Training tips

Keep your back bent and your knees together. Then, try to hit the ball keeping your head ahead of it.

In most sports, you improve with practice. Golf is no exception. As a beginner, you’ll benefit from a few lessons to ensure that you don’t pick up any bad habits and save hours of frustration. First, you must learn how to hit the ball, just like hockey players learns how to skate before they actually play hockey.

Stability Exercise

To verify the stability of your swing, practice by keeping your feet and knees together. Take care to notice whether your back is stable and your arms are extended. Rather than trying to make a complete swing, try a 3/4 swing from shoulder to shoulder.

First, ensure that your starting position is adequate (1st step). Then, make sure your back swing is stable and consistent (2nd step). Once you’ve learned to control your lower body, your downswing (3rd step) will seem all the easier. 

It is easier to hit the ball when your feet are close together. This ensures that you don’t lose your positioning. If you don’t find it easy to hit the ball using a limited swing and your feet close together, it will be even harder with your feet placed apart.

Direction Exercise

During your practice sessions, place two clubs on the ground to form a target corridor. In trying to restrict the ball to the center of this corridor, you’ll be able to align your body parallel to the line of flight. Begin by warming-up with a short iron (a 9-iron or a pitching wedge, for example), and then progressively use slightly longer irons before trying your woods. Try to avoid your No. 1 wood at the beginning of your warm-up - using it too early can really shake your confidence.

It’s also important to change your target every ten shots of so. Move the two clubs that make up your corridor to the right and left so that you become used to aligning your body in parallel with all types of shots, including those on a diagonal.