With the overload of information readily available for amateur golfers in this day and age, it’s so easy to be led down the wrong path.
Most amateur golfers looking to improve digest instructional videos on YouTube or listen to a wide array of golf tips from PGA Tour players.
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With so much information, and most of it contradictory, is it any wonder why so many amateurs fail to actually improve over the course of time?
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So, let’s try and simplify things for you.
There are certain tips out there which should be avoided like the plague.
The three worst golf tips which amateurs should avoid at all costs
Golf is hard at the best of times, so The Golfing Gazette writer Antony Martin, who played on the professional mini tour circuit in America, has compiled a list of supposed ‘tips’ that you should completely ignore.
You will be well served by avoiding these three antiquated and quite frankly, appalling, golf tips…
Keep your head down
This is the one that grinds my gears the most when I hear it.
‘Keep your head down’ is genuinely the worst advice any golfer can try and put into practice.
The golf swing is supposed to be an athletic movement and by keeping the head static, you will not be able to rotate properly through impact.
You also won’t be able to generate as much power as you otherwise would.
Keeping your head down will lead to pulls and hooks as the body stops rotating and your arms take over.
Look at the best golfer in history, when it comes to his major haul at least. Jack Nicklaus moved his head throughout his backswing and at impact.
If it was good enough for Jack, it’s good enough for us.
Use a 3-wood or long iron for more accuracy off the tee
Most amateur golfers have inconsistent golf swings.
Only 10% of golfers who play the game are single-digit handicaps and below, and the rest certainly won’t have a repeatable motion.
Because of this fact, why on earth would a 3-wood be a safer club to hit off the tee than a driver?
Literally, the only reason why that should ever be true is when a driver will reach a water hazard or a bunker off the tee.
The truth of the matter is that a driver is easier to hit than a 3-wood. The face and sweet spot are bigger on a driver and the modern-day clubs are designed to hit the ball high with less spin.
With a 3-wood, you are supposed to hit down on it more, as it has a far more shallow face and it will be teed up a lot lower.
Hitting driver off every tee is the way forward UNLESS you can reach any kind of trouble with it.
Reading putts from every angle
We all know that uncertainty and an overload of information is a bad thing in golf.
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We also know that our first instinct is usually correct. So why would we give ourselves more problems and potentially even more indecision by reading our putts from four different angles?
Holing more putts is all about having more conviction in what you’re doing before you begin your stroke.
How is that possible when you’ve just created more indecision?
PGA Tour pros read putts from all angles because they train their eyes every day to see minimal and extremely subtle breaks.
However, amateur golfers simply need to make things as easy as possible for themselves.
The best way to do this is to read your putts from behind your ball looking at the hole. If anyone tells you different, you should ignore them at all costs.
The same goes for all of the other tips listed above. The only effect they will have on your game is a negative one.
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