Create Your Own Golf Putting Aid

What is an effective putting tip for a putting drill to use on the practice putting green so I can practice like a pro. I struggle to put my putts on the correct line and would like a putting drill that will help me to hit putts on the same line every time.

Here is a cheap golf putting aid that you can make yourself. You will need two 3-inch nails, eight to eleven feet of kite string or yarn will also work and a Sharpie and/or a range ball.

1. Identify a putt of ten feet or less that is a straight putt. It can be slightly uphill but preferably the flatter the better.
2. Place one of the 3-inch nails behind the putting cup and on the line with direction you'll be putting. As you push the nail into the ground, make sure the top of the nail is high enough for your putter blade to fit under the string or yarn that will be attached.
3. Place the other 3-inch nail up to 10 feet on the other side of the hole from the other nail. The string will create a shadow on top of your intended line of your putt.
4. Tie the string or yarn to the top of both nails. Insure the string or yarn is tight enough so that the string doesn't sag.
5. With your Sharpie, draw a straight line completely around the center of your golf ball. Any of the tools for creating a line on your golf ball works best. A range ball will also work for this as well.
6. Set your golf ball down anywhere underneath the string. The line that you drew or the range ball stripe should be parallel with the string or yarn aiming at the putting cup.
7. Last, strike the golf ball. The goal is to have the ball roll underneath the string as the string shadows the line on your ball or range ball. This will require your putter head to slide underneath the string to be able to strike the golf ball solidly. If the line on the golf ball goes from side to side, then you did not hit the ball with the putter head moving at the target with a square face. If the stripe or line stays straight with deviating, your putter head did hit the ball with the putter head moving at the target with a square face.

This putting drill will provide immediate feedback. If your not striking the golf ball correctly, then you will know it immediately as the line or stripe will become larger as the ball rolls on its side.

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Putting Advice For Beginners

I am a beginning golfer and would like to know how to lower my scores. I keep hearing that I should spend time on my putting stroke but I do not know what I should practice. Can give me a good place to start?

First let me applaud you for wanting to improve your putting and not wanting to just stand on the range and beat practice balls. The info below will definitely put you on the right track.

Since while you are putting you must stand to the side of the golf ball, your eyes must be over the golf ball. We have all heard this one before, correct? In addition, your eyes should not be ahead of the golf ball either. To learn where your eyes are positioned during your putting stroke, simply take your putting stance. Then drop a golf ball from the bridge of your nose and between your eyes. The ball should drop onto the ball on the ground or just behind it on the target line. There are also many golf putting aids that can assist you with where you are positioning your eyes while putting.

Making sure that your shoulders are square to the target line is an important putting fundamental that is often over looked. Many players use an open stance while they putt. Allowing your feet and hips to be open at address is fine. However, the shoulders must be square to your target line. As you bend over and let your arms hang freely to make your putting stroke. Your arms will naturally swing back and forth in the direction the your shoulders are pointing.

The last thing you should practice to improve your putting stroke is to simply hold your finish for a count of three seconds. This is important for a couple of reasons. Holding your finish will make sure that you are accelerating during your stroke. In addition, this will give you time to reflect on what went well and what could have gone better.

Do not fall into the rest of the crowd and spend all of your time on the driving range. SPlit yoru time evenly and use these putting tips and or putting aids on the putting green to improve your putting stroke and you will see your scores improve very quickly.

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5 Tips To Find A Golf Fitness Instructor

I want to begin a golf specific workout program. Do you have any tips to find a qualified personal trainer? I want to improve my overall health as well as be able to improve my golf game.

We do have some helpful golf fitness tips for you. The first is do not forget to check with your doctor to make sure there are not any other complications prior to starting a new golf workout program. Other than that here are five tips that should help you find a fitness instructor that will help you achieve your goals.

1. Ask yourself if you will be more comfortable with a man or woman. It seems simple enough. You want to find someone who will listen to you but yet still push you and drive you to find new personal bests.

2. Before you begin looking around, know exactly what you want for your golf fitness. Have a set of golf fitness goals in mind, and find the trainer that will most likely fulfill those goals. Depending on your goals and your budget, you may be able to accomplish this in a class or group setting.

3. Make sure to find a personal trainer with a certification from at least one of the major national organizations, such as the American College of Sports Medicine, American Council on Exercise, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, or the National Academy of Sports Medicine. In addition, a personal trainer that has been certified by the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) is very well trained on how to use golf specific exercises to improve your overall fitness and golf game.

4. Narrow your search. After you have a clear idea, and have checked with the national organizations, find interview the trainers near you. Ask them for references and talk to their past clients. Talk to the trainer themselves prior to training. Understand how you are going to achieve your goals and what it will entail from a time standpoint. Your personal trainer should set up a series of achievable goals – a certain amount of weight lost, a certain amount of repetitions, etc. – or else the workouts will start to feel meaningless, which will lead to a loss of motivation.

