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Golf Pitching And Short Game Tips - ...hitting most chip shots you want to use an open stance and keep the ball positioned toward the center of the stance or even lined up with your right foot (right handed players). During the chipping motion the length of the backswing should determine how far the ball goes, you should choke down on the pitching wedge also to promote better control and accuracy. Be sure to accelerate through the shot and keep the left hand and club shaft lined up through impact as this will promote a downward blow to the ball and prevent a scooping motion which can lead to fat or skulled...

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Lower Your Golf Score by Raising Your Golf IQ

Play Better Golf... Enjoy Life More!

Your goal of learning how to play better golf is shared by most golfers, but it often doesn't work out that way.

When you walk to the first tee you are full of optimism, but leave the 18th hole frustrated and vowing never to hit three balls into the lake on holes four and five again.

You know how fantastic the game of golf can be.

You know how terrorizing the game of golf can be.

There is a simple fact. Most of us are never going to score like Ernie or Phil. In fact, if you're like the "most of us," your average score hovers right around 100 for eighteen holes. Plus, if the average golfer really followed all the rules, their score would usually be three or four strokes over the century mark.

While I was growing up as a golfer my father taught me some important lessons that showed me how to score better without improving my swing.
His swing was far from perfect, yet in that important five-inch zone of clubface meeting the ball, he was doing the proper thing. He hit the ball and produced the resounding "click" we all savor. Not only the click, but the path of the club sent the ball in the proper direction.

His swing wasn't pretty; swing plane too flat, super-closed stance, abbreviated follow through and probably his weight shift was a bit suspect.

Yet he proved it's totally possible for a golfer with a less than perfect swing to score really well. He did that simply by adopting a proper attitude towards playing the game with a flawed swing but a golf-brilliant mind.

The supplemental lessons carried critical results. Those days on the course with my father showed me the importance of consistent integrity, how to be gracious in both victory and defeat and how to control emotions no matter what the problems or victories being experienced.

In many ways, the game of golf radically reflects the reality of life. That reflection is reciprocal in that to do well at golf you need to illustrate many of the characteristics of living that give you a good life. By the same token, the characteristics you need in order to play good golf can also help you achieve a better life.

Golf has been a game for the ages. It can also become a game for your life.

John Hitchcock is enthusiastically involved in his forty-fifth year in classrooms, both in New York State and California. John is also an avid golfer who has played many courses on both the east and west coast. As an educator, John has spent considerable time learning how the mind works in all avenues of learning, both in the classroom and on the golf course. Discover the system of using your mind to improve your golf by visiting the site http://yourgolfcentral.com. If you are interested in the broader system of using your mind to memorize more efficiently and to develop great critical thinking skills, go to the site http://education-for-excellence.com

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