Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
Here’s a simple golf drill to help you understand release and how to strike your irons better. All you need to do is stand with your feet together, squeezing the knees together, and swing back and through keeping those feet and knees very still.
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
A common fault golfers make is to let their right knee spray outwards towards the ball as they come into strike the shot. This leads to inconsistent golf ball striking and wayward iron shots. To improve your golf ball striking you need to get the right knee driving through the ball at the left knee.
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
If you want to improve your golf ball striking then you need to learn to let the right hand rotate around the body and release the golf club. To get this feeling you can practice swinging with the right hand only. TG Top 12 Teacher Lee Scarbrow demonstrates how this one-arm drill works.
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
Here’s a golf drill to help you feel how to hit against a strong left side. Take your normal address position then simply place your right foot behind your left foot. Now hit the golf shot. You should feel a great release of the hands against the strong left side.
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
Quite often golfers get confused by what is a correct golf shoulder turn. They feel like they’ve made a full turn simply by swinging the arms. This isn’t the case. You need to learn to turn your chest, not your shoulders, to make a full turn.
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
In order to strike your irons better focus hard on the back of the golf ball. An easy drill to do this is to simply draw a line on the back of the golf ball and another line down the middle of the golf club head. Now try to get the two lines to meet. This will encourage you to transfer maximum power...
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
One of the common mistakes golfers make is to allow their left foot to spin out as they hit the shot. This leads to inconsistent golf ball striking and errant golf shots. TG Top 12 Teacher Lee Scarbrow demonstrates a simple practice golf drill placing four golf balls around your left foot to train you to keep it in place.
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
The key to striking your irons better is to learn how to squeeze the golf club into the ball. A simple way to get this feeling is to set a row of tee pegs in the ground four to fix inches behind the ball and then try to miss them before striking the ball. TG Top 12 Teacher Lee Scarbrow demonstrates how...
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
In order to strike your irons better you need to maintain width in your golf backswing. TG Top 12 Teacher Lee Scarbrow demonstrates a simple golf instruction exercise holding the golf club in one hand only to train you to maintain great width in your backswing.
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
The golf grip is one of the most important fundamentals in golf so you should take some time to learn how to hold the golf club correctly. TG Top 12 Teacher Lee Scarbrow takes you through the checkpoints you need to cover in order to form the golf grip correctly. This video instruction tip takes you through the basics of forming the...
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Tuesday 25 November 2008
To improve your golf ball striking you need to start by improving your golf posture. TG Top 12 Teacher Lee Scarbrow shows you how to flex your knees correctly to engage your thigh muscles and get into an athletic golf posture address position. Watch this golf posture video tip on how to get into the perfect golf posture and make...