Birdieable

Before you start, check your ego, the ball won’t fly as far in the winter and anyway most high handicappers think they hit the ball farther than it actually travels. However, the winter months are a good time to do some useful practice – high handicappers are not so good at practising, especially your short game. The main thing you need to understand about winter rules is that they are nothing to do with the USGA or PGA, they are local rules applied by your golf club committee, and they only apply while there is a notice up somewhere saying “Winter rules apply”. Keep the spare in your pocket, a warm ball flies further Your ball won’t run as far in winter conditions, so it is important to take the right club and to know the right distance to your target.

Although the arms and wrists are a fundamental component of your golf swing, the bulk of your speed and power should be stemming from torso rotation. Rotate your body away from the ball until the top of the handle is pointing down toward it, then rotate the other way so the other end of your club is facing the ball. Make this movement a regular part of your practice and ensure that you’re rotating in just this way when you swing. There’s some truth to that, but that doesn’t mean you should shirk your putting practice.

You’re an amateur golfer looking for ways to improve or reduce your golf score? He starts focusing on expensive game gear, reliable golf balls that hit the longest distance, and similar factors. But I’m going to tell you a few mental tips and tricks that are kept in mind by the professional players and often forgotten by the amateur ones. It is perfectly okay to talk and socialise with other players, but when you’re standing there ready to hit, your mind better be emptied of everything else.

However as you are allowed to carry any set of 14 clubs, it is not unheard of for a player to carry both a 3-hybrid and a 3-iron for example, with the hybrid instead replacing the fairway wood; the higher-mass iron club-head would be preferable to the hybrid. The reason is such that should you strike the golf ball on the toe or the heel of the club-head the club has a consistent thickness from toe to heel so you will have a greater force provided at impact in comparison to a blade style club where the exact center of the clubface needs to be struck for solid contact as the blade gets thinner closer to the heel and toe. The purpose of this is that should you hit the ball off the heel the ball will produce spin, due to its gear effect, back to the right for right-handed golfers and should you hit it the ball off the toe The purpose of this was so to allow the club to “dig” into the turf so when swung properly, with the hands ahead of the club-head producing a downward strike on the ball, we could take the proper divot and produce spin on the golf ball.