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“Correcting Your Golf Grip To Improve Your Game”  

Understanding the basics to a better golf grip can significantly lower your scores and best of all, improve your control. Starting with the left hand, this hand is responsible for gripping the club handle. The fingers of the left hand begin the base grip. This is of course aimed at right handed golfers. Those who are left handed golfers would switch the entire process to adjust to their predominant hand.

Most people have heard the analogy that you want to grip the golf club as though you are shaking hands with it. While it is a good analogy in getting people to reach for the club in the appropriate manner, “Correcting Your Golf Grip To Improve Your Game”  there is a lot of play in that golfing advice. Let’s add a more specific notion of shaking hands with the golf club and meeting the knuckles of your left middle joint of the forefinger reaching approximately two inches from the top of the club handle and the bottom three fingers approaching the base of the club.

The right hand is then going to join in on the action and take its grasp around the golf handle. The club handle should rest right at the knuckle/palm intersection of the hand. You don’t want the club to be too far toward the finger tips and you want the club to rest firmly toward the base of the fingers toward the hand.

Now you successfully have both hands on the club. Looking down at their position you should be able to find a V shape created by the thumb and forefinger on the left hand. This V shape should have a direction. It should be aimed toward the right shoulder, pointing right about the middle of the shoulder to be precise. Adjust your grip until you have the club lying toward the base of your fingers toward the palm and the V shape of the left thumb and forefinger pointing directly toward the middle of the right shoulder. This seems like an awkward position, but once you adjust the grip accordingly, it should actually have a mildly normal feel to it. Get comfortable with it and practice getting just those basics of the golf grip down without having to spend twenty minutes adjusting your grip every time you pick up a club. You should be able to get it to the point where this part of gripping the golf club is natural and automatic.

“Correcting Your Golf Grip To Improve Your Game”  Once you have mastered this basic approach to gripping the golf club, start to take notice of some finer details in your grip. There should be a little flex to your left wrist. The wrist should take on a mild angle that resembles a “cupping” angle. Relax your wrists until you find that motion and angle.

The V shape that your right forefinger and thumb produce should be aimed up toward the right ear. All of these “aiming” suggestions are assuming that you are gripping the golf club in the stance you take just prior to swinging the golf club.

The palm of the right hand is basically responsible for the direction the ball will go once it is in the air. While you are standing their adjusting your grip on your golf club and finding the stance that works best for you, you want to keep in mind that your goal is to “aim” the golf ball with the palm of your right hand. This of course only works if your grip on the golf club is accurate and your hands mold together as one cohesive unit. 

When gripping your golf club, you want your hands to be able to work together. Aside from that, you want your hands to work in sync with the rest of your body. By developing a natural but distinct grip on the golf club you can encourage your entire body to work cohesively all the way through to the end of the golf club and produce a swing that will carry the ball both the distance and the direction you are aiming for.

Practice your swing often and carry your follow through all the way through your body. This will help eliminate chop shots that result from an uncomfortable grip on the golf club. Spending a little time at the driving range is always a good idea when making even minor adjustments to your swing. Practicing the adjustments for the first time on the fairway with a bunch of golfing associates is typically a frustrating maneuver.

White Knuckles “Correcting Your Golf Grip To Improve Your Game”  

White knuckling the club is a common mistake when learning new procedures to gripping the golf club. A golfer tends to get nervous about his new technique or small adjustments and wraps the club in an all out death grip. Relax a little and enjoy the challenge of creating a better golf swing.

On the opposite end of the scale avoid gripping the golf club with limp hands. This eliminates the control you are gaining by adjusting your grip in the first place and creates a very sloppy swing and follow through.

You want to grip the club firmly in your grasp and hold it with confidence. This confident but relaxed grip can help to flatten the head of the golf club as it makes contact with the golf ball, which can ultimately assist in cleaning up a slice.

Golfing Tips “Correcting Your Golf Grip To Improve Your Game”  

The basics of gripping a golf club, while often an ignored or barely recognized intricacy of improving a golf game, is really only the beginning of overhauling an entire golf game. From grips to stances to head movement issues there is a chronic plethora of advice and tips floating around out there on the internet and in golfing magazines. How do you asses which tips are worthwhile and which ones will simply destroy what golf skill you have picked up over time?

