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John Toepel - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
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- Your Own Swing, The Foundation, & How Low You Score
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Golfers tend to give a huge amount of importance to the swing. A good swing produces a low score is their rationale. George Knutson had a great swing. Tom Purtzer is another. Arnold Palmer is not another, yet Arnold is a house hold name and the other two are well known by only a few. I played with both Tom and George and they could really hit some shots. Arnold’s record stands for itself. I think I saw a stat on TV that compared all the good players for their top three year period and it was Arnold with 27 wins from 1960-1963. Don’t quote me on this stat but I’m close.
- What Do You Do When Your Game (Swing) Leaves You
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] The situation is: you just warmed up on the range and you are hitting it short and crooked. You hit no solid shots, and they are shorter than the last time you played, and they all faded. Yuk!
- What You Did Well
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] One of the players I meet as I was preparing for the Tour was a fellow from Tennessee, Bobby G. I won’t use his name because I don’t have his permission. He is one of a few golfers who ever beat Jack Nicklaus in an 18 hole match. Jack actually wrote about it in one of his books.
- What Causes Distance?
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Distance is the result of three factors in the golf swing.
The first is the obvious: pure club-head speed. Greater club-head speed will hit longer shots.
- Weight Transfer
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] This article focuses on the third Concept Golf principle, weight transfer. Before I explain weight transfer and its importance, I would like to discuss the whole Concept Golf idea of what the golf swing is really all about.
- Uphill Putts are Easier
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] I was playing the third round of the Texas Open with Ray Floyd and Dave Hill. The weather had not done the greens any favors. The days before the tournament, it had rained and then gotten very hot and humid. The greens had been cut down for the tournament and were very affected by the wet and the humid heat. The grass suffocated from beneath and from above. The few blades of grass that were left were surrounded by crusty dirt. The greens made a crunching sound as we walked over them. And they were fast, really fast.
- The Target Principle
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] This instruction will improve your scoring, guaranteed. Understand and apply the Target Principle and your will be a better golfer forever – period. This is one of the few secrets of golf.
- The Swing
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] We continue with playing golf and Rick’s story. It could be and will be your story. The principles and ideas you will learn about playing golf will affect your score for the better from this moment forward. Because we are not changing your swing, there is no chance for you to score higher than you do right now. There is more than a real good chance for you to score lower today and for the rest of your life. And the fun thing is that you didn’t have to change your grip to shoot your lower scores. Yippee!!!
- The Pitch Shot
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] The pitch shot is that little shot golfers use to make birdies possible and salvage pars. This shot gets a lot of use during a round of golf. The golfer who can hit these little wedge shots well will always keep his score low.
- The Most Incredible Shot
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] A true story about the most incredible shot. If you can top this let me know.
- The Golf Swing Is A Puzzle
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] The golf swing has been a mystery for decades. It’s a puzzle for most.
In the beginning the golf swing was simple and very personal. It was the goal that was important; the score. Eventually, adults came to the conclusion (bad mistake) that golf swing instruction would be the answer to better shots and better golf. Welcome swing teachers and everyone that has ever thought about holding a golf club.
- The Golf Balls Are The Important Things
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar........ and the beer.
- The Chip Shot
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] I learned this shot from one of the best, Ray Floyd. He spent about three hours with me one afternoon in Hartford, CT teaching me how to hit those little shots from just off the green. It’s an important shot to have in your arsenal. What’s really fun is when you start holing out from off the edge of the green. In some ways it’s easier than putting. You will make some of these shots to the unhappiness of your opponent – but to your great joy. It’s the shots on and around the green that get your scores low and keep them there.
- The Five Concept Golf Swing Principles
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] The discovery of the five swing principles is a real breakthrough for golfers. They not only define the golf swing and the athletic motion used by all ground based sports, but make all the positive effects every golfer wants in their swing to happen automatically.
