Golfing is becoming one of the most popular recreational sports. We play golf when doing business deals, as much as we do it for fun. Regardless of how great you may be at the game, there is always room for improvement. Fortunately, the following golf tips will help you to lower your golf score and increase the fun!

1. Your Stance is perhaps the most important aspect of the game. The right stance can save you many golf related injuries and back pains as well as give you that extra oomph to make that drive go a little further. Relax and bend at the waist or the hips, not at the knee. This is not easy at first, but with practice, you will master it.

2. Practicing your putting is also important. As many of the pros say “you don’t win golf games with the drive, you win it on the green”. Practicing at mini golf venues is a great way to get some control of your putts and to anticipate potential complications when taking your shots.

3. You grip is another aspect of your game that needs attention. People often hold on to their clubs too loosely or too tightly. Again, you have to relax when you hold you club. There is a common technique that works wonders. Interlocking your fingers is a popular way to hold your club. No matter what, you will want to find a grip that works best for you. You want your grip to be loose enough to be flexible at the wrist without splicing the ball. If your wrist hurts when you swing, you should try another grip.

4. The terrain is one of things that many golfers forget. You want to know as much about the ground flaws and fluctuations of a golf course as possible so that you can avoid small but costly mistakes that often lose a golf game and force more putts.

5. Squaring the shoulders is another way that many great golfers play. Taking your swings with squared shoulders is more comfortable when driving or putting and it gives you more control.

6. Practice swinging with your eyes closed. This may sound silly, but if you can reach the hole with your eyes closed, imagine what you can do with them open. This practicing technique helps you to visualize every aspect of the game and keep you focused. It is a great training technique of the pros.

7. Don’t forget to warm up before playing. This will keep you loose and help to avoid injuries. People often ignore the need to warm up and/or stretch when playing golf because they assume that it is a low impact sport. This is not true as golfing requires much travel and the stretching of any muscles when you make a good shot.

Finally, remember that golf is just a game, so have fun! And hopefully these golf tips can help you to lower your score. One last thing: practicing in adverse weather conditions can work wonders for your sense of control. So practice in the rain whenever it’s possible. Doing this can increase your drives and putts immensely. Have fun!

Using golf training aids in your golf game is a good practice. There are training aids for everything from putting to hitting a driver. How about the training aids that you use on your body to keep yourself connected or lined up on the target line correctly. The only problem is, there seems to be confusion as to how the wrist cocks in the backswing. This especially true for beginners, because the wrist cock needs to be felt. How can a golf training aid help you to feel how the wrist cocks?

There are plenty of places that you can learn from about how the wrist cocks in the golf swing. You can find them in online golf instruction, golf magazines, and especially my favorite, infomercials.

Seeing a golf tip in action is always better for you than reading or hearing about it. Let’s see what an infomercial can tell us about how the wrist cocks in the golf swing. Here’s some you might have seen.

* Greg Norman’s Secret

* The Medicus

* The Glove

* Kallassy’s Swing Magic

Now you don’t have to rush out and go buy any of these golf training aids if you don’t want to. By watching some of these infomercials though, you can start to pick up on a central theme. How and where your wrists are supposed to be during the golf swing. Better yet. How they are supposed to feel.

Take a look at Greg Norman’s Secret. If you watch the infomercial, you might pick up the fact that your right wrist shouldn’t be moving much at all. It’s movement is fixed. The stationary piece of plastic won’t allow any back and forth movement of the hand, only a slight raising of the thumb towards the wrist. Greg even tells you that the wrist cock is like shaking hands with someone. I want you to take this feeling with you. Try to keep the ‘V’ of your right thumb and forefinger pointed at your right shoulder all the way through the swing. This feeling will allow your wrists to hinge naturally.

Then there’s the Medicus. It doesn’t matter if you want to talk about the iron or the driver. That shouldn’t matter much to you. What you need to pick up on is how the hinge is oriented to the club face. The hinge is facing the same way as face of the club. So if you were to break your wrist backwards on itself, wouldn’t the hinge on the Medicus also break. The only way to take the club back without making the hinge break is to cock the wrist upwards. Watch the Medicus infomercial sometime and try to pick out the feeling that you are trying to achieve with this training aid.

The next time that you’re watching The Golf Channel and you see an infomercial from one of the golf training aids mentioned, take the time to really watch it. Study what it is about the training aid that is helping golfers improve. Are you feeling the same thing that the training aid is trying to teach? Are you making your golf game more complicated by cocking your wrists too much? Or the wrong way?

These products, the golf training aids, are helpful if you own them, but you can learn a lot just by watching how they are being used.