You can produce more power with your golf swing in just 3 simple moves.

A great article by Anthony Renna called “Three Moves for More Power”, gives you three keys to generating power in the golf swing and three quick drills you can do right on the range to help generate this much wanted power in your golf swing.

The 3 keys for generating more power are:

1. Maintaining good posture
2. The ability to internally rotate around your hips
3. Have good separation of upper body from lower body

The 3 drills are:

1. Hip Hinge Drill
2. Hip Twisters
3. Back Lunge with Rotation

In his article, Anthony even shows you pictures of how to do the drills.

I think you will love it.  Go to http://golf.lohudblogs.com/2009/03/30/tip-of-the-week/.

I have found these drills to be helpful for me.  Let me know what you think of these drills.

Here’s To Better Golfing!

- Rick

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I’m often asked about what is the easiest way to lower your golf scores.

And with my great level of knowledge I amaze the person with…

“Take fewer strokes!”

You may think that my answer is a bit sarcastic and not giving you the true secret to shooting lower scores with the answer, but the truth is I am.

Think about it for a minute.  It is a lot easier to make par or even a birdie  putt if your approach shot is 5 feet from the whole rather than 30 feet.  I know you would agree.

Striking the golf ball properly and consistently is the difference between your ball ending up on the green where you were aiming or having to try and pitch it close because your shot went 10 yards away from where you were aiming.

If you want to be as consistent as the pros you need to learn the same secrets that they have learned.

I’ve come across a system that will greatly benefit you and help develop a consistent golf swing.

You can check it out …

www.GolfSwingImprovements.com/ConsistentGolfSwing

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Have you ever looked at the hole while lining up a putt, looked down at the ball, then looked up at the hole again and to your suprise the hole seemed to move?  I know I have.

Putting can be frustrating at times.  Sometimes putting seems so easy that the ball tracks to the hols on line as if it is being pulled by a string.  Other times the ball breaks in the opposite direction from what you read!  Like I said, puttng can be frustrating.

I have recently learned that I am right eye dominant.  I also recently learned how eye dominance affects your putting.

Because I am right eye dominant,  I am predisposed to aiming to the right with my putter.  I then swivel my head and look across my body at my target, effectively throwing my left eye out of the way so that my right eye can take over.  This is something that I will have to be aware of for as long as I play golf.  The left eye dominant people that I work with usually have the opposite problem.  They aim left of their target and then use their left eye to focus on it as they look away from their bodies.  Please understand that these are general statements.  I have seen left eye dominant people aim right and vica-versa.  But to be honest, I have never paid much attention to any of this, even though it makes for interesting conversation.  I am more concerned with how to aim properly.

So What Does  All This Mean?

Golfers who are right-eye dominant tend to see the hole to the right of its true location. The reason is that they set up with their right eye too far inside the ball and the target line. Initially, they push their putts to the right. Then they adjust their stroke accordingly (outside to in) and then pull their putts to the left on a regular basis. (The opposite is true for those who are left-eye dominant if the left eye is out of position.)

You can read your putt’s break and hit a perfect stroke, but still end up missing it because your eyes deceived you. Learn which of your eyes is dominant to account for this optical illusion.

About 70 percent of the population is right-eye dominant, which puts the trailing eye (that’s the one farthest from the hole) in the driver’s seat when putting. If this eye is not positioned properly, your view of the hole becomes distorted, lessening your chances of holing out. Not sure which eye is your dominant one? Take the following test.

The Test To Determine Your Eye Dominance

1. Take a toilet-paper tube and fix it over the ball so that both eyes can see it in the center of the tube.

2. Close your left eye. If the ball remains in the center of the tube (top photo), you’re right-eye dominant. If the ball jumps out of the tube and out of your line of sight (bottom photo), you’re left-eye dominant.

To set up correctly, follow this routine

For more putting help with your straying eyes I recommend you check out The Pro’s Edge – Vision Training for Golf!

Good luck and happy putting!

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Today I am going to share with you some tips that can improve your golf game that don’t involve swing a golf club.  How can you improve your golf game without swinging a golf club?

Great question.  The answer is course management.  Course management is the art of limiting the damage of your golf shots.

One of the greatest models of course management was Jack Nicklaus.  Jack would rarely hit a wrong shot at the wrong time.  Nor did he gamble and hit low percentage shots.  You might can tell, by being one of the greatest golfers to date, that his apporach worked.  So lets do what successful golfers do.

Jacks philosophy can be summed up this way: 1) find the easiset way and 2) avoid danger.  Yes, that’s it.  It sound so simple doesn’t it?

