Rother Valley Golf Club

To improve your golf game, it's vital that you take golf lessons. Golf is a sport that is almost impossible to learn without some sort of guidance. Luckily, there are golf experts around the country whose job it is to teach golf. By taking golf lessons, you can drastically improve your game in a relatively short amount of time.

Taking golf lessons can be an expensive, time-consuming effort. And like any good or service that will cost money and require time, you should be careful before you buy. Golf can be a really costly game to play and it is reasonable to assume that you have invested a fair amount of money in your equipment - golf clubs, golf bag, golf balls, golf clothing, golf cart etc; - therefore doesn’t it make common sense for you to learn how to use them to their advantage and improve your skills and capabilities?

With scenic views of the Staffordshire Moorlands in the distance, Keele Golf Centre provideds a classic test of golf.This undulating course, carved through the mature trees which once formed part of the old Keele Hall Park measures some 6396 yards, par 72 from the back tees.

Everybody can benefit from the stability drills but they are especially helpful to golfers who make good mechanical strokes yet decelerate into impact. If you're not stable (accelerating) through impact every error you make is maximized in your results. Simply by making a tiny change from your present putting rhythm you may be able to change your unstable stroke to a stable one. And if you do your results will improve significantly even dramatically in pressure situations.

If making solid contact between putter and ball is a problem you can improve if you are willing to do some careful work. I say work because it will take about 20 000 solid practice strokes to make solid contact a habit. And I say careful because many golfers who try to change their stroke in search of more solid contact

Improve Your Stroke Mechanics 279 find themselves missing every putt to the right or left with their new solid stroke (because they practiced carelessly) and you don't want that.

The program we recommend has worked for almost every golfer we've given it to without creating other problems in the process. It involves finding and marking your putter sweetspot documenting your improvement progress and maintaining a good stroke path while you improve your impact pattern.

If your putter has a mark on its top line don't assume that is where you should address and strike your putts. Many manufacturers place those marks where they look good but don't do the engineering and quality control necessary to balance the putter weight so the sweetspot is really there.

After about 24 years of research I've determined that the easiest way to putt (notice I say "easiest " not "easy") is to roll putts from the True Roller. As shown in Figure 3.2.1 you can see that there's no stroke at all: Simply aim the True Roller and then release the ball from the height required to provide it with the necessary speed. Looks easy right? The True Roller never pulls or pushes putts its backstroke never moves inside or outside the line so you might think it would he unbelievably easy to make putts using it. But it's not that easy because you still have to know where to aim it and how fast and how far to roll the ball.

The True Roller is the easiest way to putt because it is as simple as starting the ball on the right line (in the right direction) and at the right speed. But that doesn't mean it is easy. I know because I use it all the time in my research to determine the right speed and the right line and it can take me many tries to find the perfect release point and direction. But once I've got them I can roll the same putt exactly the same way over and over and over again. And ultimately that's what you want your putting stroke to do. So the True Roller is as close to the ideal as I've found.

Not quite as easy as the 'true Roller but fairly close is rolling the ball as if you are shooting pool. In Figure 3.2.2 I 'm demonstrating this technique on a practice putting green. l've actually putted like this a number of times on a number of dif ferent greens and grass types because it proved to me just how important speed is to good putting. When "pool putting " starting the ball on the chosen line is sim ple but it doesn't help you choose the line and giving the ball the proper speed is just as difficult as it is when standing up and using your putter. Again this is not a method I think the USGA should allow. I'm merely explaining that it's not nearly as easy as you might expect it to be. (If you don 't believe me get a pool cue and try using it on some breaking putts on your practice green.) Just as with the True

Both of these methods are easier than other types of putting because they remove or at least reduce the difficulty of starting the ball on the desired line. But the pool method for sure (and to a certain extent the True Roller) is just as difficult as most other methods in transferring the correct speed to the ball.

This is a point worth repeating because most golfers don't think enough about the speed of their putts. Rather they focus on line. If you are a "line" putter try putting with a pool cue or a True Roller and I promise you'll learn to appreciate the importance of speed in making putts.

Golf Swing Tips

Now that you have the proper grip with your left hand, we can focus on the right hand. Take your right hand and place it underneath the handle of the club. Lift up your left forefinger from underneath the club so it can move freely. Interlock your right picky with your left forefinger.

Golf Lessons

Golf Lessons at Rother Valley Golf Club

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