Golf is not considered the most nutrition-oriented sport, but maintaining your energy and hydration on the course are crucial to remaining focused and shooting a low score. This video features a nutritionist describing some snack and drinks that are ideal for the golf course, as well as offering tips for when to eat during your 18-hole game.
Is your game on the green coming up a little short? Go long with help from this tutorial presented by Golf Tips Mag. In this free lesson, learn how to stretch more yardage on your golf swing with a littl help from a gold expert.
In this tutorial, golf pro Chris Toulson demonstrates pitching basics including set up, wrist hinge, turning of the body and finish position. It is important to know these details when you play golf in order to guarantee the right swing. If you are a beginner, or just need some help with your swing, follow along with this video and learn some useful pro tips.
Whether you're a golf pro or an amateur, using proper grip pressure will help the rhythm of your golf swing and the rotation of your golf club. Chez Reavie, 2008 RBC Canadian Open champ, will show you how to apply the proper pressure using a simple golf tee. Put the tee in your hands when you're doing golf swings and squeeze it . It will make sure you maintain the right pressure on the right fingers. Using this simple technique will make sure you always play golf at your best!
Need some advice for playing golf? Well, Sports Illustrated has this video tutorial that will show you how to create a descending blow on the golf course. These tips from SI and professional golfer Brian Mogg will teach you how to create the perfect descending blow so that you can avoid fat and thin shots with your gold club. Two of the most basic basics are the ball position and the alignment. The golf ball should be place midway between each foot, and your body aligned slightly open.
John Jacobs' Golf Schools present Quick Tips: Chipping. Director of Instruction Tom Perkins helps you get from just off the green to right next to the cup. Chipping technique is important in elevating your golf game and avoiding mistakes.
Golf Pro Kevin Beukema gives amateur Bobby Gromala a few quick keys to a better sand bunker game in golf. Hit the links prepared to get at least par with these great golf tips from the pros. Stay out of the sand trap and in the hole or on the grass.
This is a great drill to do so that you can learn how to strike a golf ball properly. Make sure you don't strike your golf club, because it might break.
Even golf tour players would rather be in a bunker than face one of the most troublesome shots in golf: a chip from tall grass. Once you understand the basics of chipping in tall grass, though, your shot will become much more effective.
All golfers have one thing in common: they like to hit the golf ball long and straight. If you would like to hit the ball longer, you must first understand the sources of power in the golf swing and how to apply that power efficiently.
Correct posture plays a vital roll in golf, putting you in position for balanced, powerful, and consistent golf ball striking. See some tips for correcting and perfecting your posture for an efficient swing.
Impact is the moment of truth in golf, so placing the ball in the correct position in you stance is critical to arriving at the correct impact position. Improve your golf ball striking with these tips.
Learn how to improve your tee shot on the golf course and perfect your golfing skills.
Director of Education for Troon Golf, Tim Mahoney, teaches you where to place the golf ball in your stance and how that impacts your ball flight.
Do you have the perfect timing? Timing your swing is important, but sometimes a clock can do a whole lot more to help your golf swing. By imagining the face of a clock, you can effectively train your body to calculate the proper swing length for shots from various distances. Sound intriguing? Let Doug Hammer, PGA, show you the way. Watch this video golf tutorial and learn how to clock wedge shots.
Our grip is your only point of contact with the golf club, therefore it's critical you get it right. Watch this tip to get your hands in the correct position on the golf club.
The fade is the most reliable golf shot shape to use under pressure - Colin Montgomerie swears by it. He reckons if you set up to shape the golf ball left-to-right in the air you'll have a far greater chance of hitting the fairway than if you simply aim straight.
This is a slight of hand magic trick. You show four cards. The top card is a Queen of Spades. Place the Queen of Spades on the table. The bottom card is a Queen of Hearts. Shake the cards. The four cards are now Aces. To do this trick, you need a gimmick card. Use double stick tape to attach the Ace and Queen together. Then, you have another Queen and three Aces. Put double stick tape on back of Queen. Now, you have Ace, Ace, Queen, Ace. Put double stick tape in the middle of Queen of Hearts....
Although it may seem like golfing is nothing more than just a person swinging a golf club and hitting a ball, there is much more to it. Proper technique and placement is also very important as well.
Golf is an age old sport that has been played by many great people. It's something that any age, race, or gender can enjoy. It can also be a very tough sport to master, since there are so many different techniques and methods that can help improve your golfing skills.
An inside out slice in golf is not ideal. If you would like to know how to fix this issue, check out this tutorial. In order to fix an inside-out slice in golf, the golfer needs to use his body and avoid rushing when he gets to the top of his swing. Learn how to slow down to fix bad golf swings in this instructional clip. By working on your swing speed you will improve your game and be ready to take on more experienced opponents.
This Sports video tutorial will show you how to practice away from the golf course. This video is from Golf Link. Sandy LaBauve presents this video tutorial. You can work on your grip while watching TV. Sitting on your sofa, take your golf club and keep on practicing on the correct grip. Make sure the face is square, use the visual check points, lower your hand and feel the grip. Check your posture in the mirror. Use your backyard to practice your arm swing. And finally you can work on your p...
