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Getting yourself ready to play through a golf course that is considerably longer or shorter than your usual one presents certain problems in shot adjustment.

For example, if you normally use a driver and short irons on your own 6,500 yard golf course, you cannot expect to hit drivers and long irons on a 7,000 yard course and score well without preparation.

Adjust Your Game

If you are getting ready for a course that is much longer than your own, you should adjust your game. Instead of hitting a drive and wedge on the 350 yard hole, hit a five iron off the tee and then another long iron to the green.

The primary reason for this is not to give you practice swinging a long iron. You can get that on a practice tee.

The purpose is to become accustomed to hitting into the green from a considerable distance so that the long course you are headed for does not mentally defeat you before you start.

Too many weekend golfers ignore what seems to them to be a forgotten part of the game: Taking care of their golf clubs.

Dirty Clubs Can Impact Your Score

As often as not they keep their clubs at home and they find it quite easy not to clean them. But this costs strokes. If the grooves of the iron are not clean the clubhead will not put maximum backspin on the ball.

Always Carry A Towel

During every round you should have a towel available so that the clubface can be cleaned after each shot. You should also clean the grooves by running a sharp object through them before every shot.

How To Keep Your Woods In Top Shape

Caring for woods presents a different problem. Woods pick up moisture and are affected by  sharp changes from very moist to very dry climates.

To prevent any problems, you should soak your woods periodically in linseed oil. This seals the heads of their irons, presumably to keep them from rusting.

The two most important things to keep in mind when exploding from the sand are:

1. The swing should be a normal one.
2. The the grip should be choked down somewhat at address.

Too many people climb into the sand trap already paralyzed by fear and suddenly start doing things with their swing that they would never think of doing on the fairway.

They stab or they dip or they lurch, and they leave the ball in the sand more often than they get it out.

How To Explode

The explosion is much the same as any other shot, only your aiming point changes since you are trying to hit a spot in the sand some 1 to 3 inches behind the ball instead of the ball itself.

1. Begin by picking the spot – perhaps marked by a discolored grain of sand – and concentrate as hard on hitting it as you would on hitting the ball.

The shot should be played pretty much like a short pitch, with the ball off the left heel and the stance slightly open.

2. At address you will have dug your feet into the sand one or two inches to insure a firm stance.

This means the ball is that much nearer your hands than usual. You must compensate for this by choking down on the grip. How far you choke down determines how far the ball will fly.

It is obvious that you can hit a good shot even if you follow through awkwardly, for nothing you do after the ball leaves the clubhead is going to influence where the ball goes.

But a sound follow-through is still a vital element in a golf swing because it helps insure that everything that went before was done properly. Read More

Winning in golf has everything to do with improving your short game. Let’s face it, hitting the ball onto the green from the tee is very easy compared to honing in on the various short game shots you will face.

Of course having a decent drive is nothing to dismiss but the ball literally just sits on the tee waiting for you to take your swing.

The short game presents you with the opportunity to face challenges of shots that come with different lies, different shapes, and different lengths. Read More

Are You Using The Wrong Club?

One of the biggest mistakes golfers make on the course is not using the right club. You can have a better short game, have more fun, and lower your score if you would just stick to a club which is the most comfortable for you when facing a specific shot.

For example, if you are confident using a 7 iron club whenever hitting the ball from 35 yards in, then use it. Read More

Even though many golfers are dedicated to self-improvement on the course, relatively few of them really understand how to practice properly.

Without complete understanding of the golf swing, it is quite difficult to know exactly what to practice because the swing is so complex.

Understanding the swing, however, or having professional guidance, provides key objectives for productive practice sessions.

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Are you a beginner golfer? If so, perhaps your biggest problem is most likely getting the ball up into the air.

Most rookies have the tendency to want to “scoop” the ball with the club in order to get it airborne. They have not yet developed trust in the loft of the club to make it happen on its own.

All of your clubs are designed with enough loft to get the ball flying, without any scoop action, and even by using the lower lofted clubs like the driver and the 3 iron.

Until you understand how golf clubs work you may continue to subconsciously keep trying to scoop the ball up, but this will only cause you to top the ball, each and every time. At best you might hit a terribly weak shot that veers to the right.

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Everyone knows golf sport. It’s a popular sport. Men, women and kids love to play golf. Golf is fun. One thing that I notice is golf is not just a sport. Golf is a major industry. If you have big passion on golf, be a professional golfer. I mean it’s your chance to have a good career in golf industry.

The golf business owner needs the professional golfer who not only know how to play golf. It’s more than that. They are looking for people who really knows about golf business. Such as how to generate revenue in golf industry, management, etc.

San Diego Golf Academic is one of the famous golf schools. SDGA (San Diego Golf Academic) is two years golf college that will train you to become a successful golf career. SDGA’s curriculum include golf instruction and golf business management.

Here are the specifics about the SDGA applied / accupational associate degree program :

• Major : Golf Complex Operation and Management
• Areas of Emphasis : Golf Professional, General Management
• Program Length: two academic years (16 months)
• Certificates / ribbon will be awarded to students who meet all requirements in their first attempt

The bachelor’s degree in Golf Course Management is designed to prepare you to manage any of the golf facilities. The graduates of the program qualify for assistant managerial position at various golf courses.

As a notice, golf industry is growing rapidly. Golf industry offers dozens of career path and thousands of great golf jobs. Before you are involved in this industry, you should prepare your self. You can download SDGA’s golf career guide to know more information about golf industry.

Happy Golfing!

Many golfers think that over-swinging automatically creates more power, that there is a direct ratio between the size of the swing and the power it generates. But this thinking is wrong.

You get maximum power only by swinging within the confines of your feet.

There are two basic rules governing this:

1. You do not want to let your weight to be on the outside of your right foot during the backswing
2. You do not want your weight on the outside of your left foot until after you make contact with the ball

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