Professional Golf Tips – Part 1

Wed, Jan 6, 2010

Golf Tips

Professional Golf Tips – Part 1

Derek Hooper, Professional Golf TipsWhich Professional Golf Tips do you remember most?

What about this one… If you want to get better at this game there is only one way to accomplish that…practice.

I do not just mean going to a driving range and hitting a large bucket of balls with your driver with no target and no goals for that session.

That is exercise not practice. If you want to get better you need to do regular, effective practice.

Effective practice is any practice session where, before you begin, you have clearly defined what you will do in that session, how you will do it and a way to measure if you have achieved your goal.

Only once you start doing this type of practice regularly will you start to see real improvements in your golf game.

How do you devise such a practice session?

Your first step is to assess your current full swing game and decide what aspect of it, if improved, will give you the greatest gains in performance.Taking a golf lesson with your local PGA Professional is the quickest, easiest and most accurate assessment of your swing you can get. This will definitely be time and money well spent.

They will break down your swing with you and explain where and why you are getting into trouble, before showing you practice drills to help you improve the areas of weakness. They will also tell you how to assess your ball flight so you will know if you are doing the drill correctly and thus improving.

Professional golf tips are great, especially when we utilize them.

Armed with these practice drills you can now design your effective practice session by answering the questions and guidelines:

  • How much total time do I have for my practice session?
  • Set up an effective practice station on a quiet section of the range, with clubs on the ground for alignment and ball position.
  • There should be at least two practice swings for every ball hit.
  • Golf is a target game, so always practice to a target.
  • Give every shot and practice swing your fullest attention-quality is more important than quantity.
  • Examine your ball flight after every shot and ask yourself if during the swing you achieved the swing change you are trying to make.
  • Based on the last swing and ball flight decide your focus for the next set of practice swings and shots. Be sure to stay focused on the goals and drills for that particular practice session. Do not allow yourself to drift into reactionary practice where all you are doing is making corrections based on the previous shot.

Follow these professional golf tips for an effective practice outline every time you work on your full swing and, coupled with regular feedback from your PGA Professional, your improvement is all but guaranteed.

As always, we’d love to hear from you, so leave a comment below with any golf tips or questions you may have!

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This post was written by:

Derek Hooper - who has written 11 posts on Ocean State Golf.

Hooper is the Director of Instruction at the Hank Haney Golf Academy at Lake of Isles. Derek has a college degree in teaching and over 15 years experience conducting lesson programs in Australia, Japan and Taiwan. Before moving to the United Sates Derek was the Director of Instruction at the David Duval Golf Academy in Miyazaki, Japan. Derek can be contacted at 1.888.475.3746

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