Some Thoughts on Bunker play.

Don’t you hate bunkers?
If you are good at getting out of them, you don’t.
This means that you only hate them if you have difficulty playing out of them.
With bunker play, the first and only object is to get the ball onto the green.
It is a mistake to try to get the ball too near the hole unless you are really expert as are the professional golfers. By being too smart, you can leave your ball in the sand.
You will probably finish on the green some distance from the hole. Perhaps nearer, perhaps further than where your pitch would have finished had it found the green.
You need two puts to put your ball into the hole.
You would have needed two puts to finish from where your pitch stopped on the green. So the most it should cost you for being in the bunker is one shot.
When you think like this, you will lose your fear of bunkers.

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A Basic Of Good Chipping

Set up and think about watching the ball and then the divot where it was.
Prepare to hit the ball with a smooth stroke that takes your club head THROUGH the ball.
Never hit with a quick stroke. Take your time. Never make your stroke jerky. Smooth is the operative word.
You need to accelerate through the ball and this is done with a nice smooth stroke.
Don’t be too deliberate, because you will not swing with smoothness and you are guaranteed to decelerate through the ball. A horrible result.
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Golf Swing Series: Further Thoughts on the Mental Game.

Before you hit your ball, make up your mind what shot you want to play, commit to it and hit the ball.
The ball will go according to your calculations.
If these are not quite correct, then bad luck. You have done your best. Most times your assessment of a situation will be correct.

The first idea you have is usually the correct one in golf.
The club you first think of, the line of the put.
Commit to it Do not change your mind and choose another club.
You will be wrong in most cases.
Hit the shot you first think of, chip and run, pitch, an iron off the tee.
Don’t go for your driver on second thoughts.
You will probably hit into trouble- for the sake of another 50 yards.

I go much deeper into the mental game in my On Line Golfers’ Hand Book. Coming soon.

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Thoughts on The Mental Game.

Even if you are the most positive person in the world, you will have negative thoughts on the golf course somewhere during your round.
It is impossible to beat this game, but it IS possible to remove negative thoughts when they occur and replace them with positive thoughts. This way, your results will be more favourable.

Fill your thoughts with positive thoughts before every shot. You will agree that it is impossible to think of two things at the same time won't you?

Before each shot, say to yourself, "I can I can I can..." over and over again until after you have hit the shot.
You will be unable to think about what you are doing during the swing and your results because of this will be very satisfactory.

The less you think about what you are doing during a golf swing, the better the execution.
I will go much deeper into the mental side of golf in my On Line Golfers' Hand Book.
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Golf Swing Series. Good pitching principles.

Golf Swing Series. Good pitching principles.

When pitching, have most of your weight on your front foot.
(left for right handers, and right for left handers).
Keep it there for the whole swing.
This means for the back swing and the down swing.

Very little movement is needed.

This includes the feet. Keep the feet relatively still, and do not raise the heel on the back swing.

Let the lower limbs move naturally as they want to during the golf swing to avoid being like a wooden soldier, but do not move them conciously.
Keep you head down until the ball is well on its way.

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Golf Swing Series. Hit Your Chip Shots With Authority.

You are approaching the green.
All that is needed is a 70 yard pitch to the hole.
Easy.
You have done this many times during practice.

You hit the ball and to your horror, the shot lacks firmness, crispness and distance.
What are you doing wrong?

Well, you are probably not swinging the club firmly enough.
As a result, you are decellerating through the ball.

This is difficult to do if you have a good follow through.

Check your back swing and make sure you are not over swinging.

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Golf Swing Series. Think Your Way Around the Golf Course.

Tiger woods has a wonderful golfer's brain wouldn't you agree?

There is a story of how he won his first major tournament.

He played on a very difficult course and he knew it would be very
difficult to win.

So, he did some home work.

He studied the course and realized that most if not all of the holes were on greens that sloped from the back to the front.
In other words, if he shaped his golf swing to hit his ball past the hole, he would have a difficult down hill put to finish with.

So, what did he do?