Not all golf tips apply to all people. Just because one set of tips is completely useless to you doesn’t mean they won’t help someone else recover a lost game. Every individual’s physical body is different, so sometimes just a small adjustment in the tip makes it a valuable golf tip to add to your game. Perhaps you are taller than average or smaller than average. Most golf tips are written with the average body in mind. If you have particularly long arms, you may have to take that into account as you read through golf tips.

If you have been golfing for years and you have developed particular habits that are hard to break, remember (“Correcting Your Golf Grip To Improve Your Game”)h   that often the initial habit breaking period will lead to a decline in your golf game. This is actually true of any sport. If the unusual habit is working well for you, there may not be a need to change it. If it isn’t working well for you and you decide to change it, be patient with yourself. It will take time to see any actual improvement.

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Every golfer that plays the game is going to find himself in tricky situations – in a bunker, behind a tree, in thick brush, in deep rough – from time to time.  It is just the nature of the game, courses are designed to be a challenge to the golfer. Even one of the best golfers in the world, Tiger Woods, is not immune from mistakes, and their often-penalizing consequences. 

The first and most important part of dealing with an unfortunate lie is knowing what you can and cannot do with a certain shot.  Everyone wants to be a hero, and every golfer wants to make progress toward the hole. However, trying to move in a straight line towards the hole, regardless of the obstacles in the way, can have disastrous consequences.  Often times, realizing that a certain shot is beyond your abilities is prudent, and that the smart play is to simply chip back out to the fairway. 

Below are a few shots that may help you out of some of those tight situations.  Again, you have to know your own game, which means you need to put in the time practicing these shots on the driving range and practice facilities. 

If you find yourself off the fairway, and behind a tree, you may want to hit a low hook or a cut around the obstruction.  To do this, use your normal golf setup, with a slightly wider stance. Align your body to the side of the obstacle, but slightly turn the club in your hand to cause the clubface to make contact with the ball in the direction that you want it to move.  Taking a normal, straight swing, with a slightly twisted club, should produce the action on the ball that you desire. 

Another difficult position to be in is in a greenside bunker, at the furthest point away from the hole.  You know these – the one’s where you have more sand to hit over than green to land on. This shot should be played slightly differently than a normal sand shot, with the clubface not as opened, the body in a more natural golf swing stance, and the shot itself should be taken with a forceful swing.  Remember to finish with a high follow-through. 

The buried sand shot – or “fried egg” – is not really as hard to play as it looks.  To make the shot work, you must get under the ball, which usually means choosing an area to for the clubface to enter the sand may be about two inches behind the ball.  You should take a forceful forceful, downward swing, with a lot of power in right (push) hand. Because of the angle and force of this swing, there will not be much follow through on your swing, there will likely be less sand flying out with the ball, and the ball will have virtually no spin on it.

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In the game of golf, golf balls are struck by clubs with the objective of putting the ball in a hole in as few strokes (shots) as possible.  At the beginning of each hole, a ball may be placed upon a tee to steady the ball and help the golfer achieve more loft on his shot.  Off of the tee box, a player must strike the ball as it lies on the ground.  Once a golfer reaches the green, he may choose to utilize a putter, a club with a flat clubface, to roll the ball towards the hole. 

In the beginning of golf, in early 1800’s, golf balls were covered with leather and stuffed with goose feathers.  By the mid-1800’s, a harder ball was developed using gutta-percha packing material, commonly found in tree milk.  Through time, the bramble ball was developed, with a hard dimpled cover.  At the turn of the century a rubber ball was developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company, with a hard rubber core wound by rubber threads and covered by a synthetic material. 

Today, there are primarily two types of golf balls used in the game: the balata ball and the surlyn ball.  Regardless of the type of ball used, the United States Golf Association (USGA) has regulated conformity among all balls to be played.  The USGA ruled that all balls must be round, no larger than 1.68” in diameter, and may not be heavier than 1.62 oz. 

