Breaking 80 Golf Tips - Discover the Secret to Hitting Perfect Shots For Duffers

Most every golfer I have ever met wants to improve or play better golf. Yeah they may be duffers, golfers with handicaps, but they still long to improve their golf swing, shoot lower scores and reduce their handicap. One goal we all have is to hit the ball crisply, making pure contact allows for better ball flight and distance control.

Some may choose to take golf lessons from a pro but more and more ambitious golfers are turning to the Internet with its wealth of resources to gather the information they need to improve their golf game. Articles like this, e-books and videos can all be found here on the net to help the struggling golfer played better golf.

One key step in the learning process is to understand how the club design dictates how we should swing the club. Proper use of the golf club will make a huge improvement in your ball striking without having to change your grip, address position or swing.

From the driver to the putter every club has these elements. To play better golf needs to fully understand how to apply these elements while using the golf club. So much of the frustration high handicappers experience comes from working against these design elements rather than with them.

To use the club effectively requires a good understanding of the key design elements built into every club by the engineers. These elements are shaft lean, lie angle and center of gravity.

Let's look at shaft lean now.

Shaft Lean

This may be the most important design element of the three. Clubs are built so that the shaft leans forward (toward the target) when properly soled.

Experiment by placing a short iron on a table or counter top. Notice that when the sole is placed flat on the surface of the table that the shaft leans forward past the clubhead.

That angle is the secret to hit crisp, clean golf shots. When the club impacts the ball with the shaft at that angle it creates maximum compression of the golf ball creating perfect launch characteristics of spin rate and launch angle.

You'll feel that perfect impact in your hands, hear that familiar click and then watch the classic ball flight. The pure golf shot is such a thing of beauty, don't you agree?

Next, while still using that club on the table, lean the shaft back until it is vertical. Take special notice of the leading edge of the clubhead. It has lifted up off the table hasn't it? Now the clubface is at a flatter angle to the table. How will those changes affect your golf shot? With the leading edge lifted up like that it becomes easier to blade the ball at impact. The flatter angle with throw the ball higher in the air than designed.

Now move the shaft back a bit further. Now it is leaning away from the target, the leading edge is sticking way up off the table and the clubface has flattened out even more. This exaggerates the affects mentioned with a vertical shaft.

Here is the shocker for you. Most high handicappers strike the ball with the shaft leaning backwards rather than forward as it was designed! Yes, that last position on the table top I showed you is the most common found in amateurs.

The real secret to hitting crisp, clean golf shots is to strike the ball with the shaft leaning forward at impact. This promotes the all important descending blow required to produce those perfect, pure golf shots.

Apply this new knowledge to your golf swing and watch how fast you go from duffer to player.

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