Category: UK Golf Courses

Golf Tuition is available at Whitburn Golf Club

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Whitburn Golf Club

Whitburn Golf Club is located in the North-East of England between Whitburn Village and South Shields. The course has magnificent panoramic views of the North East coastline and the mouth of the river Tyne. Tynemouth Priory and St Mary’s island in Northumberland are in view and on a good day, the Cheviot Hills to the north and the Cleveland Hills to the south can also be seen.

Whitburn Golf Club

Golf Tuition is available at Whitley Bay Golf Club

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Visitors are always welcome at Whitley Bay and the clubhouse offers a warm and friendly North Eastern welcome at the end of a great days golf, especially in the summer when you can take your drink onto the veranda overlooking the 18th green, relax and watch the sun set.

Whitley Bay Golf Club

Golf Tuition is available at Seaham Golf Club

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Seaham Golf Club

the course boats a length of just over 6000 yards with scratch set at 70. Current membership statistics show that Seaham has over 500 gentlemen, and over 60 lady members.

Seaham Golf Club

Golf Tuition is available at South Moor Golf Club

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South Moor Golf Club

Designed by Dr. Alister MacKenzie, a name synonymous with Augusta National -the home of the US Masters – South Moor is one of only two MacKenzie designed courses in the region, Durham’s only true heathland course and one of only 40 or so in the UK

South Moor Golf Club

Golf Tuition is available at South Shields Golf Club

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South Shields Golf Club

South Shields Golf Club is one of the longest established Clubs in County Durham, North East England.It is situated on the Cleadon Hills next to the Cleadon water tower, a local landmark which can be seen for miles around.The course is a coastal heathland, open to sea breezes and has wonderful views all round, particularly over the Tyne estuary and north to the Cheviot hills and south to Wearside and the North Yorkshire coast.The course is easy walking, renowned for its quality greens and it rarely closes due to the excellent natural drainage of the limestone rock on which it is built.

South Shields Golf Club

Golf Tuition is available at Stocksfield Golf Club

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Stocksfield Golf Club

Stocksfield Golf Club located in the beautiful Tyne Valley in South Northumberland. A course of two halves, wooded for the accurate player followed by the open an scenic return to the 19th with spectacular views of the Cheviots and the Tyne Valley. Only a few miles from Hadrians wall and the country towns of Hexham and Corbridge.

Stocksfield Golf Club

Golf Tuition is available at Tyneside Golf Club

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Golf Swing Tips

To improve your golf game, it’s vital that you take golf lessons. Golf is a sport that is almost impossible to learn without some sort of guidance. Luckily, there are golf experts around the country whose job it is to teach golf. By taking golf lessons, you can drastically improve your game in a relatively short amount of time. Taking golf lessons can be an expensive, time-consuming effort. And like any good or service that will cost money and require time, you should be careful before you buy.  Golf can be a really costly game to play and it is reasonable to assume that you have invested a fair amount of money in your equipment – golf clubs, golf bag, golf balls, golf clothing, golf cart etc; – therefore doesn’t it make common sense for you to learn how to use them to their advantage and improve your skills and capabilities?

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Tyneside Golf Club

Tyneside’s course is recognised as one of the most picturesque in the area and is an excellent test of golf for the accomplished player without being intimidating for those less proficient. Measuring 6042 yards from the men’s medal tees and 5552 yards from the ladies, the course offers consideable variety and is renowned for its excellent greens, with a par of 70.

Tyneside Golf Club

Extract from the book:

Loft Angle

The loft of a putterface can he defined several ways but only one matters to you. You need only care about its effective loft – that is the loft angle relative to the surface of the green at the moment of impact (Figure 11.6.17). This is not necessarily the loft of the face relative to the shaft and it certainly is not the loft of the face relative to the sole of the club. The effective loft of your putter is what determines

258 Establish Your Practice Framework where your putter makes contact – above on or below the ball’s center of mass.

This point of contact combines with the angle of approach of the putter to determine the initial launch conditions of your putt. And yes putts do “launch”: Depending on how they are struck they can launch down into the surface of the green skid horizontally across the green surface or launch upward – and do any of those with backspin overspin or no spin at all.

