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This tip originally came to me from a good friend and great coach “Jonathan Wallett” runs the Golf Academy ELITE COACHING. Here’s what Jonathan had to say about Training and Trusting Mind Sets.

Looking down the range during a lesson, I see a bunch of guys hacking away at the ball. Some of them are obsessively working on their backswings, hoping to find the secret. Some are sending their divots farther than the ball.

Following that series will give you the corrections you need to hit consistently straight shots with every club in the bag. There’s one last recommendation I’d like to offer…

When watching top players, we marvel at the way they go about hitting a driver, or the accuracy of their iron play, but more often than not, what separates these players from the mid field players is how they waste no shots playing the simple shots.

Proper hand and forearm rotation, timed correctly, prevents the club face from being ‘open’ at impact (see the image to the right). It’s this open club face that imparts clockwise spin on the ball causing it to curve to the right.

The biggest issue for the average golfer is “turf contact” with irons/hybrids and fairway woods. In this article, I’m going to show you just how big an issue it is for you, and why it is the major reason for you being stuck in a rut with your game.

Having great positions in the swing, good plane, square clubface, and good posture are all very important, but no matter how good these aspects are, to make it all work you need some oil. This is tempo & rhythm.

Ever wonder how the pros can hit the ball so far with seemingly little effort? Ever wonder why it feels like you are swinging the club as quick as your playing partners, but your ball doesn’t have the same ‘pop’ to it? It could be your smash factor.

Contrary to what many club golfers believe, a slice is not just any ball flight that swerves severely to the right (for the right-handed player)… If your slice shots start right of your target and then curve further right, we call that a push-slice

Something that is not often thought about in putting is how your ball is rolling. If your ball is bouncing down the green, it will effect both distance and direction. A good roll is an essential fundamental of putting and it is not that difficult-