5. The trainer selected should have experience with golf-specific training. A golf-specific workout program emphasizes strength, flexibility, and balance and should include each of these aspects in your golf workouts. Each of these categories will not only improve your game, but also help prevent injury.

Good Luck!

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Custom Putter Displays For your Home Or Golf Shop

I have a small golf shop and love to collect putters. I am wondering about any new custom putter displays that I could use either in my home or at my store. I would be looking for some kind of wood finish on the custom putter rack. Your thoughts?

A putter rack or putter display can be used to display putters for sale at a country club or resort golf shop. In addition, a putter rack is also used in many homes to display a collection of putters. As a golf professional or golf shop manager, believe it or not, a putter rack or putter display says a lot about you and the club’s commitment to selling putters. Going forward we will discuss the options to display putters in a golf shop or in your home or office.

One of the really neat things about some of the newer putter racks is that you can also customize any putter rack with your favorite country club, resort or golf course logo. Custom Putter Displays are even available with your favorite college logos as well. These work well in your home or office as well as in golf shops in college towns such as Austin, Texas or Bloomington, Indiana.

If you manage a country club, resort golf shop or a local golf shop, a wooden putter rack with your logo a much better statement to sell putters than just shoving putters into a golf bag? The putters will be able to been seen, picked up and handled by prospective buyers which will convert in to more sales out of your golf shop.

If you are looking to display your collection of Scotty Cameron Putters or if you still have every putter that you have ever cussed, I mean putted with, a variety of finishes are available to you to match the current decorating taste in your home or golf shop.

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Help With My Chicken Wing In My Golf Swing

I have a good practice swing but when I swing the driver hitting the actual shot most of the time I will do a form of chicken wing swing I know what the problem is but don't know the answer seems the harder I try not to cut the swing off in the downswing the more apt I am to cut it off drives me crazy.

This is easier to fix than you may think. When this happens typically there are a couple of things going on in the golf swing.

First of all the chicken wing is a result of having too much tension in your left shoulder blade and left arm. Here is an easy drill that will give you the correct feeling.

Place a tee in the ground as you would for a tee shot on a par three without a golf ball on it. Take your grip and your stance with an eight iron and make a swing at the tee. With a chicken wing, you will probably have a hard time hitting the tee and you will swing above the tee. Relax your left shoulder (including the whole shoulder blade area) and repeat until you can hit the tee. You will notice the tension in your left shoulder and arm will be much less than what is was on the previous swings when you missed the tee.

Once you can hit the tee a couple of times in a row, now place a ball on the tee. The "game" has not changed. You are still going to try to make the tee come out of the ground. Once you are able to hit the tee with a ball on it, you will be amazed at how little effort is needed to move the golf ball.

The other part of this is that you are more than likely not rotating to the target on the forward swing. On a practice swing, swing through to your finish and rotate so that you come up on your right toe (assuming you are right handed). Once in the finish position you should be able to count slowly to three without falling out of balance. The "game" here is to hide all of your spikes from the flag or target. This will force you to rotate.

This is a lot of info so take it a piece at a time and let us know how it goes for you. Hopefully, the weather is good for you today and you can try to implement these principles on a driving range!

Let us know how you are doing!

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Where Should I Land My Short Game Shots

I am having a lot of trouble executing my short game shots from around the green such as a pitch shot and a chip shot. I need a process to determine where to land the ball and to determine which club I should use fo rthe shot. Can you give me some advice?

First you need to look at the lie you have. The lie of the golf ball is the condition that the ball is in which you have to play the next shot from. Is the golf ball in the short grass of the fringe or down in the greenside rough? What you are trying to determine is how much grass is going to between your wedge and the golf ball at impact during the short game shot. The amount of grass will affect how the ball reacts once it hits the putting green.

After you determine your lie, you will now go about picking out a spot for the ball to land. Many teachers will use ratios in discussing short game shots such as if you use an 8 iron you should carry the ball one third of the way to the hole and let it roll the other two thirds. You should first determine if there is a flat spot where you can feasibly land the ball. As simple as this may sound, finding a flat spot to land the golf ball is often overlooked.

When executing a short game shot, it is easier to determine how the ball is going to react once it hits the green if it lands on a flat spot. It is much more difficult to determine what your ball will do if you are hitting into an upslope or landing on a down slope. Obviously, you cannot always find a flat or level spot but if you can, your short game shot will be easier.

Now that you have determined what kind of lie that you have and where you need to land the short game shot, the type of shot has been determined for you. This will allow you to visualize the shot that you need to execute. Remember, who cares what we call it as long as it goes in the hole or ends up close.

