Perfect Golf Swing
When I got back from my hometown, I have realized that my buddies were planning to have a golf game the next Sunday and I thought of doing some good practice in the meantime.
On Tuesday evening, after I got back from my work I spent some four good hours on sand shots, full swing, chipping and putting.
I had taken good number of lessons on getting that perfect golf swing both theoretically and practically and I kept saying to myself that I could make a difference if I focus on my all-new swing that I have learnt.
Before this, I must let you know that I took up golf when I was around 16 years old and I was fortunate enough to play on my secondary school and college team. The swing, which I had during that time, was very immature and I was always struggling to get my best shot at it.
My teacher once asked me the question, how long it could take me to get that magical swing and I had no clue what to answer at that time.
Then, he gave me a wonderful reply saying that, I should continue pursuing it as long as it takes and give all my best and never give up! He has taught me that hard rock attitude to stay on the course by being committed will help me achieve it; and I have slowly realised that what good is it if everyone could do the swing easily.
This is exactly why learning a golf swing is worth it as you can be among the elite group of golfers by working hard at it each time.
Now, I went out that day to the golf game with bright hope and sparkling club to show my hard work at achieving that perfect golf swing.
Although, I did not win the game and went on pro but I did receive great commendations from my buddies and relatives who saw me in action doing that full swing like no other in the course.
I have finally realized that persistence for perfection can help achieve anything, even the perfect golf swing!
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Golf swing advice
Golf swing advice, information, tips and secrets to help improve your golf swing and shave strokes off your score…
It is widely accepted that the correct golf swing physics is a complex and awkward movement, far from being natural for the body to perform. The perfect golf swing is only achieved through constant practice and conditioning exercises designed to perfect the physics of your golf swing.
If you want to get to the root cause of your swing faults, check out our Golf Swing Aids section of our online training aid store.
Golf Swing Faults
Improve Golf Backswing Position – Do you have trouble getting to the top of your golf backswing consistently. Setting the club at the top is critical to consistency in your golf swing. This golf swing article and golf swing video will correct this swing fault and get you swinging consistently for 18 holes.
Fix Golf Sway – In order to fix your lateral sway in your golf swing, you must stabilize your right knee in the backswing. If your knee is moving all around, you will lose your center of balance. Check out this training aid to fix later sway in golf.
Proper Golf Swing…
Tiger Woods Golf Swing Is Powerful And Improved – Tiger Woods Golf Swing is getting better and better by the tournament. Tiger and his swing coach Hank Haney have worked very hard to make it more consistent.
Your Best Golf Swing Can Really Happen – When it comes to accomplishing your best golf swing, your equipment doesn’t even play a role. Remember, we are talking about proper “golf swing”, not distance or power.
How to Achieve The Proper Golf Swing - The proper golf swing is a mystery to most amateur golfers. There are so many different swings even on tour, that it makes it almost impossible to know what yours should be.
Golf Swing Trainer – A golf swing trainer needs to know both, golf swing mechanics as well as golf swing biomechanics. That’s right, a golf swing trainer should have superior knowledge of the golf swing from a mechanical, biomechanical and physical standpoint.
Biomechanics Of Golf Swing - Having a basic understanding of the biomechanics of your golf swing will give you a greater chance for golf improvement.
Golf Swing Speed…
Do You Dream of a Golf Swing With Power – The real secret behind effective golf swing speed and power is golf-specific exercises that help you to use your spine correctly as an axis to promote consistency in your drives and to keep you focused on the correct swing play.
Only this can give you true golf swing power and much longer drives.
Golf Swing Training Aids…
Why Golf Swing Training Aids Have Not Worked for You – Golf swing training aids have a bad reputation with most amateur golfers. Many of them have been victims to aggressive companies selling golf swing training aids not suited to their personal needs. The result is that many of them ended up making purchases without first focusing on the specific weaknesses in their game that they want to correct, particularly their golf swing.
Never make a golf swing training aid purchase without the benefit of expert advice.
Your Best Golf Swing…
Does the Perfect Golf Swing Exist? – Every golfer dreams of having a perfect golf swing, but never achieves it. Why is that? Maybe there isn’t such a thing. Maybe golfers should stay with their swing, but make it better.
If you haven’t found your best golf swing, it’s time to take a different approach to achieving it. Perhaps the Perform Better Golf, fitness training and golf exercise program is that different approach.
Golf Swing Exercise…
An Effective Golf Swing Exercise – Let us now take a closer look at the movements involved in a golf swing so that we come up with the most effective golf swing exercise that will impact most dramatically on the quality of your game.
