At the 2016 Rio Olympics, golf made its return to competition after over a century-long absence.
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Imagine this…a magic genie offers you three golf-related wishes. What do you wish for?
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There are a lot of different ways to swing a golf club. Just look at the guys on the PGA Tour; no two swings are the same.
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Everyone wants to hit their drives farther. Whether you average 100 yards or 300 yards off the tee, we’re all on the search for the next 15.
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They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
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This is relevant because speed is an important part of the golf swing, but so is timing. You can have the fastest swing in the world, but if you can’t also time it…
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A quality golf shot is a combination of correct distance and accurate direction. Get those two elements correct and chances are high that your ball will come to rest in a good spot.
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It sounds overly cliche to say this, but golf is mental. Not necessarily in the sense that you have to be a little crazy to play it, though that may be true as well.
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I’ve talked to a lot of people who lament the fact that they can’t play a lot of golf. It’s tough to improve your game when you only play a couple times per year.
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Juggling a golf ball on the face of your club became significantly more popular when Nike released a commercial of Tiger Woods doing it in the late 90s.
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Every golfer has their number. It's the one that they just can't seem to shoot lower under. It feels like an invisible barrier that keeps holding you back.
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High-level competitive golf is a unique sport. It’s one of the only sports where professionals regularly compete on the same stage as amateurs.
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The ability to put backspin on a golf ball is an incredibly valuable one. It allows a player to safely fly their ball all the way to the green without risking a bad bounce on the ground.
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He has one of the most unusual winning records in the history of the PGA Tour; 6 PGA Tour victories, 4 of them major championships. It’s not necessarily the amount that stands out as strange, but the ratio.
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Playing golf at a higher or lower altitude than you're used to can dramatically influence how you play the game.
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The position, or placement, of a golf ball in a player's stance is incredibly important to shot success. The problem is, it's also sort of vague. As a result, most amateur golfers lack consistency in their ball placement, leading to inconsistent ball striking.
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Golfers end up playing the shot completely by feel and relying on their depth perception and hand-eye coordination to make the ball go the right distance. Unfortunately, this is an incredibly unreliable method for hitting pitch shots.
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For a lot of amateur golfers, the greenside sand, or bunker, shot can be extremely difficult. Most of the time, you’ll only hit a couple of these shots in a round of golf, so most people don’t spend a ton of time practicing these shots.
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A slice is, by far, the most common and frustrating mistake in the game of golf. Watching a ball slice away from the intended target is a helpless feeling, but there is hope.
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It might be the shortest shot in the game of golf, but the putt can also be one of the most difficult…One of the reasons is that most players struggle with putting is that they don't know how to read a green properly.
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