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Commitment is the most important factor when playing a lob wedge shot. |
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When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls... |
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One can sink more putts by listening for the ball to drop in the hole and not to be looking up to see the ball rolling towards the hole. |
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The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing... |
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Focussing in golf merely means putting attention on the decision. |
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No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse. |
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Success on the golf course is a journey not a destination.
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Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot... |
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An athletic set-up creates the correct starting link between your body and the club.
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A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponents luck... |
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At address the left hip should be slightly higher than the right hip. This automatically lowers the right side of the body; the correct spine angle forms the axis of your swing plane. |
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It is surprisingly easy to hole a fifty foot putt, for a 10... |
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Consistency can only be achieved through knowledge, patience and practice. |
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A good drive on the 18th hole has stopped many a golfer from giving up the game... |
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Too many technical thoughts in the golf swing will upset your rhythm and timing. |
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If there’s a storm rolling in, no doubt you will be having the game of your life.... |
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When selecting a club, stick to your first choice, 99 % of the time your first selection was the correct selection. |
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Golf balls are like eggs. They’re white, they’re sold by the dozen, and you need to buy fresh ones each week... |
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Once you learn how to strike the ball, course management and psychology becomes the dominant factors in successfully playing the game. |
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It’s amazing how a golfer who never helps out around the house will replace his divots, repair his pitch marks and rakes his sand traps... |
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When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Come up to the next shot thinking of what you must do right. |
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One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.... |
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The one influence most likely to assure the satisfactory progression of the swing is clear visualization in the player’s mind of the movement. |
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Most golfers prepare for disaster. A good golfer prepares for success.... |
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Hitting a golf ball is an act so precise that there is unlimited room for error. That error begins in the mind and finds expression in the swing. |
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Correct technique will get you out, but only lots of practice will get you close... |
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Distance control on short shots will be determined largely by clubhead speed, which in turn is influenced mostly by the length of the backswing. |
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To save shots around the green....visualize your trajectory, in all cases, align the hands directly beneath your swing centre, and make an unhurried motion. |
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Bad putting stems from thinking how instead of where... |
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If there is one thing certain about putting, it is that it’s an individual business. |
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Compared to the rest of golf, putting looks easy....Putting is not that simple. It demands constant attention to practice... |
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The good player swings through the ball while the awkward player hits at it. |
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Most people don’t realize it, but the primary difference between a good golfer and a bad one lies in the grip. |
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A ball coming to rest on top of long grass presenting the potential for the clubface to slide markedly under the ball, giving it little impact and reducing distance. |
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Dynamic balance : transferring the focus of weight appropriately during the golf swing while maintaining body control. |
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To produce reduced distances with a club a player may choose to play a “half-shot” or one that employs a shorter back swing and follow through. |
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Letting go at the top of the back swing with the last three fingers of the left hand is a frequent cause of inconsistency in shot making. |
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The release of the clubhead can be checked by noting the position of the toe of the club when the clubhead reaches hip height in the forward swing. When the face is up its blocked, toe up,its square and face down it’s closed. |
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Imaginative positive visualization is one of the strengths of golf’s most travelled Champions... |
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The only purpose of the golf swing is to move the club through the ball square to the target at maximum speed. How this is done is of no significance at all, so long as the method enables it to be done repetitively. |
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Many golfers think power comes primarily from strong hands and strong arms. It absolutely does not! Power in the golf shot comes from body action...The function of the hands is simply to square the face, not provide the power. |
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Putting is like wisdom, partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. |
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