Learning your golf swing is not just a matter of standing up and holding the club in any old way. There is a lot of procedures to go through before you become in any way proficient at swinging your club at a tiny object, i.e: the ball. There is the grip that has to be perfectly comfortable for you.

The grip that suits someone else may be totally inadequate for you, yet many coaches will insist on you persevering with what they are telling you is right for you. Find the grip you feel at ease with and develop this grip until it becomes second nature to you. Do not be impatient any thing that’s good will be worth waiting for. There is no easy road to playing golf if you want to be good at it.

There are so many complicated moves between holding the club in the right way, measuring up behind the ball with the club face, raising the club slowly above your head and making your downswing hit the ball right in the centre, or as they say in golfing parlance, on the meat, which will give you such a longer distance down the fairway. If you make a mistake in any of these movements you are in serious trouble and your drive could send the ball anywhere. There is nothing worse than seeing your ball land right smack in the rough, or in the water hazard, or yes indeed worse still out of bounds.

Now the other vital area is not just about you learning your golf swing. It is about your preparation. How you stand to address the ball, your stance, your balance and most importantly of all your focus. Without a focused determined mind, everything you learn about how to swing a golf club, will be lost simply because you cannot have control over the speed, accuracy, and vitally longer distance with your drive, if your mind is concentrating on something or someone else. Golf is a game that is totally demanding of your concentration. If you cannot give it that, then it is not the game for you.