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All of us have missed a short putt before. It is frustrating
to miss something you know you can make! And most often a
missed short putt can cause a chain reaction of bad play.
Every golfer will have a tendency to remember a bad shot at
a certain hole when he next plays that hole. Think of any
short putt as a link on a chain that is a slack and being
pulled tight. As the chain tightens each link is influenced
by the one in front of it and influences the links behind it.
What you must learn to do is break this chain of bad reactions
by silencing that inner voice. This inner voice will tell you
all manner of ill-advised advice and you must build a new chain
based on memories of successful shots, not the failures of
previous ones.

Next time, as you approach the green for your putt, do not
speculate on what the condition or pace of the green is until
you actually get there. Wait until you can physically check
the conditions with your sight and touch. Here is where a
key principle is at work. As you are consciously checking the
grass and the line to the hole, your memory is subconsciously
at work, as well, accessing previous experiences with which
to compare this one. Much of the time, the images that are
being recalled are things that are best forgotten Things
like whether or not you hooked your last putt on this green,
or pushed it on a prior hole. Indeed, I am certain that golfers
miss short putts purely because their memory, at the most
awkward time possible, reminds them of the countless other
short putts they have missed.

Thinking of missed or bad shots sets your mind and body into
motion to repeat that same missed shot. Instead close your
eyes for a moment and clear your mind of those memories.
Visualize yourself hitting the ball perfectly, feel the club
in your hand. Hear the ball hit the bottom of the cup. Then
open your eyes, ready yourself and remember how you just saw
yourself in your mind, and make the shot.

After the shot is sunk in the hole, take a moment and
remember the putt, how you made it, make a vivid impression
in your mind. This training will become a link in the chain,
and it will influence the next link (putt). When you are
on the next green, recall the putt you made, and then repeat
the visualization of sinking this next putt. Thus, a strong
“chain” is built - a successful chain. When you do miss short
putts from time to time, even though it is important to learn
why you missed so you can correct it, do not think of that
missed put on the next green. Dismiss it from your mind and
follow the above steps. Soon you will notice a dramatic
change in your short game as well as your overall confidence.

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In a game of good golf, everyone is worried one way or another about golf swings. Articles had been written, videos had been taped, and destinies had been written, perfectly dividing those who can and who can’t do golf or do a competitive golf swing.

To answer the pleas of the thousand frustrated golfers (me included), technology made the golf impact indicator. So what is this breakthrough science of golf impact indicator? First let’s tackle about the most horrible aspect of golf: the golf swing.

Too often we see these PGA Tour golfers swagger about and doing those textbook swings. And we try to emulate their key successes often with various results. 80% of the emulators fail, because while it is insanely easy to look at those swings, it is disgracefully hard to execute them on the field. Mind you, I can hit a ball squarely with a club; just don’t look at the results. It may be a banana for the life of me.

Golfers do need to study their shots. Because within that split second execute is the key where I did the fatal flaw which resulted the ball plunking over the nearest bunker. That’s where Golf Impact Indicators comes in.

A golf impact indicator is a training aid that allows golfers to study the golf swings they have made. This is a practical alternative to improve your strokes. Did you just launch a banana? Look at the evidence the golf impact indicator leave on the club. Then pattern changes according to what you have learned.

Golf Dust is the leading golf impact indicator that has been used worldwide. It comes in a handy spray can that you can use prior to performing your golf swing. After which it leaves an impression on your golf club telling you where the location of the ball contact. You can clearly define where you did wrong, was it posture, reach, grip?

Gold Dust has no dye in it. So it won’t stain anything, fabric, club plus, it dries instantly. And a training aid as cheap as this is the least expensive and most efficient way to improve your game. The 2.70 oz can is enough for approximately 150 applications and costs $16.45 USD at www.golfdust.com

So how often do you hit the sweet spot on your golf swing? Get your can of Golf Dust now. It is a cheap alternative than perfecting those strokes for several months on the field.

