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The first winner in the Holiday Golf Giveaway is…..

(drumroll please )

….Gary Phillips!!!

Congratulations, Gary! You’ll be getting a copy of the DVD - How To Re-Grip Your Own Golf Clubs.

As mentioned in my earlier post, I’ll be giving away one great golf item each week from now until January 2, so make sure you take a couple of mintues to enter.

And good luck to all!

Are you seeing too many angles when you stand over a putt?  Have you checked to see if you may be lined up incorrectly? Your conscious alignment may be at war with your subconscious sense of straightness, and your putting stroke is caught in the middle as your body tries to issue a correction.

Pick a hole on a flat spot on the practice green and drop your ball the few feet from the hole.  Stand behind the ball and line up the putt. Be sure to use the printed brand name on the ball as a helper. Position the ball so that the name points straight at the hole. When you get over the ball with your putter, match the aiming line on top of your putter to the line of the logo on the ball.

Put the putterhead flush behind the ball on this line. Now take notice of your feet. Are they perpendicular to the line created by the logo? How about your shoulders? Finally, are you taking the putter head straight back and straight through during the stroke?

Whoops, looks like I’m having a problem with my blog theme accepting comments to the post I did about the Holiday Golf Giveaway. Sorry if you’ve tried to post the comment and have not been able to do so.

Until I get the problem solved, instead of posting a comment to the blog, just send an email to customclub@gmail.com
when you have completed steps 1 and 2 to enter your name in the contest. I will list the emails in the order of receipt and use the random number generator to pick the winner.

In order to make sure that everyone had a chance to enter, I’m postponing the first drawing to Sunday, Nov 29.

Again, sorry for the confusion…

Hit em straight

Ben

Looking up or peeking to see if the ball goes into the hole is a sure way to miss a putt. Resist the temptation to watch the ball. Keep your head still over the ball and stare down at the empty spot the ball he used to occupy long before you hit the putt.

Listen to hear if the putt falls. You may also catch yourself, one afflicted with the yips, watching your putterhead go back away from the ball and come back through contact. Don’t allow your eyes to follow the putterhead during the stroke. To help focus on the ball, pick a small, noticeable mark on the ball to look at. Keep your eyes fixed on the brand name, printed logo, a simple dimple, or an identification mark throughout your stroke.

Maybe the best way to steady your eyes and to play in the subconscious is to stand over the putt, put your putterhead on the ball, stare at a spot on the ball, and then stand perfectly still for five seconds. During these five seconds of still and calm, let the gaze of your eyes go out of focus. Your eyes still focus on the spot of the ball you were staring at, but everything else becomes fuzzy and soft. Go ahead and stroke the putt with your eyes and mind this blurry, meditative state. You may be surprised by the results!

Happy Holidays from Free Online Golf Tips.

I’ve decided to give away a bunch of golf stuff this Holiday Season, and so here’s your chance to get some great Christmas Presents for your golf buddies (or be like Scrooge and keep them for yourself! )

Here’s what will be given away in this giveaway:

- Copies of my DVDs - How to Re-Grip Your Own Golf Clubs and How to Build Your Own Golf Clubs

- Gap Wedges…

Golf Driver Headcovers….

The Sandbagger’s Handbook (VERY funny…)

And MORE!  

There’s just 3 easy steps to enter the giveaway. Please note that you MUST complete each step to be entered:

Step 1.
First, just sign up to get your free golf tips by email (the sign up form should be below this post. If you don’t see it, just click on the About link at the top of this page, and sign up there).

Step 2.
If you have a twitter account, please enter a tweet to your friends and followers with a link to this post giveaway.
You can use this link to create your tweet if you want: http://clicktotweet.com/391ld

If you don’t have a twitter account, please email your friends and send them a link to this post.

Step 3.
After you’ve signed up and tweeted / emailed about this post, you must post a comment on this blog post. Make sure that you include your name in the comment. IMPORTANT - if you don’t post a comment, you won’t be entered in the giveaway. I’ll use the comments to select a winner of each giveaway using a random number generator.

UPDATE: I think I’ve fixed the earlier problem with my blog theme not accepting comments, but in case you can’t post a comment, please send an email to customclub@gmail.com instead.

Each week from now until the end of year, I’ll select a winner from the comments to this blog via a random number generator and that winner will get one of the golf items listed above (my choice), and will be notified by email.  I’ll also post the results each week on this blog.

The giveaway will run through January 2 2010, so you’ve got plenty of chances

The first “drawing” will be held this Friday, November 27 so go ahead and follow the steps above and good luck!

And Happy Holidays!!!

Hit ‘em straight!

Ben Poston
Triangle Custom Clubs

Because the major contributors to the yips are tension, anxiety, and ack of confidence, one way to help rid yourself of the yips is to empty your mind. Play in the subconscious - forget about the stroke, forget about the results, and forget about the circumstances. Just play, in the literal sense of the word.

If you step inside your local pub to play darts or shoot some pool, you probably do not get all bogged down in your technique when you toss the darts or set up for your corner shot. You may want to win the pool game, but you probably do not hang the balance of the world on your shot on the 8-ball, right? You just play casually, sipping a beer, and enjoying yourself, even when you miss.

 Try to put yourself into the same mindset when you putt. Just play and let it happen. Let your athletic instincts take over. Trust the practice and effort you have put toward your game thus far. Just step up to your position and make the shot, putting in the subconscious.

