Golf Practice Blog

For many fair-weather golfers, April is a time to dust the cobwebs out of the golf bag, re-grip the golf clubs, and toss out the golf balls that turned to cement over the winter.

In his post at Findalesson.com, Daniel Walker says the off season is the best time to focus on the needed improvements for your game. If you’ve waited until April (now almost May), your off season is coming to a close. So with the below advice in mind, it’s time to get to the practice range!

In his post, located here, Walker says many drills can be done with or without a club, and either inside or outside. The DVD from Jim McLean, Golf Warm-Ups and Exercises, will give you a chance to stretch and work out the golf muscles that have gone into atropy during the Winter. Jim and his team of experts provide a series of entertaining exercises that will mentally and physically prepare a golfer to tee off to a lower score. These exercises are also designed to work on muscle memory and are paced for interactive participation. Jim McLean’s Golf Warm-Ups will not only be a valuable edition to everyone’s DVD library, but it will be a wonderful asset for your overall game.

In addition to the McLean video, here are the top four golf training aids from PracticeRange.com that will help improve your flexibility and get those golf muscles back in shape:

1. 8Board Training Device - Developed by pro athletes, the 8board uses a rhythmic, double-swivel figure-8 motion, trains the body to move fluidly.

2. Dynaflex Pro Gyro Trainer - Gyros strengthen your wrists, arms, grip and range of motion. Rotor reaches speeds up to 9,000 RPM and puts out 35 lbs. of torque.

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3. SKLZ Power Sleeve - Ideal for warmup or stying in shape during the off-season. Increases shot distance and golf muscle strength and flexibility.

4. GolfGym Power Swing Trainer - A program of just 10 minutes a day, three times a week is all most golfers need to remain golf-ready.

Yes, golf is a gentlemen’s sport.  Yes, it’s always the indian and not the arrows. But there are moments in a golfer’s life, when the frustration becomes too much to deal with in a refined way. The only way to get back to  even keel is to throw the offending club as far as  you possibly can .  Here are some video tips to get the most out of this cathartic experience.

I’ve never seen the swing explained this way. This video tip from J.C. Anderson does an amazing job of breaking the golf swing down into just a few simple swing thoughts.  Worth writing down and sharing.

When I haven’t played for several months, the first thing I want to do is crank up the driver and lauch a bucket.  It’s hard to get excited about spending time around the practice green searching for the ”feel” you know will take weeks or longer to get back. 

We all know, nearly 60 percent of the shots in a round are played within 100 yards so isn’t this the area we should practice at the beginning of the season?

Here’s a great tip from Jason Sutton that will start your season off on the right foot by practicing off the “right foot”.  It’s called the Stork Drill and it will focus you on hitting short shots with a solid impact first. 

Stork drill: Hit chips, pitches and sand shots with your rear foot off the ground and up on your toe for balance. This places most of your weight on your front leg to give you a descending angle of attack, essential for solid contact.  Here’s a link to Jason’s full tip.

After getting back consistent and solid impact, restablishing your touch and feel around the green will be much easier. 

Bringing out the big dog and launching a large bucket can wait.

We’ve taken notice lately that many of our customers purchase certain items as a specific group. Though we present “recommended items” on the bottom of most training aid detail pages, our customers often will surf accross the entire site in order to find the three specific things that either their pro recommended or that they saw on the Golf Channel.

To that end, we have created ten new training packages that we feel will allow our customers a one-stop-shop for the most beneficial combinations of some of our best selling items. What’s more, we’ve applied a discount to the entire package that you can’t get by purchasing them separately. We’re adding new packages all the time, so if you don’t see a compilation of your favorites yet, keep checking back.

Take a look at all of our Training Combo Packages here under the training aids category.

If you have an idea for a training combo that you think would be beneficial, please feel free to contact us.

By RODNEY PAGE, Times Staff Writer
Published October 11, 2007
TampaBay.com

Alyssa Serino is eight-years-old, but she already has a room full of medals and trophies from various junior golf tournaments. She quickly figured out that the first place trophies are much bigger than the others, so she is going to try to win more of those. But perhaps the best prize she has won so far is a remote control dog she aptly named “Robot Dog.”“I was playing with my Grandpa Tony Serino and I said if I beat you on this hole then you have to buy me a toy at the store,” Alyssa said. “And he said if he wins then I have to give him one of my Bridgestone golf balls. I beat him so I got to go to the store.”

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SANFORD, Fla. - I GOTCHA Ready, the preferred warm-up system of the Champions Tour, is rapidly becoming a campus staple. Pro Line Sports, the producers of the unique egg-shaped warm-up system, recently filled orders for both the University of Florida and the Texas A&M University Women’s Golf teams.

“We’re proud to be chosen as the warm-up system for these two fine programs,” said Jim Light, Pro Line Sports President. “It’s particularly fitting that we’re entering the world of collegiate golf because we relied heavily on academia to design a system that would be all-encompassing in stretching the golf muscles prior to the round and yet simple at the same time.”

Using the advice of academic kinesiologists, the product designers at Pro Line Sports came up with an egg-shaped weighted rubber device with a tapered slot that can be quickly and easily attached to any club. The key is the three different placements of the I GOTCHA Ready on the shaft of the club.

To begin the warm up, the I GOTCHA Ready is placed in the center of the shaft and swung 10 times to help promote tempo. Then using the quick & easy twist and lock design of the I GOTCHA Ready, it’s easily moved up just under the grip and 10 swings later, the golfer’s arm muscles will allow full release through the ball. The final placement is just above the club head. With the muscle memory developed by the first 20 swings and two placements, the rest of the golf muscles are properly loosened before the first shot of the round is struck.

“I think the athletes on these two outstanding teams will find that by using the I GOTCHA Ready Warm-Up System before their practice sessions they will have a much more effective practice than ever before,” said Light.

The I GOTCHA Ready is available in three weights: 8.5 ounces for men, 5.5 ounces for women and 10.5 ounces for professionals.

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Kay Adkins
Baptist Press
Sep 13, 2007

GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP)–By personal experience, teaching golf professional Scott Lehman discovered a principle that many church men’s ministries are discovering as well: Where there is a common interest in an activity, there is an inroad to a man’s heart. About 10 years ago, Lehman for the first time in his life entered a Christian bookstore seeking help for his then-failing marriage. He soon noticed a book with a golf theme — the devotional “In His Grip” by Jim Sheard and Wally Armstrong. He picked it up and began reading it.

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By JODY ROBBINS
CTW Features

The most common injuries are sorted into two categories: chronic and traumatic. Chronic injuries occur thanks to repetitive movements, a tennis swing, for instance. Traumatic injuries happen, quite obviously, because of a more sudden occurrence, like taking a hard hit on the sports field or a car crash.Either way, proper stretching for flexibility and body strengthening can make all the difference, helping you pursue your favorite hobbies with less pain and for longer. The point is to strengthen muscles around the injured spot and to counteract the effects of repetitive movement.

Click here to read the rest of this article by Jody Robbins from PhillyBurbs.com.

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Richard Oliver
San Antonio Express-News

FREDERICKSBURG — The sun had long ago nestled into the rich green hills of the Edwards Plateau, disappearing in another spectacular splash of light and color, when Hal Sutton settled into a chair in one of the rustic, cedar-scented cabins at Boot Ranch.
The celebrated golfer had a sermon to deliver. Tucked away in the bucolic expanse of the exclusive 2,050-acre resort, six miles north of the nearest stoplight, Sutton did so in a honeyed Louisiana drawl.

Click here to read the rest of this article about Hal Sutton, written by Richard Oliver of the San Antonio Express News.

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