Which Golf Tips Should You Follow?

by Tom Wilson

So you have come to the internet in search of some good free golf instruction and suddenly you seem to have hit the golf tip jack pot - a source of golf tips that are easy to follow and seem real good. Common sense tells us there will be good golf tips and bad golf tips. Which tips for golf instruction should you follow ? The answer depends on your current level of golf ability. Are you an accomplished golfer? Which golf tips will work for the current level of your golf game. Unfortunately golf tips typically are not labelled for the beginner or low handicapper. The question is, how do you decide which golf tips to listen to?

In general on the golf course you should only accept instruction from a golfer who has a handicap that is in the single digit range. Why? because to acheive this golf level the person actually must be technically and mechanically sound with more than 80% of their golf game. There are decent golfers with handicaps of say a 15 or so but have no clue and consistency to their game.

What should you expect from the Internet? Well your focus should be on the golf basics such are posture, alignment, grip and balance. I know, there are certain golf tips which are universally sound, like, keep your head still. ( this should only be done in putting by the way! )

By the way, even if you have no interest in golf instruction, you still have to deal with it in one form or another.do you read golf magazines or golf books, do you watch golf videos, do you watch golf on TV? Do you tinker with your golf swing at all? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then golf instruction is affecting your golf swing!

But equally there are plenty of other golf tips that can be ruinous even when given with the best of intentions

In particular I recall a good player with whom I'd played many rounds who always drew the ball right to left, usually with good control. One day when his draw was a bit exaggerated, his partner suggested this perfectly sound golf tip: You know, if you were to keep your right elbow well tucked in on the downswing you would lose that nasty hook.

The suggestion was well meant. However, for a player who had a well grooved habit of swinging slightly over the top of the ball, as Arnold Palmer was wont to do, it proved to be one golf tip too much. He became so conscious of his right elbow that it threw the whole of the rest of his swing out of shape and it took him months to get it back again.

The point is that the golf tip didn't fit in with the rest of his golf swing.

This is a mistake that many golfers make. They listen to all the golf tips out there and try to adopt them all in their desperate search for a good swing. It is my belief that your aim should be to groove a golf swing that will give you streams of straight and long golf shots by modelling your swing on one set of advice.

Think how long some of the most famous partnerships between players and their swing coaches have lasted. Think of Jack Nicklaus and Jack Grout, Tiger Woods and Butch Harmon, Nick Faldo and David Leadbetter to name but a few. All these great players relied on one coach's vision of their swing to keep their mind movie in shape. They did not go asking for golf tips from other players.

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