The biggest mistake most golfers make is that they hold the golf club too loosely in their fingers and too firm in their arms. Due to this, the golfer loose control on his club and as a result is unable to play a good swing.

Don’t forget to hold the club firmly in your fingers, if you wish to play a good swing. Think a cup of coffee is on the table in front of you and you try to pick it up with loose grip of your fingers but your firm arms. What will happen? Most likely, you will drop it. The same may be the case with a golf club.

After you learn to hold the club properly, it’s time to concentrate on a proper pull of the club. If you pull too swiftly or from your elbow or shoulder, there will be a lot of tension in your arm and upper part of your body. You should go for a smooth swing with a firm control of your fingers on the golf club. By doing so, you will have one fluid motion and you will direct the ball to get in the way. This way you will also be able to bounce off the club appropriately.

Mastering the skills of holding the club with firm fingers and moving the club smoothly enables you to play shots in artistic manners. You will play your best golf when you hold the club with firm grips.

There are several ways to swing a golf club. The modern swing, or also known as the lower body swing or total body swing, is the most important swing. In most young golfers who have lean body and are the first timers, a particular type of swing is visible, which is called “tail swings the dog”. In the course of swinging the club with his arms, a young boy arcs his body a little across his front portion of his body, which results in response to his arm’s and club’s movements. A young boy usually has a flexible and supple torso that easily moves about in space in reaction to the forces that come into play by the active movement of his arms and club.

But most of the grown up men who have bulky body and a firm central torso play a shot which is called “dog swings the tail”. A man with bulky body is unable to bend his torso complying to the movement of his arms across the front portion of the body and hence plays this type of swing.

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