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End Your Putting Yips By Clearing Your Head

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.

Home Golf Lessons

Just because you are stuck at home for some reason and cannot make it to the golf course or the driving range, that does not mean that you have to leave your golf game behind. I’ve spent many afternoons and evenings practicing my putt shots right on my living room carpet, a simple home golf lesson made cheap.

Putting the ball on your carpet as a home golf lesson is a time-honored tradition. In fact, every day there are thousands of executives who bring their home golf lessons with them to the office, secretly putting the ball on their office carpet while discussing import business matters over the speaker phone.

Home golf lessons that include putting should be done on the right type of carpet, one that is short and firm enough to allow the golf ball to travel at the appropriate speed. A sturdy, industrial-type office carpet works just fine, as do Astroturf-type rugs.

You can further specialize in the quality of your home golf lessons by visiting a golf retail shop and purchasing an electric putting cup. These nifty little devices will actually shoot your ball right back to you once you have putt it into the slot.

Possible Causes Of Your Yips Part 1

What exactly causes the yips? Wouldn’t it be great if a pharmaceutical company developed a pill that would automatically make all of your personal yips disappear, especially when you are getting ready to putt?

Anxiety: Your yips may be caused by anxiety over making a putt. If you look up too quickly to see the ball falling into the hole, you may not complete the stroke properly, pulling or pushing with your hands. Your hands may even shake and wobble.

Wrist Breakdown: A breakdown in your right wrist (for right-handed golfers) can result in the yips. Often, a breakdown or flick of the wrist happens just before impact. This is a mechanical flaw that can send the putt off-line.

Alignment: If you line up improperly before you hit the putt, and you misalign on your putterhead, your body may subconsciously cause you to alter the swing path in mid stroke in an attempt to make a correction. Attempting to correct the path of your putter in mid stroke is immensely difficult and likely to result in a push or pull, or the putter head may cut across the ball and cause it to spin.

Custom Golf Clubs

There comes a time in every serious golfer’s life when ponying up the extra cash in order to have a set of custom golf clubs made is a must. It gets old very fast when you have to have your current set of golf clubs repaired because they don’t quite fit your playing style as they should, causing numerous problems on the course.

Yes they are expensive, but having custom golf clubs made with the specs of your personal measurements, height, and swing plane will cure any problems you are having on the course. Gone will be the days where you are forced to play with a set of golf clubs that just don’t fit right.

Having a set of custom golf clubs fitted to your needs is a fairly simple process. The three major factors that will be considered when having your new set of custom golf clubs fitted will be your height, your arm length, and swing speed.

Custom golf clubs can be impeccably fitted to your swing and body type, but may cost you thousands of dollars to have made. Is it worth it? Yes, most definitely!

Once a player reaches a certain level of experience with golf, there comes a time when a huge difference in the quality of their game will depend entirely on how well they play with their respective set of golf clubs. Custom golf clubs can become a big step in the right direction towards improving your score and overall continued enthusiasm of the game.

The most important aspect of having custom golf clubs fitted for each individual is to make sure that it’s done right. Everybody has a different body as well as a different swing. You are investing quite a large sum of money into this project and if you do not have a professional properly fit you for your custom golf clubs, it could turn out to be the biggest regret you have made.

Iron Play Tip: Let Your Hands Lead The Clubhead

It’s common for many amateur golfers to flick at the ball with their iron shots, believing this will help the ball into the air and lead to getter shots. It doesn’t