Category: Tips
Need a fix for your golf slice, hook, topped golfballs, fat shots, short putts, lack of distance, lack of accuracy, poor grip, or any of the thousands of things that can go wrong with your golf swing. Here's a place to start to look for help.
Betting on Golf: The Nassau
I recently got an email from a reader who wanted to know what a Nassau was, and whether he should let his buddies talk him into playing one.
The answer is 1) the Nassau is a type of bet and 2) it can be a lot of fun if you put some limits on the game
In fact, the the $2 Nassau is probably the most popular betting game in golf. It’s a two-sided bet: player against player, or team against team. Nassaus lend themselves to a variety of team play formats. Scramble, four ball and alternate shot matches are common. Teams also can decide to play with, or without handicaps.
The Nasssau gets its name from the Nassau Country Club on Long Island, where the format was invented in the early 1900s. The game also is known as “2-2-2”, and “Best Nines.”
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Amateur Swing Speeds
My friends at the Golf Instruction Courses have done some research on amateur swing speeds and tempo times at a local (Michigan) best ball golf outing. There’s a lot of data in the post and I found it very interesting reading.
Among the findings:
* Swing speed range for men was 79 mph to 122 mph with the average being 105.
* Swing speed range for women was 71 mph to 94 mph with the average being 79 mph (Note: only 7 ladies participated in the measurement survey).
* Tempo time range for men was 0.78 sec to 1.40 sec with the average being 1.03
* Tempo time range for women was 0.88 sec to 1.47 sec with the average being 1.28 sec.
* The longest drive for men, approximately 270 yards, came from a swing speed of 109 mph with a tempo time of 1.14 seconds.
* The longest drive for women, approximately 215 yards, came from a swing speed of 94 mph with a tempo time of 0.88.
Read the rest of the post.
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Brian Gay’s Three Quarters Swing Deserves A Second Look
With his record setting win this past week at the Verizon Heritage, Brian Gay’s rather unique swing has gotten some attention
One of the reasons Gay is so accurate is his proper use of the swing plane. Gay is another great example of setting the golf club on plane at the top with a short arm swing. You may have noticed this week at Harbour Town that Gay’s hands only travelled to just above his right shoulder. This position allows Gay to set the golf club in a three-quarter position where the club shaft still points towards the target line. This arrangement of the arm swing and club shaft is a major component on hitting consistent and repetitive golf shots.
Gay just proves that you don’t have to have a Dailyesque swing (have you notice how far past parallel he goes) in order to score well.
Read the entire article for some very good tips.
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Ten Tips To Improve Your Golf
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has a nice little article with ten practical tips to improve your golf. These aren’t earth shattering, but practical steps that should improve things NOW, such as: develop a pre shot routine, work on a putting routine, turn with your torso, and so on. I found them very useful.
The one I liked best:
One of the biggest reasons for hitting bad shots is poor alignment, Sean Parees said.
“If your body is aiming one direction and you’re swinging at a target in another direction, you have to make some sort of compensation,” Parees said. “That means it is very difficult to swing the club properly.”
Parees said the best way to avoid that is to develop a pre-shot routine that will accomplish two things: Proper alignment and proper ball position.
• Here’s what to do:
Get behind the ball with your feet together and set your clubface down so it is facing an intermediate target. Then, as you look at your real target, take a small step with your left foot and slightly larger step with your right foot. This will ensure the ball is in the proper position in the left half of your stance, between the left heel and the center.
To practice this, take two clubs and, placing them on the ground, use one to represent the target line and the other to represent your body alignment. Place a third club perpendicular to your body alignment to represent your ball position. This will help you aim correctly.
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Bunker Play Advice From Dottie Pepper
In reviewing Chad Campbell’s disastrous bunker shot on the sixteenth in the third round of the 2009 Masters, Dottie Pepper offered a bit of sage advice:
The way to play a short bunker shot is to throw the sand onto the area of the grass where you want that ball to first make contact.
That’s a good visualization, and I’m absolutely certain that I’ll have more than one chance to test it in my next round.
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