Articles, tagged with "golf handicaps", page 1
Five Simple Miscellaneous Golf Tips
Copyright (c) 2011 Jack Moorehouse
Simple in golf is often better than complex. For example, we teach students in our golf lessons to flare their front foot out when addressing the ball. Flaring your foot is a simple adjustment that provides big result...
Three Golf Tips On Making Impact
Copyright (c) 2011 Jack Moorehouse
Impact is the moment of truth in golf. Impact is where the rubber meets the road—no matter what your golf handicap. Jim Flick, noted teacher and author, provides golf lessons to Tour professionals for a living. He ...
Tame Your Slice In Three Easy Steps
Copyright (c) 2011 Jack Moorehouse
Hooking and slicing can get you into trouble—especially off the tee. Even players with low golf handicaps find it hard to go low if they're constantly getting themselves into trouble. In addition to costing you stroke...
Avoiding Disasters In The Sand
Copyright (c) 2011 Jack Moorehouse
Players with low golf handicaps avoid disasters in the sand. They use experience and sound technique to escape bunkers in one. Players with high golf handicaps, on the other hand, often fall prey to disasters in the s...
TaylorMade Burner 2.0 Irons' Review
TaylorMade has attempted to more clearly define the distance gaps in this set. In other words, the wedges and short irons will fly and stop more like traditional wedges and short irons – the so-called scoring clubs – while the mid-irons and long irons wil...
Scoring With Sand Wedge
Copyright (c) 2011 Jack Moorehouse
Many golfers think the sand wedge (56 degrees) is just for sand shots. It's not. While the sand wedge is a great bunker club, it's also a great scoring club, if you know what you're doing. In fact, you can save a...
Building A Repeatable Swing Like Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods hits his irons straighter and a lot more accurately than most pros. By swinging the club precisely the same way, he’s able to repeat his golf swing again and once more and once more. The much more he repeats his swing, the more usually he gene...
The Truth About Diets
When I mention the word basics in my golf lessons, players start thinking about things like grip, posture, ball position, alignment, and so on. That's only natural. Golf pros talk so much about these subjects in golf instruction sessions that players assu...
Your Guide to Chipping
The chip shot is one of the easiest shots to learn in golf. It's also one of the most crucial. In medal play, accurate chipping can save you one or two strokes on a hole, sometimes more. In match play, it can be the difference between winning or losing a ...
The Many Uses of Calculator Wheels
What are Calculator Wheels? They come in many shapes and sizes and we have probably all seen them at some time and called them by different names. They are the small circular plastic discs measuring about 100mm (4") in diameter that are used for calculati...
Golf Tips On The Iron Swing
Copyright (c) 2010 Jack Moorehouse
Bombing one off the tee is sexy. There's nothing like seeing a shot take off straight down the fairway, hang up in the air for what seems like an eternity, and hit the ground some 300 yards away. It's a beautiful sigh...
Designing The Perfect Golf Swing
Copyright (c) 2010 Jack Moorehouse
Most of us bring our A games to the course about 10 percent of the time. The rest of the time we bring our B, C, or D games. Sometimes, we even bring our F games. This variation in games is based on inconsistency. We'...
Tips on Repeatable Swings
Tiger Woods hits his irons straighter and more accurately than most pros. By swinging the club exactly the same way, he's able to repeat his golf swing again and again and again. The more he repeats his swing, the more often he generates predictable resul...
A Great Golf Swing - Simple But Not Easy
Many recreational golfers, even those with golf handicaps that are fairly low, don't understand the basics of a great golf swing. Before you can perfect your golf swing, you must be able to break down the simple golf swing into its elemental parts. Swing...
Confused By The Golf Handicaps Index System? A Guide To Understanding Golf Handicaps
The golf handicap system used today was introduced by the United States Golf Association (USGA) in the early 20th century. The handicapping system received a major overhaul in the early 1980's. At this time slope rating for golf courses was added to the l...