The Power of Combining Golf Swing Basics with Exercise – When training in good golf swing basics is combined with the right exercise program, the results can be nothing short of miraculous.
The difference between junior golfers and adults is usually strength and not flexibility. I have personally worked with hundreds of junior golfers and I have watched in amazement as golf swing strength exercises, performed over even a short period of time, yield increases in their golf drives of as much as 50 yards.
It is widely accepted that the correct golf swing physics is a complex and awkward movement, far from being natural for the body to perform. The perfect golf swing is only achieved through constant practice and conditioning exercises designed to perfect the physics of your golf swing.
If you want to get to the root cause of your swing faults, check out our Golf Swing Aids section of our online training aid store.
Golf Swing Faults
Improve Golf Backswing Position – Do you have trouble getting to the top of your golf backswing consistently. Setting the club at the top is critical to consistency in your golf swing. This golf swing article and golf swing video will correct this swing fault and get you swinging consistently for 18 holes.
Fix Golf Sway – In order to fix your lateral sway in your golf swing, you must stabilize your right knee in the backswing. If your knee is moving all around, you will lose your center of balance. Check out this training aid to fix later sway in golf.
Proper Golf Swing…
Tiger Woods Golf Swing Is Powerful And Improved – Tiger Woods Golf Swing is getting better and better by the tournament. Tiger and his swing coach Hank Haney have worked very hard to make it more consistent.
Your Best Golf Swing Can Really Happen – When it comes to accomplishing your best golf swing, your equipment doesn’t even play a role. Remember, we are talking about proper “golf swing”, not distance or power.
How to Achieve The Proper Golf Swing - The proper golf swing is a mystery to most amateur golfers. There are so many different swings even on tour, that it makes it almost impossible to know what yours should be.
Golf Swing Trainer – A golf swing trainer needs to know both, golf swing mechanics as well as golf swing biomechanics. That’s right, a golf swing trainer should have superior knowledge of the golf swing from a mechanical, biomechanical and physical standpoint.
Biomechanics Of Golf Swing - Having a basic understanding of the biomechanics of your golf swing will give you a greater chance for golf improvement.
Golf Swing Speed…
Do You Dream of a Golf Swing With Power – The real secret behind effective golf swing speed and power is golf-specific exercises that help you to use your spine correctly as an axis to promote consistency in your drives and to keep you focused on the correct swing play.
Only this can give you true golf swing power and much longer drives.
Golf Swing Training Aids…
Why Golf Swing Training Aids Have Not Worked for You – Golf swing training aids have a bad reputation with most amateur golfers. Many of them have been victims to aggressive companies selling golf swing training aids not suited to their personal needs. The result is that many of them ended up making purchases without first focusing on the specific weaknesses in their game that they want to correct, particularly their golf swing.
Never make a golf swing training aid purchase without the benefit of expert advice.
Your Best Golf Swing…
Does the Perfect Golf Swing Exist? – Every golfer dreams of having a perfect golf swing, but never achieves it. Why is that? Maybe there isn’t such a thing. Maybe golfers should stay with their swing, but make it better.
If you haven’t found your best golf swing, it’s time to take a different approach to achieving it. Perhaps the Perform Better Golf, fitness training and golf exercise program is that different approach.
Golf Swing Exercise…
An Effective Golf Swing Exercise – Let us now take a closer look at the movements involved in a golf swing so that we come up with the most effective golf swing exercise that will impact most dramatically on the quality of your game.
The Power of Combining Golf Swing Basics with Exercise – When training in good golf swing basics is combined with the right exercise program, the results can be nothing short of miraculous.
The difference between junior golfers and adults is usually strength and not flexibility. I have personally worked with hundreds of junior golfers and I have watched in amazement as golf swing strength exercises, performed over even a short period of time, yield increases in their golf drives of as much as 50 yards.
Sunday, 25 September 2011
History of a Golf Ball
Wooden balls were the first used golf balls until the early 17th century, when the featherie ball added a new and exciting feature to the game of golf.
A featherie is a hand sewn leather pouch stuffed with chicken or goose feathers and coated with paint. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were boiled and placed in the pouch. As the ball cooled, the feathers would expand and the hide would shrink, making a compact ball. If there were openings in the cowhide, stitchings were used to close them up.
