FreeStuffEngine.com - A Proven Way to Lower Your Handicap Quickly By Tom Patri

Because every shot counts in golf, increasing your chances of success will have a profound impact on your score. One of the fastest ways to go from a 25 to a 20 handicap, a 20 to a 15, etc?is to create a consistent, workable pre-shot routine that leads you into proper set-up. The pre-shot routine and set-up, though two separate processes as far as development and practice are concerned, go hand in hand. When done properly, however, they are an awesome foundation for success.

Most players want not only to hit the ball farther, but to be able to hit it more consistently. The only way to do this is through proper set-up. In fact, without it, you sabotage your efforts since few, if any people have the preternatural athletic ability it would take to compensate each time for inconsistent set-up conditions. By setting up properly you allow yourself to develop the proper mind-body connection as well as hand-eye coordination to create a consistent, repeatable and powerful golf motion. We as humans are singularly ill built for this game we love called golf. We?re binocular bipeds who walk upright facing forward but the game requires us to take an inclined vertical position and rotate our heads while looking and aiming at a target some 200 yards away. From a physiological standpoint, we?re in big trouble, unless we can learn to compensate for these factors by properly adapting to them, on a consistent and regular basis, using an appropriate approach. This is where the pre-shot routine and proper set-up come in: they help us overcome our biological (tendencies/shortcomings (at least when it comes to golf)) that sabotage our game.

Before you can make the mistake of underestimating the importance of these two things, consider this: of the more than 20,000 lessons I?ve given in twenty-plus years, I have never had a non-professional student come and ask me to check their set-up or look over their pre-shot routine. On the flip side, of all the many PGA and LPGA professionals I?ve taught, I have never coached a single one who did not ask me to check their set-up and pre-shot routine. Not one.

Keep in mind as you develop a pre-shot routine that works for you, that it leads you to a sound set-up. And when developing your set-up, keep in mind that you must learn and incorporate the seven basic tenets of proper set-up: grip, alignment, posture and spacing, weight distribution, ball position, stance and foot position, and dispelling all tension. Learn these well, my friends, and you will go far -- by lowering your handicap quickly and significantly.

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added July 9, 2006 Because every shot counts in golf, increasing your chances of success will have a profound impact on your score. One of the fastest ways to go from a 25 to a 20 handicap, a 20 to a 15, etc?is to create a consistent, workable pre-shot routine that leads you into proper set-up. The pre-shot routine and set-up, though two separate processes as far as development and practice are concerned, go hand in hand. When done properly, however, they are an awesome foundation for success. Most players want not only to hit the ball farther, but to be able to hit it more consistently. The only way to do this is through proper set-up. In fact, without it, you sabotage your efforts since few, if any people have the preternatural athletic ability it would take to compensate each time for inconsistent set-up conditions. By setting up properly you allow yourself to develop the proper mind-body connection as well as hand-eye coordination to create a consistent, repeatable and powerful golf motion. We as humans are singularly ill built for this game we love called golf. We?re binocular bipeds who walk upright facing forward but the game requires us to take an inclined vertical position and rotate our heads while looking and aiming at a target some 200 yards away. From a physiological standpoint, we?re in big trouble, unless we can learn to compensate for these factors by properly adapting to them, on a consistent and regular basis, using an appropriate approach. This is where the pre-shot routine and proper set-up come in: they help us overcome our biological (tendencies/shortcomings (at least when it comes to golf)) that sabotage our game. Before you can make the mistake of underestimating the importance of these two things, consider this: of the more than 20,000 lessons I?ve given in twenty-plus years, I have never had a non-professional student come and ask me to check their set-up or look over their pre-shot routine. On the flip side, of all the many PGA and LPGA professionals I?ve taught, I have never coached a single one who did not ask me to check their set-up and pre-shot routine. Not one. Keep in mind as you develop a pre-shot routine that works for you, that it leads you to a sound set-up. And when developing your set-up, keep in mind that you must learn and incorporate the seven basic tenets of proper set-up: grip, alignment, posture and spacing, weight distribution, ball position, stance and foot position, and dispelling all tension. Learn these well, my friends, and you will go far -- by lowering your handicap quickly and significantly.
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