A good grip is the foundation of your golf swing, enabling greater control and reducing your tendency to slice. A good grip helps keep the club-head square at impact and stops the shaft from rotating in your hands. The most popular grip used by professional golfers is the Vardon grip. Place your little finger on the lower hand on the club (right hand for a right-handed player – known as …Read More
Nike Lunar Control 4 shoes
Designed in conjunction with Rory McIlroy, the fourth generation of the Lunar Control shoe focuses on stability, grip and comfort. New for this model is Dynamic Nike Flywire technology – which provides lateral support in the midfoot – as well as a robust external heel counter that helps lock the foot in place for better stability. A split tongue provides relief while walking. There are four colourways, including this new …Read More
Swingthought.ie – what’s it all about?
Swingthought is an Irish based on-line golf improvement platform for Irish golf professionals and their future students to come together on one site via a mutually beneficial approach to golf improvement. Swingthought will allow amateurs to examine their golf game (through freely distributed V1 swing analysis software), identify faults, watch tips and advice from qualified Irish golf professionals and ultimately choose a registered professional for lessons. Swingthought offers free video …Read More
Searching for my golf swing
My mind is cluttered. Cluttered with thoughts of golf. Properly cluttered like the kind of antique shops you find in small rural villages scattered throughout England. Lots of things in there, spread about willy nilly, some interesting and some not, some significant and some not but all there none the less. You have to trawl through a lot of the irrelevant junk to get to the good stuff. Finding the …Read More
Golf Tilt – searching for Zen (and the Art of Golf).
Firstly, an aspiring golfer has to learn how to hit the ball. This entails learning completely new motor skills and repeating them over and over again until they become second nature. That takes a lot of time and practice. Once these new basic skills are mastered the golfer must ‘hone’ the skills some more as they need to be adapted to continue to improve. This is a test of patience. …Read More