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Here’s my 4-iron, it’s lookin’ real good. I am planning to play some mini-tour events maybe in couple months so stay tuuuned folks as I try to make it to the PGA tour! 
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4-iron Lookin’ good…
Thursday, June 5th, 2008Junger Woods Swing Thought of the Day
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Today, I hit the ball real well, here’s my swing thought:
“Feel that the downswing begins with the hips but feel the whole body turning through…”
I got this idea from yesterday’s swing analysis of Ben Hogan but it does work great and helped me from hitting the ball straighter.
Another thought is:
“At the top of your backswing, do really feel your hands are loose, this is crucial for a great impact.” – When your hands feel lose at the top of your swing, it means your whole body is relaxed, this helps you hit the ball right in the smack center of the golf ball.
Rhythm, rhythm, and rhythm…
My Swing is getting Too Long!
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Well I hit the ball great today, except I am really overswinging slightly. I am not sure that’s because I’ve been doing some hardcore stretching exercises at the gym or if I am simply overswinging.
Junger Woods Swing Analysis
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Well, while analyzing swings of the great pro golfers, I got the desire today to go out to the range for the first time in weeks.
I hit the ball great and here’s why.
As you can see in the address, the shoulders are parallel to my target line and my clubface is about 8 degrees open to hit a power fade. (My video camera is a little off…)
My stance is closed, which is a natural habit I get into but I should really open up more.
At 1/2 way point, My club is in perfect plane from the ball through the middle of my right shoulder socket. This is the the plane Tiger Woods follow and me three.
At top of my swing, the butt end of my club shows that I am still in plane. I also have a very good triangle going, which is good. The only bad part about this backswing is that I just finished working out before hitting balls so my muscles are too tight. Tightness is not good for golf but oh well…
On the downswing, I dip my head a little, which is my bad habit and I am also slightly inside of the plane. (probably because of my slightly closed stance)
At impact, I hit the 3 wood perfect. It makes thing really big “ping” sound.
My shoulders are about parallel to my target line.
My clubface is actually open and I am trying to hit a power fade here.
My followthrough is slightly flat. Meaning I came over the ball a little. This is partly due to my slightly closed stance.
I might block the ball 1 out of 10 balls or pull it because of the closed stance.
If I opened my stance, most of my problems would probably be solved.
Oh well, next time I get to go hit balls, I will probably have “other” problems but yes alignment is probably the most important. You have wrong alignment at the beginning of your swing and you can have all kinds of problems.
Overall, I hit the ball great today. I feel like I can try out for the PGA Tour the way I hit the balls today.
Well, even with the closed stance and my bad swing habits, I hit a lot of good shots at my target. Well, good scores are about good short game mostly anyways.
What is my long term goal?
Well, it has always been to play pro golf. Now, I make money online to feed my family and make a living. Once I can get that going faster, I might have more time to practice and eventually start playing in some mini-tour events again.
Will it happen?
Of course, my dreams never die. That’s probably why I made this blog. Once I can build up my blogging business to about $20K per month, I should be able to spend more time golfing and of course, blogging more often on here too.
Here’s a video of the 3 wood power fade I hit just perfectly about 270 yards:
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Don’t blame me if my swing sucks right now, I go to the range about once a month.
Course Psychology – How to maintain your inner rhythm!
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008One of the most important aspects of playing scratch or pro golf is to maintain your inner rhythm during a round of golf.
Now, to do this, you need to really control your emotions.
Whether you are happy or sad, you need to really keep that under your feet, meaning you should never get too excited nor feel angry. Of course, you can celebrate that eagle putt you just made, but do try to keep things under control as your heart will beat faster and your swing will be affected on your next tee shot.
Another really great way to maintain your inner rhythm during the round is to walk at the same pace during the whole round. Don’t ever run, walk too fast, or walk too lazy, simply walk at your natural pace. Now this might sound too simple but it works.
