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If you watch swing vision on CBS and study what the pros do you’ll notice that one thing they don’t do is take a full back swing. They stop at the top or even half-way up to the top. And this isn’t probably why you think they do.

For one, they are resisting and building power in their midsection and hips by keeping them pointed straight ahead and not rotating out of position. They don’t turn the golf club around their body by rotating their hips. They rotate their upper body.

Doing this requires them to stop towards the top of their swing making them have more control of their downswing. You, probably having less control than a professional golfer, should take this swing tip and run with it.

It takes a lot of practice but this is something you can do in your spare time watching TV. Just take the club back half way, and keep repeating. Repeat until your tired and you’re not thinking about taking the club back. Just make sure the golf club only goes half way.

This can be a great golf practice tip if you’re looking for something to do off the course and help you get to playing scratch golf.

It’s raining outside.  Most people don’t want do much of anything except watch movies or sit wishing they were outside.   Well, you don’t have to be most people and you can practice a little golf while doing those things most people are probably doing.  You can practice some golf to get to playing scratch golf.

What you do isn’t anything new, but the rain can remind you to practice away.  Take the rain as a reminder to practice putting on a variety of surfaces, like those when it’s raining out.  Even though most people say that practicing on carpet can be silly, I say that’s just silly.

Carpet is just like any other green you could putt on has it’s nuances and speeds.  But what you need to remember is that it’s just a surface to help you get your speed and your routine down.  Like these 10 putting routine tips. It’s just the repetative strokes that help you practice your strokes.

Golf is a game of being able to repeat the same thing over and over again and it shouldn’t matter if you’re on grass or if you’re in the middle of your living room. See…. It’s the same thing. It doesn’t matter if there is rain on the green or dirt from your sneakers, just the practice of your putt stroke can help shave your score and get you to playing scratch golf.

Everyone knows its drive for show and put for dough. Most of your golf score comes within 50 yards of the hole with more than a third coming on the green. Most of the time it can be half of your score. So how do you easily lower your score? Your putt better.

How you putt better can be a difficult egg to crack, but we have a tip that can really help, without having to put in a ton of practice.

If you watch the pros putt there is one thing they consistently do, they repeat their same setup every time. Watch Tiger Woods or Phil Michelson sometime, they both have almost identical timing on there set-up to each and every putt.

What we suggest is a simple way to remember and go about doing this. It will get you into a routine that can easily take several strokes off your game and help you get to playing scratch golf even faster.

1. Look at the lie from the opposite side of the whole
2. Look at the lie from the side
3. Look at the lie from the behind the ball
4. Address the ball
5. Place one foot to the back of the ball
6. Place the other foot to the left of the ball
7. Take 3 practice strokes
8. Make sure you take 3 practice strokes getting a feel for the speed
9. Repeat 5 and 6 now placing the putter face in the correct angle behind the ball
10. Repeat the correct stroke you practiced in 7

If you follow a routine, like this, or one you make up on your own, you’ll be able to easily shave strokes off your game.  It keeps you thinking about something besides the shot you may miss.

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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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.