When he made his swing to hit his ball onto a green, he made sure the ball
finished below the hole.
This meant he had an up hill put and so was able to attack the hole.

Putting down hill from the other side of the hole was a slow dribble of a put with no authority, and the ball was at the mercy of any inconsistency on the way to the hole that would put it off line.

He won his tournament, and displayed a good example of how professionals think during a round of golf.

They put the ball where they have the best approach to their next destination,
and finally their best approach to the flag.

I have written at length about seeing the round of golf through the eye of a pro.

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Golf Swing Series. Build Your Mental Game.

What I want to tell you is that I have a very good method of coping with the mental game.
Methods of removing the yips.
Methods of avoiding the thought of going into the water on the side of the fairway when you make your golf swing.
Which water usually attracts the ball like a magnet.

Methods of removing doubt as you make your golf swing and drive from the tee.

Methods of keeping your head down until your swing is well on
its way to completion.
The nemesis of my golf game and of most golfers I have met - except the professionals.
Why don't they lift their heads?

Methods of removing the negative thoughts that so often enter our heads as we attempt a skilled golf shot, or even one out of the trees.
How often do you mishit out of the trees?

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Golf Swing Series. Building Your Golf Swing.

Let me give you a golf swing that will delight you.

A golf swing that will consistently send the ball to your chosen spot on the
fairway .

I want to build your swing bit by bit so that there
will be no mystery or confusion in your mind when you take the club
back and then bring it down and through.

Confidence is a big part of this game, and with the confidence that your have a very good golf swing, you will become a very good golfer.
If you have a hook or slice, this will be taken care of during the construction of the swing.

Certain exercises strengthening the correct parts of your upper limbs, etc will also be explained.

You will be given keys that you can go through when things go wrong during a game, so that you can soon begin to swing correctly again.

So often, when things go wrong, one does not know why, and one has a rotten day. Then on the next round everything is back to normal again.
How frustrating is this game?

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Golf Swing Series: Five tips to perfect your game.

1. You have to have all your basics right for a really good golf
swing so that you can hit the shot you want to hit at the time you
want to hit it.

You have to stand correctly.
Have your back in the correct relationship to your ball.
Feet the correct width apart.
Hands the correct distance from your body.
The ball in the correct position and be properly lined up towards your target.

2. You have to know the distances each club will hit the ball when
YOU make your golf swing and hit the ball.
Not when someone else makes their golf swing, and not what the books say the distance should be.

So you have to find these distances out for yourself in a method I will explain to you.
Then you have to know the distance from a given point on the course to the middle of the green.
Knowing this, you will obviously know which club to use, and you can then
make your swing and hit the ball with confidence.

3. Your golf swing must be proficient.
Every one hits a bad shot sometimes, even the professionals.
However, your technique must be such that you can reproduce a good swing and good contact with the ball time after time.

I will teach you how to do this.

4. Your short game must be one where you have a mental confidence
and positive attitude that will enable you to be successful in the
shots you choose to make.

The golf swing is a little different for these shots. With my special method of chipping, you will begin to look forward to making those shots from just off the green knowing that you will get the ball near the hole 90% of the time. (Nothing
is 100%).

5. Your putting must be top drawer too.

You must have a technique that allows you to be close to the hole when putting from a distance,and one that allows you to sink most puts from within 5 feet.

My method of putting, which in total frustration I worked out for
myself, will help you immensely in this aspect of the game.

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Golf Swing Series. A change in my grip was all it took.

Once upon a time, I used to hook all of my drives.
My golf swing was OK, and still I hooked.
A simple change in my grip was all it took to start hitting long and accurate drives.
A simple change to my back swing reinforced the consistency and accuracy I was searching for and my golf swing improved.

My aim is to help you with your golf swing and make your golf so enjoyable for you that you will find yourself, like me, counting the days until you have your next game.

This is because your golf swing will be so good that you will hit every shot
crisply, and your putting will be so good, you will receive very
flattering comments.

Your short game will no longer be a thing of fear and you will no longer experience poor confidence.

You will look at the green and say I bet I can get down in 2.
And the chances are very strong that you will.

Don't wait any longer.

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