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Forgotten Fundamentals and Why your Grip is Key to a Repeating Golf Swing - Part 2
By: Ben Throckmorton | 30/08/2006 | Golf
One of the most important keys to a repeating golf swing that hits one long, straight shot after another is to have the ability to relax your hands, arms, and shoulders and swing the club back and through impact without tension. With a good grip, this relaxed motion will return the club squarely to the golf ball time after time.... BUT if your grip is bad, it makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to deliver the club squarely to the golf ball without consciously or unconsciously some making some sort of in-swing correction.

Forgotten Fundamentals - Alignment Part 1
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/08/2006 | Sports and Fitness
When I sat down and began to brainstorm about writing and filming "How To Break 90 in 3 Easy Lessons", I tried to think of a couple of sticking points that a majority of all my students over the years had struggled with in order that I might use these common threads as the foundation for my new interactive golf training system. After considerable thought, I came up with three problematic areas that virtually every student I've ever taught has struggled with at one time or another.

Forgotten Fundamentals - Alignment Part 2
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/08/2006 | Sports and Fitness
OK, we're continuing to talk about how absolutely essential that proper alignment really is and I want you to put on your thinking cap on and answer a quick question for me. If you are shooting a gun and you want to hit your intended target with any consistency, what is the first order of business? You have to aim the gun at the target in order to hit it...right? I have one more question for you. What chance do you have of hitting the target if you don't aim at it?

Is Common Golf Knowledge Ruining your Golf Swing?
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/08/2006 | Golf
Common Knowledge just might be hindering you from improving your swing, causing you major frustration and higher scores. There is a lot of well meaning golf instruction in the market place today that simply will not help your game; in fact a lot of what's out there will hinder you as you try to improve your golf. The focus of my new site, (http://www.GolfMyths.com), is simply to identify this mis-information and to let players know, not only what the myths are, but why these myths are not true and how they do damage to your golf game.

Drive for Show..putt for Dough
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/08/2006 | Sports and Fitness
A popular golf cliche that seems to appear in print and video often is "Drive For Show and Putt for Dough." If you play regularly, you've probably heard it uttered by your playing companions, probably the one who has just drained a long putt to win the weekend wagers or someone who can't keep up off the tee... but is it really true?

Is Posture Really Key to your Golf Swing? Part 2
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/09/2006 | Golf
Having established the importance of a good posture position in part # 1, here are some important points to bear in mind when developing your best posture.

Is Posture Really Key to your Golf Swing? Part 1
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/09/2006 | Golf
As hard as it is for me to understand, just like the grip, posture is often overlooked by many people who are learning the game of golf and also by many people who are struggling with their games. They go out of their way searching for the "silver bullet" when the real silver bullet is...

Forgotten Fundamentals and Why your Grip is Key to a Repeating Golf Swing - Part 1
By: Ben Throckmorton | 30/08/2006 | Golf
You would have to think that mid to high handicappers and beginners who want to improve their golf swings and games in general and who have the most potential to improve their scores would embrace solid, time-tested fundamentals and use these time-tested techniques to improve their ball striking and scores... BUT for whatever reason, most don't. Most look to gadgetry and gimmick teaching to improve their games with little or no results. Every season it's a new theory, a new gadget, a new gimmick, but most important, they shoot the same old score, never seeing any real results where it counts.

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Golf Fitness Workout - Do Not Forget Your Glutes
By: Max Johnson | 05/09/2008
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Select The Right Golf Travel Bag For You
By: Max Johnson | 05/09/2008
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More from Ben Throckmorton

Is Posture Really Key to your Golf Swing? Part 1
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/09/2006 | Golf
As hard as it is for me to understand, just like the grip, posture is often overlooked by many people who are learning the game of golf and also by many people who are struggling with their games. They go out of their way searching for the "silver bullet" when the real silver bullet is...

Is Posture Really Key to your Golf Swing? Part 2
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/09/2006 | Golf
Having established the importance of a good posture position in part # 1, here are some important points to bear in mind when developing your best posture.

Forgotten Fundamentals and Why your Grip is Key to a Repeating Golf Swing - Part 2
By: Ben Throckmorton | 30/08/2006 | Golf
One of the most important keys to a repeating golf swing that hits one long, straight shot after another is to have the ability to relax your hands, arms, and shoulders and swing the club back and through impact without tension. With a good grip, this relaxed motion will return the club squarely to the golf ball time after time.... BUT if your grip is bad, it makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to deliver the club squarely to the golf ball without consciously or unconsciously some making some sort of in-swing correction.

Forgotten Fundamentals and Why your Grip is Key to a Repeating Golf Swing - Part 1
By: Ben Throckmorton | 30/08/2006 | Golf
You would have to think that mid to high handicappers and beginners who want to improve their golf swings and games in general and who have the most potential to improve their scores would embrace solid, time-tested fundamentals and use these time-tested techniques to improve their ball striking and scores... BUT for whatever reason, most don't. Most look to gadgetry and gimmick teaching to improve their games with little or no results. Every season it's a new theory, a new gadget, a new gimmick, but most important, they shoot the same old score, never seeing any real results where it counts.

Drive for Show..putt for Dough
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/08/2006 | Sports and Fitness
A popular golf cliche that seems to appear in print and video often is "Drive For Show and Putt for Dough." If you play regularly, you've probably heard it uttered by your playing companions, probably the one who has just drained a long putt to win the weekend wagers or someone who can't keep up off the tee... but is it really true?

Is Common Golf Knowledge Ruining your Golf Swing?
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/08/2006 | Golf
Common Knowledge just might be hindering you from improving your swing, causing you major frustration and higher scores. There is a lot of well meaning golf instruction in the market place today that simply will not help your game; in fact a lot of what's out there will hinder you as you try to improve your golf. The focus of my new site, (http://www.GolfMyths.com), is simply to identify this mis-information and to let players know, not only what the myths are, but why these myths are not true and how they do damage to your golf game.

Forgotten Fundamentals - Alignment Part 2
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/08/2006 | Sports and Fitness
OK, we're continuing to talk about how absolutely essential that proper alignment really is and I want you to put on your thinking cap on and answer a quick question for me. If you are shooting a gun and you want to hit your intended target with any consistency, what is the first order of business? You have to aim the gun at the target in order to hit it...right? I have one more question for you. What chance do you have of hitting the target if you don't aim at it?

Forgotten Fundamentals - Alignment Part 1
By: Ben Throckmorton | 08/08/2006 | Sports and Fitness
When I sat down and began to brainstorm about writing and filming "How To Break 90 in 3 Easy Lessons", I tried to think of a couple of sticking points that a majority of all my students over the years had struggled with in order that I might use these common threads as the foundation for my new interactive golf training system. After considerable thought, I came up with three problematic areas that virtually every student I've ever taught has struggled with at one time or another.