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Free Golf Tip

How to Pick the Right Golf Club

Here is a free golf tip that offers one critical piece of advice that can help you lower your golf handicap. It is this: Be realistic, not optimistic, when picking your golf club.

Choose Between Two Realms

Most golfers live in two realms. There’s the one in which they can hit a seven-iron, say, 160 yards with perfect accuracy onto the green (like they did that one time at the local course a few months back), and the one where the typical seven goes about 145 yards. Since everyone remembers the great shots, many golfers will go ahead and take out that seven-iron from 160 yards away and try to muscle the golf ball to the pin.

A free golf tip: That is the wrong call. Either the golfer tries to muscle up with too small a club and miss-hits the golf ball, or hits it their usual length and leaves the golf ball short of the target. Golf is a hard enough sport when choosing the proper golf club; when that doesn’t happen, scoring low gets even tougher.



Choose Your Golf Club of Confidence

Instead of channeling your inner Tiger Woods when deciding which golf club to use, pick the one that you’re the most confident in from that particular distance. Choose what you think you can hit the required distance in 90% of the attempts, not the one that might be perfect 10% of the times but a worse option in the other 90.

That will encourage you to take a nice, easy golf swing at the ball, maintaining proper golf swing form and getting the desired result. An easy six-iron is usually a better shot than a muscled seven-iron, simply because it is easier to be relaxed and keep the correct form when you’re not focused on the need to generate extra distance. A consistent, repeatable stroke is the key to lower scores, so why choose the golf club that has a less consistent and possibly not repeatable result?

Let the Golf Club Reinforce your Choice

Don’t worry too much about hitting the golf ball too far, unless there is a severe penalty on the course for doing so. As a matter of fact, if you let the club do the work you'll be pleased that 90% of the time mentioned earlier. And if you focus on the golf club that you know you can hit for a particular shot, you’ll find that for each golf hole you are giving yourself a better opportunity for more pars, birdies and lower scores.

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