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    Simple Golf Tips To Improve Your Swing

    By Hikerpro | March 10, 2010

    The golfers generally make a mistake when they hold the golf club loosely in their fingers but make their arms stiff. Thus, the golfer sometimes fails to hold good grip on the club and he consequently plays a poor shot.

    If you want to play a good swing, the club should be held tightly in your fingers. Assume that you are trying to lift a cup of coffee with your loose fingers but stiff hands. What would be the result? Most likely, you will drop it. The same may be the case with a golf club.

    To know how to play a proper pull comes after you learn to hold your club properly. If you pull too swiftly or from your elbow or shoulder, there will be a lot of tension in your arm and upper part of your body. You should go for a smooth swing with a firm control of your fingers on the golf club. This will help you to be in line with the shot and you will hit the ball to its destined target. And then, you can also bounce off your club in a proper manner.

    Once you master the technique of holding the club in firm fingers and set your club gently in the motion, you will be able to get proficiency in creative shot-making. You will play your best golf when you hold the club with firm grips.

    There are different ways in which you can swing your golf club. The most prominent one is the modern swing, also called the lower body swing or total body swing. Most first time young golfers having a thin body have been seen playing this specific shot called “tail swings the dog”. A young boy generally swings the club with his arms, but his body inertly twists a little in reaction to his arms’ and club’s movements across the front portion of his body. The flexible body of a young boy moves about in space due to the forces that are generated by his moving of arms while trying to play a swing.

    But most of the grown up men who have bulky body and a firm central torso play a shot which is called “dog swings the tail”. Generally, an over-weight man is seen playing such type of shot because he fails to bend his torso in response to the movements of his arms and the club.

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