by Chris Chan

The ongoing process of improving your golf swing is what keeps the sport of golf exciting. The key to improving your golf swing is focusing on one aspect of your swing at a time so you avoid the pitfalls of getting into bad habits. IF you can improve your golf swing, you are surely going to lower your handicap.

Experience teaches all golfers lessons that pay off in the long run. Golfers experience a better handicap when they go over the most basic rules of a better swing. To get the best golf swing, these basic 10 rules will help!

1. Maintain a distance between both your legs which should be equal to your shoulder’s width.

2. Let your arms hang naturally down from your body and place the club behind the ball. If your shoulders hunch or you have tension in your arms, you are probably too close to the ball. Stand back a little bit.

3. Your back leg should support approximately 70% of your weight.

4. Straighten your spine and have a bit of bend in your knees.

5. Keep your eyes fixed on your golf ball during your entire swing

6. Grip the club as if you are holding a small, delicate lizard. When holding your lizard, your grip should be comfortable and relaxed so your arms can follow through with the swing…whether the Geico in the commercial likes it or not! :-)

7. A good golf swing will be a fluid, easy motion with your shoulders turning slightly in the backswing and your follow-through complete.

8. Make sure you keep your feet planted and slow down in your backswing. Most problems with a golf swing are cause by swinging too quickly in the back swing and then not accelerating through the ball.

9. You will want to hit the ball in the “sweet spot” or the center of the club. Hitting it anyplace else will cause your ball to travel in directions that you really don’t want it to go in.

10. Grip it and rip it!

It might help for you to take a lesson or two on the golf swing or even watch the way the pros do it on television. There are numerous articles that exist on the Internet that can help you with your golf swing, so always look for information and take as much advice as you can get.

There are “a hundred” things to know in swinging a golf club and they all have to be working in exactly the right ways at exactly the right time to a have the perfect golf swing. Sometimes this just doesn’t happen, but when it does, it certainly is a great feeling!

About the Author:
Before you go anywhere else to learn how to play golf, go to Improve Golf Swing! Chris Chandler will teach you the basics of a great golf swing!

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