Many tips from average golfers are useless

If you regularly practise around other golfers or play with a regular group of friends, you’re going to be offered tips all the time.

Keep your head down, amend your grip, alter your stance.

There are numerous tips that you’ve probably heard time and time again.

Unfortunately, many of these tips are useless as an average golfer is not a golf instructor, and anytime you receive a tip while on the range or out on the course, you need to be careful to consider if the tip is going to assist or hinder.

Here’s some swing thoughts, a smorgasbord to ponder as we begin 2023.

The correct swing speed is about getting the perfect tempo.

So, let’s keep it simple and counter to what many golfers believe, your backswing should take three times as long as your downswing but moving swiftly away from the ball as speed accumulates.

And if you want to hit the ball over 300 yards,…