Tips to on How to Improve Your Golf Swing

April 17th, 2009 by articles

Whether you are an armature golfer or a seasoned one there are always tips to help your swing and take some strokes off your score. Improving one's golf swing is all about learning and perfecting the basics, and from there you build your way around it. The biggest problem is that no two people are the same, and ever body is different and reacts to certain motions completely different. So they key to perfect one's golf swing in their own unique way.

The fundamentals of a swing are as follows;

1. Grip, how you hold the club.
2. Posture, how you set up to the ball. This is a key to a successful golf swing. The width of the stance, the knee being flexed, and straightening of the back is all aspects of posture. The angle the back maintains throughout the swing and the bending from the hip socket are also related to the posture
3. Pivoting is how you move your body from the head down to your toes - this includes the hands and arms.
4. The hand and arm relationship, what the hands and arms do in the golf swing.
5. Alignment, how you pick and set up to your target.
6. On the mental side, is the ability to play using different strategies. I would think that this is the most important aspect of the golf game. Why is it when we get so frustrated with our poor play that you just go up and hit a great shot without thinking about it? Most sports require 90% of your mental capacity and the rest is skills. Tiger Woods is a perfect example of this principle.

The first tip would be keeping your head still and keeping your eyes fixated on the ball. Doing this will keep your club face to the hitting zone. Most often enough when you miss a shot you take your eyes off the ball, by lifting your head a split second before you take your shot.

The next tip is to relax as you approach your shot and stay relaxed through your whole swing. Gripping your club to tight and having a rigid stance will play apart in bad play, you need to relax. When you relax you will let the club do the work.

So getting back to basics and relaxing should produce a lower game score and better handicap, so you will enjoy your game more.