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.
What To Carry In Your Bag?
Other than your clubs, balls, tees, ball markers and ball mark repair tool, what do you carry in your bag?
It’s a question I hear frequently from the beginning golfers on my high school teams. And I’ve seen it on a couple of golf discussion boards.
Here are a few items that I have in my bag: a couple of towels, a wet cloth in a ziplock, bandaids, sunblock, bug spray, motrin, chapstick, insect bite treatment, a small pocketknife, a sharpie (to mark your balls), a roll of lifesavers, and a protein bar.
It sounds like a lot, but I always walk and carry and don’t notice the extra weight ...
You can get all of these in really small sizes that won’t take up much room or add much weight. Many stores have “sample” sizes that are perfect. But golf is so expensive that you don’t want a round to be ruined because of a blister, bug bite, etc.
Mental Golf
To paraphrase Yogi Berra, "Golf is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical." I know that I can shave 5 to 7 strokes off my score if I play a disciplined, mentally tough game of golf. Here is one man's list of the best golf books for improving your mental game.
