How to Warm Up on the Golf Course

Series Summary

Although it is a popular game amongst people of all ages, the game of golf can be challenging. Whether you are an absolute beginner, or someone who has been playing for a while, golf lessons can help you improve your game at any stage. Golf, like most sports, is one where practice makes perfect. Unfortunately though, it is a sport where practice can often be expensive. Since you can’t practice your game in the backyard, it is necessary to be able to maximize your time at the range or on the course so you can see the most improvement.

If you are looking to fine tune your golf skills, this free video series is perfect for you! Our expert, Kevin Kenny, shows you some golf tips to improve your golf game on the course. Learn how to warm up for a game of golf. Also, learn how to practice your golf swing with woods, irons, drivers, chipping wedges, and more! Kevin shows you how to analyze a golf green, and how to align yourself with the hole. If you are looking to strengthen your mental golf game, Kevin gives you tips to relax your anxiety. So, what are you waiting for ? With the help of free professional golf instructors, you can learn how to play great golf today!

Video Transcript

"JOHNNY MILES: In this clip, what I'm going to do is to explain how to properly warm-up when you get to a golf course whether it'd be for a practice session or to play. The first thing you ought to do is stretch out your golf muscles. One of the easiest ways is to get a weight. Here I've got a donut. You can buy it at any golf shop. It slips over your grip end. It makes a club about twice as heavy as normal and concentrates all the weight down by the head, and that way you can take some nice slow swings and you're really stretching out those golf-specific muscles. The ones you're going to use when you make your golf swing. All right. I also like to make sure that I stretch out my shoulders a little bit more. I'll get a club and kinda turn like this, make sure I can hold that angle on the way through. I'll get my hips loosened up by doing this. All right. Then once you feel nice and loose, take the donut, throw it to the side. All right, and then what you want to make sure you do is you want to make sure that you start small. You don't want to set up the first golf ball in the range and take a full swing. Make sure you can make it go straight for 10, 15, 20 yards before you ever think about a hundred or a hundred and fifty. So the first shots on the range should just be little half shots or little pitches. Just make a few swings. You're trying to get a feel for the club head. You're trying to get a sense of balance. And once you know you can make it go straight for 10 or 20 yards, then you slowly increase the length of the swing from little half shots to maybe something a little more three-quarters. If you can't make those go straight, then you're kidding yourself thinking you're going to make a really long full swing go straight. So when you get to the golf course, get yourself nice and stretched out, start real short, chip and pitch a few, then half swings to three-quarter swings before you ever make a full swing."