Free Golf Tips – Tips to Keep Your Head Down in Golf

Often times when amateur golfers are struggling with mishitting the ball, they are told to keep their head down.  In some cases this is probably true, but doesn’t always solve the problem.

Yes, it is true that you need to keep your head down during the golf swing, but it should be natural and not forced.

Free Golf Tips – Tips to Keep Your Head Down in Golf

This video provided by PurePoint Golf illustrates the proper way on how to keep your head down.

As you can see from this video it is important to keep your head down in golf, but it is also important to not force your head to stay down during the entire swing.

Too often I see golfers so focused on this one thing that their entire body is tensed up. This inevitably leads to other issues with their golf swing and has the opposite affect that they are hoping for.  Keep your head down through the swing until the momentum in your follow through naturally brings your head around.

Notice in the swing that Bobby Eldridge’s body is loose and the swing is not forced.  He is not trying man handle the golf ball and with very little effort, his shot travels a great distance.

Yes, it is important to keep your head down in golf, but only until your swing naturally moves it towards the target.

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3 Golf Tips to Cure the Slice

Golf Tips to Cure the Slice is one of the most sought after cures that most amateur golfers search for.

Over the years I have watched golfers try everything you can think of to cure their slice.  With some of the setups I have seen, you almost feel like you have to be a contortionist to make the adjustments work.

You have to wonder if the golfer is using golf tips to cure the slice from something they misread, or maybe a suggestion from another golfer.

Whatever the case, inevitably the adjustment only complicates the issue.

Correcting a slice is not that difficult to do, you just need to know some basics.

Weak Grip

If you have a tendency to hit the banana ball (a slice), then try these golf tips to cure the slice.

Grip – In golf everything starts with the grip.  If your grip is too weak, (the left hand is rolled

Neutral Grip

over top of the right hand at address) then the club face will be open at impact and you will slice the ball.

A neutral grip is needed. You will recognize this when you see a “V” formed between the thumb and forefinger on both hands pointing directly down the shaft.

Stance – Many amateurs will adjust their stance so that their body is pointing to the left of the target line to compensate for their slice.  Doing this only adds to the problem.  Your stance should be square to the target line.

After you get into position to take your shot, take your golf club and place the shaft across your hips and observe the direction your shaft is pointing.  If it is pointing to the left of the target, then your stance is open. You will need to adjust your stance until the shaft is pointing directly down the target line.

Alignment Check

Eyes – When you are addressing the ball, if your eyes are looking to the left of your target then your shoulders are open.  Your line of sight should actually be directly at or even right of the target at address.

Having your eyes line up to the right of your target may feel a bit odd, but your body will be more properly aligned to the target.  When your body is aligned properly to your target line, it will appear as though you are pointing slightly to the right of target.

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Golf Swing Fundamentals

Let’s spend a couple of minutes talking about one of the three most abused and misunderstood golf swing fundamentals, timing. It’s an important term but it’s misused a lot. So, let me explain to you what timing is, and then it’ll draw you a lot closer to understanding when you’re struggling.

Timing is your ability to swing your arms and hands back to the golf ball as your hip turns out of the way. And the reason it has to turn out of the way is so the arms and hands can pass your body and wrap around you. That’s the definition, no more, no less.

Now, I have gone to the golf course many days where I’ve hit the ball beautifully, solid, straight right. So, my timing was off a bit because my body was turning out in front of my golf club and that was sending it off to the right.

Now, the correction would be to slow the bottom half down and speed up the top part. There have been days where my timing has been off because the arms and hands were quicker than the bottom.

How do you correct that? Speed up the bottom and it’ll catch up with the arms and hands, and that will help that.

Golf Swing Fundamentals – Fixing Your Timing

Now, how do you fix your timing? That’s probably the most difficult question in the game of golf. How do you get your timing back? I believe that if you can’t hit your pitching wedge, you probably aren’t hitting your 5 iron and your 5 wood and your driver.

So, I love to send people out to the practice facility to hit thousands of pitching wedges and work on their golf swing fundamentals. That, to me, is the easiest way to find your timing.

Now, let’s say that your favorite club in your golf bag is your driver and you’re driving the ball beautifully. Then go hit a thousand drivers. Or maybe it’s a 5 wood or a 5 iron. Whatever club you’re struggling with, stay way away from that one.

Go to the club that you’re doing well with. And if you’re not doing well with any of them, then go to a pitching wedge.

Now, the next question most difficult after that: How do you know when your timing’s off? I believe that your timing is off when your miss/hit pattern is not consistent. One’s fat, one’s thin, one’s top, one’s good, one’s to the left, one’s to the right. That’s a great indication that your timing’s off.

Find your favorite club and go to the practice tee and hit ten thousand of them and remember when you hit the golf ball to think of the golf swing fundamentals.

This article courtesy – PurePoint Golf Instruction Golf Swing Fundamentals