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Hit Short When Playing Through A Long Course

Getting yourself ready to play through a golf course that is considerably longer or shorter than your usual one presents certain problems in shot adjustment.

For example, if you normally use a driver and short irons on your own 6,500 yard golf course, you cannot expect to hit drivers and long irons on a 7,000 yard course and score well without preparation.

Adjust Your Game

If you are getting ready for a course that is much longer than your own, you should adjust your game. Instead of hitting a drive and wedge on the 350 yard hole, hit a five iron off the tee and then another long iron to the green.

The primary reason for this is not to give you practice swinging a long iron. You can get that on a practice tee. The purpose is to become accustomed to hitting into the green from a considerable distance so that the long course you are headed for does not mentally defeat you before you start.

Swing Tips: Power Comes From Technique

Many golfers think that over-swinging automatically creates more power, that there is a direct ratio between the size of the swing and the power it generates. But this thinking is wrong. You get maximum power only by swinging within the confines of your feet. There are two basic rules governing this:

1. You do not want to let your weight to be on the outside of your right foot during the backswing.

2. You do not want your weight on the outside of your left foot until after you make contact with the ball.

Here is how you should work with your knees, ankles, and feet during a swing:

Start with your weight evenly distributed on the balls of your feet. As you shift your weight to the inside of your right foot on the backswing, roll the left foot in. The knee turns in naturally, but the right knee remains fairly stationary.

Now, as you come into the ball, your right knee should turn and your weight should move off the ball of the right foot and onto your left. Meanwhile, the right knee is moving straightt at the hole. After impact the weight moves farther, until it is on the outside of the left foot. Eventually your weight will be far off to the left and your right heel off the ground.

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Butch, you’ll be getting your golf gift in a few days, just need to get down to the Post office tomorrow and send it

Thanks everyone for all the great comments you’ve posted on the blog post about the giveaway.

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Hit ‘em Straight

Ben

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Bunker Shots: How To Explode Your Way Out Of The Bunker

The two most important things to keep in mind when exploding from the sand are:

1. That the swing should be a normal one.
2. That the the grip should be choked down somewhat at address.

Too many people climb into the sand trap already paralyzed by fear and suddenly start doing things with their swing that they would never think of doing on the fairway. They stab or they dip or they lurch, and they leave the ball in the sand more often than they get it out.

How To Explode

The explosion is much the same as any other shot, only your aiming point changes since you are trying to hit a spot in the sand some 1 to 3 inches behind the ball instead of the ball itself.

1. Begin by picking the spot

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Ben
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Shots From Pine Needles

Most golfers become uneasy when they are confronted with a shot from pine needles. They usually attempt to pick the ball off cleanly, and frequently this results in hitting the ball too thin and not getting it up into the air.

This approach to the shot is wrong. Instead of trying to pick the ball off the pine needles, pretend that it is sitting on fairway grass. The swing should be exactly the same as you would on a fairway shot.

You can even hook or fade the ball off pine needles if the occasion demands, and a chip shot off them will have backspin just as a normal chip would.

There are two things to remember:

1. Take an especially firm stance, making sure that your spikes are set into the ground to prevent slipping.

2. Do not ground the clubhead behind the ball because there is a good chance the ball will move which will cost you a two-stroke penalty.

Tall Golfers: Use Your Height As An Advantage

Most tall golfers think that they must go through a series of contortions with their body to get themselves into the proper position to hit a golf ball. They do a deep knee bend or they curve their backs or slouch their shoulders, all in an unnecessary attempt to get themselves into what they think is the same position that a shorter man appears to manage with such ease.

What tall golfers often do not realize is that their hands fall at almost the same position as a shorter man’s. For example, I am 6 feet 1 inches tall and I have short arms but if you compare me to my shorter friend whom I golf with regularly, both our hands come to practically the same length when standing next to one another. And he is 4 inches shorter than me.

Height is actually an advantage in golf, because a tall person can achieve a symmetrical arc in his swing much more easily than a short person. The tall golfer should forget his hight. It is the thinking about it and trying to compensate for it that ruins his swing.

Swing Tips: Not Enough Distance (A 5-Step Drill)

Do you want to know a common trademark of golfers who have the knack for sending the ball flying with phenomenal distance? It’s the turning of the hips to the left during the downswing, while at the same time extending the right arm through the swing.

Here is a quick drill that can help you accomplish this:

1. Start by teeing up the drive in your normal stance.

2. Now set the ball down off of your left heel (and/or opposite of the left armpit).

3. Without moving your stance, reach down and slide the ball towards your target at approximately the same distance of the grip.

4. Tee up your ball at that very spot, which should be 10 to 12 inches closer to the hole. Your address for the ball should be back where your normal position was at.

5. Now to finally hit the ball you will have to move the hips to the left so your arms will be able to

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