Golf is a game full of generous tips. If you regularly share green-grass space around golfers, you are sure to hear countless tips. Keep that head down. Make a grip change. Modify your Stance and Alignment. Sharing tips promotes camaraderie and often invites improvement, but, most of them are inappropriate or down-right useless. The average golfer is not a teacher.

Useful tips are always based at least indirectly on our Golf Academy ‘5 SET-UPS’ (Posture, Grip, Stance, Ball Location & Alignment). These apply universally to all players.

There is the tendency to rush the golf swing … Putter to Driver. Especially if you are standing on the teeing ground, it is natural and even seems logical to swing as hard and fast as possible, after all ‘Clubhead Speed’ creates distance. The best golf swings tend to be those that allow speed to develop gradually, dropping gravitationally from the ‘Top Half Of The Swing Circle’ with the club accelerating into the bottom half through the ‘Impact & Separation Phase’. Do not swing early from the Top Down! (see ‘Casting, Over The Top and Above Plane’)

Pay particular attention to taking your time when it comes to the ‘Transition’. This is the ‘Direction Change’ at the ‘Top Of Back Swing’. (see ‘TOB – Swing Sequence #5) Sadly, this is where many player swings decay. There is not enough time between the transition and impact to fix what has or is going wrong. (see ‘SS #8’) The Fade Slice is one of the chronic problems.

During your next trip to the driving range, say your “Little & Word” at every TOB. It will create just a moment more timing to ‘Transition or Shift Gears’. As the clubs get longer the ‘Terminal Clubhead Speed’ gets faster. Here’s a ‘Golf Factoid’ for YOU! The total net swing time for a 30 foot putt and a 300 yard drive are approximately ‘The Same’ … about 1.4 to 1.6 seconds!

Things one might learn from the ‘555 Golf Team’ while sitting at the ‘Round Table’!