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Golf Fitness Books To Begin Your Golf Fitness Program

Can you suggest a good golf fitness book for me? I am 54 years old and carry a 19 handicap at my club. I really want to improve my golf game and my pro tells me that I need to improve my flexibility in order to improve my golf game. I also am looking to improve my overall health as I am now paying the price for the years of fun that I have had. I would like to kick the new year off correctly and get started on the right foot.

This has been a popular question here lately as the beginning of the year is upon us and everyone is ready to set their New Year’s Resolutions. You can start to pick the golf fitness book to improve your game and your health by reading the article Find The Right Golf Fitness Book For You. Of course you should always check with your Doctor before you begin any golf exercise program. Here are a couple of golf fitness books for you to check out and that our students have had success with using the programs.

GOLF FITNESS BOOKS – Katherine RobertsKatherine Roberts is the founder and host of the “Yoga For Golfers” program on the Golf Channel. In her book “Yoga For Golfers,” Roberts offers her unique educational methods in this groundbreaking book by providing instruction to the millions of golfers. These golfers include many top touring professionals. In recent years, many touring professionals have turned to the art of yoga to improve their game. Based on 20 years of expertise, Katherine Roberts connects the mind and body to create a powerful fitness regimen. This book covers the following: yoga postures specifically selected for a golfer’s needs; proper breathing techniques; mind-relaxation methods; injury-reducing stretches; and visualization tools for success on and off the course.

GOLF FITNESS BOOKS – Kelly BlackburnWith the book “Exercises for Elite Golf Performance,” you can train like the pros to improve your golf game. Kelly Blackburn is a fitness consultant and personal trainer to PGA TOUR professionals, as well as the fitness contributor for pgatour.com, the official website for the PGA TOUR. In “Exercises for Elite Golf Performance,” she provides her trend setting strength and flexibility system, the "Elite Golf Performance Program." This system has helped the pros drop strokes from their scores, and it can do the same for you no matter your handicap! Kelly Blackburn includes 138 illustrated exercises so you can easily see how each is performed and make sure you are always using proper technique. First, you will use her Fitness Analyzer" to pinpoint your current fitness level. Then, you'll begin one of the three levels of strength programs, so you can benefit from this program right away no matter what shape you are in now.

GOLF FITNESS BOOKS – Vijay VadMany recreational and professional golfers suffer from some form of lower back pain. Conventional wisdom suggests that the violent, twisting nature of the golf swing, which puts undue stress on the spine, is the sole culprit. But research conducted by sports-medicine specialist Vijay Vad, M.D., with PGA Tour pros, recently published in the prestigious American Journal of Sports Medicine, reveals that the swing is only one of several factors. Applying Dr. Vad’s winning combination of mind/body wisdom and medical expertise to the game of golf, “Golf Rx” shares his cutting-edge findings and addresses various topics that will improve your golf game.

GOLF FITNESS BOOKS – Edward Jackowski“Fit To A Tee” is an easy-to-follow, fully illustrated book plus exercise DVD featuring fitness pro instructors, you will gain power, increase your range of motion, and hit it farther, shot after shot. Here are the secrets of proper conditioning and how it carries over to your game, and advice on how to stay focused mentally and physically throughout the entire round. “Fit To A Tee” by Edward Jackowski is for all ages and ability levels, from weekend warriors to touring professionals.

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3 Indoor Putting Training Aids To Keep You Sharp Over The Winter

As the weather reports show more and more snow falling across the US, I know many golf-addicts are wondering how to keep their putting stroke sharp during the unwanted lay-off from the game. Indoor practice putting is an inexpensive and convenient way to keep your putting stroke well-tuned while you cannot get outside and practice. Here are three putting training aids that can effectively be used indoors to improve your stroke.

INDOOR PRACTICE PUTTING - The Putting Alignment Mirror
The Putting Alignment Mirror is very easy to use and great for checking your setup on your putts. As poor alignment is the major cause of missed putts, using the Alignment Mirror will create confidence on the green. The Putting Alignment Mirror is very portable as it can be kept it in your golf bag! You can use the Putting Alignment Mirror indoors at home or at the office or outside when you practice or warm up before a round. The Putting Alignment Mirror measures 12" x 6" and comes with a black carry bag as well as an instructional DVD. The Putting Alignment Mirror is the #1 training aid requested by the PGA tour players from Eyeline Golf!

INDOOR PRACTICE PUTTING - The Putting Arc
The Putting Arc putting trainer works because it guides the putter head in pure planar rotation about an axis which passes through the golfer’s spine between the shoulders. This means that the hands, wrists, elbows and shoulders all stay connected throughout the putting stroke. The Putting Arc golf putting aid has radial lines on its top. This important feature shows the correct clubface alignment at each point in the putting stroke. This alignment is just as important as the club head path! Again, this practice aid can be used indoors or out and comes with a CD to show you how to quickly lower your scores through better putting.

