Archive | May, 2008

25 May 2008 Comments Off

Driving Ranges are the key to new golfers

As the cost of land value has been on the rise over the years, the cost of golf has also increased. If you are new to golf and having a hard time justifying spending the high cost to learn to play, go to the driving range and save your money. Golf is really broken into three things, driving, chipping and putting. At the driving range you can work on perfecting the first two for only a few bucks and then go play a round when you feel you are ready.

Nothing is more frustrating for a new golfer than spending half of the time chasing wild shots that are no where near the fareway. Tall grass, ponds and trees tend to make most new golfers want to walk away after only a few holes. If you go to a driving range you can work all of the kinks out of your strokes making your experience that much more enjoyable.

At the range, you can get a bucket of balls for cheap and bring your own clubs. Start out with your woods on the tee and keep shooting until you can get a nice straight shot at a reasonable distance. The key to practice is form. Make sure you are driving it straight and not just hitting it to see how far it can go. Once you get your shots fairly straight, drop a few balls on the grass and work thru your irons. Again, just work on getting the shots straight and a find the right form where at the end of the shot you feel comfortable and confident you can repeat it over and over again.

18 May 2008 Comments Off

The Inside Out of Golf

Golf is an elegant and posh sport. Not everyone can afford to play golf. However, for those few people who can afford to play golf, then I shall wish you good luck but what if you are a rookie just trying your luck in playing Golf? Do you have what it takes to play Golf? The skills, equipments and not forgetting the passion. How do you train yourself to be a golfer?

Some of you might able to hire the experts to tutor you. Others will just have to do it their way.

In plain words, Golf simply means a game that you play by hitting a small white coloured ball with a stick until it runs down and end up in one hole with a flag next to it. Professionally, Golf is a game of startegy and skills where you have to be precise when you hit the golf ball with the right club into the hole with the lowest number of strokes needed to get the ball into the hole. The equipments needed to play golf are you need to have golf clubs, golf balls, tees, gloves and the right pair of comfortable shoes.

In short, Golf is normally for the rich and famous as they have the money. If they don’t have the skills it won’t be a problem as they are rich enough to hire professional instructors to teach them. Golf is a sport profession that can earn up to millions by competing in one tournament. The famous golf player is Tiger Woods, who is known to have the best golf skills in the world thus he is making tons of money.

The bad thing about Golf is that to build the golf course, we will have to cut down the trees, meaning clear up the land to make space for a golf course. Of course, you don’t see any small golf course because the fact is golf course has to be very large to accomodate different type of holes with different range of measurements. Now, can you imagine how influential Golf can be. Golf is a gold mine. You build a golf course and players pay a hefty fees just to play on the course, the cleared up land that was once filled with tall and precious trees. Now it is all gone.