The best tips ever

[flopdarock]

tee 'em high an lettem fly

[D_Jetson]

Grip pressure - on a scale of 1-10: 0.5

Maintain good posture

Visualize the shot

[flopdarock]

keep extra stuff in your pockets so you dont have to keep going back to your bag...
balls
tees
marker
repair tool

[DavidFehertysBike]

Take your grip on the club before grounding it behind the ball. That way you aim the club instead of letting the club aim you. It has been especially useful to me in putting.

[Voiceontapex]

i heard one time when driving the ball, to act as if you have a sledge hammer and are trying to slam down a brick wall,

which really helps you drive thru the ball, I did this the other day, showed my brother and i dont think we ever drove the ball better

just by acting as if the ball was a big brick wall, and trying to slam thru it, helped me =]

[Stacey_E]

  D_Jetson said:

Grip pressure - on a scale of 1-10: 0.5

That's awesome! If you have a good grip it takes about a .5, MAYBE a .6.

Don't take golf advice from someone that can't beat you 10 times out of 10. And in the words of Boomhauer on "King of the Hill" ...."Speed it the hell up!"

[hancho]

for solid contact, keeping and maintaining my right knee flex was the answer. At the beginning, i would try to keep my head still but the results were about 50% solid contact, when i added the following the tip, my contact went from 50% to 90% solid contact on all strikes. Of course grip, posture, ball position are also critical, but that is assuming you mastered these tips already. Another tip is to shorten backswing. Also i started choking down on the club after I heard anthony kim does it and i have had success with this change also without sacrificing distance.

[Prodigy]

the best tip i can give to anyone is dont look for tips to improve you game.....practice

[allenz]

. " Always be positive, and have fun. "...........

[Jared]

Target, target, target.

Take dead aim. Not sometimes. All the time. On every shot. Take dead aim.

[Golfgal]

Okay, now this is probably going to get all you golfguys in a tither (moderators, you may have to step in ). But the best tip I ever got (as a woman) was from Ben Hogan when he said, "Ladies, squeeze your breasts together."

I swear it fixes any slice in your bag!

[IMHO, it keeps us women from swinging with our arms and makes us move our bodies as one unit in the back swing.]

[Guest]

Keeping your head still on the takeaway is absolutely critical. Keeping the head still on the rest of the back swing is important. Keeping the head still on the downswing isn't important at all--you should be focusing on hitting the ball. [note: i actually prefer to keep my eye line and belt line level during the takeaway. but thinking of the head is OK too.]

The only grip in golf is the Vardon or overlapping grip. No other grip exists. Yes, Tiger uses an interlocking grip, but you're no Tiger. The reason the overlapping grip is the only grip is because it moves the bottom hand higher up on the grip than the 10 finger or interlocking grip. The overlapping grip also prevents you from putting too much pressure on the grip.

[xMATHISx]

"Mathis...has anyone told you golf was relaxing?"
"yes..."
"Well..they LIED! You're always going to have off days once and a while and you will always work on your swing or some part of you game. Your golf game is a constant work in progress. Even when you play good, you need to work on things"

Said to me by a friends dad after I had a terrible day.

[schapman]

For me it's 3 things

Keep the head steady
Keep the left arm straight
Rotate my left shoulder (i'm right handed) back and pull it around my spine angle.

Seems to have done wonders for me lately just focusing on that.

[misty_mountainhop]

  ra300z said:

...The only grip in golf is the Vardon or overlapping grip. No other grip exists. Yes, Tiger uses an interlocking grip, but you're no Tiger. The reason the overlapping grip is the only grip is because it moves the bottom hand higher up on the grip than the 10 finger or interlocking grip. The overlapping grip also prevents you from putting too much pressure on the grip.

Didn't Nicklaus use the interlock as well? Not sure about the "cause and effect" here but use of the interlocking grip may be worth a look-see....

[Iowa Hawkeye]

Don't get rattled by bad shots.

[Hoselrockets]

After a real bad round a good buddy of mine said "take two weeks off then quit!" then your swing will be fixed.

[kilbyman]

Make your inclination to the ground perpindicular to the club shaft.  Then, use your shoulders to rotate around the spine. The club shaft should always be perpindicular to your inclination to the ground.