Golf Tips

Winter time is certainly not good for golf, especially if you live up North. What can you do indoors to help maintain the feel and comfort you develop over the season with your golf swing? Here are some ideas:

1- Get in front of a mirror. Take a club, drop a ball down, and take your posture. Check it from both face on and from the side. Make sure your stance looks and feels correct. Practice it every few days, so you don’t forget what proper posture feels like.

2- Find a room that allows you to swing freely. Go ahead and take practice swings inside the house. (Just don’t blame me if you forget to move a lamp!) Pretend you are on the range preparing to warm up and hit balls. Your first few days on the range next spring will feel less awkward if you can keep swinging throughout the winter.

3- Buy some soft, plastic golf balls and pitch them around the house. It’s hard to break anything by hitting it with the ball, so go ahead and work on good tempo and try to ingrain good fundamentals of impact such as the hands leading into impact and your weight favoring your front side.

Finally, and this is certainly the least risky of my suggestions, take your putter and putt. Check your fundamentals, i.e, eyes over ball, proper ball position, steady head, etc.. and just putt to table legs, a corner of the couch, etc.. With no need to “make it”, try to condition yourself to keep your head completely still well after you have made contact. Keeping your head still until the ball is well on its way is the fastest way to improve your putting.