This video is about becoming a "total driver" in golf.
This video teaches you how to hit the ball straight using proper golf stance. Golf tips magazine presents Joe Durant, one of the best PGA Golf hitters in the league. He first tells us the problems with bad posture in amateur golfers. He shows us the bad posture and then demonstrates why it goes wrong. Secondly, he shows us good posture. He bends his back slightly with a slight bounce in his legs. After following the instructions he says, you will be well on your way to hitting like a pro!
Normally when you are playing golf, you are scoring against the golf course. This video shows you how to score match play golf. Match play is different from normal scoring in the sense that in match play you are playing against the other players on a per hole basis. Materials needed include: scorecard, pencil, and a group of players. Have fun!
Once you start playing golf and have mastered the basics, you will need to improve your driving distance. Driving a golf ball for distance means having sound fundamentals, good swing mechanics and a great deal of personal core strength. Find out how to turn the shoulders 90 or more degrees to hit a long shot in golf in this helpful clip. As your game keeps improving with practice, you will be finding the hard shots easier and easier.
Slow down? What!?! You've got to love the simplicity when it comes to long drive tips from long drive competitors. The long hitting Jamie Sadlowski shares his simple tip for more power, and it's not what you might think. See how to slow your golf swing down for more power.
In this golf lesson golf instructor Steve Bishop discusses some more details about the position of the left thumb on the shaft and the roll it plays in the golf swing.
In this golf lesson video, golf instructor Steve Bishop discusses some tips on how to perform a proper release and follow through of the golf club in a full swing.
In this video golf lesson golf instructor Steve Bishop discusses some key ideas and tips about the finish. This will help you identify some of the errors you may have made during your golf swing.
This video shows the viewer Andy Fields ‘Ultimate Professional Jazz Aces’. The trick starts with 4 queens’ face down on the table. Next 4 black cards are selected. Seemingly these cards are made to change places with the queens’ one at a time. This is supposedly done simply with a flick of the wrist. After all of the queens have been swapped the viewer is led to believe that the queen must be lying face down in a pile and that the black cards must be in the magicians hands. However on closer ...
Ken demonstrates how to hit a golf ball far. A golf shot starts with a good grip to give it power and flexibility. Grip the golf club under the heel pad creating a 45 degree angle. When the wrist flexes and hinges, the angle will be 90 degrees which will give you power and speed. This promotes flexibility, control and a desirable centrifugal effect. Create speed through motion. Keep your feet together to keep your body quiet and you will increase the speed of your hands and arms. It will also...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to close the gold stance to cure a golf pull shot. When starting the swing, do not turn your body before you shift. This may be called spinning out. This will make the club go outside, before going down to the ball. Therefore it creates a left swing that will curve around the pole. When swinging, move the weight from your left heel to your right toe. This will cause the user to shift forward straight swing. This video will benefit those viewers who en...
Steven Bann shows a chipping drill that teaches distance control through the air. Golf clubs are arranged into "zones" which represent the plates of a baseball field, so golf clubs arranged horizontally and evenly distanced apart from the next golf club. This represents "first base," "second base," "third base" and home plate. This is a landing drill where the object of the drill is to land in the designated "first base" zone and then subsequent bases until you get three-in-a-row for each zon...
One of the most common misconception golf-players share, is about the importance and prevalence of aim and alignment. Many believe that aiming comes first. Hank Haney the well known golf-coach and golf-instructor is teaching us in this video, about the strategic importance of the correct alignment. He explains clearly, why, without a proper alignment of your entire body, hips, shoulders and arms, your aiming can not be good. Simply put, you should align your body parallel with the direction o...
Golf Link demonstrates how to fix your golf grip to cure a hook shot. A hook shot often occurs because a player has a grip which promotes the hook. In a hook-promoting grip, the player has his hands too far to the right of the club. When carrying through with their swing, the club face closes and causes the hook. To align your grip, put a golf tee in between your left thumb and the first knuckle of your left hand. Repeat the process with your right hand. Adjust your grip so that both of the t...
Use these techniques to help aim your golf shot.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to do the "Jacks would be Queens" card trick. This trick begins with a story of 4 jacks who all want to become women. The magician begins with 4 identical jack of diamonds. The first jack is the bravest. He goes under the knife and ends up as an ugly woman. The other jacks do the same and all end up as ugly women. In the end, the magician ends up with 4 queen of spades. Users will need 2 jack of diamonds, 3 queen of spades and a fake card with both th...
Learn how to drive a golf ball with PGA professional Darrell Kestner. He begins by discussing the driver itself and how it affects the shot. He shows where to start the shot from on the tee box, the speed in which the club is swung, the arc of the shot, and proper body positioning. Tips appear through the video in the form of pop ups.
Need a little help on your golf game? This video gives you tips on how to hit a driver. When hitting a driver in golf, the most important thing is to keep the ball in play, and this may mean teeing off with a 3-wood or a long iron. Find out how to play a natural shot with a driver.
