Golf is a great game for kids to learn, then perfect as they grow up. Learn a few golf tips for kids from a professional golf instructor in this free golfing video.

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Beginners Golf Tips

Here are a few golf tips for beginners you can work on away from the course that will help you maintain proper balance when you swing your clubs. Watch as Stacy and Barry try to keep their balance!

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1) The golf swing is a side action. It is not an up and down action. To understand this fully take a ball and throw it from your side with an underarm technique. This is the type of action you want to develop. Notice that the further you want to throw the ball the more you need to turn your shoulders.

2) An age old classic is to imagine that you are swinging a baseball bat. The main difference is that the club will need to reach the ground at some point so your stance will be different. Practice swinging a golf club as if you had a bat in your hand to train your muscles to understand the technique you are looking for.

3) When setting up to the ball stand with your feet shoulder width apart, bend your knees slightly and bend down from your hips with your back straight. Practise this by sticking your behind out to get the right feel for it. You want your arms to hang in front of your body. Try not to hunch over too much. When it comes to playing for real you don’t want to be too near the golf ball or too far away – this tip will help you get this right.

4) Grip the golf club lightly. Most golf tips for beginners miss this – if you grip too tightly you will not be able to swing with freedom. This will have a very negative impact on your game. Imagine you are holding a tube of toothpaste and you only want to squeeze just enough to get a little paste out. This is what you are looking for.

5) When swinging, try to be as smooth and rhythmical as you can. It might feel a little strange at first but the more you swing a club the more comfortable you will get. Try to imagine a big hula hoop surrounding your body at an angle. You want the club to be swinging round your body on this path and it should be accelerating the nearer to the ground it gets.

Forget about trying to hit the ball – think more about the fact that the ball is in the way of your club. Too many beginners get caught up with trying to hit at the ball and end up taking the club away from its intended path. This will only end in tears, or just thrown clubs.

The golf swing can get very technical. A lot of beginner golf tips introduce some difficult concepts too early and this results in confusion. Golf is as much a feel and touch game as it is a scientific one. As you become more used to the basics you can start to introduce some more advanced techniques.

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Michael Lewis

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Golf requires more equipment than many sports; golf equipment spans an entire industry and you can find anything from clubs to gloves that promise to improve your game, and they usually come with a nice price tag.

Tip No.1: Keep it affordable. Don’t spend all your kids’ college money on equipment until you know how to play and whether you want to keep playing. Go for mid-range sports manufacturers that sell $100 clubs.

Tip No.2 will be: take golf lessons. You’ll find group lessons with golfers in your skill range and you might make friends to golf with. There are also individual lessons with a private instructor or your town’s pro golfer. While private lessons focus on your individual skills, they can be quite expensive and take more time than group lessons. Remember that after you get the basics, the real lessons are on the course.

Tip No.3 is to continue learning at home. No, not in your back yard. Golf has much to do with technique and watching instructional videos can help a lot. You can also go online and find many tips and clips that can improve your game.

Tips No. 4, 5, 6 : Grip, posture and stance. The three essentials of golf. Grip means how you hold the club, and the better your grip the better you’ll play. Posture leads to a proper swing and maintaining balance is essential. Having a stable golf stance and footing will help you control the ball and get it where you want it to go.

Tip No.7: understand and follow golf etiquette. This covers the basic golfer’s code that will ensure everybody is having a pleasant time whether they are pros or amateur golfers. Golf etiquette urges you to be patient and respect your fellow golfers; speak in normal voice and don’t shout or laugh too loud; check your ball number to avoid winning (or losing) someone else’s game; don’t stand too close to the swing zone of other players and the list goes on and on.

Tip No. 8 is to simplify your golf learning process and get the reinforcement you need to sustain the positive advances you make. Dive deep into your mental game, shoring up any weak links you may have found difficult to overcome with previous instructional techniques.

Most important of all, enjoy yourself out there! Through all the frustration and education that’s yet to come, golf can be a lot of fun and very satisfying as you improve. If you make the most of every opportunity to play, that improvement will come.

Mark Etinger
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Your new hobby you will reward you with the benefits of fresh air, exercise, and the addition of many new friends and acquaintances. Normally, players on the course like to strike up conversations and find our who their playing partners are. Like any project you approach in life, your attitude and expectations will determine much of your enjoyment of the game.

Take stock of your personal traits. Are you overly competitive? If you are, remember the road to a low handicap is littered with bad shots, bunkers, water hazards and triple digit scores on your round. You will invest a lot of time in practice. Welcome every hook, slice and 3 putt as a learning opportunity. Even Tiger Woods needs a coach to help him with his game.

