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Women’s Golf Tips – Your Ultimate Guide

While it’s true that the game can hold certain challenges for golfers of any age or gender, some problems or issues are more prevalent among certain demographics.

PGA Professional, Katie Rule, turned pro off a handicap of +2 in 2012, and learnt her coaching methods by advancing through the PGA program, graduating as the PGA’s youngest ever PGA Director of Golf and becoming certified in Golf Psychology Coaching.

Katie’s main goal is to inspire, motivate and encourage golfers of all levels to be the very best they can be, but she is especially passionate about ladies’ golf coaching. She has been head county coach to the Cornwall Girls 1st and 2nd team for the last two years, but also coaches the ladies at her club with regular ‘improver’ golf clinics.

Her wealth of experience as a sportswoman, with countless successes both on the course and on the table-tennis table where she claimed the Girls British Championship at the age of 13, makes her the ideal candidate to present this excellent series of golfing tips targeted specifically at female golfers.

She has a deep understanding of the most common problems they tell her about, whether it’s power off the tee, flighting their fairway woods, escaping deep bunkers or finding the confidence they need to be able to play their best.

In this bespoke series of instruction videos for women golfers produced in association with PING, Katie unpacks everything with excellent tips, drills and advice from tee to green that will help women golfers of all abilities reach their potential and overcome some of the shots and scenarios they find most difficult out on the course…

1 Driver Power From ball position and stance, to shoulder angle and grip pressure, Katie works through the set-up essentials to help you do what all golfers want to do – hit their driver further!

 2 Complete Power Katie explains two drills – one more energetic and one a little more gentle – that will help you develop the rotation needed to find more power with every club in the bag.

  #2 Power Tips for Your Swing | Total Game Plan f

3 Release through impact Stop hitting it right! Katie heads down to her local beach to demonstrate how skimming stones is an ideal way to understand how the golf club should release through impact.

#3 Skimming Stones Release Drill | Total Game Plan for Lady Golfers

 4 More height with your woods Many women golfers struggle to flight their fairway woods well off the fairway. Katie points out the ideal ball position and explains how to stop scooping and start sweeping your fairway woods.

#4 How to Flight your Fairway Woods | Total Game Plan for Lady Golfers

 5 Better iron strikes Katie stresses that ‘keeping your head down’ is one of golf’s unfortunate myths and suggests two head movement drills that could really crisp up your iron striking.

#5 Pure Iron Strikes | Total Game Plan for Lady Golfers

 6 The 60-yard pitch Getting up and down more often is the key to scoring well. Katie suggests a simple clockface drill and a focus on rhythm to help you get down in two more often.

#6 Tips To Improve Your Pitching | Total Game Plan fordy Golfers

 7 Escape the sand every time Bunkers can be a challenge, but Katie explains how a few simple changes to your set-up could help you escape greenside bunkers every time and get up and down more often.

#7 How To Play a Greenside Bunker Shot | Total Ga

8 Chip it closer Katie helps you save par more often with a few simple changes to set-up and technique, while stressing the importance of pinpointing your landing point before you play.

#8 Tips To Improve Your Chipping | Total Game Plan for

9 Hole out better If you’ve got a £1 coin in your pocket or purse, then why not experiment with Katie’s two drills to help you hole more putts?

 10 Better course management Could you score lower without changing your technique? Katie thinks so as she focuses on pre- and post-shot routines, body language and shrewd course managemen

If you spend just a little time working on some or all of these simple tips, drills and pointers, depending on what areas of the game you’re most struggling with, your golf could be taking a serious step in the right direction. Very often in golf, it is the simple changes to technique or thinking that allow you to reap the biggest dividends!

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The most effective method to Play Golf In The Wind

You have to peruse every one of the hints, consider your methodology and adjust your approach in like manner

 1 Become an investigator

 Acknowledgment is the primary guideline – scores will by and large ascent with the breeze, so resist the urge to panic and play on! Perception is the second principle.

 In case you're on a connections, it's less demanding to work out breeze heading in the huge expanses, however tree-lined courses present a couple of difficulties.

 Dropping a couple of pieces of sod wouldn't help as your golf ball will be flying much higher, so look at the treetops to show signs of improvement thought of what the breeze is doing.

 Continuously keep a note of twist bearing on the last gap you played as this may prove to be useful on the openings coming up. On the off chance that you've quite recently played downwind and the following opening plays at right edges, at that point expect a crosswind. A course organizer can be especially helpful here.

 2 Fight or ride the crosswind?

 At the point when the format of a gap gives you a touch of room, ride the breeze – hit it out into it and let the breeze normally move your ball back. In case you're in a more kept fairway with trees as an afterthought the breeze is originating from, that is the point at which you may need to attempt and hold the roll together with a little blur into a right-to-left breeze, or an attract if it's left-to-right. Be that as it may, if at all conceivable, my best exhortation is to keep it basic and ride the breeze.

