IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME

Shortened swing arc reduces power Golf is a game filled with misconceptions, more so perhaps than any other game. The brain is a problem solver par excellence, yet it's fooled when it comes to golf because you must stand to the side of the ball to play. A few examples of counterintuitive golf solutions that don't make sense, but are correct:

Golf | 2016-05-11 18:37

Let your body and arms do their own jobs

You have two ways to take your address posture in golf - an upright posture and bent posture. You will naturally stand over your ball in an erect or bent posture. Typically, the shape and size of your body influence what address posture you will take.

Golf | 2016-05-11 18:32

S. Korean Wang Jeong-hun wins on European Tour

South Korean golfer Wang Jeong-hun captured his first European Tour win in Morocco on Sunday (local time) in a sudden-death playoff.

Golf | 2016-05-09 09:32

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