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Are you looking for a few free golf tips? Need help with your tee shots your getting out of the sand? You’re in luck. About.com, the massive resource for just about anything has a long list of Free Golf Tips that will help players of all ability levels tweak their game. The list includes:

Golf Basics, for beginners

Getting out of Bunkers

Putting Tips

Wedges

There are many more than just this and I suggest heading over if you want to work on your game and drop your scores.

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Golf Tips Magazine has a great site where they publish, PDF style, all their old golf tips right on their site. If you don’t need to be on teh leading edge of the latest golf tip (which most of them have been around for ever) than you don’t need to purchase the magazine, just head on over to their website and download them for free. You can keep them on your computer for some quality golf reading on those long business flights.

They cover all swing topics, and all different aspects of your game, equipment and even golf travel related topics. Swing tips categories include: Driving, Iron Play, Putting, Sand, short game, and more. We can all use a little help on our game and free advice from experts is a great way to go.

In it’s simplest terms club shaft flex is the ease or amount which the shaft of the club bends when a given force is applied to it.

In more complex terms what that means for your swing is a change in accuracy, trajectory, distance, and getting the club face back around to square at impact. Shaft flex can affect all of these elements of your swing.

There are many different flexes that you can get for a golf club shaft but the main 5 are Extra Stiff, Stiff, Regular, Senior, and Ladies. Those flexes respectively go from stiff to flexible. Those ratings are also represented on most clubs by the letters X, S, R, A, and L, respectively.

As one would begin to swing a club from the top of their back swing down through the ball, a club with a more flexible shaft like a Ladies or Senior flexed shaft, the club head lags behind where the hands are in the swing plane because of the flex. Then as you come through the ball your hands and wrists will be ahead of the ball and the club head when it finally makes impact. This allows the club to have more of a whipping action to snap through the ball and also gives the club head more time to get around to square producing a straighter shot. (Note that is if you are unable to control your swing or if you have a slower swing.)

Check back for more on selecting a shaft flex that is right for you.

A lot of people carry 4 wedges in their golf bag by replacing a 3 iron with a lob wedge and don’t think twice about it. Why not throw in an extra driver and take out that putter you can’t hit with? Or maybe leave the putter and take out that 5 wood you never use.

Think it’s crazy? Think again. Phil Mickleson devised a plan in the weeks leading up to the Master’s which would help him deal with the extra yardage chairman Hootie Johnson added to the course. Along with the yardage that everyone was talking about was longer sand traps, more trees (pine trees that of which most balls can’t find their way through), and what I am told was a lot more difficult cuts of rough. All that on an already ridiculously challenging course.

To give you a little background on club selection and why you would need two clubs we need to think about what a fade and a draw does to distance. For those of you who can’t control which one of those happens at any given moment (myself included) let’s think about what happens when that fade jumps into your shot. The ball, besides landing most likely in the rough or OB dives into the ground spinning almost sideways. On the other hand, the draw tends to lift the ball up, up and away, most often to the side of the fairway a little longer than that fade on the last hole.

This was the idea behind Mickleson’s two driver scheme. His idea was to use one driver to fade the ball with a maximum distance of about 290 yards and another club to draw the ball with a maximum distance of about 310 yards. He tested this bag of clubs, removing his sandwedge, at the BellSouth Classic where he shot 28 under par and won by 13 strokes. The week after that, winning the Master’s with the calm of Cool Hand Luke on the last day of the tournament.

Was it the two driver method that won him the tournament or the fact that he hit almost 70% of greens in regulation? Well he ended up having the longest driving average of just under 298 yards, which meant he was able to use a higher club selection for his approach shots, leaving him closer to the hole more often than the likes of his playing partners.

Who knows what it was. However, you may need to think twice about buying that Fusion or Sasquatch and actually give the thought of that goofy R7 with the movable weighting system a try. OK maybe not goofy, but you may annoy a few of your playing partners if you have to switch weights every other hole.