The Best 9 Pages in Golf -- Golf Tips by Steve Fontaine

by Steve Fontaine
Valley Golf
Saginaw, MI
copyright 2003
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Introduction

These pages contain the best non time consuming training techniques. If you train before you practice, you bring reliable tools to put into practice. Without training, you bring old baggage.

All training should encompass as much as possible, with the fewest number of drills that it takes to get the job done. The training discussed adheres strictly to the skills you must have to become a good scorer and a good ball striker.

A mirror is the ultimate tool for effective self coaching. Video pales compared to what a mirror can do for you. The ability to feel what you are doing, as you see it, is the best way to true learning. Floor to ceiling mirrors are nice, but training can be just as effective with a tilted mirror from 3 to 4 feet tall. The combined value of all the training aids ever made may not rival the value you can get from effective use of a mirror.

The following materials contain the methods, illustrations and instruction that makes this such a powerful and reliable road map to permanent expert level improvement.

 

The learning process

Golf training should not be approached in the same way as cramming for an exam. If you train 8 hours a day for 7 days, you've devoted over 3000 minutes to training. Your likely to have better results by devoting 5 minutes a day for 3 months and having only a few hundred minutes involved. When given a chance, most physical things will grow into you over time. Your body, mind and muscles will change in ways that will make them better suited for the tasks that are given to them. This process works on its own time table.

 

Training that's realistic

A training program that works must first be a training program that you will do. Practice and training should be treated separately. Practice requires balls, while most training does not. The simple rule is: “Train a little everyday. Practice when ever you want to.”

Its human nature for people to be gung-ho and want to do more than what's realistic. They turn training into a burden and then outright quit. Usually in a matter of weeks. Sometimes after the first day. It doesn't have to be hard or time consuming. I strongly recommend resisting any gung-ho urges you may have and limit your training to 5 minutes a day. After 3 weeks or so, you should have a better idea whether you're in it for the long haul. You can adjust your training minutes up and down based on free time and ambition. Keep in mind that 5 minutes will produce good results. By the way, the 5 minutes a day is for swing training. Chipping and putting are separate issues.

Tips for Chipping - Page 1	Tips for Putting- Page 2	Golf Swing Impact Drill Training- Page 3
Golf Swing Turn Training - Page 4	Swing Turning Drill- Page 5	Smooth Golf Swing- Page 6
Back Swing Set Position Drill- Page 7	Golf Club Grip-Page 8	Final Golf Training Tips- Page 9

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