Whitefields 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?

The ever maturing Whitefields, West Midlands Golf Club and Course was opened in 1992, has it’s own natural drainage and has rarely closed in its first decade. With Draycote water lapping the 13th hole, stunning views can be found all year round on the truly long and pleasurable hole.

Do you read the instructions on how to open a package before you open it? How to operate a new VCR before you turn it on? Where to put the batteries to dispose of them properly? Most of us don't and most of us putt without knowing the rules of the putting game. Knowing the rules is good and sometimes helps (Figure 15.2.1).

Putting can be (although for most golfers is not) a simple mechanical motion controlled by your mind through a series of simple mental considerations. But you don't have to be a genius to understand everything about putting.

The physical act of putting is an exercise in physics. Balls being struck by swinging pendulums rolling across uneven and imperfect surfaces falling into or missing holes in greens is not rocket science (and I have studied both putting and rocket science so 1 should know). But it is simple science and obeys simple scientific rules (friction gravity square putterfaces and in-line stroke paths).

Because so many people assume that putts can spin all the way to the hole and are obsessed with the idea of overspin I built a putter that let me examine and evaluate the benefit of true overspin. I embedded a razor blade just above the center of a putterface (Figure 4.9.4) making sure the sharp edge of the blade would contact the ball above its geometric center and impart true overspin.

I tested the razor-blade putter versus an identical putter with a normal face and counted how many putts each one holed. On very short putts - inside three feet - the razor putter performed pretty well. However on longer putts it created true initial overspin that caused the balls to "grab" on the green and jump forward uncontrollably.

But there was more. If the grass was damp or I was putting against the grain the overspin didn't take and the ball didn't travel as far; when the grass was dry or when putting with the grain the spinning ball grabbed and jumped forward to roll widely divergent distances. So overspin if you could create it causes inconsistency. Which is why I say "Forget about it!"

In sections 4.4 through 4.9 the factors discussed are the building blocks involved with the swinging action of your putting stroke mechanics. From here on in this chapter the factors I'll explain will be ones relating to your body mind and equipment. While all of these are less familiar and less popular to work on than the other fundamentals of stroke mechanics that doesn't mean they won't be important to your success on the greens.

Golf Swing Tips

Here is a picture at full speed. The wrists have completed their roll through the ball. The left elbow is close to the body, and about ready to break, allowing for follow through.Now, I'll take you into the follow-through. This will be simple. Basically just keep turning around your spine. If you have flipped your wrists correctly, you won't have to bother too much with the follow through. However, there is a basic position that you should be in when you finish the swing. You should be facing the target, and your right and left forearms should be crossed. Your right forearm should be closest to you, and the club should be out towards left field.

Golf Lessons

Golf Lessons at Whitefields Golf Club

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Dave Pelz's Putting Bible - golf's least understood skill.

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