How to Play Golf

Wow!

That’s a really broad question. Do you want to know the rules of golf? How to hit a driver? How to hit your irons? Do you need more distance? Do you want to know how to grip a golf club? Maybe you are looking for some putting tips or want to work on your short game, tee to green?

Would you like some help choosing equipment or finding a great golf training video?

Do you need some swing tips? Do you need to cure a slice? Or a hook?

Are you looking for some golf fitness tips? Does your back hurt from golfing?

Would you like to learn some new golfing games?

How about how to calculate your handicap?

I could go on and on but the point is if you want to learn about the game of golf, how to improve your game and how to have a whole lot more fun playing, you have come to the right place!

Remember there is not one perfect swing for everyone or one perfect grip for everyone or one perfect way to golf. As with any sport or physical activity there are many different variations and you will need to find what works for you.

 

That’s where this site will be the most help.


If you are a beginner and just learning how to play golf you will greatly accelerate your learning curve by following the basic golf training provided here.

If you have been golfing for a while you can use the posts on this site to refine and tweak the parts of your game that need the most help.

Whether you are trying to figure out how to hit your driver, your irons, work on your chipping and putting or would like some info on getting out of the sand trap this is the place to be. If it’s golf related  I can help you.

This site is always a work in progress. I will be adding content on a regular basis with the goal of creating the best site you will ever find to help you achieve your goals: improving your game and having more fun!

Most of the golf instruction on this site will be accompanied by video because I believe it is so much easier to learn golf from a video than it is to try and understand the concepts from pictures or text alone.

This site is in the form of a blog where the newest posts will be shown on the home page 18golftips.com and then categorized into easy to find categories in the right column as they slide off the homepage.

Take a look around this site and come back often. I truly believe your game will get so much better in a very short period of time if you incorporate these training instructions into your next visit to the driving range and on the course.

What not to do!

So many people decide to take up golfing and never learn “How to play Golf”. Usually what happens is they go golfing or to a driving range with a friend or relative and just start swinging away. Usually with some really bad advice from the person they are with.

This is not the way to do it!

Many golfers I know have spent years on the course never learning how to properly swing a club and never getting any better!

Including myself.

That has all changed for me now and since you have found this site it is about to change for you too!

Follow the links at the top of this site to get started and then work your way through the rest of the site by reading the current posts or finding your specific topic of interest in the right side menu.

A little time reading and watching videos on this site and a couple of trips to the driving range will have you wishing you had done this a long time ago.

Good luck

 

A fun Variation

Here is a fun variation to the standard stroke play golf that most people play when getting together with their golfing partners.

It’s called match play. And the difference is that you play for a hole at a time instead of adding up all of your strokes at the end of the game to find a winner.

For example: If you shoot a 4 on the first hole and your rival shoots a 5, you win that hole. At the end of the round the person that has won the most holes wins.

Ties are just ties and are not counted.

The fun part of this game is that even if you have one bad hole where  you hit 2 balls out of bounds you still have a chance to win in the end instead of being out of the running with the one bad hole.

Enjoy!

 

Here’s a funny video to illustrate how ridiculous some golf instruction can be. This guy is spoofing some of the golf training you may run into on the internet and it’s pretty funny but believe me, golf does not have to be this complicated.

 

Keep Practicing and have fun!