Secrets of golf! Most golfers will do absolutely anything
to improve their golf game and this is the reason why most
are constantly in search of golf
secrets to improve their game.
However this search, more often that not ends up in total failure. It all usually starts with lots of excitement when they discover some new aspect or tip they did not know before and they quickly practice and implement it into their game.
Sadly the desired effect does not result and their game hardly improves. Still they continue with their desperate search of more golf secrets to improve their games.
The reason why they fail is simply the fact that they fail to appreciate the real secret of golf. The secret, which is guaranteed to revolutionize any golfer's game, virtually overnight.
The real secrets of golf, like most secrets of success, is so simple that it is easy to miss or even discard when you hear about it or read even read about it.
Here it is.
The real secret of golf capable of having a dramatic effect on any game is preparing and conditioning your body and muscles to take the punishment and strain that golf inflicts on it. That's it.
Playing golf is not like walking, it does not come naturally. Even kicking a soccer ball comes much more naturally than a golf swing. The result is that the body resists the correct movements required to execute a perfect golf swing.
The most effective way of dealing with this resistance
in the body is for you to condition and strengthen the muscles
that are stretched and put under strain by the act of the
golf
swing.
If you do that successfully, the golf swing will come much more naturally and it will show in your game. Do not be cheated, there is no other more valuable secret of the golf game.
Do you want to discover the secret to creating more power and consistency in your golf swing... AND eliminating ALL your swing faults?
Mike Pedersen helps golfers' improve their golf swing power, consistency and golf swing faults by addressing the physical limitations in their golf swing.
Roger Fredericks teaches a few golf tactics
here...let's look at his Youtube secrets of golf video (click
to play):
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Good stuff, isnt' it?
Here's another video with a guy in a blue shirt
who's pretty enthusiastic about golf:
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Here are a few interesting links to articles
and products about the "secrets" of golf.
Here's Ezinearticles.com article #2 on golf
secrets that I dug up.
Golf Swing Perfection-Secrets Revealed
By Robin
Boddy
The game of golf is a relatively easy concept; you take
a ball, hit it with a club and try to get it into the hole
in the least amount of strokes possible. The only problem
is it is a deceptively difficult task. When attempting to
play golf and play well you must first develop a good repeatable
swing. In order to help you perfect your swing take a look
at these golf secrets revealed.
First, let me tell you that it is much easier to learn the golf swing correctly to begin with than it is to correct bad habits that you have learned. So take the time and learn the basic correctly. Unfortunately, what most people do is listen to everyone else around them, quit it! This is the worse way in the world to perfect your golf swing; the operative word here is "your".
Nobody else's swing will be exactly like yours and there are many reasons for it. One reason is because there are so many different body types. Someone that is tall and lanky will not have near the same swing of someone short and stocky, your bodies just cannot function the same way. So the biggest tip for golf swing perfection is to learn the ways most effective for your body type.
To many people worry about the more technical aspect of a golf swing and forget the basics. If your basic set up is not properly done, you will never get a swing that is good and repeatable. So work on your set up routine, this will quickly correct many of the problems you have in your swing.
If you are not set up correctly, your body cannot function properly. You will not get the proper torque with your take away and your hands will not be in the correct position. These will inhibit your down swing. Your hips will get blocked and your hands will not release correctly upon impact and that is why many golfers "throw the club". All of this can be fixed in one simple step, learning how to properly align yourself with the target.
I cannot tell you how many problems you will fix by just properly aligning yourself. I am sure you are thinking that you already do, but most golfers have gotten into such bad habits that poor alignment feels natural. In fact, most people who constantly complain about a slice could correct it in a matter of minutes just by getting set up correctly in the first place.
Here is how you do it, correctly. After you have teed up the ball, stand directly behind it about five feet, so that you are looking directly at your target, pick a spot to aim at. Walk around to your left and get even with the ball. Find your spot and then place the club behind the ball and aim it towards your target. Once you have done that then bring your feet in and put them together and square up to the clubface. Then take a your left foot and move it forward towards the target your back foot should then be moved away from the target. Now you are properly squared to the ball and your swing will begin to work for you properly. More than likely it will feel awkward at first because you have been doing it incorrectly for so long. For you lefties, just reverse the instructions.
There are a few tips to help you gain golf swing perfection. Set yourself up correctly and you will be pleasantly surprised on how everything else will fall in to place. Have fun, go low, and keep it in the short grass.
Article #3 for one more perspective on the secrets
you need to get a consistent golf stroke.
Three Secrets of A Consistent
Golf Stroke
By Chuck
Evans
What you are about to read... will change your golfing
life forever! What are these three "secrets"? If you knew
how would they effect your game?. These three "secrets"
are what the worlds best players do. Every player MUST know
these "secrets" if they are to have a powerful, repeating
golf stroke.
