Malaysia Golf Guide

The ongoing process of improving your golf swing is what keeps the sport of golf exciting. The key to improving your golf swing is focusing on one aspect of your swing at a time so you avoid the pitfalls of getting into bad habits. IF you can improve your golf swing, you are surely going to lower your handicap.

Each generation of golfers is better than the golf legends who have preceded us because we all learrn from their experiences. A lot of people (including myself) have also experienced a better drive when they go over the most basic rules of a better swing. Even if you are an experienced player like myself, I would encourage you to learn these basic 10 rules of a better gold swing.

1. Stand less than an arms length away from your tee, face the ball and your target, with both of your feet together pointing outward ever so slightly.

2. Let your arms hang naturally down from your body and place the club behind the ball. If your shoulders hunch or you have tension in your arms, you are probably too close to the ball. Stand back a little bit.

3. Place about 70 percent of your body weight on your back leg.

4. Straighten your backbone and slightly bend your knees.

5. Keep your eyes on the golfball during your entire swing

6. Grip the club as if you are holding a small, delicate lizard. When holding your lizard, your grip should be comfortable and relaxed so your arms can follow through with the swing…whether the Geico in the commercial likes it or not!

7. A proper golf swing will have a fluid motion with your shoulders turning slightly in the backswing and your follow-through complete.

8. Make sure you keep your feet planted and slow down in your backswing. Most problems with a golf swing are cause by swinging too quickly in the back swing and then not accelerating through the ball.

9. You will want to hit the ball in the “sweet spot” or the center of the club. Hitting it anyplace else will cause your ball to travel in directions that you really don’t want it to go in.

10. Then grip it and rip it!

There are numerous golf tutorials that exist on the internet that can help you with your golf swing, so always look for information and take as much advice as you can get. Learn and do what you see. The best way is to always practice your swing the same way every time.

Learning to swing a golf club takes years of practice as any avid golfer will tell you. There are “a hundred” things to know and they all have to be working in exactly the right ways at exactly the right time to a have a good, consistent golf swing. Sometimes this just doesn’t happen, but when it does, it certainly is a great feeling!