• Golf Tip

The Confidence Factor

It’s all a matter of confidence; to play your best golf you must have it. Golf confidence gives you the chance to perform to your ability and potential. Confidence helps you trust your swing under pressure. With confidence, you spend less time worrying about bad things and put more energy into positive action.

Working on these fundamentally sound golf basics will help you build confidence in your golf game:

1. Griping the club with your left and right hands properly, and with the correct hand pressure.

2. Properly aligning your body and club with your shot’s target line.

3. Exercise will give you the strength to control your body and clubs helping you to build confidence.

4. Playing clubs custom built to fit your height, arm length, swing speed, and hand size. The right fit will build trust in your equipment.

5. Making the right equipment choices will also build confidence. Some examples:

• If you have problems hitting long irons, take a close look at hybrids or fairway woods to replace them. (Especially if you don’t like hitting down and taking divots, but instead prefer a more simplified sweeping swing)

• If your drives have a fade or slice and sometimes block to the right, (for a right handed golfer), changing to a driver with an offset hosel can make a big difference.

• If your putter swing has too much wrist action, causing you to flip the putter head at the ball, then you should consider changing to an oversized grip and/or a putter with a heaver head.