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.
00:14Well, 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
01:18and just learn your yardages.
01:21The amount of times that golfers will be stood over a shot from say 150 yards
01:25and they won't know what club goes 150 yards is a big problem.
01:29Obviously, if you can hit that club the same distance consistently,
01:32you're going to be pinned high and you're going to be more likely to have a more chance
01:35of getting a good score going.
01:36So I think the main tip I'd give is just learn your yardages
01:39and make sure you're hitting it consistently.
01:41That would be the main tip.
01:42And so my beginner's tip would be to practice with intent.
01:45So make sure when you're going out to the range,
01:47or if you're going to put any practice in, whether it's putting, short game,
01:50make sure that you're practicing something specific
01:52rather than just going out hitting balls and not having anything to focus on.
01:57My top tip for a beginner golfer.
01:59Well, 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.
02:05If you play with a fade or a draw, play with that.
02:08Don't try anything new or fancy.
02:10Head out onto the driving range before a round of golf.
02:13And before you head out onto 18 holes and just see how you're swinging it.
02:16If your ball flight is going left to right or right to left, play with that for that day.
02:20Don't try and resort to anything different that you're not used to,
02:24or you're not hitting that day.
02:25You're going to end up with a far better score and you'll be better off
02:28if you play with what you've got than trying something new and something different.
02:32So my best bit of advice for beginner golfers would be to have the intention
02:36of hitting the ground on the target side of the golf ball.
02:40Most beginner golfers have a misconception that they need to hit up on the ball
02:44to get the ball in the air.
02:45And actually the opposite is true.
02:47And having the intention of hitting the ground at speed in front of the golf ball,
02:51it's going to deliver better compression into the golf ball, a bit more spin,
02:54and it's going to give you more carry distance and also better control of your strike as well.
02:59So when I've been trying to help my wife get into playing golf,
03:02one of the drills or the swing thoughts I give to her is literally try and hit the ball into
03:06the ground.
03:06That gets the club and body working in the right way to be able to compress the ball,
03:11hit down on it with speed.
03:12That should give you better strikes, better distance, and better consistency.
03:16That would be my one thing, if you're a beginner,
03:18to really focus on with every club in the bag apart from driver.
03:22So 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
03:27a train track and your feet are on the nearer of the two tracks,
03:31and your ball to target line and your club face is on the other track.
03:35And it's that kind of parallel setup that you need to address that will give you really good alignment.
03:39Right, 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.
03:48You'll see what they do around the greens with their shots, their game management,
03:52and the more you get on the golf course, the more you get away from the driving range,
03:55the more comfortable you'll get with this quite scary environment at times.
03:58I think the better you'll get quicker.
04:01Right, so my number one tip for beginners would be to tee it forward.
04:05So I see a lot of beginners trying to tee off like kind of yellow tees,
04:09white tees a little bit further back and kind of struggling a lot.
04:12Whereas teeing it forward allows people to take the pressure off quite quickly,
04:16and you hit kind of shots closer to the hole quite quickly.
04:19And it also, I think, makes the game faster.
04:22I think it makes it more fun as well.
04:24And also, from doing it in the past myself,
04:27I think you hit a lot of different clubs in the bag when you tee it forward as well.
04:31So I think to help players, teeing it forward is the best way to go,
04:36I think, especially for beginners.
04:37Well, when I was a junior, the thing that always really benefited me
04:40was to keep my stats on my scorecard.
04:43So what I used to do was, along with the score down the left-hand column,
04:47I actually marked G for greens here, F for fairways, and P for the number of putts.
04:5220 years have gone on, and there's now a number of different,
04:56more modern methods of doing this than just the pencil and paper scorecard form.
05:00So there's ARCOS shot tracking technology where you can actually have the stats recorded on your
05:06phone or through your Apple Watch. And I know that's a really, really easy way of doing it.
05:10And I just thoroughly recommend keeping your stats because you're just going to have so much more
05:14knowledge of the areas of your game that you're going to need to improve to reduce that handicap.
05:19So my best tip for beginner golfers would probably be just to practice your chipping and putting.
05:24So I think the wedge play and short game definitely covers more than half of your shots
05:28in a round of golf. And so practicing your chipping and putting, doing little drills that will take
05:32shots off your score will dramatically reduce your handicap and make your golf more enjoyable.
05:37So there you have it. Loads of really good advice, hopefully, that you'll agree that's going to
05:40help you, if you're a beginner golfer, improve a little bit faster. Go and take them away with you to
05:45the
05:45practice ground to the golf course, and hopefully, you'll see your scores tumble. But that's all for
05:49me from Effingham Golf Club. I'll see you next time.
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