INDOOR PRACTICE PUTTING - The TOMI Personal Putting Trainer
With The TOMI Personal Putting Trainer, you will feel like you are taking a personalized putting lesson from one of the world's top putting instructors, Marius Filmalter whenever you are using the unit. TOMI records the most critical parameters of your putting stroke in real-time. TOMI shows you what you're doing right and what you are doing incorrectly as well as tells you how to fix it and even gives you the drills you need to become a great putter.

TOMI was developed by professional instructor Marius Filmalter, a pre-eminent authority on the mechanics and psychology of golf. Marius has helped to instruct golfers on the PGA, Champions, and LPGA Tours, and has personally studied over 43,000 putting strokes in his career.

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Happy Holidays!

We wish you and your family a Happy Holidays!!! We are going to take a few days off as well and will begin regular posting next week to help you improve your golf equipment and golf game.

3 Tips To Decorate Your Office At Home Or Work

Decorating your work office or home office is a great way to show people a little bit about you as well as make yourself more comfortable while you work. Here are three office decorating tips that you can use to develop your golf themed office.

1. Whether you are ready to start the office decorating at home or at work, use color. I am not saying that you need to go crazy with wild colors but the last thing you want is to be surrounded by boring white walls. Many studies have been done that prove that the color of a room can change your attitude. Casinos and retail stores use this tactic every single day to get you into a mood that will benefit them. Choose colors that make you happy. If they are a little "wild" for some other people, you can always re-paint later. It is good to use two colors that complement each other and then you can base the other décor in the room around those colors.

2. Depending on how much freedom that you have at work or if you are decorating your home office, you can still have an office with a view, literally any view. With a wall mural painted on a wall you can look at your favorite skyline, your favorite beach or even your favorite stadium. Then you can have your favorite view right from your office chair.

3. If decorating your home office, create your own art gallery by adding an art collection to your walls. This may allow you to collect different art that your spouse may not care to place in main living areas of the house. If you are a golfer you could include golf prints by artists such as Linda Hartough. You could either collect her work at Augusta National or collect all of her work done on the US Open golf courses. Maybe you are a race fan and want to collect some work of Sam Bass. You can always carry the theme of your house into your home office.

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A Full Swing Training Aid And A Putting Training Aid

I am looking for some help with training aids. I would like to find two training aids that will help me improve my golf game. I would like one training aid to be for the full swing and the other training aid to improve my straight back and straight through putting theory. Any suggestions that you give will be appreciated.

Golf Practice Aid: Heavy Golf Club

The best heavy golf club or weighted practice club available is the GolfGym’s Club 38 or GolfGym’s Club 28. Both golf training aids come with a Katherine Roberts Quick Start DVD. "Since incorporating GolfGym products into my fitness programs, I have been able to offer a more effective level of golf-specific training and conditioning to my students." - Katherine Roberts, The Golf Channel Fitness Expert. Good players feel the golf club throughout the entire golf swing and understand how using a weighted practice club adds power and increases the range of motion in a golf swing. Since they started using a weighted practice club, these players realize increased distance, fewer injuries and more enjoyment of the game. The exclusive club design of the Club 38 or Club 28 allocates the weight of the practice club like that of a standard golf club. This has half of the total weight in the bottom third of the club. With this type of weighting you will develop consistency by staying on plane which will lead to better golf shots and lower scores.

Golf Practice Aid: Putting Square System

This golf putting golf practice aid is for the player who believes in the Dave Pelz straight back and straight through method of putting. Through the use of the attached mirror, The Putting Square System allows a golfer to monitor that their eyes are over the golf ball at address. In addition, it gives them instant feedback so they can monitor that their shoulders are square to the target line. The Putting Square System has changeable side rails that force the player to practice a perfect back and through stroke.

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9 Things To Bring To Golf School

How much should you improve over a three or four day golf school and what should you bring? Your golf school expectations should be modest and do not expect to extremely cut your handicap after attending a 3 day golf school. This is just an unrealistic goal after such a short period of instruction. Remember the adage if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. With this being said, set your golf school expectations accordingly. If the golf school is guaranteeing you to cut your handicap in half, be very wary.

A golf school is a good beginning to start your improvement. When you set your golf school expectations you will want to make sure to include the plan to sustain your strengths and improve your weaknesses after the golf school is over. This should be a comprehensive plan for all aspects of your game. Upon you return, you will have a good base or plan to go to work on with your local PGA professional.

