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Every golfer would like to have a golf training tip to increase their drives by 10, 20, 30 or even 40 yards. But what do you need to focus on to accomplish that?

Have you ever received a golf training tip that didn’t work? I think we all have. That can be very frustrating to say the least. But the key to implementing a golf training tip that’s effective is to look at your swing.

Do you lack a full, 90 degree shoulder turn on your backswing? Do you breakdown at impact where it really counts? Or do you have a hard time staying in your golf posture through out your swing?

You’ve got to take a deeper look at your swing faults AND physical limitations to determine what golf training tip will be the most effective in improving your driving distance.

Don’t just try any golf training tip your golfing buddies tell you. Give it some serious thought before you do one of the golf training tips in the magazines. There are hundreds golf training tips you can read about, but won’t work for you.

Have you ever heard of the “62 point check-list?”

If you haven’t, it means instead of having one golf training tip you think about during your swing, you think of 62 of them. Maybe not that many, but you think of enough to accomplish what they term “paralysis by analysis”.

When this happens, your swing will go south real quick. This happened to the Number One ranked golfer in the world back in the 90’s. His name? Nick Faldo. He became so mechanical he couldn’t even hit a ball. He would enter a tournament and take so many practice swings, and not keep one golf training tip on his mind, but many.

It took him right out of the world rankings and ultimately off the tour. He is now commentating and doing a great job.

Here’s a golf training tip that will help your backswing range of motion, enabling you to have a much higher clubhead speed and quickly improve your driving distance.

I call it the Backswing Shoulder Stretch:

* Extend left arm out in front of you (if you are a right handed golfer), in a handshake position, thumb pointing skyward.
*Take right hand and put under left wrist, so the back of the hands are touching each other.
* Pull with right hand against left wrist and make as big a turn on back swing as possible.
* Hold for at least 15 seconds, repeat two more times.
* Reverse the stretch to work the follow through.

As you can see this is a simple golf training tip, but one that is very effective if you do it consistently. This is a great stretch to do throughout your round to maintain a full backswing.

This is just one golf training tip that can have a big impact on your performance; and is well worth trying.

A better golf swing is inevitable…for any golfer, with the right approach.  It doesn’t matter age or ability.  It’s a reality…and can happen very quickly!

To achieve a better golf swing, a golfer needs to realize just how physically demanding it is on the human body.  You swing an object (golf club) at up to 100 mph.  This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles.

If these tissues of the body are weak, tight or brittle they will rupture and eliminate you from playing golf indefinitely.  If it doesn’t, your performance will pay the price.  The outcome either way is not what you want…but will happen without an emphasis on strengthening these areas.

Along with strengthening comes stretching.  Stretching muscles to attain a better golf swing is common among most golfers.  Although it is common, most golfers don’t stretch.  Why?  Because it is viewed as ‘work’.  But if it were viewed as a form of golf improvement it would be a different story.

Swing mechanics cannot be improved if your golf specific strength and flexibility are ignored.  It is an impossibility, unless you compensate for this lack of capabilities in your golf swing.  Teaching pros are now starting to realize there is a definite connection between golf swing mechanics and fitness.

But that’s where the BIG gap is.  Between instruction and physical fitness.  This is the ultimate combination for total golf performance and I have been preaching it for several years now.  When your physical capabilities are improved, your golf swing mechanics become much easier to achieve.

The next time you visit your teaching pro, to achieve a better golf swing, you’ll be able to do what he/she wants and the desired outcome will be achieved.  This outcome is inevitable when you get your body moving better.  Your golf swing mechanics fall into place.

It will only be a matter of time when all golfers will approach their golf improvement this way.  It’s the only way that will warrant lasting results and ultimately a better golf swing.

There are a lot of people feel that all it takes is a few golf lessons and then suddenly upon completion they are experts. They are Tiger Woods in the making…or so they think. Before you begin, see if you can shadow someone at a golf club for free. Shadowing someone with more experience in the game is an excellent way to improve your game. Just like in any sport, for example, football, it would be ridiculous for a football fan to wear a suit/tuxedo or his/her pajamas to a game.

-Wearing improper or uncomfortable gear on the golf course.

Improper gear such as, tee shirts with word phrases or sayings that have nothing to do with golf such as:  ‘I’m with stupid!’ should not be worn on the course. When in doubt…stick to plain golf shirts with neutral shades such as white, beige, red, black purple and grey.

Another big no-no is wearing a shirt and tie with slacks and your everyday office shoes is inappropriate gear and should be saved for your next corporate meeting, not a golf game.

-Good manners are not just for the dining room table or your favorite restaurant.’

Before your first day on the course, make sure that you eat healthy. Save the chili hotdogs for the Super Bowl.  Stay away from foods that cause gas and other anti social ailments.

Make sure that you do not skip meals and have enough drinking water to keep you hydrated. It would be embarassing to say the least if you fainted and had to be carried to a hospital on a stretcher.

Golf is a very quite yet intense game.

Leave the following things at home: Your 1980’s radio box. Many people feel that every sport should include music, including their golf game. Save the music boxes for your next family reunion.

-If you are a pet lover leave your cuties at home.

Pets are not permitted on the golf course…and it’s not cute at all.

-Yelling and obnoxious uncontrolled talking is not permitted.

Leave the talking for after the game. Whistling and singing are also very poor etiquette.

-The ultimate no-no is forgetting to place your cell phone on vibrate.

The major no-no is answering and making unnecessary phone calls while your opponent is putting.

-Practice truly does make perfect, especially during a golf game.

Don’t act as if you know everything there is to know about golf. If you do, you must have something to back it up like playing a good game. (Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk)

Always use common sense with a little consideration for fellow golfers on the golf course and you should be good to go. Hell! you be might even be invited to return.  Good luck to you and remember golf is a fantastic sport you will grow to love it before long and wonder why you never played it before now.

May the (course) be with you!