 3 Teeing stature

 Tee it somewhat higher than typical downwind, as that will give you more dispatch and take full favorable position of the conditions. Into the breeze, tee it a little lower to give you a compliment flight and more run, yet not very low – maybe a tad beneath the equator of the ball. Too low and you're probably going to hit down on it excessively and turn it up increasingly – precisely the opposite you need!

 4 Chip your way to a punch

 The chip shot is a perfect diagram for the punch shot into the breeze, since you play it with your hands in front and truncate the complete without discharging the wrists.

 To figure out the low shot, begin by chipping some 7-irons 30 yards and afterward bit by bit expand the swing, as this is actually what you require into the breeze to give you a decent level shot that likewise takes the turn off. You can even do this with a half and half, so don't be hesitant to explore. A great many people are very content with the chip and run, so take a shot at bit by bit stretching out that procedure to 50, 100 yards and the sky is the limit from there. What's more, keep in mind to club up as required.

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Golf For Beginners: So You Want To Play Golf

We get it. Golf can appear to be horribly muddled to the uninitiated. Such a significant number of standards, such huge numbers of various types of clubs. And after that there's the language: birdies, intruder, knock and-runs. At Golf Digest, this might be the dialect we talk each day, yet we likewise know it's a dialect that can drive imminent golfers away before they ever get a golf club.

 That is the place this online tenderfoot's guide comes in. To the individuals who know nothing about golf, we will probably shepherd you through this vulnerability. What sort of clubs do you require? How would you practice? At the point when do you realize that you're prepared for the fairway? As far as we can tell, the main moronic inquiries concerning beginning in golf are the ones you're reluctant to ask, or more awful, the ones for which you can't discover an answer. The general purpose of this guide is to ensure that last part is not any more an issue. — Sam Weinman

 In case you're searching for more learner guidance, look at our video exercise arrangement: The Will Robins Plan: Beginner Basics.

 Section 1: What you have to think about clubs

 Most likely, the correct hardware dependably helps, however it's not as though you'll have to purge your investment account to begin. Rather, center around finding the kind of hardware that will enable you to build up your blemished abilities with insignificant cost. There'll be a lot of time to pursue the most recent, hot items available (and when you do, ensure you begin your pursuit with one of our main 100 clubfitters, yet toward the starting, make learning - and not purchasing - your need.

 - Mike Stachura, Senior Editor of Equipment

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 1. You just need a couple of clubs: You're permitted to convey upwards of 14 clubs in your pack, yet you won't require almost that numerous when you're first learning. Rather, begin with a driver, a putter, a sand wedge (the club has a "S" on the sole or a space of 54 to 56 degrees) and supplement those with a 6-press, a 8-press, a pitching wedge, and a fairway wood or half breed with 18-21 degrees of space. These are the clubs that are the most sympathetic and least demanding to get airborne. You can discover utilized and new titanium drivers for as meager as $75 and putters for significantly less than on the web, however most bigger golf and general brandishing merchandise stoes likewise offer racks of limited and additionally utilized clubs.

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 2. Try not to figure - attempt before you purchase: If you're an outright novice hoping to purchase clubs, go to a bigger golf shop or driving reach and request to attempt a 6-press with a customary flex and a hardened flex shaft. (By and large, the quicker and more forceful the swing, the more you will incline toward a pole that is marked "S" for hardened.) One of the two should feel less demanding to control. That is the pole flex you should begin with for every one of your clubs. When you quit fooling around about the diversion and can reach, a clubfitting will empower you to capitalize on your hardware.

 A GOLF DIGEST EDITOR GETS A STYLE UPGRADE FROM GQ

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 3. The more space, the better: Unless you're a solid and very much organized competitor experienced with stick and ball sports (baseball, softball, hockey, tennis, for instance), choose woods that have more space. Why? The additional space for the most part implies it will be less demanding to take care of business the ball noticeable all around and furthermore can diminish sidespin so shots fly straighter. So run for drivers with somewhere around 10 degrees of space and fairway woods that begin at 17 degrees, not 15 degrees.

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 4. Exploit clubs made for tenderfoots: Some kinds of clubs are less demanding to hit than others. For a certain something, you're in an ideal situation with crossovers rather than 3-, 4-, and 5-irons. Also, irons with more extensive soles (the base piece of an iron) will mitigate the inclination for the club to stick in the ground when you hit too a long ways behind the ball. Additionally, with more weight moved in the sole, the iron's focal point of gravity will be lower and this will enable shots to dispatch on a higher direction. For the most part, an all the more lenient iron will highlight a sole that measures about the width of two fingers (from front edge to back). On the off chance that an iron's sole estimates short of what one finger width, you just ought to play it in case you're paid to do as such. To locate the correct iron for you, peruse through the super amusement enhancement presses on our Hot List

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