In figuring out your golf school expectations, what should you do prior to your arrival to your golf school? Depending on how much time you have until you depart for your trip, begin to stretch on a daily basis as soon as possible. Many people will find themselves sore as they will be hitting more golf balls than you typically do. Also be sure to pack the following nine things before you head off to your first golf school:

1. Sun block (and plenty of it)
2. A large comfortable hat with proper sun protection
3. Sun Glasses - polarized
4. Band-Aids or athletic tape
5. At least a dozen golf balls
6. Insect repellent
7. Rain jacket and rain pants
8. Umbrella
9. Comfortable golf shoes and extra pairs of socks to change at lunch.

And here is an extra - Bring a great attitude to learn something new!

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Fundamentals Of Putting

As we all know, putting makes up the majority of the strokes that you will take in the golf course. Many amateurs do not even have a good idea of the putting fundamentals that you must have in order to make putts. Here is what you need to work on to improve your putting.

Putting Fundamental - Take your putting stance, you address the golf ball, the golf ball should be positioned equal to where the logo would be positioned on your left chest for a right handed golfer and positioned on your right chest for a left handed golfer. With this is forward golf ball position, the putter will not be descending but ascending through impact and the golf ball. The golf ball will be placed forward of the bottom of your swing arc. In addition, your arms should hang freely and hang straight down and not out. In addition, you should be able to take your address position and drop a golf ball from in-between your eyes. This ball should drop and hit the ball on the ground.

Putting Fundamental - Simply set up with sixty to seventy percent (again it is individual) of your weight on your left foot for right handed golfers or on your right foot for left handed golfers. When you make your putting stroke, your weight will not shift. It will stay in the same place. Again, setting your weight forward will make sure that the putt will be hit while you are in balance and you do not have has many moving parts.

Putting Fundamental - Finish your golf set up, as you look down at the golf ball, move your hands so they are just forward of the golf ball. As you make your putting stroke, your hands will return to this same position at impact and then through to your finish position. With your hands ahead of the ball at impact, the momentum of your putter is more likely to be moving forward towards the hole. In English this means your ball will be starting on the target line more often than not.

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Should I Chip Or Pitch The Golf Ball?

Most golfers think that chipping and pitching close to the green are what makes up the short game. The short game articles provided at www.virtualgolfswing.com cover all aspects of chipping and pitching the golf ball. In addition, we will consider any golf shot within 100 yards of the hole as part of the short game.

By definition, chipping is a shot that has maximum airtime and minimum ground time. In other words, a chip shot is on the ground longer than it is in the air. You will want to place more weight on your target side to ensure a downward angle of attack. You will also have your hands farther forward to de-loft the clubface and this will you to hit the ball higher on the clubface and more inline with the center of gravity.

By definition, a pitch shot is a shot that has maximum air time and minimum ground time. In other words, it is in the air longer than it is on the ground. For this shot your weight will be more even at address and the handle or grip of the club will be more in line with the all at address as well as impact. You will want o make contact closer to the second or third grove to put the all up in the air. This will allow the center of gravity to help you get the ball up into the air.
Many amateurs become bogged down and stressed out before they hit a short game shot because they think they need to call it a pitch or a chip shot. In result, they either blade it or hit behind the golf ball.

Currently, the some of the best known teachers of the short game are Dave Pelz, Stan Utley and Rob Akin. Once a year, the golf magazine Golf Digest publishes its own Top 100 Teachers List in the US.

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Golf Fitness Flexibility Program

What should an ideal golf fitness flexibility program consist of?

1) It must offer several golf fitness program variations. A long version for regular training days and a short version for Pre-Round Stretching. A few variations with the large exercise ball should also be included (extremely important for the golfer) along with a couple of club stretches to do just before tee-off & between holes if necessary.
2) It should be thorough - addressing the head and neck all, the way down to the feet. Remember, the golf swing is a full body movement.
3) It must follow a symetrical protocol - the true key to maintaining optimal muscle/tendon/joint balance on both sides of the body. This allows for enhanced golf swing power without a large increase in swing effort. And this is also very important to chronic and acute injury prevention - and hence fitness and playing longevity.
4) It must include several key compound stretches - stretches that elongate several joint areas at the same time - mimicking natural movement patterns. Allowing the golfer to be more accurate through enhanced fitness flexibility, body awareness & control.
5) It must be realistic & easy to do for golfers at any fitness level with no equipment except for a stretching floor mat (and an exercise ball for certain stretches).
6) It must include a series of single or double joint golf stretching exercises. The effects of these stretches increase exponentially when the specific body movement requires several of these joints to move in coordination with each other (ie - the golf swing).
7) It should feel good - especially afterward. This type of stretch routine should make you feel as if your posture and your golf posture is immediately better & you should feel stronger - just because your body moves so much easier & more fluidly. You should almost feel like you could rip the cover off a ball if you were to hit one right after your golf fitness stretch routine.

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How Do I Find A Club Fitter?

