Golf Swing Lessons, Tips & Instruction - Three Steps to Hitting Longer Drives

Whenever I hear golfers talking about hitting the ball farther, I hear about things like buying the latest driver, using the hottest new shaft, creating as much lag as possible on the downswing, keeping a flat wrist at impact, etc. The list goes on and on. While these things may possibly help you, simply put, hitting the ball far comes down to three things:

1) Sweet Spot Contact

In theory, five yards is lost for every quarter of an inch that you miss the sweet spot on your driver. That means if you miss the sweet spot by as little as an inch, you could lose 20 yards on your drive. All of a sudden you'd be hitting 2 clubs more for your next shot in to the green. It's harder to shoot lower scores that way!

One of the best ways I have ever encountered to improve your ball-striking is to keep your head as still as your flexibility allows during the swing (it's ok to move it some). What this effectively does is it will keep the vertebrae where your shoulder, neck, and spine intersect roughly in the same point in space during the swing. This vertebrae is a key measurement to the ball and moving it around too much makes it more difficult to get consistently good ball strikes. Both PGA Tour Hall of Famer, Johnny Miller, and Guinness World Record Holding Long Driver, Mike Austin, talk about this.

But regardless of whether a relatively still head is a part of the type of swing method you use, make sure you are consistently hitting the center of the club face. It makes a big difference.

2) Custom Fit Equipment

One time I was trying out a few new drivers on the range and out on the course. There were two in particular that looked very similar and were hard to tell apart visually, however, they differed in length, loft, weight, and flex. I hit them both the same accuracy-wise, but I literally hit one 50 yards farther than the other. Consequently, on the same holes, I would have to hit a 9-iron in to the green having used one driver, and a 5 or 6-iron in to the green with the other driver. You can imagine that it is a heck of a lot easier to shoot lower scores with the 9-iron.

To maximize your distance, it is very important to get a driver that is custom fit to your particular swing. While you can get "fitted" through a variety of manufacturers, at your golf course, or at a local golf store, I highly recommend using someone that is PCS-certified (Professional Clubmakers Society). You can be sure that anyone that has this certification has a very thorough background on being able to fit golfers of different sizes with different swings in to a driver that will help them get the absolute most out of their distance potential.

3) Swing Speed Training

Once you are using a swing method that gets you hitting the sweet spot consistently on your custom fit clubs, the next major thing you can do to hit the ball farther is to increase your swing speed.

For every 1 mph you can increase your swing speed, you will carry the ball 2.5 yards farther. When you consider that every day golfers swing 70-95 mph, Tour pros swing 105-130 mph, and the professional long distance drivers swing 135 mph to upwards of 150 mph, it's easy to see why people hit the ball different distances.

Unfortunately for many golfers of all levels they don't realize, don't believe, don't know how, etc that they can do increase their speed. However, the good news is that given the right guidance and training, it's actually quite easy to learn to swing faster. This is especially true if you are not already doing anything for your speed.

Increase your usable swing speed and you will hit longer drives.

Jaacob Bowden is one of the world's foremost experts on increasing golf swing speed. His Swing Man Golf web site was built around both the knowledge he used to increase his own swing speed by 26 mph in 37 days while training for the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships, and also what he has learned about golf that took him from average length hitting 14-handicapper to Professional Golfer and Long Drive Champion. Swing Man Golf subscribers regularly gain 30-65 yards of distance when signing up on Swing Man Golf.

To learn more information about what Jaacob can do for you and your game, visit Swing Man Golf.

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Free Online Golf Lessons - How To Improve Your Golf And Save Money With Free Online Golf Lessons

Golf is not considered a sport only for those people with money anymore. It is now possible to purchase cheaper or even second hand golf equipment. The only set back is that golf lessons still remain very expensive.

Are you a person who is having problems with your golf swing? Have you done all that is necessary to try to improve but to no avail? You have spent many an hour at the driving range or on the golf course, only to feel that you will never quite get the hang of it or are just not improving. The only thing left to do is hire a golf pro to teach you, but this option is far too expensive. So what are the options?

It you cannot afford a golf pro, then why not look online for hints and tips.

Here you will be able to find free online golf lessons instructional videos that provide visual assistance that show you the techniques on how to improve your game, just as if you were on the golf course with a private instructor. There is also the advantage of rewinding and replaying the video as many times as you wish. The results are much better than looking at still pictures or reading books.

An added advantage with free online golf lessons is that you have the ability to reply the videos over and over again until you fully understand the concept being taught. Another advantage is you can play the videos in the comfort of your own home at your own convenience, be it day or night.

More often than not apart from the videos, there is also usually diagrams and instructions to explain the concept being taught more in-depth.

Some offer the facility where you can take a home video of you playing a particular part of golf, whether it be your swing, putting, chipping etc and send it to online sites, they will then view your video and happily reply to you with instructions as to where you are going wrong, along with further tips.

Any part of your golf game that you are having problems with can be rectified by viewing online golf lessons. There is not only information on how to improve your shots, but also:

o questions and answers;

o mind games;

o equipment;

o putting;

o chipping;

o sand shots;

o iron play;

o driving; and

o just plain golf playing

One thing is for certain, once you have taken some free online golf lessons, you will never think about hiring an expensive club pro again. It really is the best way to learn. All necessary information that you could ever want is available from the comfort of your own home.

