One of the keys to being victorious while playing golf is to develop a consistent shot with your irons. All beginners will dream of hitting the perfect shot with an iron and with some practice this dream can become a reality. The following easy tips will allow you start hitting the golf ball with your iron like you were a pro.

1. Correct posture is crucial. Learn to stand with your feet pointing to the target, knees slightly bent. Your back should be straight and with most of your weight on your heels.

2. The position of your body needs to remain as still as possible. Your body should rotate, but not change position as your swing the club.

3. To achieve maximum club head speed, the forward side of your body needs to be clear out of the way prior to striking the ball. The faster the head of your iron is traveling the fast you will hit the golf ball.

4. Keep your eyes and the ball prior to hitting the shot and continue to watch the grass after the hit. This will be hard as we all want to immediately see the golf ball in flight, but keeping your head down will give you a better shot.

5. Most players want to crush the golf ball with every stroke. Learn to play within your capabilities and maintain control of both the golf club and the golf ball.

6. Just like every player is different, every golf club is different. Learn how each of your irons plays and the distance that you can expect out of them.

7. Always remember to stretch prior to starting hole number one. Periodically stretch while playing. This will allow you to complete nice easy follow through on each swing.

How often have you changed your golf grips?

Let me guess, you’re golf clubs are about 4 to 10 years old and you play on a golf league every year and you have changed nothing about your golf clubs. You have the same golf grips on all of the clubs and you have the same pitching wedge you bought with the original set.

How many sets of golf gloves have you purchased over the lifetime of your clubs? You have bought either a new glove each year or every other year. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you bought a glove every other year and you’ve spent about $70 for five gloves over the last 10 years.

I really think you’ve gone through gloves at a faster rate and have spent double what I’ve estimated. Would you play with your clubs in the rain? No? You’re probably afraid they will slip out of your hands?

I don’t care how good the golf club grips were and how much you spent on the clubs, you need to change the grips when they appear to be slick or hard to the touch. To preserve them you should use water or water with alcohol on a soft cloth and rub the grips after every round of golf.

As you get older you may need larger size grips to accommodate soreness from troubled hands. So, we’ve determined you need to change out your golf club grips and you can do it when, you can do it automatically at the end of each season or wait until they feel slick or hard to the touch and then change them before you start next season.

Also, you will probably need to change out your putter grip more often or at least other every year. You say why? Well putting is said to be a feel stroke. So if you do not have a good feel for your club it will be difficult to putt well. And people seem to forget, you will use your putter about 30 or more times per each 18 holes you play. Typically, the course is set up so that you use your putter 36 times per round with many people using more. If you have only 30 putts, you’ve played a great round.

Golfers just don’t realize that their putter is used more often then any other club you have in your bag. You will also use your pitching wedge approximately 10 to 15 times per 18 holes for the average golfer. So the golf clubs you use a lot of will be worn and slick faster and the grip really should be replace each year.

When all is said and done, you use your clubs a lot more when you are playing badly then if you are playing well. With that being a true statement, you feel that your grips are just OK without any issues because you have very little feel when you play badly and you have gotten use to the feel.

Let me add just one more bit of info. With an average golf grip costing, let’s say $6, and you have 14 clubs in your bag it will cost you $84 just for the grips. It will probably cost you about $5 per club to have someone re-grip your clubs, so the total cost to re-grip a set of clubs each year is about $154.

The cost of changing all your golf club grips is a contributing factor for not installing new golf grips each year. You add that cost to greens fees, drinks on the course (Gatorade $2.50), food and drink at the end of a round and new golf balls, the cost is significant each season. We spend a lot of money to play 20 to 40 times a season at our favorite courses.

To help reduce this cost and still follow the guide lines, do this. When the golf grip feels like it needs to be changed, change the two, three or four clubs you use the most. Your driver, putter, pitching wedge and probably a seven iron. That will be about $44. Pretty cheap, about the cost of a round of golf, for helping you play better. Good Luck and have fun.