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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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Are you looking for quality golf tips? Aren’t we all?

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.

Swinging off of those astroturf, sometimes smooth golf mats at most ranges, does it help or hurt your golf swing? Always wondering this same thing we are always on the lookout for any little bit of insight into the dilemma that a lot of golfers go through as they work through their swing at the local range.

Grouchy golf has just posted an interesting little commentary on the subject titled Avoid Practicing Golf on a Range Mat. We can obviously see how he feels about the idea of whacking balls off of the fake stuff, but he does bring up some good points.

First off he talks about, and has a nice little video showing the divot taken from a good golf shot. His argument is that on a golf mat you don’t know if you hit the ball fat or not. There’s no feedback. Sure the shot may not go as far because the mat slows down you swing but your club does dig in turning the face on impact and producing fat shots that turn left or right, as they would on the real stuff.

This means even though you’re practicing often you may not be getting all the benefits. Now most of us don’t have the choice because of time factors, to drive to that one course that has real turf to practice off of. But we suggest trying to switch it up every now and then and of course if you are playing somewhere that has a driving range with real grass, stay after your round or come early and practice. You may be tired afterwords but you’ll get some good range time in.

You did all that work, battle your slice on the drive, hit a low worm burning 3 iron from behind the big Willow tree, and used a funky 7 iron pitch to get within 10 feet of the hole. You have chance to save par but you have to remember to putt the ball.

To often during rounds golfers are so worried about their swing, the tempo, the take-away, the follow through, the distance, that they loose sight of where the real money is made. On the putting green.

“Drive for show, putt for dough,” as the saying goes.

Now this holds true on an off the course. When you go to the driving range you may feel you have some self control because you don’t bring all your clubs to practice with. Instead you might bring your 7 iron and your driver and feel like you’re really practicing because you’re focusing on only two clubs. This isn’t a discredit towards you, just that you’re not practicing everything.

Along with those two clubs should be your putter. Nobody likes to practice putting, it’s boring and it takes to much time to putt three balls, retrieve and repeat. Why do that when you can just step up and smash balls at the driving range pulling from a bucket of 50 to 100 balls? Why? Because you “Drive for show and putt for dough.”

Another tough thing to overcome is the thought that while you’re putting you might feel as though you’re putting over the same line so really where is the practice. The practice is in your stroke. So many people think the putting stroke is too easy to require practice. But it’s not. What you want to do is eliminate the stroke variability from your putt so you just have tempo and read to worry about. That comes with practice. Hitting the ball on the same line every time is tough and if you can do that you’re doing something right.

Practicing putting just 10 minutes every time you are at the range or before a round can make a world of difference to your golf game. Why waste an extra stroke on every green when you have a chance to putt yourself into a par.