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Since before the time Mary Queen of Scots was disciplined for playing golf two Sundays after the murder of her husband Lord Dernley in 1567. Golf is known to have been played at St. Andrews before the founding of the university in 1411. It is a safe bet to say that golf was played in some form or another as much as a century before this.

Golf is the only game whose objective it is to hit a ball across a course of some kind that had sand traps, bunkers, and other obstacles to prevent you from accomplishing this. The ball is balanced in mid-air and hit to another spot below the ground.

It was the Scots who introduced the golf hole into the game. It was a national pastime more than four hundred years before Prince Charles fled Culloden in defeat at the hands of the English in 1513 at the Battle of Flodden Field.

At Flodden the Scots were no match for the English in the first assault and were defeated 50 years earlier. King James II banned the game of Golf because he believed it was interfering with archery practice and he did this with a Scottish Act of Parliament. The first documented record makes references to modern golf. James III also banned the game in 1471.

The origin of Golf is a mystery however there is a few theories out there.
The first theory says that fisherman on their way back from their boats would pick up a piece of driftwood and whack a pebble to see how far it would go. They would do this repeatedly until they reached the river.
Golf is thought to have been played in Kirk Session (Church Court). The only evidence of it is found in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Golf is still a very popular game today. A time line is presented below that will provide you with a general idea of the evolution of Golf into the game we know today.

16th century - Gold became established on the east coast of Scotland and began to spread. Golf was played by James the VI before he acceded the throne as James the 1st did in 1603.

1501 - James the IV had his treasurer pay 14 Shillings to a bow-maker in Perth to supply them with clubs. Golf became associated with royalty, The Church, and education (i.e. St. Andrews)

17th century Golf was pursued from the south east to as far north as the Orkney Islands.

1754 - The beginning of construction of new courses.

1880 - The arrival of the gutter perch ball was a major influence on the popularity of golf. Little has changed in the past 250 years.

1925 - In Texas the Bark Hollow Golf Club becomes the first club with a complete fairway irrigation system. The British Open is played for the last time at Prestwick Golf Club. The Royal Canadian Golf Association makes a ruling that the use of steel-shafted clubs is legal. They joined the United States Golf Association.

1973 - Johnny Mailer shoots 63 at Oakmont Country Club to win the U.S. Open. Arnold Palmer wins the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, his fifth win in the event and his 62nd win in the PGA Tour.

1985 - Europeans win the Ryder’s Cup for the first time in twenty-eight years.

1995 - Ben Crenshaw won his second Master’s. Tiger Woods wins second straight U.S. Amateur. The Golf Channel makes its debut in television.

1997 - Tiger Woods in his first year Championship had a 12 stroke win at the Masters. Jack Nicklaus tees off at the US Open for his 150th consecutive major championship appearance.

1999 - Aree Wongluekert (now known as Aree Song) wins the Girls Junior Amateur. At 13 she is the youngest winner of the USGA Championship.

2001 - The term “Tiger Slam” was coined after Tiger Woods wins the Master’s making him the first person to hold all four of Golf’s major professional titles at the same time. Annika Sorenstam shoots 59 in the LPGA Tour. The attacks of 9/11 caused the Ryder’s Cup to be delayed for a year.

2003 - Mike Weir wins the Masters becomes the second left-handed person to win a major championship. Michelle Wie won women’s amateur Public Links. She is the youngest winner of an adult USGA Championship. Michelle Wie played in every men’s event on the Canadian and the nationwide tour. She didn’t make either cut.

2004 Michelle Wie is given an exemption into the PGA Tour Sony Open. She shoots 72-68 missing the cut by one stroke! Arnold Palmer plays The Masters for the fiftieth and very last time.

Golf has given us centuries of physical activity, excitement, and it has been and is exciting to watch a game in progress. Within the last 250 years Golf hasn’t changed all that much. For those who play the game, there are all kinds of resources available to improve their game.

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