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Golf lessons for beginners – are they really necessary? One of my ex-bosses would argue that all you need is an Internet connection and you can find out how to play golf online for free. On the other hand, it has to be said that he is quite a talented natural sportsman. Most of us just cannot learn a sport just by reading how to do it. We need someone to show us how.

Unlike many sports, there are actually professional trainers who give golf lessons for beginners. Some of these instructors are private trainers while others work for special golf schools. Obviously, a school offering group lessons will be cheaper than a private trainer. Yet getting your own personal trainer can give you a lot of personalized instruction and more flexibility.

Increasingly, we can find more and more online courses with very high quality video showing how to play golf. Are they useful? To some people, yes. These online video lessons offer the flexibility of personalized instruction and the price of group lessons. The main problem is that they lack interaction with the instructor. If you have a question or problem, how do you get it solved by a video? Of course, you cannot.

Many of us take up golf for fun, while others play golf for business. Regardless of your reason, the most important thing is to enjoy the game. On the other hand, if you keep on getting stomped into the ground by your golf buddies, you may want to take some remedial action. The fastest and easiest way to fix your problem is to find a golf professional and pay him to discover your biggest mistakes and fix it. This is not the same thing as getting personalized golf lessons as a beginner. You golf pro will play a few rounds with you to find out your worst mistakes, then set up some lessons to teach you how to correct your mistakes.

If you cannot find a good instructor to help you do this, then you will have to resort to the internet. For a start, you will need to know what your main problem is. Then you can look it up online. Hopefully, you will be able to find the solution for free. If your problem is more complex, you will probably have to buy an online course which targets your specific problem.

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you cannot discover the cause or solution of your poor performance on the golf course. In this case, the problem could be more fundamental. Perhaps your basic golfing techniques are wrong. You may need to go through another round of golf lessons for beginners. In this case, an video course is probably your best option. You can look for a highly-rated course on Amazon, or just search the internet for an e-course. Amazon will offer you the better deal. The downside is that you cannot communicate with the person who is demonstrating the techniques in the video. An online course, on the other hand, will normally have some way for you to ask the instructor questions – normally be email.

By: Godfrey Swain

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I usually talk about lightning in golf lessons and golf tips because it’s important. Lightning claims more lives every year than hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods combined, according to some reports. That’s a lot of people. And golfers with their hand held lightning rods, as I mention in my golf instruction sessions, are as likely to be killed as anyone, unless they’re careful.

How deadly is lightning? If you’re hit by lightning, you probably won’t get another chance to lower your golf handicap. A typical shock from lightning sends several thousand amps through your body in an instant. Unfortunately, it takes only two amps to stop your heart. So your chances of surviving after being struck by lightning aren’t good. That’s why you should know exactly what to do when you’re on the course and lightning strikes.

Here’s a short golf instruction session on what to do.

Get off the course immediately

If you see lightning or hear thunder, even in the distance, get off the course immediately. Squalls and thunderstorms bearing lightning move quickly sometimes. Before you know it, they’re right on top of you, catching you unprepared. If you see trouble, get off the course instantly. Don’t worry about your clubs or the cart. Just get to shelter.

Find a dense wooded area

Don’t seek refuge under a lone tree. That’s extremely dangerous. Thickets of short trees, On the other hand, are relatively safe. Also, avoid isolated shacks, unless they are grounded with lightning rods. Many are not, so be careful. Don’t enter one unless you know for sure that it’s been grounded. One golfer who took a golf lesson from me was surprised to find out after a storm that the shack she took shelter in wasn’t grounded.

Fall to your knees

When caught in the open, fall to your knees. Lightning strikes the highest point in the immediate vicinity. So if you’re caught in the open and you think you’re going to be struck by lightning, go down to your knees. Get as low as possible, but don’t lie down. You want as little of the ground touching your body as possible. Lightning often travels through the ground

Take off you spiked shoes

Not many golfers who take golf instruction sessions from me wear metal spikes these days. But some do. If you happen to be one and you get caught on the course when lightning strikes, take your shoes off. The metal attracts electricity. You’re better off getting your socks wet than being hit by lightning.

Get rid of your umbrella

Most golf umbrellas are made of fiberglass, making them less likely to attract lightning. However, lightning will strike an umbrella occasionally, because lightning tends to strike the highest point in the immediate vicinity. Never carry an umbrella except during a light drizzling rain.