Due to its superior flight characteristics, the featherie remained the standard ball for more than two centuries. Despite this there were drawbacks. An experienced ball maker could only make a few balls in one day, so they were expensive. A single ball would cost between 2 shillings and sixpence and 5 shillings, which is the equivalent of 10 to 20 US dollars today.[1] Also, it was hard to make a perfectly spherical ball, and because of this, the ball often flew irregularly. When playing in wet weather, the stitches in the ball would rot, and the ball could split open after hitting a hard surface.
In 1848, the Rev. Dr Robert Adams Paterson (sometimes spelt Patterson) invented the gutta-percha ball (or guttie).[2][3] The gutta was created from dried sap of a Malaysian Sapodilla Tree. The sap had a rubber-like feel and could be made round by heating and shaping it while hot. Accidentally, it was discovered that defects in the sphere from knicks and scrapes of normal use, could provide a ball with a truer flight than a pure sphere. Thus, makers started creating intentional defects in the surface by hammering the ball to give it an evenly dimpled shape which would cause the ball to have a more consistent ball flight. Because gutties were cheaper to produce and could be manufactured with textured surfaces to improve their aerodynamic qualities, they replaced feather balls completely within a few years.[4]
In the 20th century, multi-layer balls were developed, first as wound balls consisting of a solid or liquid-filled core wound with a layer of rubber thread and a thin outer shell. This idea was first discovered by Coburn Haskell of Cleveland, Ohio in 1898. Haskell had driven to nearby Akron to keep a golf date with Bertram Work, then superintendent of B.F. Goodrich.
While he waited for Work at the plant, Haskell idly wound a long rubber thread into a ball. When he bounced the ball, it flew almost to the ceiling.
Work suggested Haskell put a cover on the creation, and that was the birth of the 20th century golf ball. The design allowed manufacturers to fine-tune the length, spin and "feel" characteristics of balls. Wound balls were especially valued for their soft feel, and continued to be popular until the early years of the 21st century.[5]
Modern balls usually consist of several layers of various synthetic materials like surlyn or urethane blends. They are usually classified as two-piece, three-piece, or four-piece ball according to the number of layers. They come in a great variety of playing characteristics to suit the needs of golfers of different abilities.
A featherie is a hand sewn leather pouch stuffed with chicken or goose feathers and coated with paint. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were boiled and placed in the pouch. As the ball cooled, the feathers would expand and the hide would shrink, making a compact ball. If there were openings in the cowhide, stitchings were used to close them up.
Due to its superior flight characteristics, the featherie remained the standard ball for more than two centuries. Despite this there were drawbacks. An experienced ball maker could only make a few balls in one day, so they were expensive. A single ball would cost between 2 shillings and sixpence and 5 shillings, which is the equivalent of 10 to 20 US dollars today.[1] Also, it was hard to make a perfectly spherical ball, and because of this, the ball often flew irregularly. When playing in wet weather, the stitches in the ball would rot, and the ball could split open after hitting a hard surface.
In 1848, the Rev. Dr Robert Adams Paterson (sometimes spelt Patterson) invented the gutta-percha ball (or guttie).[2][3] The gutta was created from dried sap of a Malaysian Sapodilla Tree. The sap had a rubber-like feel and could be made round by heating and shaping it while hot. Accidentally, it was discovered that defects in the sphere from knicks and scrapes of normal use, could provide a ball with a truer flight than a pure sphere. Thus, makers started creating intentional defects in the surface by hammering the ball to give it an evenly dimpled shape which would cause the ball to have a more consistent ball flight. Because gutties were cheaper to produce and could be manufactured with textured surfaces to improve their aerodynamic qualities, they replaced feather balls completely within a few years.[4]
In the 20th century, multi-layer balls were developed, first as wound balls consisting of a solid or liquid-filled core wound with a layer of rubber thread and a thin outer shell. This idea was first discovered by Coburn Haskell of Cleveland, Ohio in 1898. Haskell had driven to nearby Akron to keep a golf date with Bertram Work, then superintendent of B.F. Goodrich.
While he waited for Work at the plant, Haskell idly wound a long rubber thread into a ball. When he bounced the ball, it flew almost to the ceiling.
Work suggested Haskell put a cover on the creation, and that was the birth of the 20th century golf ball. The design allowed manufacturers to fine-tune the length, spin and "feel" characteristics of balls. Wound balls were especially valued for their soft feel, and continued to be popular until the early years of the 21st century.[5]
Modern balls usually consist of several layers of various synthetic materials like surlyn or urethane blends. They are usually classified as two-piece, three-piece, or four-piece ball according to the number of layers. They come in a great variety of playing characteristics to suit the needs of golfers of different abilities.
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