This will help you maintain your inner rhythm and that will carry onto your perfectly balanced rhythmic swing.
I share this knowledge with you as I experienced this while shooting a 10 under par, 62. Although my swing was way off that day, I had a really relaxed feeling and my rhythm was great throughout the whole day.
If this tip helped you save couple strokes next time you go out on the course, make sure to come back and subscribe as I will show you more ways to scrape off additional strokes off your golf game, all with great thinking without changing your swing.
How to Practice to be a Scratch/Pro Golfer!
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008If you are trying to be a scratch golfer or a pro golfer, often people will ask themselves how many balls to hit per day.
Now, having experience watching other aspiring junior golfers when I was a junior golfer, the number of balls you hit actually does not mean anything once you get to a certain point. (Let’s say you can consistently shoot around 75 or lower)
I do however, have experince of hitting 10 buckets per day, that’s about 1,000 balls. I did that for about 3 months during summer and school breaks.
My mom would drop me off at the practice range at 8am, she’d pick me up around 8pm when I was done hitting 1,000 golf balls.
After I grew up and around college I was shooting consistently 3 under par. Those days, I didn’t practice with focus on quantity. However, I did focus on hitting each shot on the range as if it were a real tournament shot.
Now, that is called, quality practice. I still do that same type of practice and even do couple practice swings before I even hit the ball.
What does this do for you? Well, it let’s you hit the best possible shot you can on every practice shot.
Now, I average only 100 balls and practice maybe once a month. But I can still go out to the course any day and shoot around par.
So today’s lesson?
Next time you practice, do the following before hitting each shot:
1. Visualize your golf ball flight and your swing.
2. Make 2 or 3 practice swings matching your visualization and “see” the ball hit perfectly to your target.
3. After doing 1 and 2, go up there and hit that ball without thinking too much. Rely on your muscle-memory to hit it, just like in tournament golf or under pressure situations where you’d have to make a birdie to win all those skins.
Explanation
Golf is a game of visualization. If you hit 100 balls in a row at the range without clear thinking (visualization) of what you want to do, you are basically instilling that into your brain.
The next time you go out and “play” on the golf course, your practice habits will be present whenever you encounter any kind of pressure.
More Tips on the Range
1. Do not hit the same type of shot more than 10 shots in a row. You need to keep hitting a 5-iron, sand wedge, driver, etc…etc… and keep it rotating.
2. Practice your weaknesses.
Golf is all about lowering your percentage of failure. The more you practice your weaknesses, the less chance you will make bad shots on the course.
3. Practice your strengths.
Golf is also about having your strengths. For example, if I am at 125 yards from the hole, I can promise you that the ball “will” end up within 10 feet 10 out of 10 times. You need to find out what shot you are good and also practice that a lot.
Pros call this, “bread and butter” shot. Every pro has one including Tiger Woods. It’s a shot you can rely on the most toughest situations. Make sure you have couple in your bag.
4. Practice lots of wedge shots from 100 yards in.
I actually do about 50-60% of my practice shots for wedge shots from 30 yard, 50 yard, 75 yard, and 100 yard targets. These are the shots that can save you “lots” of strokes. Tiger practices these about 80% of his practice balls. I did see Tiger practicing couple years ago, where he’d “hit” every target with his wedges.
Now, try these tips and I am sure it will help your score next time on the course especially if you have been banging those poor balls mindlessly and carrying that to the course before.
Junger Woods Golf Psychology – Golf is not a game of Perfect!
Monday, May 12th, 2008Golf is not a game of perfect, and this is a fact. Even all the championship winners, they have so many swing flaws. It’s a great thing they don’t tell you and Tiger is probably being more honest than most.
There’s even a great golf psychology book named, “Golf is not a game of Perfect”.
Now, the correct mind set on the golf course to play your best is to accept the fact that you are not perfect golfer and you do not have a perfect swing.
