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The following tips are from the official PGA website.

Take a divot for normal yardages with your irons. For right handers, you should feel about 70% of your weight on your left foot at impact.

– Ben Alexander

If you miss the green and your ball ends up in a closely mown area don’t forget about the hybrid putt. Approach the shot just as you would a putt. Use your putting grip, stance, pre-shot routine and stroke. You will find that with a little practice you will start getting up and down.

– Blake Cathey

Do you have one of the new large headed drivers?So you can launch it nice and high, tee the ball higher and further forward in your stance. This will allow you to catch the ball on the up swing and launch the ball. This is very important now because the new balls do not spin as much, but when done right, you will hit it longer than ever, and say this a bit more often”You’re away.”

– John K. Abendroth

Take a divot for normal yardages with your irons. At impact feel about 70% of your weight on your left foot at impact. (right handers) Take a practice swing and hold at impact to feel the 60% weight on the left foot.

– Ben Alexander

Side Hill Lie: 1. Aim towards the high part of the hill as your ball will always favor the opposite direction. 2. Always take practice swings and pay attention to where the club sweeps the grass that will determine the appropriate ball position for the lie. 3. Ball above your feet: Club up and choke up. 4. Ball below your feet: any move up and out of your posture will result in a thin, missed shot. Bend your knees and stay there.

– Erika Larkin

You may need to adjust your set up to assist in hitting a specific shot, but here is a way for a right-handed golfer to remember where your ball should be played ‘right foot, roll, left foot, loft’. If you want the ball to roll, play it off of your right foot. If you want your ball to be lofted into the air, play it off of your left foot.

– Blake Cathey

Putting as we know is so important and to keep it simple, hold your follow through until the ball stops rolling and then check the club face; it should be facing the target.

– Ben Alexander

A good golf grip is important for any serious golfer and the best way to develop your grip is to practice 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.

– Perrie Dugas

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.

– Roger Dole, PGA

To many people think that a sand wedge is just for bunker shots. The sand wedge should be used for sand shots as well as most pitch shots to the green. The sand wedge whether a 54-degree or 58-degree has “bounce” on the sole of the club. This is where the back trailing edge is lower than the front leading edge.

– Jay Perkins

To get the ball close on long putts, speed is likely more important than direction. Develop a good vision of speed control and in your practice time work on long putts so you have the feel. When you go to a course you have never played, spend time hitting long putts on the putting to learn the speed, that will payoff as you play the course.When you take practice strokes for long putts, think of it as a rehearsal swing getting you ready for the real thing.

– John K. Abendroth

How many times have you missed a three foot putt? Here is a drill to make three footers automatic. Start with eight balls surrounding a hole from a distance of one club length. Start with the straightest putt. Knock it in, and move around the circle. Try to make as many putts in a row as you can and keep track of your best. When you miss, repeat the drill.

– Justin Bush

To keep your mind quiet while you putt and to maintain a smooth and even tempo try this 3 count tip. Once you have set up to the ball, the last thing you should do is give a focused look of visualizing the ball going in the hole. Count to yourself 1. When your eyes come back to the ball count 2. Backstroke is 3 and forward swing.

– Krista Dunton

Find a full length mirror and follow these simple steps: 1. Soften your knees slightly. 2. Fold forward from the hips: Keep your spine straight as your torso falls forward and your hips push backwards in one piece (avoid a lower back that is too arched and an upper back that is too rounded). 3. Feel yourself in balance over the laces of your golf shoes with your hands hanging right in front of your toes. 4. Now get swinging!

– Erika Larkin

Is your golf bag organized? Having your golf bag organized will help you greatly as you improve your skills. Knowing where each club is within the bag, you will not lose focus on the shot you have planned, while you search for the proper club.

– John Hughes

Many people over swing and tee the ball lower on tee shots into the wind which can magnify many off center hits and overall bad swings. I would like to see players stay consistent with their set up during such tee shots and stay more focused on a weight shift to the left side for right handed players. This will assist the grip of the club staying in front of the club head which tends to deloft the driver and hit the ball lower. Try this with iron shots as well.

– Lee Smith

A pitch short or short chip shot from short grass or a tight lie can be a challenge even for the very best players. Make a few practice swings and brush the ground in a way you would do it if the ball was there. Nowwithout a lot of thinking step up and hit the shot with the same motion you practiced. You want the club to skim the ground and not dig in on these shots. To be sure this happens, don’t get the hands too far in front of the club head.

– John K. Abendroth

When the wind picks up you want to choose a club that is more than what you would normally choose. Go through your normal pre-shot routine and then swing easy. The windier it gets the easier you should swing. You will quickly find that your golf ball is boring through the wind and not ballooning.

– Blake Cathey

With over 60% of your strokes coming from inside of 100 yards, it is essential that you spend a proportionate amount of time on your short game as you practice. You should devote most of your short game practice to putting and chipping. These two shots make up the majority of your short game strokes.

– John Hughes

A greenside bunker shot is so much easier than most think. It is nothing more than a “fat pitch.” In a greenside bunker we want to hit the sand first. To do that, make two main adjustments to your stance: first, move the ball, two to three inches forward of center and second, dig your feet into the sand. This set up will automatically make your club enter the sand behind the ball.

– Trevor Gliwski

The most common saying in golf is “keep your head down.” The question is, are you actually picking your head up? My experience is that most player’s don’t pick their head up at all, what they do is pull their arms and hands up toward their body causing the club to hit the ball low on the clubface producing a skull shot. To fix the problem, hit balls focusing on brushing grass ahead of the ball and going to a three quarter, fully extended finish.

– Trevor Gliwski