What is the best golf lesson or tip you ever received?

[mvmac]

Hands in, club head out.

[ks8829]

Keep the putts low




Hit the little ball before the big ball




Don't be afraid to hit any club in your bag,

[Tiger Spuds]

Hands in, club head out.

What does that mean?

[Frito]

Watching a celeb on playing lessons overshoot the green from off the fringe 4x's, a buddy (who has never played a round of golf) said " you don't have to hit the ball hard , its a golf ball " has helped me considerably. I try to think about that everytime i take any kind of swing.

[Gioguy21]

"focus on the shot, breathe, swing"

[delav]

A playing partner recently asked me about my grip pressure. This one is easy to forget with all the swing thoughts running through the head. Tension in the wrists and hands, even in small amounts, can ruin the golf swing.

The other thing that has helped me is to leave the range with a maximum of one swing thought for the round. Keep this one swing thought in your head, and focus on tempo and rhythm throughout the round.

[Zeph]

Keep this one swing thought in your head, and focus on tempo and rhythm throughout the round.

Sounds like three thoughts to me.

[delav]

Sounds like three thoughts to me.

ha ha.. fair enough. One specific swing thought... timing and rhythm is always in the back of my head.

[walk18]

Weight forward (as in stack and tilt). No other advice I've gotten has even come close.

[kennay92]

When putting and hitting fairway woods, weight should be slightly on the heels. With irons it should be a little bit on your toes.

used this tip on the course today, actually worked really well.

[Zeph]

How do you hit a putt fat?

[sean_miller]

How do you hit a putt fat?

I wish I didn't know what stubbing my putter into the turf felt like.

[DavidFehertysBike]

I would have to say being told to use an alignment aid when i practiced is one of the most important things i was ever taught about hitting a golfball. I used to (still do from time to time) have a habit of aligning too far right. When i did that, I would come over the top and then have to hold off the face to get the shot back on line. Using the alignment aid on the groud fixed that and its the only circumstance where ive seen a immeadiate improvment in my ballstriking.

[jlh1508]

The biggest thing wasn't told directly to me


Someone on here had posted a video of their swing and Iacas mentioned to them that they were pushing their hands away from their body on the takeaway. Next time I went to the range I slowed down my swing and noticed I did the exact same thing. Keeping my hands on the same line and not moving them away from my body has completely changed my swing so far this season

[Jay-Bird]

Swing thoughts are your enemy.

[goblue107501]

From a playing partner -- he explained and encouraged me to learn how to hit choke down/abbreviated swing shots to expand the versatility of a club. Before that, I was a guy who would just hit everything hard. Then one day he showed me how he could be accurate with an 8-iron from 160 yards to 100 yards. He hit 4 shots from different distances all with an 8-iron and they were all pretty close to the same distance from the hole.

With any distance I have 2 or 3 options about what to hit and how to hit it. It has greatly increased the ability to hit greens and get balls close.

[tm22721]

Swing thoughts are your enemy.

You are right swing thoughts plague this game.

Get in this position, get in that position. Arrgghh. Dynamics make positions not the other way around. Nobody wants to talk about dynamics I wonder why. Maybe because dynamics can't be seen they can only be felt and feel is not real ?

[Clambake]

The best advice I've heard: "You're just not good enough to get angry with yourself". I had a tendency to really beat myself up when I'd play poorly, but hearing this tidbit helped me look at the game in a different perspective. I calmed down and got much better at shrugging off my bad shots and bad days, and this really helped me stay in the moment of each shot. And lo and behold, I actually did start playing to the level that I thought I should be all along.