Lets look at each of these two ideas and build a foundation for you to follow to help lower your scores.

Finding the Way

A golf course can sometime look like an obstacle course in which there are easier ways to get to the greean and there are more difficult ways to get to the green.  One key point of scoring well , even on days when you are not playing your best, is finding the easiest way around the course.  By determining the easiest way around the course you will generally take fewer shots.   This method will not help you shoot in the 80′s if you are playing bad but it will limit those higher scores that can raise your handicap and shatter your confidence.

Avoiding Danger

Learn to avoid potential disasters and your can lower your scores.  Every round you play has critical shots ans those critical shots, if hit poorly can radically affect your scores.  Critical shots can include your drives, approach shots, chip shots and putts.   Whichever they are, you can be assured that they will cost you strokes when misplayed.

How you assess these shots and deal with them makes the difference between good scores and bad scores.

Basic Course Management Strategies

Let’s now look at four basic management strategies that can help guide you around the course to achieve better scores.

1. Carrying Over Water
If you’re not certain you can carry over water with anything but your career best shot, don’t try it. It’s not worth the risk. Play it safe and lay up instead. Then try for a pitch and putt. You have a chance at pulling it off, and even if you don’t, the worst that could happen is dropping a stroke. Failure to carry the water is doubly damaging. It can affect both your score and your confidence.

2. Playing Long Holes
When playing long par 4s where you know you can’t hit the green in two, decide from where ideally you’d like to play your third shot to give you the best chance of making par. Don’t force your drive and don’t force your second shot. Keep the ball in play. Remember while a par is better than a bogie, a bogie is better than a seven. Every shot counts.

3. Approaching the Green
You don’t always have to attack the hole with your approach shot. It’s sometimes much easier to hole out with two putts from the center of the green, no matter where the hole is, rather than have to get up and down from a green side bunker because your approach shot was just a fraction or so off line or a foot or so short.

4. Safety First
Sooner or later we’re all going to get into trouble. You may find yourself in deep rough or up against an obstacle. Whatever the problem, the golden rule is safety first. Concentrate solely on getting back into the fairway in a good position to hit the next shot, and you will minimize the damage down by your original miscue.

Base your course management strategy on these two key principals,  find the easiest way around the course and avoid danger, and you’ll see your scores and golf handicap quickly improve.

If you would like an excellent resource for handling any trouble you might meet on a round of golf and hit solid shots from even the most Godawful situations, you should check out the Trouble Shots DVD. 

Good luck and have fun.

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Earlier this summer, my teaching pro showed me and told me something that no one else has really ever explained to me before. It has really changed my golf swing forever! And I think it will change yours too!

I have taken many golf lessons over the years, and it was not until I started working with my current instructor that I have been able to fix my very steep downswing, and lack of hip clearance through impact.

Within just one lesson with him, he gave me a tip that changed my swing forever. Then he had me watch some YouTube videos, some of the ones I have shared with my golf tip e-mail subscribers.

For years I have tried to study different swings by different pros like Tiger, Adam Scott, Ernie Els and many others I had developed the mindset that the downswing was a real prevalent “down” move from the top. My instructor quickly got me to swing AROUND my body and I had NEVER before hit the ball like I had hit it that day. I could not believe the difference it made.

The picture above is my teaching pro Bobby Eldridge of Pure Point Golf.

Bobby has developed a private Golf Apprentice Program that is the best golf swing improvement program I have ever seen.

I am so excited I found him because his knowledge of the golf swing is unmatched!

To learn more about the program and how it can improve your golf swing, check out…Golf Apprentice Program

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I was reading an article the other day over at your-golf-tips.com.

The article talks about how we will all have our good days and bad days.  Hopefully, as you improve your golf swing you will have more good days.

The author of the article points out that there are so many things to think of when it comes to the starting the game of golf.

He also mentions “that a golf swing book is great because being lightweight you can take it to the driving range and practice that golf swing tip the author is explaining to you first hand. Video is a great medium in which to learn new technique, you really get to see and feel at the same time.”

If you are looking for a great golf swing e-book I highly recommend the new e-book by Bobby Eldridge, Full Swing Fundamentals.  At the time of writing this post, when you purchase the e-book for $47 you also get a copy of the Full Swing DVD which is a $72 value for free.  Yes, free!

To check out other great golf DVD’s go to… www.GolfSwingImprovements.com/GolfVideos.

Leave a comment below and let me know what you think about the Full Swing Fundamentals e-book.