The balata ball is also known as a three-piece ball.  It contains a hard rubber core, is wound by rubber bands and has a cover made of a synthetic material called balata.  Balata is essentially a soft cover that many advanced golfers believe make it easier for them to shape their shots.  The drawback to this softer cover is that it is not very resistant to nicks and cuts throughout repeated use. 

The two-piece ball contains a larger rubber core, and a thick cover of a synthetic material called surlyn.  Although this harder cover may make it more difficult to shape shots, and it may create more bounce, it is more durable than the balata ball.  It is also thought that it is more difficult to achieve a desired backspin on the ball with a two-piece ball. 

The major manufacturers of golf balls are Titleist, Dunlop, MaxFli, Top Flight, Pinnacle and Precept.  Golf balls are generally packaged in boxes of three called sleeves.  Retailers will typically sell boxes of multiple sleeves of balls, usually in quantities of 15-18.  A box of golf balls normally retails between $20 and $75 depending on the maker and brand.

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Golf and a successful entrepreneur have more in common than we may think.

A Golfers Dilemma

With so much golf how to’s out there the question arises where to start and what to do.

It seems some are even contradictory.🤔

This is just not a beginners dilemma; it happens to many golfers of all degrees.

See even the pro’s change their swing and how they play golf because, sadly as we age our body changes to some degree. In the game of golf when the body changes, many times it affects our swing.

In businesses it is forever changing so to the same applies.

This is why it’s good to always go back to basics. But do not keep changing it up every two weeks. Here are some tried and true points that will help you on your path to your goal.

Some tried-and-true facts.

1). Identify your problem.

2). Research the solution.

3). Decide on the path taken.

4). Get you mind on board first! Include your mind – reason – just as a placebo has an affect on many things. It does here also. So see, taste, feel in your mind the reality of this. This put’s it out to the universe by visualizing the process and outcome daily – Believe in your training alter when needed.  If you see the goal as attainable it will be easier to attain.

#4 Sub note: To achieve your goal faster a quick hack – Give yourself Automation which will give you a lesser degree of failure when in the heat of play. The #4 hack is to build habit. By building habit you install your automation. This helps many successful people handle many complicated actions at once, be it a golf swing or a startup or a fortune 500 company.

5).  Apply enough consistency doing what you decided. This will enable the results to be effective.

6). Record your actions. Most improvements come from reflecting on this to better oneself.

7). Point of view, allow yourself to see what another view /angle of your activity is seen as. This by itself has propelled many golfers and very successful kings/Queens in all areas of life and business. Giving fresh perspective and new opportunities for success. In our case successful golf.

8). Association: You will notice in playing golf at your local club, many good golfers choose not to play with a not so good golfer. As some feel it affects their game. This is all in their minds. With confidence this fades away.

Why do I mention this law of association. That in golf you should play with better golfers a few times a week. Their golf will influence you.

This goes for all successful golfers and successful kings/Queens of products or services and aspiring entrepreneurs everywhere.

#8 Sub note: The Hack
A quick hack to get to your goal sooner then later is putting number 8 in hyperdrive – #8 Hack is hyper saturation. In golf it is immersing yourself in all about golf while NOT losing your focus on your end goal.

I was asked this one day and I feel you may be interested. He said to me, “ I feel I may not be good at golf or successful at business. I am of average means – How does one rise above the herd?”  I then said to him. It is immersion. This has been the hack that has risen those with less means (mentally and physically) to rise above those with greater abilities.©️

9.) Adjust your focus:

It’s not always a longer drive or a better iron shot. It’s the whole pace and not overreaching ones position to get two the green relying on chance. (ball landing in that perfect spot). Seeing a greater vision is good for you but a plan works best when using your clubs. (in business their team).

Using the right clubs: In business – successful entrepreneurs work through small goals and smaller steps to achieve them. Then by combining the smaller goals to reach the larger goals by doing this one can achieve much more at a faster rate. (Include immersion at all levels.)

Also in golf we have clubs to hit generally certain distances. So to does a business leader use certain people in their team to achieve certain small goals to move in the direction of their green.:-) ⛳️

Learn to play the game to win not drive the ball further.

Prospective

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