The Top 4 Golfing Mistakes

Series Summary

Though Musselburgh, Scotland is home to The Old Links, oldest golf course in the world, golf is rumored to have begun in the Netherlands in 1297. After seven hundred years it still follows the same basic premise: hit a ball into a hole using a stick; the person who gets it in the least number of hits, wins. Today, a golfer may have any number of sticks, called clubs, made up of wood, graphite, or titanium. Each club has a specific use depending on the type, whether it’s the driver for an opening long ball, the wedge for shots out of the sand trap, the putter for the last short shot into the hole, or a variety of irons for anything in between.

The game starts with the first player placing a ball on a tee and driving it hundreds of yards down the fairway. Therefore, having a proper and efficient swing is one of the most important aspects of your golf game. Techniques for gripping and swinging confound even PGA tour golfers sometimes. And even if they hit a lucky shot down the fairway, many golfers don’t know how to reproduce the same great results over and over.

In these free golf instruction videos, learn how to improve the fundamentals of your golf swing, with tips and lessons on different types of clubs—hybrids, long putters, drivers—training equipment and practice techniques, how to account for the course in ball placement, and golfing strategies to help lower your handicap.

Video Transcript

" This is Johnny Miles from The Lake Powell National Golf Course in Page, Arizona coming to you with some hot golf tips for Expert Village. Today, I’m going to take you through several tips, and each one leads to the other. On the first one, we’re going to talk about the worst 4 things you can do in golf. All golfers here everyday. The first one is keep your eye on the ball. Second one: keep your left arm straight. Third one: keep your head down. And the fourth one, remember this, the ball is not the target. Now, let’s talk about the first one real quick. What else are you going to keep your eye on? If I threw a ball to you, what else are you going to catch? If try to do something consciously, you subconsciously do, you create tension. Keeping your left arm straight. There’s never been one good player in the history of the game that had a straight left arm. It hurts. At the turn of the century, some gentleman realized that if he extended his hands from his body he could take a shorter arch and have greater distance because he had a greater diameter or greater radius. A straight left arm is a swing killer. Keeping your head down; if you don’t let your head come up, you can’t see where the ball goes. Plus, it’s physically impossible to look up on a full swing. Your head has to come up so your body can respond to your arms. The last one, very simple; the ball is not the target. If I gave you a ball and said throw it against the wall, where would you throw it? You’d throw it against the wall. The wall is your target; the fairway is your target; the green is your target. Hopefully, the sand trap and that pond are not your target. Tell you what, forget about these things, listen to the rest of these tips and we’re going to make you a better player. "