How To Play Better Golf With Ease

If you want to learn how to play better golf, then you have to understand the golf swing. Your swing, we should say a good swing, is all about pace and repetition. It's not about big muscles it's about doing the same thing over and over again.

In general your swing stays the same no matter what club you are using. Yes, when you are executing a cut, fade or another modified shot there are adjustments you must make, but for normal shots a good golf swing stays consistent.

Head Movement Exercise

There is an exercise for head movement. If you picture your head as the moon and your arms as the planets moving around it you will get a visual idea of what we are after here.

Keeping your head steady while performing your swing is one of the hardest things for golfers to do.

Here is what we need to practice. Take a golf ball, and either with glue or a small screw attach one end of a piece of sting to it. Then, tie the string around your forehead area. Now, what we want to practice is swinging while keeping the ball hanging from the string from moving. The less swaying your exercise ball has the better. That old saying "Keep Your Eye On The Ball" well, this is what you are shooting for.

The goal is to have as little sway in that ball as possible, this will help you play better golf.

Practice Pace

The pace of your golf swing is something you have to experiment with. We know that club head speed dictates distance, but with out good ball contact and direction club head speed means nothing.

If you are looking at how to play better golf, then you have to pay attention to pace. The thing is pace is different for everyone. Age, flexibility, body structure, these are all factors that dictate the comfort level of a golfers pace.

As mentioned, you have to go to the driving range and try different things. Try swinging faster, then slower. Then extend your swing, over extend your back swing (without hurting yourself) and see what happens after ten or fifteen balls.

One thing we should mention is, keep a little pressure on the inside of your back foot for control. A lot of people find a big arching swing to their liking, but it all falls apart if you don't have control. Keeping a small amount of pressure on the inside of your back foot helps maintain control.

The answer to How to Play Better Golf lies in getting good at one aspect of your swing at a time. Trying to do it all at once only leads to frustration and broken golf clubs.


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