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Simple Golf Swing – Review
The Simple Golf Swing is published by golf expert David Nevogt. The guide has been designed to help anyone with an 18 handicap or bigger. It will even improve the scores of more experienced golfers.
This excellent guide will help you learn a revolutionary new grip, setup, and alignment technique in a simple format with clear pictures and illustrations to show you how to do it.
The Simple Golf Swing uses the golfers’ spine as the focal point of the swing. As your shoulders rotate on the backswing, the spine operates as an axis. The back-swing is shorter than most swings taught so it takes a few practice shots to get used to, but following this excellent system will make your drives straighter and longer but with very little lost power. Following the rules in this guide will improve your shot consistency and drop your score.
This system – because it really is more than just a simple book – guarantees to lengthen your range and reduce your strokes by up to 10 in just two weeks. While this may sound incredible, it’s actually easily done when you consider how many penalty strokes are earned in an average round, how many yards are lost in a typical drive and how many times balls end up in the rough! This step-by-step course helps take the guessing out of your swing.
Simply put, this system works. If you’re a beginner or bogey golfer you’ll find this invaluable to help you improve your score now, not in ten or twenty years! More experienced players will also find tips to improve your game. Not sure if it’s right for you? Don’t worry as it’s covered by a no-questions-asked money back guarantee!
Here are some of the things the Simple Golf Swing program contains:
- The secrets to a winning swing plane
- How to gain more confidence on the course
- How to manage your emotions
- Simple tricks to change your hand action and add measurable distance to your shots
- Different grip styles and which work best
- Clubface alignment that will give you confidence on every tee.
- Simple techniques to hit more greens and get closer to the hole
You can have all of the greatest equipment, wear the best clothes and it won’t help you one bit until you can consistently hit the ball long and straight. The Simple Golf Swing will teach these fundamentals in no time.
A golf pro will easily charge $80 per hour. You can pick up this system for a fraction of this price as a one-off expense. Also included is a lifetime of free updates as they become available! You’ll also get 8 great bonuses.
By: Mike A Murray
About the Author:
For a complete and more detailed Simple Golf Swing review, I recommend you check out Simple Golf Swing Review at The Golf Pro Online. Aside from that, you will also obtain hundreds of strategies for improving your golf game quickly and easily.
Mike Murray is an avid golf player and has been playing for over twenty years. The Simple Golf Swing review is just one of dozens of helpful articles that can be found at his website.
Start Your Golf Stretching Program Without Delay
Before you can play golf you need to condition your body first. A good golf game is the effect of multiple interrelated factors, like strength, stamina, and flexibility, which is why you need a golf exercise routine to keep your body in good shape.
Stretching before a golf game is extremely important. The benefits of gold stretching can never be downplayed, although most golfers think twice before doing a few stretching exercises before getting a game started. After all, golf doesn’t seem to be much of an endurance sport and there’s little cause for injury when you play such a leisurely sport as golf. However, a good stretching routine can enhance a golfer’s swing resulting to longer and fewer shots, fewer injuries and a greater consistency.
The reason why stretching is so important is this: your basic golfing motions are radically different from the everyday motions that your muscles are used to. By making your muscles more limber you reduce the tension on your muscles as you make each swing, reducing the chance that you’ll wake up with a body full of aches and pains after a whole day of hitting the balls. Stretching before a game is also important if you are prone to lower back pain. A few stretching exercises, or even doing mild variations of yoga poses, can effectively reduce lower back pain that will often come after a game.
To easily incorporate a good stretching regimen into your total work-out you can go for golf stretching tips that come in DVDs. Golf stretching DVDs created by golf pros to help you improve your flexibility can be helpful especially if you make a habit of doing them regularly. Golf stretching DVDs are also convenient if you want to keep improving your game but have little time to condition your body in the gym. If you are a busy executive who wants every opportunity to exercise your swing, you can do so in the comfort of your own home or office during your lunch break by watching a golf stretching DVD.
But you can’t just spot any golf stretching DVD and grab it without a second thought. A good exercise program, whether on a golfing DVD or not, should have a proper mix of strength, endurance, and flexibility exercises to develop power, accuracy and overall consistency, since these are all components of a good swing. Stretching exercises can do more good than harm if not properly performed, so you need to make sure that your muscles can withstand the tension that stretching exercises can give.