Every year, during the winter and early spring, we start to get asked many questions about golf club fittings as many golfer are getting ready to update their set of golf clubs. So we are going to answer the question: How do I find a qualified club fitter?

I would first ask you about how you would go about finding other professionals like doctors, dentists, etc.? Ask other fellow golfers, your friends and co-workers about experiences they had had good or bad. Also contact local golf shops and ask to speak to a qualified fitter. Ask him or her how the process of the club fitting will go and make sure you are comfortable with the professional. Once you have found your golf club fitter, it is important that you armed with the proper questions to ask your fitter. In addition, remember the fitter is there to help you so do not be afraid to ask any question you might have. The proper questions to ask prior to or during your fitting are as follows:

· Is the professional certified by a major manufacturer to fit their clubs?
· How experienced is the PGA Professional?
· Will I be fit outdoors to see the entire ball flight?
· Does the PGA Professional have a fitting cart or multiple fitting carts with what you are looking for (Mens, Ladies, steel, graphite, right-handed, left-handed clubs) available?
· What will the session cost?
· If I purchase the clubs from you, will the cost of the club fitting be put towards the purchase?
· Will a launch monitor be used during the session?
· How the professional came to the conclusion of your specs? Make sure you understand how the conclusion is achieved and make sure you understand the logic.

EyeLine Practice T Training Aid

Many of the troubles that amateurs have with their golf swing begin before they even swing the golf club. Most amateurs do not have a good setup. In particular, most golfers do not aim where they think that they are looking. Once these players are properly aligned, their golf swings change for the better since they are properly aligned at their target. THE PRACTICE T is the golf practice tool that I use to help my student make sure that they can take dead aim. This practice aid allows you to build the perfect setup before every swing that you take on the range. For most right-handed players they aim to far to the right of their target and then wonder why they come over the top during their golf swing.

When I am practicing by myself or getting ready for a golf lesson with a student, I can set up The Practice T in less than one minute and is easy to set up for use. Another benefit is that without resetting the golf training aid, you can easily change where you place the ball by simply sliding the opposite bar. This allows you to make sure that you have the correct ball position with the correct alignment and do not have to keep digging deeper in the same divot. In addition, you can make sure that your shoulders are correct by using the mirror. You will have greater control and consistency with every club.

This is the practice tool that will help you build the perfect setup. This golf training aid is easy to set up while you are practicing and you can easily secure THE PRACTICE T in the ground with just golf tees. The practice unit also includes a mirror so you can ensure your shoulders are aligned properly to your target. You will have greater control and consistency with every golf club.

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3 Reasons To Have An IZZO Swami 1500 Golf GPS

Everyone is talking about Golf GPS units. Here are three reasons you need the Izzo Swami 1500 Golf GPS:

- The Izzo Swami is very easy to use. You simply locate yourself from where you would like a yardage and the Insta-lok technology in the unit will give you the proper yardage to the front middle and to the back of the green. The Izzo Swami also has a digital readout on a large display that still fits easily into your pocket of easy access. In addition, the Swami 1500 also clips into the Izzo Scout golf bags for easy access.

- The cost of the IZZO Swami is very reasonable at $179.99. We then investigated about monthly or yearly charges that may be lingering in order to use the unit. Once you purchase the unit for $179.99, there is a fee of $35 a year. This fee gives you access to the 12,000+ golf courses that are currently offered. More and more courses are being added so this number will continue to grow. The good news is that if you only play a few local golf courses, you will have a unit for $215. After the year has elapsed, the ten golf courses loaded on your machine stay on your machine for good. This is not the case for other manufacturers. With other manufactures, if the fee is not paid the unit becomes worthless. If you do in fact travel and play multiple golf courses, the $35 yearly fee is very nominal.

- The Izzo Swami has automatic course recognition. What does this fancy term mean? It simply means that when you pull up to the first tee box and power up your unit; the unit will recognize the golf course that you are getting ready to play and provide you with the proper information.

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Putting Aids As A Christmas Gift Or Holiday Gift

Can you suggest some inexpensive putting aids that can be used as a Christmas gift this holiday season?

Putting Aids - Putting Alignment SystemIf you want to lower your score and dramatically improve your golf performance, you simply have to work on your putt being that a huge percentage of your game takes place on the putting green. A putting alignment system can do just that by adjusting your posture and the position of your hands to consistently deliver a perfect putt. Balance is key to your game and once you perfect your alignment with this putting aid, you will maximize your flexibility hence improving your putt.

Putting Aids - Putter Grips
Putting aids such as putter grips eliminates the amount of wear and tear on a persons lower back, hips, and knees during a round of golf. A perfect grip encourages the use of the preferred arm-and-shoulders putting motion as opposed to the wrists. If your current grips are worn out and slick you will be inclined to squeeze the club too tight, which may inadvertently affect your putt.

