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Expert Author: Eric Stone | Summary Matrix Golf has a special high performance golf shaft called the Matrix Ozik. This shaft is very different from conventional shafts. It incorporates new technology to make for a more perfect tee. There are several different Matrix Ozik Golf shafts to choose. Really enjoying the game of golf requires a change in attitude. It requires that you learn to love playing a game that will always include good and bad, better and worse, fighting to improve and only occasionally being completely satisfied with your shot, hole or round. It requires that you learn to actually love the whole experience. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary Bunker shots are difficult enough to get right when next to the green, but the longer bunker shot from a fairway bunker is even more challenging.
So here are a couple of simple things you should do to improve your long bunker shots. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary Many amateur golfers spend lots of money buying new golf equipment and no money on golf lessons. They have the impression that the new equipment will improve their golf and take their game to a whole new level. This is one of the reasons why amateurs never seem to get better. Here is why you should invest in golf lessons. Expert Author: Charlie G Wallace | Summary Practice is absolutely crucial for the golf beginner as it is for the golfer who has been playing golf for some time. Golf is such a technical and precise game that you will never improve unless you play and practice regularly. You only have to look at the pro tour golfers. Take Tiger Wood for example. He has been out of the game for about 9 months and although he wasn't practicing golf for some of that time to avoid aggravating his injury, it is quite obvious that he had been working on his golf fitness. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary Are you a golfer that needlessly throws away at least one stroke per hole? So many golfers waste precious shots during a round either due to a lack of concentration or lack of adequate preparation for a particular stroke. Here is how to ensure you don't waste these strokes any longer. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary What can you do to improve your consistency on the golf course? Today I am going to give you two simple tips that all pros do but many weekend golfers overlook to make you a better golfer. To find out what they are you have to read this article. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary The most important part of teeing off on a par 4 or 5 is to ensure that the ball ends up in the fairway. If you can't do this consistently the you will often struggle to make par and will feel frustrated and angry. Here are a couple of pointers for your setup routine to improving your driving accuracy off the tee. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary Putting is one of the most important parts of the game of golf as is clearly illustrated by the famous saying "Drive for show and put for dough". Quite simply what that saying means is that you may be able to hit 300 yard plus drives, but if you can't putt then you may as well stop playing golf. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary The putting stroke is one of the most important strokes if not the most important stroke when playing golf. So naturally if you want to improve your golf you need to improve your putting. One way to improve your putting is to place the ball in the correct position at address to ensure that you strike the ball at the optimum point with the sweet spot of the putter in the intended direction. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary As we all know, putting is very important when playing golf and the aim of all golfers is to hit as few putts as possible. Here is a simple tip that will drastically improve your putting. One of the most common mistakes amateur golfers make when putting is moving their heads during the putting stroke. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary One of the ways to drastically lower your score is to improve your golf course management. This basically means improving the way you approach and play each hole on the course. So lets get started. Do you get on to the tee box of a par four or a par five and automatically reach for your driver? Do you look at the layout of a particular whole and decide which club will be best suited to the teeshot? Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary Ball position is one of the fundamental aspects of iron play. Placing the ball in the incorrect position can have severe consequences on the outcome of your shots and therefore this is a very important aspect of addressing the ball that you have to get right. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary To be successful with your short game you have to be able to get up and down in as few shots as possible. This makes pitching and chipping the ball so important because you want to get the ball as close to the hole as possible to only have one putt. Poor quality chip shots are often the result of an incorrect set-up. So here are a couple of pointers to help you set-up correctly for chipping and pitching. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary One of the fundamentals of a good golf swing is for your body to be correctly balanced and aligned to your target and doing this properly is a skill that will definitely improve your golf by a few shots every round. There are various methods that are used by people around the world to line up accurately. Some people believe you should put a golf club down on the ground, making sure that it is pointing towards your target and then lining your feet up along the shaft before hitting the ball. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary The foundation of a good swing is to have the correct balance and posture. Without these you will struggle to make consistent contact with the ball and your accuracy will not be very good. So here are a couple of pointers on how you can improve your posture. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary One of the fundamentals of having an effective downswing and follow through is the backswing. So let us first discuss this very important aspect of the swing. The backswing gets your body in the correct position to complete the downswing and your follow through. So one small tip to improve your backswing is give yourself enough time and not to rush it. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary Most golfers don't realise the great importance of the follow-through when swinging the golf club. You may argue that the rest of the swing is no longer important once the club has made contact with the ball. Today I am going to tell you how wrong you are. Expert Author: Jakobus Nel | Summary To have the ability to hit a draw at will, will help you to become a better golfer and add a very important shot to your arsenal of strokes. The whole idea of hitting a draw is to be able to control the flight of the ball through the air from right to left for a right-hander and visa versa for a left-hander. This is a great shot to use if you need the ball to avoid certain obstacles. So if the hole doglegs from right to left and you want to hit the ball around the corner then a draw is the perfect shot to hit. Expert Author: Charlie G Wallace | Summary Are the obstacles to starting to play golf for women greater than for men? Is there a perception amongst women that golf is elitist and mainly for men? Is it more difficult for women to get good advice on how to start playing golf? Maybe. I confess I don't have the answers to these questions. What is true is that anyone starting something new probably needs to challenge some personal assumptions before they start and have some clear guidance on how to proceed. This is as true for men as it is for women.
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