Explaining ways to make money from golf in an article of around 500 words is quite a challenge, as there are so many!

I’m going to stick to 3, including the one I use, so let’s get stuck in…

Firstly, you could set up your own golf site.

On this site you could sell equipment of all sorts, from buggies to clubs to balls, from tickets to championships to memorabilia, books and dvds.

The major plus to this is that you would get to keep all the profits, but the downside is that you’d have to set up and maintain the site, and invest upfront in stock.

Yes, it possible to earn a very large amount of money like this, but I don’t do it myself, and don’t recommend it, because of the large investment required, plus the fact that you are competing against all the sites that are already established.

The second method is the affiliate model.

Anything sold online, and golf is a great example, usually has an affiliate programme.

This means that you send traffic to the company’s site, but to a link embedded with your own tracking code.

When anyone then buys from the site, the company gives you a stated commission.

People have made fortunes online from this model, and golf is indeed a good market for it.

The upside is that you don’t need a website, or any upfront costs.

It can be started literally for nothing.

The downside is that you only get a percentage of any sales, plus there are many other affiliates out there, who have lots of experience of already doing it.

That’s great for the company, not so great for the affiliates.

The third method is the one I use.

The psychology behind all selling is that you provide what people want, not what they need.

To play golf, you *need* a set of clubs, but you want a set of Titleist or Wilson, spending on the bigger name brand.

To watch the major championships, you need a tv, but you want to go in person, spending on travel and entrance tickets.

So, the method I use is to provide people in the golf market with information, telling them how they could pay for all those expenses for free.

The amount earned depends on time put in.

It’s possible to earn a full time living for sure, but even if you just want to pay your green fees forever for free with the method, that’s not bad is it!

You get to keep all the profit, you don’t need a website, and it can be done for free, so it combines the upsides of the first 2 methods.

I use this technique to make money from golf, others use it, and hopefully you’ll realise that there is no reason why you can’t too, for only $7.

Although there is some similarity between Croquet and Golf (both are played on grass, or should be anyway, both use balls, both are played by using some sort of club or mallet to move the balls, etc…) most people don’t usually associate the two. However there is one way to relate the two sports in a way that may help you on the golf course with your takeaway.

Even if you’ve never played croquet it’s easy to understand that if you want to roll the croquet balls accurately you must swing the mallet in such a way as to have the head very very close to the ground as you approach the ball and even for a few inches past the point of contacting the ball. This is why many, if not most, croquet shots are executed by swinging the mallet between your legs like a pendulum. It promotes an arc that is “flat” at the bottom.

When taking the club head away on a golf shot you need to do the same thing. That is, don’t pull the club head up to quickly, but rather try to take it away slowly and smoothly so you flatten the “arc” at the bottom of the swing. This is especially important any time you are hitting off a tee with a driver or fairway wood.

To promote the feeling of a long, slow, flat arc on your tee shots imagine that your club (driver or fairway wood) is going to try to roll a croquet ball backwards from your golf ball. Your objective is not to hit the imaginary croquet ball a long way, but rather to start it rolling smoothly. This way you improve the motion of your takeaway which gives you a much better chance to return your club head on the correct swing plane to your golf ball.