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Are you a beginner golfer struggling to improve quickly or someone keen to start playing the game wanting to get off to a fast start? Well this is the video for you as we've collated 11 of the best tips from Golf Monthly staff who've been there, done it, got the t-shirt and now play off a single figure handicap index. Hopefully the advice the team share will speed up your journey to better and it's worth saying that these tips don't just apply to beginner golfers - we're confident there will be some that apply to more experienced golfers too!

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00:00Now, are you a beginner golfer that's not improving as quickly as you'd like?

00:03Well, watch this video as we've got a collection of great tips and bits of advice from single

00:07figure golfers that are really going to help speed up your improvement.

00:10Well, my best tip for a beginner golfer would have to be just learn to smash it.

00:18Learn how to hit it hard, learn how to swing quick.

00:21It's far easier later on down the line to learn how to sort of tighten up your technique

00:26and tidy up a few things than it is to learn how to find extra speed and extra power.

00:31It helps you with so much other stuff, being able to shift it.

00:33That comes from the great man himself, Jack Nicklaus.

00:36He always said, especially for kids, learn how to hit it a long, long way.

00:39Learn how to move the club fast and you can refine it later.

00:42I think I would say don't get too one-dimensional around the green.

00:46Don't just get somewhere near the green and automatically reach for a wedge,

00:50which I think a lot of, certainly I, when I was a beginner, I thought,

00:52well, that's the club you're supposed to use around the green.

00:54But what you're doing there is bringing a lot of loft into the equation you don't necessarily need.

00:58You've got to hit it a little bit harder because it's going to go up in the air more.

01:02And you can actually simplify things with various other clubs,

01:04maybe seven iron, chip and run.

01:06These days, even a hybrid and quite often a putter.

01:10So simplify things around the green and you'll take fewer shots.

01:14So yeah, my number one tip would just be learn how to strike the ball consistently

01:19and just learn your yardages.

01:20The amount of times that golfers will be stood over a shot from say 150 yards and they won't know

01:26what club goes 150 yards is a big problem.

01:29Obviously, if you can hit that club the same distance consistently, you're going to be pinned

01:33high and you're going to be more likely to have a more chance of getting a good score going.

01:36So I think the main tip I'd give is just learn your yardages and make sure you're hitting it

01:40consistently. That would be the main tip.

01:42So my beginner's tip would be to practice with intent. So make sure when you're going

01:46out to the range or if you're going to put any practice in, whether it's putting,

01:50short game, make sure that you're practicing something specific

01:53rather than just going out hitting balls and not having anything to focus on.

01:56My top tip for a beginner golfer? Well, that's a tough one because there's so many out there,

02:01but if I had to pick one, I would say playing your own swing. If you play with a fade or a draw,

02:07play with that. Don't try anything new or fancy. Head out onto the driving range before a round of

02:12golf and before you head out onto 18 holes and just see how you're swinging it. If your ball

02:16flight is going left to right or right to left, play with that for that day. Don't try and resort

02:21to anything different that you're not used to or you're not hitting that day. You're going to end

02:25up with a far better score and you'll be better off if you play with what you've got than trying

02:30something new and something different. So my best bit of advice for beginner golfers would be to have the

02:35intention of hitting the ground on the target side of the golf ball. Most beginner golfers have a

02:41misconception that they need to hit up on the ball to get the ball in the air. Actually,

02:45the opposite is true. Having the intention of hitting the ground at speed in front of the golf

02:50ball is going to deliver better compression into the golf ball, a bit more spin, and it's going to

02:55give you more carry distance and also better control of your strike as well. When I've been trying to

03:00help my wife get into playing golf, one of the drills or the swing thoughts I give to her is literally

03:04trying to hit the ball into the ground. That gets the club and body working in the right way to be

03:09able to compress the ball, hit down on it with speed. That should give you better strikes, better

03:14distance, and better consistency. That would be my one thing, if you're a beginner, to really focus

03:19on with every club in the bag apart from driver. Most people know that alignment is really important,

03:24but a really good way to think about it is to imagine that you're standing on a train track and your feet

03:28are on the nearer of the two tracks and your ball to target line and your club face is on

03:34the other track. It's that kind of parallel setup that you need to address that will give you really

03:38good alignment. Right, so my tip for beginners is get yourself off the driving range if you can.

03:45Play with good golfers as well because you'll learn a little bit from them. You'll see what they do

03:49around the greens with their shots, their game management, and the more you get on the golf course,

03:53the more you get away from the driving range, the more comfortable you'll get with this quite scary

03:57environment at times. I think the better you'll get quicker. Right, so my number one tip for beginners

04:03would be to tee it forward. I see a lot of beginners trying to tee off yellow tees, white tees a little

04:09bit further back and struggling a lot, whereas teeing it forward allows people to take the pressure off

04:15quite quickly and you hit shots closer to the hole quite quickly. It also, I think, makes the game

04:21faster. I think it makes it more fun as well. Also, from doing it in the past myself, I think you hit

04:28a lot of different clubs in the bag when you tee it forward as well. I think to help players,

04:34teeing it forward is the best way to go, I think, especially for beginners.

04:37Well, when I was a junior, the thing that always really benefited me was to keep my stats on my

04:42scorecard. What I used to do was, along with the score down the left-hand column, I actually marked

04:48G for greens hit, F for fairways and P for the number of putts. 20 years have gone on and there's

04:54now a number of different, more modern methods of doing this than just the pencil and paper scorecard

04:59form. There's ARCOS shot tracking technology where you can actually have the stats recorded on your

05:06phone or through your Apple Watch. I know that's a really, really easy way of doing it. I just

05:11thoroughly recommend keeping your stats because you're just going to have so much more knowledge of

05:15the areas of your game that you're going to need to improve to reduce that handicap.

05:19My best tip for beginner golfers would probably be just to practice your chipping and putting.

05:24I think the wedge play and short game definitely covers more than half of your shots in a round of

05:28golf. Practicing your chipping and putting, doing little drills that will take shots off your score,

05:33will dramatically reduce your handicap and make your golf more enjoyable.

05:37There you have it. Loads of really good advice, hopefully, that you'll agree that's going to help you,

05:41if you're a beginner golfer, improve a little bit faster. Go and take them away with you to the

05:45practice ground, to the golf course, and hopefully, you'll see your scores tumble. That's all for me

05:50from Effingham Golf Club. I'll see you next time.

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