Knowing These 8 Secrets Will Make Your Junior Play Amazing Golf

Believe me, at least once in our lives we have all tried copying the stance of the greatest golf player, Tiger Woods. Imaging standing on your favorite golf track, choking your left hand on the club, placing right hand below it, standing 15 inch apart from the ball, rotating your entire upper body to swing the club at 60° angle with the ground, hitting the ball as hard as you can and watching the imaginary ball piercing the air and creeping through the green patches to the pin and into the cup. Pumping the air and swings of clubs. That’s a life feeling isn’t it? Well why shouldn’t it be? From winning 15 professional major golf championships, 82 PGA tour events & being honored as “ Greatest Symbol of American Excellence “ by President Trump last year, he has been our hero for generations now. But it’s okay if you have become accountant or salesman or federal agent. This dream hasn’t died yet, your junior would do it for you. Let’s first know why golf for your junior?

In the age of videogames and LED TV screens, it is important to have some activity that keeps the junior engaged and also helps in physical and cognitive development. Golf is one of those games that will give your junior some real activity of fun and exercise. Golf specially strengthens spine and cord muscles, improves body posture and induces better hand-eye coordination. It also address one of the major issue of parents; Child’s Safety. Golf is a non-contact and low-intensity sport, with minimal chances of injuries. You can be satisfied enough to leave your junior play alone at the course. One of the best things about Golf is it’s played in open courts in fresh air. It induces you with more love of nature. You can go alone or with friends and family to enjoy this sport improving your love/friendship bonds. Your junior will come out of golf course with more responsibility, sense of sportsman spirit, honesty, emotional control and self discipline.

We have watched great players in this sport over decades ruling the world. Having followed them on and off the field very keenly we have been able to develop some trends that explain enough their greatness and game sense. Following are 8 secrets that help your junior to become a better golf player:

1. The Younger, The Better

As we all know from the medical fact that the major portion of brain development is completed in young years of a child leaving him with better senses of persuading, understanding, grooming & absorbing. Whatever is taught, practiced in those years remains with the child for rest of the life. The Younger you start , the more chances are there to become an amazing player. For the fact Tiger Woods started golf when he was only 2, Jack Nicklaus at 10 making them two greats of the game. It’s from the scientific studies that if you start learning a sport before puberty, you learn better than any professional guru would offer.

2. Natural Talent Matters A lot

Some people are born to be great. It’s hard to work out initially if you are born with some talent or to tell which field/sport will suit which kid but gradually we begin to develop some traits on the basis of which some concrete evaluations can be made. Natural talent can be divided into some parts; Excellent Visual-Physical perception, Stand out Hand-Eye coordination, Mental Presence & Fortitude & Good Physical Condition. Don’t worry if your junior misses any of the above, all of them can be acquired through medical & physical therapies. We have a big profession working on developing these traits in children. But a child with all of them is who we call a God-gifted child and has potentially more chances to learn and excel.

3. Eyes Never Lie

Previously we used to think that you need an excellent eye-sight only to become a pilot or a law enforcement agent or a physician but we know now that in order to be an amazing sportsman you have to have a pair of eagle eyes. That’s why we need to keep up with routine eye check-ups on priority. A few of us also think that if you lag a bit in eye sight, it will gradually improve with years to come but the stats tell otherwise. According to National Centre of Health and Statics USA, only one out of every 10 people, older than 18, reports a decline in vision. You got to have some serious luck to be that one person. If you have perfect eye-sight your eye-hand coordination will improve, consequently more chances to triumph.

4. Walk More

Apart from all the physical and mental benefits that walking can give you, walking in the golf course has a different meaning. It means you have to teach you the thing that after or before playing the shots, you have to walk to the pin and back around to your point. It will teach a few important things. It will extra time to calculate reward & punishment for the type of the shit you are about to play. Whether it should be played over water hazard or rough dry patch? What happens if I play a bad shot and even a great shot. All of this is to be decided at the ground in blind of eye. Walking will keep you focused.

5. Make Muscle Memory

Every sports coach or guru in the world will emphasize you on practicing more but not all of them will tell you about muscle memory. What happens is if we repeat same course of action again and again, over a period of time, it becomes stored in our sub conscious memory. You will tend to do same if you do it 50 years from now, if it’s part of your muscle memory. It takes a single person’s space and a club to practice swing at home. You do it as many times you want. It will improve your grip on club, flexibility, and give you clear idea where is the mistake in swing.

6. Specify Your Range

It can be a ruthless fun to hit the ball recklessly in the air, over the waters and all. You could afford to do it once in a while but to do it every time you are in the field will result in disturbing your muscle memory and growing bad game habits. All you need to do is put a bucket on the ground and specify your range. Perform repeated sessions on the ground and once that range becomes your benchmark you could easily evaluate shorter or longer ranges with comparison.

7. Practice Worst Ball

If you want to develop consistency in your game and mental toughness to bear with harshest game conditions , play with the worst ball you have. The technique is simple. Start by doing a practice with hitting two shots to the tree, one hit and one miss to the green. Now stand in green and play two shots to fairway and rough. Similarly play drives from rough patches & bunkers. If you groom yourself to play in toughest conditions, you will rock in good conditions.

8. Stretch Your Arms

You would have surely missed your favorite players when they are off the fields for years due to injuries. One of the leading reasons is hamstring injury. Generally we opt to have very small muscle moment with our arms in our daily lives. That makes outer arm muscles become stiffed, hamstrings become short and tight and posses greater injury risk. The solution to this is practice stretching arms at home in free time. A number of arms exercise tutorials are present in You Tube. …