Tip Number ONE:
After you learn the the correct position for gripping a golf club... from now on the world is your golf course!
Your grip is one of the most basic and essential things to learn as a newbie golfer. No matter how much I read about golfing techniques and correct practices, there was no substitute for actually getting out there and imprinting as much golf expertise as I could into my muscle memory.
Sadly, one thing I've realized about golfing is that you can never get enough time on the course. It's not like learning a language where you can, if you so choose, immerse yourself every single day and make sure your accent comes out flawless from all that damn practice (or whatever; I'm not great at analogies). But unless you're rich and got immense amount of times to pitch a tent on the course, your pleasant little Sundays on the course aren't gonna cut it.
I started making the most progress once I learnt this, and when I started carrying around my club with me EVERYWHERE.
Now, at first this was more of a show of commitment to my newfound hobby than anything else (After all, the wife can't order me to stay home and clean the garage on Sunday if I'm holding my club like my long-lost baby during the weekday, right?) But soon I learnt that, hell, why not practice a little bit here and there on every-day objects when there's a particularly boring day at the office, or when I have to help my daughter with her mind-numbingly dull homework ?
And it made a world of difference!
Pretty soon, I when I saw this:
After you learn the the correct position for gripping a golf club... from now on the world is your golf course!
Your grip is one of the most basic and essential things to learn as a newbie golfer. No matter how much I read about golfing techniques and correct practices, there was no substitute for actually getting out there and imprinting as much golf expertise as I could into my muscle memory.
Sadly, one thing I've realized about golfing is that you can never get enough time on the course. It's not like learning a language where you can, if you so choose, immerse yourself every single day and make sure your accent comes out flawless from all that damn practice (or whatever; I'm not great at analogies). But unless you're rich and got immense amount of times to pitch a tent on the course, your pleasant little Sundays on the course aren't gonna cut it.
I started making the most progress once I learnt this, and when I started carrying around my club with me EVERYWHERE.
Now, at first this was more of a show of commitment to my newfound hobby than anything else (After all, the wife can't order me to stay home and clean the garage on Sunday if I'm holding my club like my long-lost baby during the weekday, right?) But soon I learnt that, hell, why not practice a little bit here and there on every-day objects when there's a particularly boring day at the office, or when I have to help my daughter with her mind-numbingly dull homework ?
And it made a world of difference!
Pretty soon, I when I saw this:
I was seeing this...
And when I saw this....
I tried my best not to see this:
All jokes aside, if you practice just HOLDING the club in the correct position, pretty soon it will become second nature, and your game will improve immensely just by virtue of the fact that your fumbling hands actually know what they are doing - maybe even better than you do at this point!
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