So when looking for a good golf stretching DVD, a combination golf DVD, one that incorporates both strength and flexibility exercises, is your best bet. Look for a golf stretching DVD that covers all the basics, from how to do safe stretching exercises to exercises for each muscle group or body part.
And do not forget the strength aspect. Regularly stretching your muscles without a good strength training exercise can lead to muscle strain, so keep your muscles strong and limber by doing a complete mix of strength and flexibility exercises.
By: Mike Pedersen
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How to Correct a Slice
All golfers want to know how to correct a golf slice.
There’s nothing more frustrating as a golfer than to be playing well, only to see your next shot go further to the right than it goes straight. It makes you want to snap your golf club in two.
Or at least, wrap it around a tree. Even Tiger gets that feeling (although I’m guessing his mis hits aren’t nearly as bad as our slices).
When fixing a golf slice, you have to figure out what the heck you’re doing wrong first.
1) Is your stance out of wack?
Your feet should be about shoulder width apart.
Your right foot should face straight ahead and your left foot should face slightly to the left of straight ahead (if you’re golfing lefty, reverse this).
Your shoulders should be squared.
2) Is your grip too weak?
A weak grip can be a major cause of a nasty gofl slice. When correcting a golf slice, you definitely need to check your grip.
If you have a weak grip, try a more neutral grip. Face your left hand toward the target and your right hand away from it.
3) Is your swing the problem? A big cause of slicing the ball is coming across the ball at contact from outside to inside.
This puts a nasty slicing spin on the ball and will send it way off to the right. A closed club face coming across the ball, outside to inside, is a nasty recipe for a golf slice.
Be sure that your golf swing is inside to outside at contact.
If you can implement these three simple tips on how to correct a slice into your golf game, you will start to see an improvement in your shots.
You’ll have more consistency and see fewer shots veer to the right and on to the adjacent hole instead of the one your playing.
By: Tim Hathaway
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Help for Golf Beginners – Get Started Fast
One of the hardest things for golf beginners to realize is the amount of finesse that it takes in order to put the ball into the hole, no matter what kind of shot they are attempting to take. But, on the other hand, don’t get blinded by too much science, while you’re still a beginner.
Beginners often find it highly useful to learn the basic golf swing mechanics that are in fact responsible for the success or the failure of both long and short shots. Beginners should learn the basics of grip, stance and posture, then build from a small swing to a full swing in easy stages. But, a beginner needs to realize that even on a good day he/she may spend 15 to 20 strokes chipping up to the green. There are a number of golf tips for beginners, but the best way to learn is simply to get out on the course and play.
Taking The Ambiguity Out Of Golf’s Fundamentals
If you are just starting out in golf yourself, the best advice is to understand that it’s going to take a long time just to get the basics down. You will have your ups and your downs. Learning new techniques while working within your individual style will come in lots of spurts and lots of periods of retreat.
A new technique that you are trying to learn may seem impossible one day, then, through practice and repetition, it will simply come naturally another day in the future.
Stick To The Basics
Stick to the basics is the best approach (a universal strategy that works in every aspect of daily living). As you work your way through golf’s plateaus, peaks, and valleys, the most important thing to remember is to stick to the fundamentals.
Strive to improve each and every time you play the game. Learn that tenacity and continuity are just as important as making contact with the ball. The ultimate reward for your positive attitude and consistency in playing on the course will be a strongly improved game, and co-incidentally, the development of a lifelong golf passion.
Become “Friends” With Your Clubs
When you begin learning the fundamentals of golf, another golden nugget of advice that I learned along the way is to stick with the same golf clubs for at least 1 to 2 years. You will be sorely tempted to make much more frequent updates to your equipment. But, when you are experiencing the early stages of golf, the equipment you use should rarely be changed. In this way, you can experience as much stability as possible.
Trusting the same clubs during your initial year or two of golf will also help minimize variables that can affect your game in a negative way. For example, by sticking with the same driver during this time frame, you will learn to identify what factors are making a positive contribution to your tee shots. Changing clubs too often, especially during this learning period, will add confusion in knowing whether your technique has improved.