- The Swing Will Become Automatic
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] I want to share my answer to a frustrated golfer. Skip has been a friend for many years. He knows about Concept Golf but has had little time to absorb the principles.
- Start with Goals
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Spring is just around the corner – for those who didn’t winter in Florida. That means that golf is on your mind and getting ready for the season is on your list and on your mind. Let’s talk about getting ready after a few months of non-golf.
- Sand Shots
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] One of the short game shots you need to know how to hit with some skill is an explosion shot from a green side bunker. This is an easy shot because there is a margin of error that does not exist with shots from ground. You will need to hit the sand 2 inches behind the ball, but if you hit 3 or 4 inches behind the ball you will still move the ball and, probably, out of the bunker.
- Right Leg & Knee
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] This article discusses the fifth Concept Golf swing principle. The five swing principles define the golf swing and help you to understand the swing. They are not five more things you are to do. They are not five more things to add to your list of swing musts. Understand them and then simply go play golf.
- Ready, Set, Go!
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] "Get Ready, Get Set, Go!"
I remember hearing these words somewhere in my youth. Have you ever heard these words? I don’t remember exactly where or why I have heard them but today they are going to apply to your golf game. It seems like a "golf" set of words to me so we are going to use them for your lesson today.
- Reading A Green
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Reading a green or more accurately reading your putt.
Putting is the smallest and the biggest part of golf. How can that be? A one inch putt counts the same as a 300 yard drive. On the other hand, if you hit all the greens in regulation and two putt every green, what percentage of your shots will be taken on a green? You're right, 50%.
- Putting
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] You all want to hit the ball farther. You can all imagine those 300+ yard drives that will not only lower your scores but make you the envy of all who are so fortunate enough to watch you hit those drives. Most of distance is an ego thing.
- Principles versus Mechanics
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] How can you play your best golf? With mechanics or principal based instruction?
- The Principle of Alignment
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] The next step to helping you become a great shot-maker! The Alignment.
Concept Golf is the simplest and most complete approach to the golf swing and the entire game. There are only five swing principles. They are principles in that they are the cause of every effect in the golf swing. Concept Golf really is a discovery of the principles and therefore a definition of the golf swing.
- Practice For Improvement
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Today we begin focusing on playing the game we love called golf. It is a game and it supposed to be fun! It is as, all sports are, first a game and second a sport. The Concept Golf approach is to simplify your learning the game through a few principles. Reduce the game to its few true principles. Principles that are true for all golfers all the time.
- Playing The Game
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Today we begin focusing on playing the game we love called golf. It is a game and it supposed to be fun! It is as, all sports are, first a game and second a sport. The Concept Golf approach is to simplify your learning the game through a few principles. Reduce the game to its few true principles. Principles that are true for all golfers all the time.
- Plan, Aim, Swing
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] In my many years as a golf professional, I have found only a few golfers who know how to play the game. Even some of the good golfers play by accident rather than by design. When the football or basketball coach says he has a game plan, he has a big inclusive plan and the smaller plans that make the big plan possible.
- Perception is KEY!
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] The thoughts the teacher, golf or otherwise, is holding as true affect the student directly. We’ve heard the stories about the school teachers who thought the student IQs were very high but those numbers were actually their locker numbers. The students excelled and then the teacher found out the students were really the not-so-bright ones.
- Thinking & Planning on a Par 3
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Today we play a Par 3.
Par 3s can be more of a challenge than 4s or 5s. On Par 4s you may have a half of a shot to play with. That means you can miss a shot and as long as it stays on the course you can still make par. Par 5s can be the most forgiving of all. Many times I have missed two shots on a Par 5 and still made a birdie. Par 5s are make-up holes. But we’re playing a Par 3 today, and we will be happy to make a three and go about our business.
- More on Putting
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] We have often heard that practice makes perfect. That statement is truer when it is said that perfect practice makes perfect. Who likes to practice putting? The guys on the Tour did it but it was not their favorite thing to do. They would rather play or hit full shots, even though they absolutely knew that their income depended on their good putting.