If you like to meet new people, golf provides you with opportunities for social interaction. You will get to meet new people in a setting in which you share a common interest. This makes for easy conversation and more opportunities to improve your game. Most clubs offer single players the opportunity to play the round together. If you would prefer to play alone, just mention this to the club pro when arranging your tee time.

How much golf equipment do you actually need? Golf can be a very expensive game but there are affordable options. A high-end, brand name set of clubs can set you back several thousand dollars but a good used set will cost you a few hundred.

Before you buy clubs it’s a good idea to visit golf stores and club pro shops. You can test out different types of clubs, determine which club length is best for you, get to know the different types of grips available and learn the difference between graphite and steel shafts. You can learn about the types of golf balls that will best suit you as a beginner. Having a golf ball with the correct compression will help you make the most of your game.

If you want to increase the exercise benefits of golf, you can choose to walk the 18 holes. When you are choosing a golf bag you will first need to decide if you are going to walk or ride. Your choice here will be a carry or cart bag. Golf bags are available in a range of materials, so choose one that’s suited to the climate in which you will play most of your golf. Golf shoes are important too – make sure they’re comfortable and waterproof. A rain suit is also a good addition to your golf bag. And don’t play in a lightening storm. Caddyshack should have taught you that.

Should you take lessons from a golf professional? Your budget is the deciding factor here. Golf lessons are expensive but if they’re within your budget it may be worthwhile. You will find that good lessons will raise the standard of your game quickly. Or you could purchase one of the many golf training programs available on video and dvd. Many seasoned golfers use these programs to raise the standard of their game and new golfers can learn at their own pace.

The above are just the basics of getting started in the game. Before you lift a club, develop the right mental attitude. Remain positive, quiet your mind and envision your shot before you hit the ball. A good mental game is half the battle on the road to a low handicap. Above all, enjoy yourself!

You’ll have a lot more fun and probably play better if you can stay relaxed. When you tense up, your muscles don’t work as well as when you’re calmly focused. You start hitting bad shots, which makes you more and more tense. RELAX! You will also have more fun and so will everyone you’re playing with.

Kevin T. Fairbanks

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First, remember that when Angus McGhee was batting home-made balls around the Scottish Highlands he did not need a collection of Titleist Vokey wedges and a Nike putter. And you don’t either. Not yet…

Next, be honest with yourself about how often you’ll be playing golf. If you know you’ll only be playing a few times a year at company functions or when your golf-fanatic uncle comes to visit, then a clean, straight set of used clubs is going to be more than good enough for now. If you’ve been playing for a while and you can honestly see yourself out on the course every weekend, then it’s time to do some research and figure out which clubs are really going to help your game.

If you’re unsure of which set to buy, talk to your good-golf-playing friends, the golf instructor at the local course or the staff in the pro-shop and get their feedback. There are a lot of options out there, some wild club designs intended to give you an edge on your opponents and shave down your score. At this point, what matters most is straight shafts and the right club length so you can get the ball to fly in a straight line. Or a fairly straight line…

After you’ve got a few ideas, do some test-driving. You may not get a chance to actually play with a particular set of clubs before you buy it, but at least take some swings to get a feel for each club’s balance, weight and length and how they feel to you. If there’s a driving range near you, spend some time there and ask if they can rent you different drivers and woods while you’re there. This may be the only chance you get to hit anything with a particular club before you buy it, so take advantage of it.

A couple of features that are worth looking at, even as a beginning golfer, are graphite shafts that reduce vibration and ‘perimeter weighted‘ heads. These are considered more forgiving than forged blades if you hit the ball off-center, and both these features will make the clubs easier to live with and help you get more enjoyment from the game.

After you’ve decided what you NEED, check out some discount or used-equipment shops, pro shops or even garage sales or reputable pawn shops. You can probably find a decent set for a few hundred dollars and have some money left for the accessories you’ll need. Like balls and tees. What matters most is that the clubs you choose work for you, even if Tiger wouldn’t use them. And remember to have fun out there!

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I must inject: tennis, compared to golf, is difficult. In tennis, the ball is moving, it never comes to the same spot. It’s in front of the player, it’s behind the player, it may be low, it may be high, and the poor tennis player has just one racket to do the job. To play the ball in its various positions, the tennis player must learn and perfect several different strokes. Not so the golfer. All the golfer needs is the one perfect stroke – and to let the club do the work.

But confusion and contradiction are rampant in golf. There are more theories and more ideas on golf than any single subject in the world. Here is how these numberless ideas have developed.

Originally, in trying to explain the various clubs and their uses in golf, an impression was created that each club in golf required a certain technique. In other words, there was a certain way to use the driver for the long shots, the use of wooden clubs for fairway shots was something different, long irons required another technique, short irons something different again, and so on through the pitch shots and the chip shots.