No one in the world actually has a perfect swing, because it doesn’t exist! Tiger Woods will be first to tell you that.
If you cannot get through this, you will have a tough time dealing with your results.
So what are you telling me, to think negative?
No, that’s not what I am telling you. The best way to play golf is to be positive and to “visualize” all your shots going in the hole.
But, remember it’s what you do with what happens to you, NOT what happens to you.
So before your next round, tell yourself your “realistic” limits at the first tee and think through your course strategy for the day.
Let’s say at the practice range, you keep hitting your irons 50 yards to the left with a big bad hook.
Now, you can fight this big bad hook throughout your round OR you can simply use that as your advantage and start planning your course strategy to fit that.
So do I am 50 yards right on all my iron shots?
Hell yes, that’s what I am telling you to do. Make best of what you have that day, you don’t need to be perfect.
I’ve had those rounds when I’ve shot under par when all my iron shots were going 50 yards left. Now, if I had tried to correct my swing to hit it straight, I’d probably shot over 80 that day AND screwed up my mindset for future golf rounds.
Now if this tip help you break 80 next time you go out there, don’t forget to subscribe to this blog and expect more fun psychology and course strategy lessons straight from my gut.
Latest Online Venture by Junger Woods – EntreWiki – the New Web 2.0 Business Directory of Business Ideas!
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
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Okay, here’s a shameless promotion:
Advertise your Golf Business on the new Web2.0 Business Directory of Business Ideas!
This is Junger Wood’s latest online venture to raise funds for his future golf tour to become pro on the PGA.
LOL…
Here’s the Press Release from Yahoo:
The EntreWiki is a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business Ideas where entrepreneurs and companies can advertise their businesses such as a franchise, business plan, start-up business, or any business that can help someone to start a new business.
Instead of spending $10,000 on a full page ad in National Paper Magazines such as the Entrepreneur and Small Business Opportunities, the EntreWiki offers a unique way to bring continuous growth of traffic from entrepreneurs and people who are looking to start a new business.
EntreWiki targets a focused niche group of entrepreneurs and people who are interested in starting a new business. They offers 15 years of online and offline advertising at just one hundred dollars with one-time free advertisement creative conversion to Wiki text.
The EntreWiki team will “convert” an advertisement creative, normally submitted to a National Paper Magazine (in Photoshop format), into a Wiki markup language. Basically, they make an offline advertisement to be visible online, easily searched by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL.
Today’s Swing Keys Video by Junger Woods
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Here’s the swing keys for today on video:
1. Really feel the shoulders and large muscles do the work on your backswing. What do I mean? You can only feel this is your grip is very very light. In other words, grip light and try to feel your left shoulder turn on the backswing.
2. On the downswing, really try to feel that your stomach is controlling the arms and the hands.
P.S. I didn’t hit a good shot on the video but that doesn’t mean this isn’t a good swing key. So go ahead and try it next time you are on the range, not on the course.
On the course, you should play to score, never try to fix your swing on the golf course. If you are hitting it left consistently on the course, don’t fix your swing, simply aim more right. This might be the best lesson for today.
Today’s Swing Keys
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Today, I hit the ball like crazy. I mean, I hit the ball so good, it was like cheese melting in my mouth. I hit the ball so good maybe it was even better than sex.
Anyways, here’s my swing thoughts for the day:
On the backswing, really feel the large muscles of your shoulders turn automatically since your hand pressure is so light.
On the downswing, try to really get your shoulders and belly to turn in sync and swing slightly inside out while trying to hold your body straight.
Confusing?
Try this for beginners:
1. Grip the club very light.
2. Feel your large muscles turning on the backswing.
3. Feel like you are holding a basketball and doing a two handed pass on the downswing.
4. Move your lower body and belly at the same speed as your shoulders.
5. Use your lower body and shoulders to hit the ball, not arms or hands.
P.S. One more thang…rhythm…rhythm…rhythm…
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