What to Look for in Golf Sunglasses
The best golf sunglasses serve many functions. Not only do they keep you looking cool on the links, the glasses also keep the sun’s glare out of your eyes and protect them from its harmful rays.
One of the neat things about golf is that there’s always something to learn, always a new challenge. Most of the articles listed here offer easy to follow tips that will improve your game. Well, maybe they are easy to understand but making them part of your game may be hard work.
The best golf sunglasses serve many functions. Not only do they keep you looking cool on the links, the glasses also keep the sun’s glare out of your eyes and protect them from its harmful rays.
In the average round of golf roughly 70% of shots are made from 120 yards or less from the pin. That means, your chip shot is key to taking those extra strokes off. A chip shot is a low-trajectory flight that rolls further than it flies. A pitch, by contrast, flies higher, carries farther, and rolls less.
GRIP and STANCE
Start with the correct grip. Lightly place your hands on the club. It’s not a python you have to squeeze to death before it kills you. Use a very light version of your normal grip, but with the pinky on the club, rather than overlapped or interlocked. When you close your fingers, don’t force the club into an angle. Address the ball squarely. Relax.
There are as many different ideas about how to cure a slice as there are experts. But there are some fundamentals on which most agree.
What is a slice?
A slice is a shot that curves from left-to-right (for right-handed golfers, right-to-left for the left handed). There are different causes for this, but the two main ones are a swing from over the top so the clubhead cuts across the target line. The second, related, cause is presenting a clubface that stays open and produces a left-to-right spin.
A hook is a shot that moves to the left of the target line. (For right-handers, for lefties reverse the directions.) Sometimes it starts out to the right, then veers left; sometimes it starts left and curves further left. (If it shoots off behind you, you have a different problem…) Read more…