People have been asking me why I end my videos telling people to let it rip. I always talk to my students about being aggressive through the hitting area, deceleration through the hitting area has destroyed many a golf swing.You can’t steer a golf ball or wish it next to the hole it just doesn’t work. Get the club into the proper position during the backswing then as I like to say, 
let it rip .
Teaching kids how to play golf is one of the most satisfying things I get to do in my job as a PGA Teaching Professional. When you introduce your child or grandchild to the game of golf keep it simple and fun. Work on the basics of grip, stance , posture and alignment and start them off with water balloons not golf balls. Water balloons are much bigger and easy to hit, they have fun you have fun and everybody gets wet. Like I said, you have to make their experience with golf fun, let them play.
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Changing your grip is one of the hardest things to do in golf, so get it right the first time. There are three basic variations, interlocking , overlapping and ten finger grip.
The interlocking grip is normally used by people with shorter fingers, the overlapping grip is the most widely used grip in golf and I normally only see the ten finger grip in Women or Juniors who lack strength. One of the problems in changing someones grip is they normally will get worse before they get better. As a teacher you need to know your student before you fiddle with their grip even if it’s bad. If you take a once a week player with a bad grip, change it and they don’t have time to practice, they may take up boating before you know it. A grip change is a major makeover and takes a long period of time for the student to get comfortable. There are a few things I want to see no matter which grip you choose, the hands need to work together as one unit and I want the club held in the fingers not up in the palm of your hands.
Now that you know your grip, do you know which club to use?
I truly can’t tell how many times I’ve heard, “my only problem is I can’t keep my head down.” If your head is moving up in the downswing there is something happening during the backswing causing you to be in a position where your head has to get out of the way for you to make contact with the golf ball. Harvey Penick once said “Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you’ve already made the mistake that caused the terrible shot.”
Recently I gave a lesson to the most charming lady who was very serious about learning the game of golf. Before our lesson, she informed me that she had taken about ten lessons from another professional in Florida. As I do with most of my clients, we began on the lesson tee. I told her to hit a few golf balls to warm up, also allowing me take a look at where she was in her game. To my astonishment, she had no balance, her hands were behind the ball at address, a very weak left hand and she couldn’t get the ball airborne – low right grounders every time! At that point I stopped her and began to question her “experience” and the “pro” who taught her whatever it was she was trying to do. Read more…
