If you are looking for means to lower your golf scores, then here are some valuable tips that are sure to help golfers of all ages and abilities to lower their golf handicaps. (1) Practice…Slowly Good form during a swing is very important in improving one's performance. However, too many people make the mistake of simply going for many repetitions instead of honing their form per swing. If you do not force every practice swing to form perfection, simply doing repetitive exercise can actually be detrimental since you could be repeating a wrong form over and over again. This could burn the wrong form into your muscle memory and could seriously hinder your bid for better performance - and a lower handicap. Practicing a golf swing in slow motion can be a great way to fine tune your swing and get the right form while you are at it. Your mind will connect better to the proper muscle movement and form. You can start speeding up a little a time while you do this. Eventually, you can get yourself doing the right form over and over again. This is when repetitive exercise can help. (2) Get a Grip Good golf grip is important for any serious golfer. And the best way to develop your grip is by practicing it every time you can. Most golfers have golf clubs by their sofa - for easy access whenever they lounge by the television - so that they can practice their grip as often as possible. With enough practice, holding a club properly will become second nature to you. So keep those clubs within constant range for a better golf grip. (3) Get a Mirror A mirror is a great way to monitor and evaluate how your swing is going. You could use a video recorder as well to get better angles of your swing - and they are great for keeping you focused on swinging instead of looking at the mirror. Choose whatever option is convenient for you. Mirrors and videos can help you get immediate feedback on whether what you are doing is correct. You may also want to send this video to instructors who can then tell you what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong. Conclusion As with most things, only practice makes perfect. However, you can avoid wasting your time during practice by learning to practice smarter instead of just more. The tips mentioned above will help you get started on this road.

Anybody can learn to play golf because there are golf courses strategically placed all over the world. Playing golf by the rules established by the United States Golf Association might take some time to learn because there is a required reading list within those rules that pertain to every part of the game of golf and these rules should be read and understood in their entirety before a golfer buys anything.

New golfers might not know how to use the rule book from the United States Golf Association to their best advantage. They might not know if they should learn the definitions to the game of golf first so that they can understand what the rule book says or if they should learn about the various specifications for each piece of golfing equipment that they will use in a friendly game of golf anywhere in the world.

Any golfer knows that there is a certain etiquette used to play the game of golf. The game has been around for a very long time and gentlemen have refined the rules to ensure that pure enjoyment comes from playing even if the game does get quite competitive on the professional golfing circuit. A new golfer might want to learn about the clubs, irons, and most certainly the ball.

The rules of the United States Golf Association will help a new golfer learn all about responsibilities. The player is responsible for using the right equipment, practicing golf to achieve a definitive purpose, and learning the game well so that they can one day offer some valuable advice to another golfer that is new to the game. New golfers know too well about the jokes played on newbie's because everyone laughs about them in the clubhouse after a day on the golf course is finished.

To effectively use the rules of golf, a golfer must learn about the order of play and how to identify their own ball among many on the golf course or even in a pond or a lake. Most new players will learn very quickly about the difference between hitting a golf ball and striking it and they will most certainly learn about marking a ball so that play on the course can continue.

Some new golfers seem content to stay on the putting green for the better part of a morning until they realize that there are rules about the usage of putting greens and the various fees for use that are applied because someone chose to putt for an extended period of time. It might have been cheaper for the golfer to practice on a driving range for a morning or two until they got their golf game under control and knew how to determine which way the wind blew.

There you are, the newest member of the golf retirement community, putting to engineer that innocent looking little white ball into the black hole at last. The soft sea breeze stroking your aching back after that one wild swipe at the dodgy little Callaway golf ball when you thought no one was watching. And something else is bothering you.

You know what it is, but you don't want to acknowledge it, because you don't know what to do about it.

You don't yearn for the latest golf swing trainer, golf cart accessory or other related retirement gift. It is something entirely different that is tap-tap-tapping away at your thoughts.
Too many greens to play, too many beautiful community golf courses whispering their names to you in that salty wind coming in from the sea. And there is only one you.

With a wife that is adamant to have her say in the unfolding need for more than just the one golf course in one lifetime.

As that wise old German psychologist mentioned in quiet desperation, women are different. They are most likely aliens from a far off galaxy where there are no open green, gated golf course communities that are synonymous with heavenly pleasures. In that galaxy the rule has been laid down that a specimen from the female species will always have the need to have an own home where the specimen can indulge in home making. A serious golfer, in his advanced cosmic state, knows that it is not about the house, it is all about the green course. She will not let go.

She will not understand. She will want her own home to beautify. She will want a verandah where she and her friends from that far off galaxy can sit down and drink tea while watching whales in the sea, or buffalos grazing, or soft green hills against pure blue heavens. That is what she wants, and you can just as well go and drown yourself with your beloved golf bag in that water hole at the 16th. She will not budge.

But then, to your relief, you remember that phrase of the great Chinese writer, or it could be an Australian, and you know that it is likely that you are making a mistake about this great man's background, but what he said was something like 'it is in the play that I'll catch the conscience of the queen'...

Careful planning, my golfing mate, is what will save the day. Those were the words of those great and advanced guys that roamed the great plains of ancient courses long long ago. Give the specimen a house overlooking the greens. There she can buy curtains to her liking, plant flowers in clay pots, read JM Coetzee or Ian McEwan whilst listening to Mozart. And the little wifey with her specimen friends can sit on the verandah, laughing and spilling tea while they watch your approach to do something to that little white ball that once again moved for only a few inches (the English), or centimeters (the rest of the world).

The plain truth is that this ancient wisdom of golfers now swinging clubs in the pinkish clouds at days end, only provides a partial answer to the greater issue. You know that if you can't get the swing right on this open green, there are surely so many other beautiful retirement community golf courses. Courses that will appreciate your next swing, which will be the one that Ernie Els aspires to.

The thing is, your specimen has now settled into her golf course community house overlooking the 18th hole. Since buying that piece of golf real estate for her, she happily opens the front door at your disheveled return from the game, and she always displays those bright twinkling eyes, shining with mischievousness. Now you know that she found something so great or amusing in that house overlooking the 18th hole that she will not even consider moving to a different, more lenient course.

Now, this is the moment that I will come to your rescue. I have given that game up because I do not yet want to play it in the day end pinkish clouds before it really is time to do so, on account of heart attacking golfing seizures. So I would rather sell you and your specimen a house at a gated, retirement golf community estate of her liking. At the same time I would suggest that you get your specimen's best friend to maneuver her golfing husband to one of the other beautiful courses.

Doing so, you can explain, they can visit each other, go to art galleries, coffee shops, mesmerizing shopping centers and they can even sit on the verandah overlooking the very first hole, laughing their buds and their butts off, ...so long as you and your golfing friend can have another go at another course where nobody can possibly know your real handicap.
Just don't turn your eyes towards all the verandahs of all the other houses in the gated golf community, with all the other specimens rolling and reeling in laughter over their little cups of tea.
It will only prolong that fight of dwarfing inches towards the shrinking little black hole of redemption.