Putting Aids - Digital Instruction Putter
A digital instruction putter is a computerized training system filled with the latest technologies that can identify impact position and track the player's swing path and face angle. It assists you in training your eyes to read the angles of the fairway in front of you. Through technology and analysis, this putting aid will shave unnecessary strokes off of your next game.

Putting Aids - Golf Ball Spinner and Spot Finder
If you ever blamed faulty equipment for a badly played game, you might have been right in thinking so. Believe it or not, a perfectly round golf ball has never been manufactured. Just like your car's tires appear, they may appear to be perfectly round but they still need to be spin balanced before being driven at high speeds. The same holds true for golf balls. The inherent lopsidedness of every ball works against you off the tee and on the green. The golf ball spot finder, an excellent putting aid, will ensure your golf ball no longer has a tendency to wobble as well as reduce the chance of your ball swerving on the putting green.

Mental Golf Or Course Management For High Handicappers

I have just started playing golf this year and I am addicted. I am wondering though, can the mental golf game help a high handicap golfer?

You bet! I have seen it myself. You will hear people refer to it as the mental game of golf and you will hear others refer to it as course management as well.

Ben Hogan always said that if he could tell an amateur what club to hit and where to try to hit it that they would be able to average a score of 75. This is how important and how dramatic of a part that the mental golf game can play in determining your golf score.

Many players do not include course management in to the mental part of their game. They stand on a tee and literally have no plan at all on how they are going to play the golf hole. This is silly as they do not do that in many other things in their life whether it is a business meeting or driving somewhere new. You also start with coming up with a plan, first.

A recent example I had with new golfer took place on the tee box. They automatically went to the center of the tee to tee their ball up on a dog leg left. As most, this student usually hits the ball to the right. By moving them to the right side of the tee box and telling them to aim at the left side of the fairway, they now had more fairway to hit. Of course they hit their usual shot but now it was in the fairway and not the rough and they felt great about it! They really hit the shot no better than previous drives on this hole, it was where they were aiming their cannon.

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GolfGym Golf Fitness Products

What items make up The Golfgym System and how will they help me improve my golf game? I am determined to use this winter to improve my overall fitness and more specifically my golf fitness.

Good for you!!! We will break down some of the GolfGym products below:

The first item we will discuss is The GolfGym Powerswing Trainer Master Edition. This product is a unique training and conditioning tool and was designed to develop proper swing habits by improving muscle memory, club control and golf shot accuracy. As a result, you will build strength and develop better balance and posture. In addition, The GolfGym System contains the Masters Edition. The Masters Edition includes a ProPerfect training grip, three latex PowerCords of light, medium and heavy resistance, a door attachment, instruction manual, Quick-Start DVD and a carrying bag.

With your purchase, you will have a choice of either the golf-balanced Club 38 (about 2.4 pounds) or Club 28 (about 1.75 pounds) weighted training clubs as part of the Complete GolfGym System. Club 38 and Club 28 are the full length of a standard 7 iron and proportionately weighted. Club 38 or Club 28 will give you a workout or use it as a perfect warm up tool for golfers prior to their round or in a training regimen. In addition you can hit range balls with these clubs to give you the proper feel of transition in your golf swing.

Included in The GolfGym Balance Ball. The Balance Ball is a premium quality 65cm burst-resistant balance ball. A Quick-Start DVD, Quick Start User Manual and a portable air pump is also included.

The Game Improvement Series of DVDs features Katherine Roberts. Tailored for use with GolfGym equipment, Katherine Roberts guides golfers through state-of-the-art golf workout programs. This DVD series includes The Katherine Roberts GolfGym Balance Ball Workout and The Katherine Roberts Complete GolfGym Workout for use with the GolfGym PowerSwing Trainer.

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Wilson NFL Golf Cart Bags

Wilson NFL golf cart bags are embroidered with authentic and officially licensed trademarks. Made with quality in mind, these golf bags are sure to withstand the wear and tear no matter how many rounds of golf you are able to play. Being a specialized golf bag, you may think that you will have to give up some of the conveniences that you have become accustomed to having in or on your golf bag. This is not true at all! These bags offer all of the same features in which you have become accustomed. These features include such items as providing full length club dividers, scorecard and pencil sleeves, water bottle pouch, as well as weather protection gear. Protect your clubs with durable, long-lasting golf bags that safeguard your golf equipment.

Taking your professional football golf bag to your next tournament proves that you do not have to attend a football game in order to show your favorite team the support they deserve. NFL golf cart bags are not limited to a certain type of bag. No matter your preference, whether you need a sturdy travel golf bag, cart bag, or a simple stand bag, these logo embroidered golf bags will show your favorite team spirit in style.