The problem with the majority of golfers is that they don't know what to do. Oh their friends, well wishers at best, tell them that they are "bending their left arm", "raising up through the shot", "coming over the top" and host of other swing faults. But these are the same people that shoot the same scores you do! What could they possibly tell you that would improve your game?
The information you are about to receive is not theory or conjecture but science. Ooooh, you say, this sounds complicated. Well it isn't, it is simply the laws of force and motion that govern our entire lives and day to day living. Once you understand these simply laws your golf game will forever change...for the better!
Secret #1: A Flat Left Wrist
Because the golf stroke involves a golf club, a left arm, and a wrist in between, it is called a "lever system". The left wrist acts as a "hinge pin" much like the old time "flail" used to beat wheat. This "hinge pin" can rotate, cock or uncock but NEVER Bends!
Golfers however routinely bend the left wrist causing the clubhead to reach the ball before the hands do. This causes a "quitting" motion, adds loft to the clubface, points the face to the left of target, makes the clubhead swing upward disrupting the downward motion that ALL good golf shots MUST have. Good players DELOFT the clubface at Impact. Poor players ADD loft to the clubface costing them distance, direction, and trajectory.
A 5 iron, for example, has approximately 8 degrees for "forward lean" when soled properly. At Impact with good players the "lean" is approximately 15 degrees. This turns the 5 iron into a 4 iron. Poor players reach Impact with a "backward" leaning clubshaft thereby ADDING loft and turning the 5 iron into a 6-7 iron!
Secret #2: A Staright Plane Line
You only have two choices when it comes to the swing plane, you are either on or you're off. There is no middle ground!
What exactly is the swing plane? The plane is the angle of the clubshaft as it sets at address - period! It is NOT Hogans plane of glass as many would have you to believe. There are only three planes available;
1. Horizontal - a wall 2. Vertical - the floor 3. Inclined somewhere in between
As golfers you and I use the Inclined Plane to swing the club back up and end, down out and forward, up back and in making the Golf Stroke three dimensional.
The clubshaft, actually the sweetspot of the club, may travel to any other plane angle during the swing as long as it DOES NOT cross the base of the plane. Here is a simple way you can know if you are on plane or not. Whichever end of the club is nearest to the ground MUST also point at the base of the plane from horizon to horizon. If neither end is nearer then the clubshaft MUST be horizontal to the ground and parallel to the base of plane.
Secret #3: A Lagging Clubhead
Lag by definition means "trailing". When the clubhead passes the hands coming into Impact there is no "lag". Without "lag" the golf ball cannot be compressed, we cannot hit downward, and we have a tremendous power loss. Clubhead lag promotes a steady and even acceleration giving us a dependable way to control distance.
Look at any picture of your favorite player at Impact. The left arm and clubshaft are in ONE LINE! Never two lines. This means that the player is utilizing "lag". When a ball is struck with "lag" it explodes off the clubface! Without this "lag" the sound turns into one of mush, a soft Impact instead of a driving Impact.
If you follow this outline, learn these three "Secrets" you will be hitting the ball with more compression than you ever thought possible.
For example, a Driver striking a golf ball with a 2 degree "backward" leaning clubshaft at 100 mph with 9.5 degrees of loft produces a launch angle of 6.4 degrees and a carry distance of 230 yards.
By changing Impact to a 2 degree forward leaning clubshaft the player produces a launch angle of 10.4 degrees and a carry of 251 yards. A 21 YARD INCREASE WITHOUT buying a new Driver and simply having clubhead lag!
YOU can improve your game dramatically by following the steps outlined above. Become the best player YOU can be and start winning those 4 way presses! If YOU really want to elevate your game, hit it farther, straighter, and nearer the hole then practice what I've shared with you.
P.S. Visit our website for more information on how to become the best player YOU can be. ------------------------------------------------------------
Chuck Evans is one of only 31 Teachers in the world to hold the designation of "Doctorate in Golf Stroke Engineering", he is one of the most highly sought after instructors in the world not only by players but other teachers as well and is known as the Teacher of Teachers!
Chuck has appeared on numerous golf talk shows, written and published instructional articles in local, regional, and national golf publications. His DVD, "60 Days To Game Improvement" has sold in excess of 10,000 copies and his new eBook, "How To Build YOUR Golf Swing" is in the library of amateurs and Teaching Professional alike. He has also appeared as the featured instructor for education classes regarding the golf swing at various PGA Sections and Chapters around the country and has been nominated numerous times for Golf Digest's Top 50 Teachers and Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers.
In addition Chuck has held the positions of Director of Schools for the PGA Tour Golf Academy and the Director of Instruction for the United States Golf Institute.