Conclusion
Golf beginners who are truly committed will eat, drink and sleep golf. Such beginners will have an early on understanding that it will be extremely frustrating in the beginning. That is because the amount that must be learned is truly overwhelm.
By: Verlyn Ross
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Six Lessons We Can Learn From Sam Snead
Like many of golf’s great players, Sam Snead relied on swing keys to help him achieve consistency. As his membership in golf’s hall of fame attests, these swing keys served him well during his career. What’s interesting is that many of them are still used by today’s pros to do the same thing.
Below are several time-tested swing keys that can help you achieve consistency and knock that golf handicap down a few notches.
1. Relax Your Hands
Your hands are one of the keys to your swing. If your hands are tight and tense, your body will be tight and tense, and you won’t be able to swing freely. If your hands are loose, you’ll not only hit the ball farther but you’ll even swing smoother as well.
Snead used to think of gripping the club with the same amount of pressure you’d use to hold a bird just firm enough to let it fly away but not firm enough to hurt it. Others think of holding a tube of toothpaste in their hands, just firm enough to squeeze a little toothpaste out of the tube but not hard enough to push out too much.
2. First Move Down
Different golfers key on different things to begin their swings. Some focus on pulling downward with the left arm (for right-handers). Others concentrate on turning the front hip in slightly. Still others key on lowering the left heel slightly. For Snead, it was all these things. Since you can think of all them at once while you swing, choose whichever move reminds you to make your first move down.
3. Hit The Dimple
A lot of my students ask during golf lessons what to look at when putting the ball. Apparently, a lot of people also asked Sam the same question when he was playing on the tour. He had a simple answer. Pick out a dimple on the ball and try to hit it.
The idea is to make the club strike the farthest back part of the ball every time. Zero in on that particular dimple, then putt away. If you hit that dimple squarely your putter is probably moving and facing in the right direction. You’ll get solid contact unless you’re chopping at the ball or swing up to it. Aiming for the dimple will improve consistency.
4. Cure The Slice
The slice is probably the biggest swing fault among recreational golfers. To cure a slice, check to see that:
The club starts back inside the line
Your left side is completing the turn
The left arm/hand dominate the backswing/downswing
The stance is not the same for the intentional slice, hindering a complete pivot.
For a quick cure, try hitting the ball to the right of the fairway. This approach aids in bringing the club into the ball more from the inside than the outside.
5. Lobbing to the Green
Snead always relished a challenge. And trying to hit a lob shot over a hazard to the green is a challenge. Snead’s advice when pitching over a hazard with little green between him and the hole was simple: You want the shot to fly high and land soft-one that will settle in its tracks. To execute this shot, you first need to address the ball with the clubface laid back more than usual, increasing the loft.
Once you’ve done that, take the club straight back and break your wrists early in the swing. Strike down through the ball with the hands leading through the clubhead, and with the wrists snapping into the ball. This produces a high lob that lands softly. The whole swing should be leisurely and rhythmical.
6. Swing in “Waltz” Time
Everyone has his or her own pace. Some golfers play at a fast pace. Others play at a more leisurely pace. If you had seen Sam play, you would have noticed that he always swung the club slowly and smoothly. He called it swinging in waltz time and that was his swing key for keeping his swing under control.
Sam liked to tell the story of the time he gave a lesson to player who played like he was going to a fire. He couldn’t get at the ball quick enough in an effort to try and hit the ball 400 yards. The divots were flying father than the balls. Afraid the guy might hurt himself, Sam stepped in and told the guy to slow his swing down. Next time Sam saw the man, he was amazed. The man had slowed his swing down to waltz time.
Sam Snead was one of the games best players and teachers. Like many golfers he used specific keys to trigger his golf swing and achieve consistency. The six we explained above were just a sample. By incorporating them into your swing, you’ll be well on your way to reaching that single-digit golf handicap you’ve always wanted.
Copyright (c) 2006 Jack Moorehouse
By: Jack Moorehouse
About the Author:
Jack Moorehouse is the author of the best-selling book “How To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros.” He is NOT a golf pro, rather a working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven continents lower their handicap immediately. He has a free weekly newsletter with the latest golf tips, golf lessons and golf instruction.






