Golf Wiffle Balls Practice Tips

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. In this free golfing video series a professional golf instructor, Hill Marks, will explain several useful tips for practicing the game of golf from the comforts of home. Marks will begin by introducing golf Wiffle balls. These items are great for practicing the golf swing and correcting mistakes. Marks will waste no time demonstrating how hitting golf Wiffle balls with various clubs will help improve your game. He'll also suggest a few helpful putting for practicing at home. Watch these golf videos and start improving your golf skills from the comforts of home today.

Video Transcript

"OK, so plastic golf balls, these things are great. They also have Nerf golf balls that are about the same size, they're just sponge rubber. But a lot of times your neighbors, your other family members might not like it if you go in the yard or in the house and start swinging hitting real golf balls. Pretty much can break anything or you could hurt each other. So the plastic golf balls since one of the things I want you get out of the whole series of instructional segments that we're putting together is it's repetitions is the secret. So if you're at home or even at a park and you got these plastic golf balls you could just hit these endlessly. You see that's not so good so I don't break anything with that. There we go. So the plastic golf balls are really a great thing to practice because well it's not a real golf ball everything else is the same. So your able to get your full explosive swing through the ball so you're able to work on your alignment, you're able to work on your proper balance and you're able to work on everything that you need to work on and you’re getting the repetitions. So if you really want to become a great golfer invest in some plastic golf balls so that way you or your other family members can practice at home all the time and you can come up with all types of games. You know we used to just like put like a garbage can out there with the plastic golf balls and just try to hit it. So there's a lot you could do and it's great for your game. And it doesn't break anything at home so mom doesn't get mad."