- More on Practice
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] If you insist on going to the range to practice, then really practice golf. Golf is not 50 shots with a 7-iron at a single target -- nor is that good practice.
- Learn To Play The Game
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] "What did you shoot?" is a common question among golfers. It’s a courtesy but it does tell the importance of the score. There are times when you hit the ball well but for whatever reason you score higher than normal. At other times you may not hit the ball at all well but your score is quite low. The only thing that matters is the score; the number you can tell others or the person posting the scores.
- Know Where Your Target Is
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] There are two important aspects to every golf shot: direction and distance. Which one is most important? Both. Both if score is important. The golfer who lines up the putt correctly but hits the ball 30 feet past the hole is not going to score low. The same truth applies to the wedge shots. If you hit the ball on the perfect line but it goes over the green or ends up short in the sand or water, your score will reflect that fault.
- Be a Good Driver... Go Beyond Mechanics!
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Can you imagine standing on the first tee and not worrying about your swing? That would be a good thing, although you may not believe that right now. Most golfers are so mechanics aware that have no idea what they would think about if not about the thousand or so components of the swing.
- Focus on Pars & Birdies
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] The PGA Tour was in Philadelphia playing the IVB Classic at the White Marsh CC. It was a fun course and not terribly hard. It was the third round. I had made the cut and was ready to make a move. I don’t remember exactly where I stood but I was looking forward to a good tournament.
- Equipment Does Matter
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] I played Wilson equipment while I was on the Tour. In fact I still have the irons I used. I can’t seem to quite bend the shafts these days. They are dynamic S and tipped. Actually I can bend them but the club has to be positioned between two chairs so I can sit on it.
- Concept Golf Principles and Baseball
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] The five Concept Golf swing principles have proven themselves to be the truth many, many times with the permanent improvement of countless golfers of all levels. But a couple months ago the principles were given confirmation of a different kind.
- A Lesson with John
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Concept Golf is golf instruction. It is golf instruction that is based on principles not mechanics. It is an opportunity for the golfer to develop his very own unique swing. With the golfer developing his own swing, he has nothing to remember, nothing to practice and nothing to fix. It is a swing that will be all his for his entire golf experience. He is not conforming his swing through extensive mechanical instruction to some great but obscure golfer’s swing.
- A Bruce Crampton Golf Story
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] I was paired with Bruce Crampton in the third round of the Phoenix Open. I had never played with Bruce. He was portrayed as a "grump" by the press so I was a bit reserved as we teed off on #10 at 8:00 am. All three of us hit the green and Bruce was to putt first.
- A Billy Casper Golf Story
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] I was playing in an exhibition with Billy Casper in 1969 at a course in Kenosha, WI. Billy was at the top of his game and I was invited to play because I had won the Wisconsin State Open. He was amazing. He had never seen the course before and had to ask where the holes went and what to aim at. All his drives went where he was told to aim. All his shots went where they were supposed to go.
- 3 Dynamic Concept Golf Swing Principles
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] Concept Golf's five swing principles have been proven effective by countless golfers at all levels. The principles are not just theory -- they are what works and what the best players have always done. These five fundamentals cause all of the positive, desired effects you see in the Tour Players’ swings. They are based upon the same fundamental athletic motion you use when you throw a ball. They are not scientific, but they do follow the laws of physics. You don't need to think about these things, but having a thorough understanding of the total concept of the swing will benefit you.
- The Athletic Motion of The Golf Swing
[Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] There is one basic athletic motion which is used in all of athletics. The golf swing is golf's version of this athletic motion. It is the same basic motion that is used to hit a tennis ball, throw a football, kick a soccer ball, or break a rack in pool. For some reason most students and instructors feel this should be more complex than it is which is one of the main factors making golf as difficult as it seems to most people.
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