Of all of the miss/hit shots in golf, the shank is probably the most dreadful. The shank happens when you make contact with the ball using the hosel of the club. One of the main causes of the shank is standing too close to the ball at address as it crowds you. The second reason for a shank is shifting your weight forward on your left foot before making impact, causing the hosel of the club to hit the ball. The key is to set up evenly, and when you hold your club, be sure that there is just over a fist’s length of space between the end of the grip and your body. A Practice Drill The second thing you can do is practice with by using a shaft. Place the shaft 3 inches in front of your leading foot and then back 3 inches. Check your distance so that a fist is perfectly measured between your body and the grip.  Now take a few practice swings, making sure that the left hip brushes against the shaft (right handed players). Now hit a couple of shots and put it all together: proper setup, distance, and left hip hitting the shaft. By following this advice you’re sure to get rid of those dreadful shanks.

Creating consistent shots in golf is a must. What happens with a lot of players is that, as you look from down the line, the golf club has a tendency to get too vertical on the downswing. It leads to taking too much turf, steep divots, and a ball spinning off to the right.  All of this is influenced by your setup. For example, if you have too much bend in the upper body, and the arms are extended far away from the body, there is a lot of tilt. This causes the golf club to get too vertical on the backswing, which will also create the steepness in the downswing, sticking the club into the ground, and the arms tend to reverse rotate.  So by standing taller at address and getting the end of the golf club pouring more toward your belt buckle, that will put you in an ideal position from address. However, this doesn’t mean that your swing will get more rounded to produce a consistent shot, so a simple drill can help. The 15, 10, 5 Drill First take a practice shot with the ball 15 inches above the ground. By swinging so high you have a nice rounded swing, almost like a baseball swing, and after swinging through, it allows you to square up the clubface. Next move to 10 inches above the ground, around and through, then 5, around and through, then on the tee, making sure the end of the golf club is pointed at your belt buckle.

Where do you need help in your golf game? Knowing where you need help and how to get help is the key elements to building a Golf Improvement Plan for 2010.

You should have targets, and goals, yes, but most important is focusing on where your problems are…

Is in with your swing?
(need help with your slice or pull?)

Is it with your short game?
(chipping, pitching, sand play)

Or how about your putting game?

Once you figure how where you need help, then you can decide how to get it.

And this is where Pure Point golf comes in…

No matter what help you need with your golf game there’s a solution for it at Pure Point Golf…

…and now those solutions are a ton less!

First off, there’s the Full Swing Bundle:

This bundle includes:

 - The original Full Swing DVD
 - The Full Swing Drills DVD, and
 - The Full Swing Lessons DVD

Together these DVDs are the next best thing to Private golf lessons, only you’ll save a bundle!

Then, there’s the Putting Champion Bundle:

This bundle includes the Putting Performance DVD and the Precision Putting DVD. This is a double-barrelled
dose of putting instructions that will get your putting game to the next level, and take those snowmen off your
scorecard forever!!!

And last but not least - how about 5 best selling golf improvement ebooks for the price of one?

For the normal amount for just one, you’ll get:

– Full Swing Fundamentals
- Bunker Fundamentals
- Chipping Fundamentals
- Pitching Fundamentals, and
- Putting Fundamentals

Give one to each of your golfing buddies for Christmas…

…or be like Scrooge and keep them all for yourself

Hundreds and Hundreds of golfers all over the world have improved their golf game using Pure Point’s straightforward
techniques. These products are some of the best rated and best selling golf improvement tools on the market.

And now for a VERY limited time you can get them for a steal.

So get your Golf Improvement Plan set for next year. First, decide which area of your golf game needs the most attention in 2010:

Is it your swing? Then get the Full Swing Bundle 

Or your putting? Then try the Putting Champion Bundle

Or do you need to work on the fundamentals? Then get the 5 for 1 fundamentals bundle

Either way, you can’t go wrong with these great products…

…unless you DON’T take advantage of these Holiday Specials
and time runs out!
Hit ‘em straight

Ben

The Secret Tip Every Beginner Golfer Should Know

What makes golf so difficult when compared to other sports?
There are a few reasons, however “accuracy” is probably the
number one factor when comparing the game of golf to other activities.

You have much less room for error compared to sports
like baseball, for example.

Baseball uses a much bigger ball and you have a comparatively
larger bat to swing with. You have several chances of hitting
the ball to make a play. And of course you then have the
assistance of other players to help you accomplish your goal of
either getting to the home plate, or making field plays to cause
the other team to reach 3 “outs” so that your team can move up to bat.

With golf, you must hit the ball perfect each and every time you
are up for your shot. You have one swing and that’s it. The room for
error is so minuscule due to the tiny size of the ball and the clubface.

And with people watching, the pressure can really cause those
nerves to get a bit uneasy. This is why golf is a lot harder
than most people think.

Beginner Tip: Take It Slow

For those of you that are new to golf and have not quite
grasped what we are trying to explain here about the difficulty
levels of the sport, you should take time to follow a few basic
tips that every season golfer adhered to when they first started playing.

What is the most important beginner tip?

Take the game slow and keep things simple.

The obstacles of golf for the beginner player are mostly mental.
With the intensity of concentration, focus, and pressure from an
audience, one of the best tips that you can appreciate is to
simply take it slow.

Learn the game at whatever pace suits you.
Many newbie golfers tend to go all out, buy a brand-new set of
golf clubs, hit the ball at a driving range for a few days,
and then immediately run out and start playing on a prestigious
18-hole golf course.

I understand that you are probably excited and want to jump right
in headfirst, but compare the game to swimming. Before you knew
how to swim, did you just dive into the deep section of your local
swimming pool? Of course not.

How could you expect to do the same with golf?

Moving too fast will only lead to frustration and eventually
you will quit playing.