Stand away from your clubs

Stand as far away from your clubs as possible and never get caught holding one. Golf clubs are natural lightning rods, and nothing attracts lightning faster than a golf club. When Lee Trevino was hit by lightning at the Western Open in 1975, the same bolt hit Arnold Palmer’s golf club 40 yards down the fairway.

Stay away from water

Get as far away from ponds and lakes as you can. Water is a great conductor of electricity. If lightning strikes a lake or a pool, it can move through the ground and hit you where you stand. Remember few people are struck directly by lightning. It almost always strikes something near by and conducts through the ground.

Golf carts are not safe

Forget what you’ve heard about golf carts being safe during a storm. Rubber tires do not ground electricity. That’s a myth. It’s not unusual for lightning to bounce off a tree and go right through a car’s roof, killing the car’s occupants. Golf carts are even less safe. Lightning strikes the highest point on the ground and that might just be the top of your golf cart.

Avoid the green

This is one time on a golf course where it’s better to be in a greenside bunker than on the green. Greens are often a bit higher than the surrounding terrain, making them more likely to be struck by lightning. In addition, the flagstick is especially likely to be struck by lightning. So the last place you want to be is on the green. Forget what you’ve been told in golf tips about how bad it is being in a bunker. This time it’s good. Move to a greenside bunker and kneel down.

Newspapers publish stories about golfers being killed by lightning about 150 times a year. But lightning is much more dangerous than that. Follow the advice given above when lightning strikes and it’s a good bet your name won’t appear in one of those stories. We want everyone around to be able to take more golf lessons, read about golf, and continue lowering their golf handicaps. Be safe.

Copyright (c) 2007 Jack Moorehouse

By: Jack Moorehouse

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Pulls are a common occurrence for most golfers. We occasionally reach back for a little extra and find our ball headed left toward who knows what rather than the intended target. If this is a frequent experience for you then you must either struggle to score well or you’re an expert at getting out of trouble.

Did you know that a pull and slice are related? That is to say that they are the result of the same fundamental golf swing flaw. With so many of us suffering with this issue the golf industry continues to develop technologies and techniques for its cure. The often cited “over the top” or an “outside to inside” swing path.

So the solution is very similar to that which fixes a slice. The golfer needs to develop an inside approach to the golf ball. While there are several suggestions and techniques to make this happen, I’ve found that they only serve to confuse most of us even more so than we might already be.

Our hope here is to simply to clear up the confusion and provide you with the easiest (for most) way to correct a pull swing fault.

To correct the flaw it helps to understand the cause. While there are a few different causes the most common is that the club head approaches the ball from outside the intended target line with the club face closed to that same line.

The cure will seem counter intuitive to keeping the ball from going left but I promise it will work to create an inside to outside swing path. And that swing path will prevent the pull. Give it a try sometime on the range if you doubt it will work just to test my point.

How to cure a pull

Set up with your body aligned slightly closed to the target line. That means dropping your back foot away from the target line an inch or two.

Close the club face a bit. Rotate the club face a bit toward the inside of the line.

Strengthen your grip. Rotate the hands away from the target just a bit.

Make a full shoulder turn. Turn the shoulders as close to 90 degrees as possible.

Drop the hands from the top. Once you’ve completed the backswing your next move should be to bump you hips forward slightly and drop the hands straight down toward the ground.

As the swing continues to flow smoothly the upper body turn will bring the club back from the inside to meet the ball on a square swing path.

There you have it. Practice this until it becomes a normal part of your golf swing. Whether you are dealing with a slice or a pull these swing tips will work to help correct it in no time.

By: Wayne Hudler

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If you are new to the game of golf then you may be interested in some beginner golf swing instruction. There is so much information around, it can be quite daunting trying to figure out which instructions are suitable for a novice and which are more advanced.

There are lots of different types of instruction too, some aimed at techniques and styles and others aimed at fitness. It can be hard knowing which is the best for you to look at. One of the reasons that there are so many different types of information is because we all differ in the way that we learn and the aspects of our game that we need to improve.

However, there are some basic instructions which we will all benefit from, whatever level our game is and whatever faults we have with our swing. It is most important to be physically fit. You may think this is a bit odd as amateur golfers are not always that fit but think about it carefully. In order to be able to make the correct movements in the swing action, you need to be flexible.

By working at toning your muscles that you use when you swing, you will become more flexible and this will help you. You will also be stronger and therefore better able to hold the club in the correct position and move it in the required way with a smoother action and therefore hit the ball more accurately and harder.

So before you search for beginner golf swig instruction consider your fitness levels.

By: Mike T Pedersen

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