I recommend that you launch your putts ever so slightly upward to get them on top of the grass as quickly as possible without giving them so much loft that they bounce on the green. Because balls tend to sit down in the grass and footprints this slight upward launch helps prevent them from having to start their roll through these potential hazards. One or two degrees of loft – relative to the surface of the green through impact – is usually enough. (If you’re putting on grass with very strong grain or on very bumpy surfaces use a few more degrees of loft to get the ball on top of the blades more quickly.) As I mentioned earlier about ball position (section 11.5) the best results occur when impact is made with your putter traveling slightly up and away from the bottom of your stroke arc.

Offset and Onset

Tyneside Golf Club

The Long Drive Bible: How You Can Hit the Ball Longer, Straighter, and More Consistently

Extract from the book:

The most practiced putting fundamental is the putter path. However my testing shows that path is actually one of the least significant factors in good putting. Yet when I ask golfers on the practice green what they are working on the most common answer is always “the path of my putter.”

The direction that the putter is moving at the moment of impact has very little influence on the starting direction of a putt: Assuming you make contact on the putter’s sweetspot the degree of influence is only about 17 percent (Figure 4.6.1). That means if the putterface is square to the intended starting line and the putter moves across that line at a 10-degree angle as it makes contact the ball will start only 1.7 degrees off-line (17 percent times 10 degrees equals 1.7 degrees).

So you can make a large error in your stroke path and see only a small error in the starting line of your putt. Another way to think of it is this: On a dead-straight five-foot putt your path could travel along a line aimed 13 inches left of the hole center and the ball would still hit the left edge (Figure 4.6.2) assuming you hit the sweetspot and everything else about your stroke was perfect.

As you will see in section 4.8 putterface angle has more effect on the line a pull starts on than does the putter path. But golfers practice putter path because

The Seven Building Blocks of Stroke Mechanics 73 it’s easier for them to see their friends (from whom they take advice) can see it and they don’t know what else to practice. I guess it’s not too hard to understand why their putting doesn’t improve.

The Screen Door

For many years Harvey Penick one the game’s greatest teachers taught that the putter should swing open on the backswing and swing closed on the follow-through like a screen door as it moved around a player ‘s body (Figure 4.6.3). He believed that the natural stroke path should move to the inside on the backswing (around a motionless body) and back to the inside on the follow-through. He taught many golfers to become great players including my good friends Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw and his screen-door concept has been the generally accepted way to putt throughout most of the 50 years I’ve been playing this game.

Tyneside Golf Club

Golf Swing Tips

The “Simple Golf” Swing: “Golf for the Rest of Us”

Extract from the book:

The wrists have completed their roll, and the left elbow is close the body.Swinging around the spine. The wrists have completed the roll and now the forearms are crossing. The follow through is almost complete. If you notice, the triangle is still in place, proving that you are connected throughout the entire swing.

Tyneside Golf Club

Golf Tuition is available at Monmouth Golf Club

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Monmouth Golf Club

After an exciting round of golf there is nothing better than relaxing in the friendly, comfortable surroundings of the clubhouse with a drink, snack or a meal from our varied menu.See for yourself why many people say that Monmouth Golf Club is probably the prettiest golf course in Wales.

Monmouth Golf Club

Golf Tuition is available at Weald Of Kent Golf Club

About Weald Of Kent Golf Club

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Visitors and hotel residents.Our dedicated green staff keep the tees and greens in excellent condition throughout the year, and we never use temporary greens or synthetic winter tees.There is also a putting green, short game practice area, including practice bunkers, and full USGA specification green. Plus a modern well-stocked golf shop.

Weald of Kent Golf Club