With the Christmas and Holiday season coming up right around the corner, why not give your favorite loyal football fanatic a NFL golf cart bag? A junior golfer as well as a retiree may sport these impressionable bags but they do not have to be the only ones. Additionally, the most attractive feature of these types of golf bags is their price tags. Affordable and durable, professional football golf bags make the perfect holiday gift or is also a fantastic idea for a tournament prize. All in all, it makes a special gift for NFL enthusiasts.

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Do I Really Need To Keep A Golf Journal?

My golf instructor is trying to get me to carry a small golf journal while I play a round of golf. Is it really needed?

It sounds like you have a good golf instructor. Whether you take golf lessons or not, it is important to keep a golf journal or a small notebook (less than a dollar) with you when you practice or play. It is important to note the flight of the golf balls. Do they start by flying to the left or right? Once they get to the top of their flight do they topple forward or to the left or right? What about the trajectory of your golf shots? Are they too low, or too high? Eventually after a couple of rounds of golf, you will start to see tendencies. If you do take lessons, this will be valuable information for your professional. As we all know, the golf ball sometimes tends to fly differently once we are on the golf course.

You will also want to begin keeping simple stats in your golf journal. I do this a lot by using an extra scorecard (free) and using each line for a separate statistic. You will want to keep fairways hit or missed, greens hit or missed, up and downs that are converted and the number of putts that you take on each hole. Again, you will begin to see tendencies form and you will be able where to split up your practice time to improve your scores. In addition, your instructor may find something in your stats that simply is not happening during your golf lessons.

By keeping a simple golf journal with some of these easy suggestions along with others that you will come up with in your own, you will begin to see good and bad patterns forming. With this information, you can improve your weaknesses and lower your handicap.

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How To Improve With A Golf Instruction DVD

You now have bought a golf instruction DVD. Do you know how to get the most out of it? If not it is ok, here is how to get the most out of a golf instruction DVD:

Golf Instruction DVD – The first time that you watch the DVD, Just simply watch it and enjoy it. Do not try to take every little morsel of information that you can out of it the very first time that you watch it. This is not as easy as it sounds to do as again we all want to improve as fast as we can. However keep in mind the first sentence said “The first time that you watch the DVD.” Look at your new purchase as a long term investment into improving your golf game.

Golf Instruction DVD – The second time that you watch the information is when you want to get down and dirty with the information presented to you. Get yourself into a quiet place with a note book and take notes or create an outline of what the instructor is attempting to get across. The better that you understand the information at this point the better you will be able to implement it into your game.

Golf Instruction DVD – Take this information and create a plan of attack for your golf game. Now that you have taken notes and the information has sunk in a little more, how will it benefit you? Will it benefit you? I have watched different golf lesson DVDs and upon completion of the previous steps decided that that information did not work into my theory or system. This does not mean that it was a waste! I then knew that that info did not work for me and I did not have to waste my time on it any more in the future and would not travel down that road again.

Golf Instruction DVD – It is now time for the fun part. It is now time to go to the lab, oh sorry, the driving range, to test what you have come up with in your plan of attack. Again take notes of what does work and what does not work for you and your golf swing. This will give you the building blocks that you will need to build a system that works for you. This is very important to understand as we are not all built the same, come with different amounts of flexibility and are all wired differently.

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How To Find A Golf Travel Bag

If you are getting ready to go on a golf vacation and need to look at travel golf cases or a golf travel bag for your golf bag, what are the features that would be essential to you in a golf travel bag? Make a list of then jot down the features that would be "nice to have" and another list of features that are a "must have." The level of protection that you will need will be determined by the type of golf vacation you will be taking as well as the golf vacations you may take in the future. If your future golf vacations are only a drive away, then your needs will be more in the lines of just a soft travel golf case. If you will be traveling by bus, train or with an airline and you are not handling your own bag, it is highly suggested to go with more protection as typically the bag handlers do not care as much about your golf clubs as you do.

Most people who buy golf travel bags take road trips as well as fly. These golfers are regular golfers who like to take their clubs with them when they go on vacation and not rent a set while on their golf vacations from the respective golf course. You need a high degree of protection when flying, since your clubs have to be protected by the rough handling they can get on and off the aircraft. Again, the bag handlers do not care as much about your golf clubs as you do.

Keep in mind while you are looking at new golf travel cases, you also need something that will be fairly easy to get in and out of the trunk. Your golf bag will also need to comfortably fit inside the cover, along with any other contents such as golf shoes, rain suit, golf clothes, etc. that you could possibly take with you on a golf trip. If it's only a short trip, you might consider a travel case that could double as a luggage case. Manufacturers such as Izzo, Burton and Club Glove offer golf travel bags that you can fit in a change of clothing and any other overnight kit you need as well as your golf bag and apparel.

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