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Most amatuer golfers are tight. They know it but aren’t doing anything about it. If you are like me you are short on time. Between family, work and golfing, there is very little time for “off the course” physical preparation.

For me the key was implementing stretching exercises specific for golf. These exercise are specifically designed for golfers with very little time on their hands.

For best results you should stretch daily. I do a daily stretching routine and I can tell you that it has improved my flexibility. I can get a wider swing because of my new found flexibility.

All you need is is just a few stretches, or if you choose, you can definitely do an entire routine. It’s up to you, and how much time you want to devote to your golf stretching.

I want you to be thinking about the immediate benefits of doing something everyday! Maybe one day might only be a couple of stretches at the office. The next might be a routine after you take a shower in the morning. Either way, just try to do something daily. You’ll be amazed at your results!

The improved flexibility will help you to hit longer shots and add consistency to your golf shots.

Find out more about how golf stretching techniques can improve your golf game!

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By Marc Solomon

The question is often asked – ‘I have so much trouble coming back after a bad hole. What trick can you give me so that I can forget about that last hole and get back to playing good golf?’

First, stand-up straight making sure that you feel as if you’re elongating your spine. You want to feel as if the top of your head is reaching for the sky. Second, close your eyes to block out the world around you and take some deep cleansing breaths – breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Third, start to jump up and down as high as you can as you flap your arms furiously like a bird coming off the ground. Fourth, now start spinning in circles (continue jumping and flapping) as you chant over and over – ‘be gone blow-up hole demons, be gone – I rid myself of you’.

If you do this in the exact order and with meaning – once you open your eyes you’ll totally forget about your blow-up as you see the other Golfers around you gasping with open mouths (or possibly running away as fast as they can).

There’s no trick or tip or special thought that’ll automatically bring you back after a bad hole.

In order to come back after a bad hole – you most have a PLAN. Though, the problem for most Golfers is that you can’t just formulate your PLAN after the bad hole. That PLAN must be in action before that bad hole occurred.

You just can’t say – ‘Oh, that 7 on the last hole was terrible. I need to start making my PLAN or I’ll have another blow-up hole right now.’ Having a PLAN doesn’t work that way. You can’t be going along without a PLAN and then turn it on when you want it. It needs to be on before you even reach the golf course and it doesn’t end until you have a chance to sit down, look at your scorecard and relive each shot as you review the round.

Imagine if you got in your car to go to work and every time you got to a red light … you turned off the car. Then when the light turned green … you started up the car to go. Start, drive, stop, turn-off, start, drive, stop, turn-off, start, drive, stop, turn-off, start ……

Well, if you do that with your PLAN – it’ll be just as ineffective as if you did it with your car. They say that you’d use more gas each time you stopped and started your car at a red light than if you were to idle during the red light. The same can be said about every time you start up your PLAN after a bad hole.

To get yourself to regroup, settle your nerves down and make a PLAN after every Blow-up hole uses more gas than necessary for the Golfer that doesn’t have a PLAN in constant use. The Golfer that doesn’t have a PLAN that begins before they get to the golf course uses their PLAN only when needed. And thus, they get into the – Start, drive, stop, turn-off, start, drive, stop, turn-off mentality that actually helps you to accumulate Blow-up Holes.

Where does Tiger’s PLAN start? His PLAN starts months before the tournament. He goes to the golf course weeks before the tournament begins to play a practice round. During that practice round he’s determining what type of shots the golf course requires. He then goes back home to practice those shots. And all through the day, he’s imagining the golf course, how each hole plays, what each green is like – he’s playing the golf course in his mind withoug actually being there.

Before he leaves his hotel to go to the course on the tournament day – he’s going through the whole check-in process at the golf course, the walking to the practice range, his stretching, his Warm-up PLAN, his Putting Warm-up, etc, etc, etc. – before he even leaves the hotel.

Contrast that to the Monkey who’s always at the Golf Shop desk checking in a few minutes before their starting time – ‘Do I have enough time to hit some balls on the range?”

You should be doing the same as Tiger. Maybe not in the detail that Tiger is, but you should be starting your PLAN before your left foot touches the parking lot at the golf course (or right foot in the UK).

Though, if that’s too much for you – you can always rely on the trick I listed above of jumping up and down in circles flapping your arms like a bird while chanting -’be gone blow-up hole demons, be gone – I rid myself of you’. I’ve seen it work and I might’ve even tried it once or twice myself.

The Monkey is looking for Tricks for improvement

The Player is focused on their PLAN.

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