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Are you a beginner golfer struggling to improve quickly or someone keen to start playing the game wanting to get off to a fast start? Well this is the video for you as we've collated 11 of the best tips from Golf Monthly staff who've been there, done it, got the t-shirt and now play off a single figure handicap index. Hopefully the advice the team share will speed up your journey to better and it's worth saying that these tips don't just apply to beginner golfers - we're confident there will be some that apply to more experienced golfers too!

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00:00Now, are you a beginner golfer that's not improving as quickly as you'd like?

00:03Well, watch this video as we've got a collection of great tips and bits of advice from single

00:07figure golfers that are really going to help speed up your improvement.

00:10Well, my best tip for a beginner golfer would have to be just learn to smash it.

00:18Learn how to hit it hard, learn how to swing quick.

00:21It's far easier later on down the line to learn how to sort of tighten up your technique

00:26and tidy up a few things than it is to learn how to find extra speed and extra power.

00:31It helps you with so much other stuff, being able to shift it.

00:33That comes from the great man himself, Jack Nicklaus.

00:36He always said, especially for kids, learn how to hit it a long, long way, learn how to

00:40move the club fast, and you can refine it later.

00:43I think I would say don't get too one-dimensional around the green.

00:46Don't just get somewhere near the green and automatically reach for a wedge, which I think

00:50a lot of, certainly I, when I was a beginner, I thought, well, that's the club you're supposed

00:53to use around the green, but what you're doing there is bringing a lot of loft into the equation

00:57you don't necessarily need.

00:58You've got to hit it a little bit harder because it's going to go up in the air more,

01:02and you can actually simplify things with various other clubs, maybe seven iron, chip and run,

01:06these days even a hybrid, and quite often a putter.

01:10So simplify things around the green and you'll take fewer shots.

01:14So yeah, my number one tip would just be learn how to strike the ball consistently and just learn

01:19your yardages. The amount of times that golfers will be stood over a shot from say 150 yards and

01:25they won't know what club goes 150 yards is a big problem. Obviously, if you can hit that club the

01:30same distance consistently, you're going to be pinned high and you're going to be more likely to

01:34have a more chance of getting a good score going. So I think the main tip I give is just learn your

01:38yardages and make sure you're hitting it consistently. That'll be the main tip.

01:42So my beginner's tip would be to practice with intent. So make sure when you're going out to the range or if

01:47you're going to put any practice in, whether it's putting, short game, make sure that you're

01:51practicing something specific rather than just going out hitting balls and not having anything

01:55to focus on. My top tip for a beginner golfer. Well, that's a tough one because there's so many out

02:01there, but if I had to pick one, I would say playing your own swing. If you play with a fade or a draw,

02:07play with that. Don't try anything new or fancy. Head out onto the driving range before around a golf

02:13and before you head out onto 18 holes and just see how you're swinging it. If your ball flight's going

02:17left to right or right to left, play with that for that day. Don't try and resort to anything

02:22different that you're not used to or you're not hitting that day. You're going to end up with

02:26a far better score and you'll be better off if you play with what you've got than trying something

02:31new and something different. So my best bit of advice for beginner golfers would be to have the

02:35intention of hitting the ground on the target side of the golf ball. Most beginner golfers have a

02:41misconception that they need to hit up on the ball to get the ball in the air and actually the opposite

02:46is true and having the intention of hitting the ground at speed in front of the golf ball,

02:51it's going to deliver better compression into the golf ball, a bit more spin and it's going to give

02:55you more carry distance and also better control of your strike as well. When I've been trying to

03:00help my wife get into playing golf, one of the drills or the swing thoughts I give to her is

03:04literally trying to hit the ball into the ground. That gets the club and body working in the right way

03:09to be able to compress the ball, hit down on it with speed. That should give you better strikes,

03:14better distance and better consistency. That would be my one thing if you're a beginner to really focus

03:19on with every club in the bag apart from driver. Most people know that alignment is really important

03:24but a really good way to think about it is to imagine that you're standing on a train track and

03:28your feet are on the nearer of the two tracks and your ball to target line and your club face is on

03:34the other track. It's that kind of parallel setup that you need to address that will give you really

03:38good alignment. My tip for beginners is get yourself off the driving range if you can.

03:45Play with good golfers as well because you'll learn a little bit from them. You'll see what

03:49they do around the greens with their shots, their game management and the more you get on the golf

03:53course, the more you get away from the driving range, the more comfortable you'll get with this

03:57quite scary environment at times. I think the better you'll get quicker. My number one tip for beginners

04:03would be to tee it forward so I see a lot of beginners trying to tee off like kind of yellow

04:09tees, white tees a little bit further back and kind of struggling a lot whereas teeing it forward

04:14allows people to take the pressure off quite quickly and you hit kind of shots closer to the hole quite

04:19quickly and it also I think makes the game faster. I think it makes it more fun as well and also from

04:25doing it in the past myself I think you hit a lot of different clubs in the bag when you tee it forward

04:31as well so I think to help players teeing it forward is the best way to go I think especially

04:36for beginners. Well when I was a junior the thing that always really benefited me was to keep my stats

04:42on my scorecard so what I used to do was as along with the score down the left-hand column I actually

04:47marked G for greens here, F for fairways and P for the number of putts. Twenty years have gone on and

04:54there's now a number of different more modern methods of doing this than just the pencil and paper scorecard

04:59form so there's ARCOS shot tracking technology where you can actually have the the stats recorded

05:06on your phone or through your apple watch and I know that's a really really easy way of doing it

05:10and I just thoroughly recommend keeping your stats because you're just going to have so much more

05:14knowledge of the areas of your game that you're going to need to improve to reduce that handicap.

05:18So my best tip for beginner golfers would probably be just to practice your chipping and putting

05:24so I think the wedge play in short game definitely covers more than half of your shots in a round of

05:28golf and so practicing your chipping and putting and doing little drills that will take shots

05:32off your score will dramatically reduce your handicap and make your golf more enjoyable.

05:36So there you have it loads of really good advice hopefully that you'll agree that's going to help

05:40you if you're a beginner golfer improve a little bit faster go and take them away with you to the

05:45practice ground to the golf course and hopefully you'll see your scores tumble but that's all for me

05:50from Effingham golf club I'll see you next time.

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