How to Fix Common Golf Problems

After you have practiced your golf swing (see How to Fix Your Golf Swing), you can move on to fixing specific problems. Here are golf's most common trouble spots and what you can do about them.

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Set Of Golf Clubs
• Golf Balls

Poor putting

1. Stand comfortably, with your feet closer than shoulder width apart. Grip the club lightly

2. Stand with your eyes directly over the ball. Your eyes should be parallel to the direction of the putt

3. Control the putter with your dominant hand. Maintain the same speed on your backstroke as on your forward stroke.

Slicing and hooking the ball

4. Review step 4 (How to Fix Your Golf Swing) to be sure you understand the swing plane.

5. The goal is to hold the club so that the shaft is parallel to the target line when you're at the top of your swing. If the club points to the left at the top of your swing, the result is a slice. If the club points to the right, the result is a hook.

Poor chip shots

6. Use a narrower stance than you do with short irons. Point both feet slightly toward the target.

7. Position your hands so that they are slightly ahead of the ball at the start of your swing.

8. Swing through the ball and resist the urge to decelerate the club before impact.

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Resources

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on 9/13/2008 i have started to stutter over the ball and it takes me ages to take my shot , any tips on how to over come this

on 8/22/2006 I try a lot of chipping techniques when I go golfing, but the one that I thought the best is like a normal shot, just with a different club. Play the ball on the front of the foot closer to the ball. Make sure that when the club goes horizontal that the club points to the flag and the club head is straight up. Then make the swing (if all those little steps are correct).

A really good way to practice is hitting dandelions. Take a couple swings at those when you are waiting for your partner(s) to shoot.

on 8/8/2006 All of the path and plane putters out there might want to try something a little more natural. It is not better than any other method, but it may work wonders for those of you who get too mechanical about putting. Call it an experiment and use the results to see if it works better than conventional methods.

Place a golf ball in the hand that you write and throw with. Stand on a practice green and attempt to drop and roll the ball into one of the holes. Do not think about anything that you have ever learned about putting! Just do what you naturally would do to roll the ball into the cup from a relaxed standing position. If you do this a few times you will notice a particular stance that you take (probably very open) without thinking and also that you let your dominant hand and arm hang perfectly above the line to the cup.

I propose that if you stand naturally open and position your dominant hand and arm above the putting line you will naturally (roll) your putts much better and much more accurately.

on 6/30/2006 All of the path and plane putters out there might want to try something a little more natural. It is not better than any other method, but it may work wonders for those of you who get too mechanical about putting. Call it an experiment and use the results to see if it works better than conventional methods.

Place a golf ball in the hand that you use to write and throw with. Stand on a practice green and attempt to drop and roll the ball into one of the holes. Do not think about anything that you have ever learned about putting! Just do what you naturally would do to roll the ball into the cup from a relaxed standing position. If you do this a few times you will notice a particular stance that you take (probably very open) without thinking, and also that you let your dominant hand and arm hang perfectly above the line to the cup.

I propose that if you stand naturally open and position your dominant hand and arm above the putting line you will naturally (roll) your putts much better and much more accurately.

on 11/22/2005 The putter is a golf club, and golf clubs are not meant to be swung up and down the target line. You wouldn't swing a putter-head straight back and straight through, it needs to swing inside the target line, square up and then release inside the target line. Think about that logically and try it next time on the practice green, watch how much easier it is to control 20 footers and how much easier it is to make short strokes that are controlled and easy to repeat.