Ocean State Golf

Golf Swing Technique…Should You Take the Club Straight Back?

A common golf swing for beginners tip is that they should take the club straight back along the target line to start the backswing.
This golf swing technique is simply not true and can cause many swing faults for the player who attempts to start their backswing [...]

Golf Swing Mechanics…
Should You Keep Your Head Still?

There is a lot to consider in golf swing mechanics.
And there are lots of myths.
If you play golf then at some stage in your golfing career someone has probably told you to keep your head still.
In many other sports that we play we are asked to hit a [...]

Golf Tips Putting is so helpful in bringing down your golf score.
In every round of golf you will play more shots with your putter than any other club.
Depending on your average score you will use the putter between 28 and 40 times in a given round, whereas the second most used club, usually the driver, [...]

Golf Tips Short Game can really help lower your golfing score. Isn’t it amazing how a good chip shot can quickly turn a possible disaster into a reasonable hole?

Chipping close to the hole and tapping in a putt can also maintain a positive attitude towards your round and keep you in a good frame of [...]

Golf Swing Mechanics for Proper Golf Swing…
Lead Arm Straight?

One of the more common myths for a proper golf swing is that to have an effective swing that produces distance and consistency you need to keep your left arm straight (for a right hand golfer).
This is simply not true. There are great players on the [...]

Which 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 [...]

“There is One Perfect Grip”
Now That’s a Big Myth!!
Only one golf grip? Watch any Professional Tour event on television and you will quickly see that there are a wide variety of different golf grips in use among the world’s best players.
Some players use overlap grips while others use interlocking grips.
Some grips are weak, while others [...]

Today more than 300 professional golfers on the world’s major tours wear Q-Links. They’ve won more than 100 tournaments on the PGA, Champions, LPGA and European tours. At least 20 of those tournaments were won by players who first put on a Q-Link within the previous 5 to 10 days. [...]

We recently had the opportunity to play three of the four courses owned by the Glens Golf Group in Myrtle Beach. What made us choose the Glens Group was their flagship course, Heather Glen that we first played in 1988. It opened in 1987 to rave reviews and awards, and we were not disappointed then, [...]

Ocean State Golf Reviews Wood River Golf Club, one of Rhode Island Golf Courses that is family run and owned.
Wes Thompson was an admitted golf addict. He was a homebuilder designing and building early-colonial post and beam homes.
In 1998 he said to his wife, Kate, a native of East Providence who had taught elementary school [...]