Therefore, if you are looking for the perfect way to improve your golf game without the high cost of a club pro then free online golf videos are a must.

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Golf Swing Lessons, Tips & Instruction - Choosing Golf Irons

As you may know from my website, a few years ago I was shooting in the mid-90s on my home course and now I'm putting up professional tournament scores in the 60s and 70s. I think one of the reasons I was able to do this was that I was willing to think outside the box when it came to my equipment.

Previously, I had been like many people and had iron sets from major manufacturers like Callaway and Titleist. If you're like I was, you probably have certain misses for certain clubs. For example, when I missed I would push my 3-5 irons, hit my 6-8 irons pretty straight, and pull my 9-LW. Because loft is the primary determinant of distance, I thought the clubs might be easier to hit if they were all the same length (some companies had previously tried this - you may have heard about Tommy Armour's EQLs), but the problem was that as the heads move from PW to 3-iron the weights got lighter. If you cut the shafts all the same length, the swing weights then go all over the charts. Needless to say, they did not catch on.

But then I came across a small company in Ohio that I had never heard of before called 1iron Golf. The owner, David Lake, apparently also believed in the idea of same length clubs...but what he did different was to make all the heads the identical weight. Ah ha!!! All of a sudden, the clubs had the same length, same weight, same swing weight, same MOI, same EVERYTHING!!!

I decided I had to try them, and you wouldn't believe how much it improved my iron play. It took about a month to get used to them (it was funny, even though I knew they were all the same club except for loft...I still made my same old misses), but after that it was smooth sailing. Loft for loft, weight for weight, etc, I still had the same yardage gaps as I had previously with my old irons.

Furthermore, as I like to used different clubs for chipping, my short game also improved because basically the only thing that changed from chip to chip was the height of my shot.

If you want to learn more, here's his site. If you end up getting something, mention the code and you'll get free head covers or whatever other freebie he's offering at the time.

1iron Golf - Coupon Code 10507

One thing to note is that the clubs automatically come with a very flexible steel shaft. So depending on what you like, you may wish to change out the shafts and put on your own grips. The key thing that makes the concept work, though, is that unlike a conventional set of iron heads, the 1iron heads are all the same weight.

David will also give you 30 days to try them (take the whole 30 days to give them a fair chance), and if they aren't for you...no worries, he'll give you an immediate full refund. If you need anything, you should also know that his communication with his customers is excellent - and I don't get that treatment just because I'm a pro. I researched him in the golf forums before I initially contacted him and other people said the same thing.

Jaacob Bowden is one of the world's foremost experts on increasing golf swing speed. His Swing Man Golf web site was built around both the knowledge he used to increase his own swing speed by 26 mph in 37 days while training for the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships, and also what he has learned about golf that took him from average length hitting 14-handicapper to Professional Golfer and Long Drive Champion. Swing Man Golf subscribers regularly gain 30-65 yards of distance when signing up on Swing Man Golf.

To learn more information about what Jaacob can do for you and your game, visit Swing Man Golf.

Lessons from Tom Watson

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Bill Pennington, who writes the OnPar blog for the New York Times, recently reviewed Tom Watson’s latest DVD Lessons of a Lifetime.

It has been an eventful 12 months for Tom Watson, from his near victory at last year’s British Open to his emotional exit at last week’s United States Open. Now is a good time for Watson to give his fans a glimpse into his thinking, his technique and his golf wisdom, and that is the principal ambition of Watson’s new, two-disc DVD, “Lessons of a Lifetime.” Watson has stored up a lot of instructional advice over the decades, much of it culled from the golfing greats he has known. But this is no quick-fix highlight reel of golf tricks worth trying.

That is obviously not Watson’s way of doing things. His DVD starts with fundamentals like grip, setup and alignment and takes you through just about everything else you might encounter on the golf course, including a downhill buried lie in a bunker. Some of us might just throw up our hands and declare that ball unplayable, but that obviously is not Watson’s way of doing things either.

So this is a DVD that is thorough in the thorough Midwestern way that Watson brings to most matters. It is about three hours, but moves quickly as it covers 46 chapters geared to full swing and short game shots. They are definitely lessons and would not be called “tips,” because each has been methodically thought out by Watson, the eight-time major winner. There is a treatise on how to hit a punch shot and a discourse on how to play in the wind  —  using wind machines.

It is not a laugh-fest but there is a sincere tone. My favorite parts of “Lessons of a Lifetime,” which retails for $49.95, are when Watson tries to motivate the viewer, the average golfer, to see that routine and difficult shots can be performed with consistency and confidence. To Watson it’s a matter of preparation and having a game plan for each shot. After he demonstrates what he means, he sometimes stops, stares into the camera like a veteran football coach giving a halftime speech and says: “That is how it’s done. And you can do it, too.”

And I’m telling you what, I just about jumped off my couch and ran to the nearest golf course to do that shot just as Watson had instructed me. I believed him. I could do it.

“Lessons of a Lifetime” is not just a collection of golf advice. It is Watson’s personal counsel. And following it has worked out pretty well for him.

Via Sincere Lessons From Watson

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