When it came to putting, the experts had run out of ideas and techniques, until today the notion prevails that putting is something that cannot be taught. What a silly situation! Putting can be taught and learned just as any other shot in golf. But more on putting later.

On top of this contradiction about using the different swings for each club in golf, there is another theory in golf, that suggests no two people can or should swing a golf club in the same way. There is a belief that each player must develop a golf swing designed to suit his own specific needs. From this school of thought we are swamped with ideas of how the tall, the short, the thick and the thin should play the game.

However, a serious consideration will soon prove that there are certain basic physical mechanics that exist in the human body and all persons – thick, thin, tall or short – must conform to that basic setup.

As if the above idea, of a different swing for each player and a different swing for each club in golf, has not developed enough confusion and conflict, there is still another prominent school of thought that has inhibited and restricted the naturalness in golf and the enjoyment that flows from such naturalness.

I refer now to the school that insists there should never be any body action in a golf shot. This school does admit that on the longer shots with the driver and other woods there may be some body action; but when it comes to the iron shots there must be none. Of course, when putting, complete rigor mortis should set in.

If ever one wanted to develop unnaturalness in a physical endeavor, the way to do it is to eliminate or restrict all body action. Nothing could be more unnatural because the basis of all athletics is a full, free use of the body. For example, whether one is throwing, kicking or punching – whenever one is trying to get power into a hand or a foot – it is with a sense of body action. In fact, it is only with a full, free sense of body action that the desired effect of throwing, kicking or punching is accomplished.

It has been recognized that the greatest need of people learning the game – and the greatest need in producing a consistency of play – was the need of a pattern, a clear-cut program whereby a player not only knew what he should do, but also exactly what not to do.

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However, although there are close to 30 million golfers in the States alone, most of them have never had, or will never get to break, a score of 100. Many of these golfers complain not only of a less than satisfactory game, but also of the aches and pains that they feel after a game of golf…

Being able to play golf like a pro through one’s own practice may work out for some golfers, even if it is not as effective as having the assistance of someone more professional to help you with the game. Furthermore, being able to play golf well and being able to enjoy playing golf can maximize the satisfaction and pleasure that the game promises.

Deciding on whether or not assistance from a pro is needed is as important as choosing the right golf equipment. You would need to first identify and prioritize your goals, decide on the level of commitment that you are prepared to give, as well as the amount of money that you can afford to invest in the game. The following are some pointers that you would find helpful with regards to enlisting the help of a pro:

1. Having a coach or a pro to assist you could help in zeroing in onto your specific weaknesses. Once your weaknesses have been identified, your coach could give several targeted exercises to help you to correct your weaknesses. With a coach by your side, this will be monitored to see if you’re doing things right.

2. A golf coach could also help with getting rid of bad golfing habits which normally result in injuries like the golfer’s elbow which can be very painful. Your coach will also be able to guide you through a proper warm-up routine. This is one of the greatest advantages of having the help of a professional, as it helps you not just with the way you play but also by avoiding injuries and unnecessary aches and pains.

3. Talk with your prospective coach and get their opinion on teaching and playing the game. A good coach or golf pro will readily tell you that the best way is to build up on the basics of playing golf and to avoid the short cuts and latest fads. If someone tells you the latter will get faster results, keep in mind that although this is true, as soon as you stop working with them your golf performance will drop back to where you were before. Thus, it is best to stick with the tried and tested basic rules of playing golf, which could take longer to master but will guarantee a better performance.

4. The average rate for a personal lesson with a golf pro could be about $75 per an hour’s lesson. However, remember that prices may vary with the different pros that you will be working with, or with the different golf school or club.

5. Should the rates for a personal one-on-one lesson be too high or expensive, you may choose to go for group golf lessons. This way, expenses can be shared. Please remember though, not to have more than 4 people to a golf pro. This lets you have attention as good as a personal one-on-one lesson but with less expenses. A golf pro coaching for an hour for a group of 4 golfers would cost somewhere around $120.

6. A vital thing to keep in mind is that when working with a pro, it means going for quality rather than quantity. This is after all why you hired them in the first place. Since there is a limited number of lessons, work hard to ensure that you achieve your goal of being an excellent golfer at a few techniques, rather than knowing many techniques but being the master of none.

7. A professional coach will instruct you on the techniques to a better game on your own in the future without his supervision. The main purpose is that you can become a better golfer on your own. This includes not only playing with the right techniques but also having a good warm-up and stretching routine.

8. Finally, even after you have completed all your lessons and after some improvements in your game, you should still go back to see your coach maybe once a year. This will enable him to check up on your golf game and to see if there are any other techniques or aspects that you still need to work on. There will always be room for improvement, more so if you want to play a better game of golf.

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