Great Golf Tips

Drive for fun and putt with a smile.

I am often asked, “Which golf tips do you regard to be the most important? That is for me quite easy as I have two such tips.

One of these is covered on the ‘golf long drive’ page, and as the title suggests, it’s about hitting the driver. My other favourite tip regards putting with a smile.

I am always asked at this point, “How do you achieve this?” “How can I learn to smile from the inside when I putt?” Click here to read more on this. Here I will define the putting waggle and help you to smile from the inside!

I have never had much trouble explaining how to achieve my golf tips but the student always has trouble accepting this one. It starts with the sentence, “Putt the way you would throw a heavy bunch of keys or a raw egg for someone to catch without harm or breakage.”

Think about it, this would have the same qualities that are required for putting. Read this great putting drill

The direction is quite important and the length and speed of the throw are just as crucial. This action or technique is a long mastered gross motor skill and would be performed with the following rudimentary actions.

To best accomplish this, one would firstly take a stance that resembled the putting posture with the upper body tilted forward, supported by slightly bent knees. This is a basic position that the body automatically assumes in most athletic activities. Don't miss this tip!

Throwing darts, wrestling, diving, jumping, goalkeeping, bowling and many, many more. This posture should be assumed with absolutely no conscious considerations.

With the stance taken care of, one is now ready to throw, but the body feels the natural urge to make one or more practice swings beforehand.

This is the crux of most of my golf tips, where one stays in the subconscious mode. These practice swings are no more than slight, tender movements back and forth to get the feel for direction and required smoothness.

Read this tip that I learned from Phil Mickelson

Take the example of throwing the keys or that fragile egg. It would be reckless to do this in haste without these soft practice movements. In golf you see the tour pros performing these before every shot and refer to it as a ‘waggle’.

I have several golf tips for putting that have moved my enjoyment and success of this art to an entirely new level. To be honest putting used to be a painful experience for me and now it comes very much into the fun catagory.