Tristate Golfer Magazine Spring 2013

Choosing Golf Equipment To Help Your Game

Blaming your moves, shots and swings for your golf mishits and mishaps? Well, no matter how much time and effort you have been spending over practicing your moves to perfect your game, you still won't achieve your goal if you use unsuitable or defective types of golf equipment, will you?

Now is high time for you to consider the following golf tips that involve checking on your equipment's quality.

If you plan to choose used golfclubs as beginner's tools, scrutinizing before purchasing is a must. The clubheads, the shafts, and the grips are golfclub parts that should pass inspection first before landing a decent spot in your golf equipment cabinet. Another excellent golf tip that will get you through the game is making sure that the set of used golfclubs you're eyeing have set consistency. It will also help a lot if you check first the price of new clubs vs. used.

A golf tip for a golfer that plans to regrip his clubs: Be cautious. This is because the grips are the only contact points one can access to affect the shot. Before carrying out the regripping, know the core grip of the club and your hands grip size. To determine your core size grip, measure the diameter of the butt of the shaft you're going to re-grip. The shaft's diameter should match the grip's core diameter. In determining your hands grip, the available size grips are regular, mid-size, oversize and jumbo. Use only the best re-gripping materials that will provide optimum performance for your golf clubs.

Another golf tip or advice is that using ill-fitted clubs will be an obstacle to your golf playing success. A golfer must consider his or her body type in choosing the best-fitting equipment to support and deliver his backswings efficiently. Too steep angles in carrying out backswings may be avoided if one selects the perfect fitting equipment available.

Custom golfclub fitting makes a better option than just buying new golf clubs. Getting custom fitting golfclubs is a golf tip that translates to a very worthy investment. The uniqueness of each person is attributed to the need of this way of buying new golf clubs. A custom fitting produces golfclubs that specifically suit the height, strength, swing characteristics and clubhead speed of the golfer.

The type of club shaft also helps in predicting whether you'll do good in a game or you won't. There's a choice between a steel club shaft and a graphite-made club shaft. This golf tip aims to make you realize which type of golfclub shaft will benefit your game. Observations tell that the steel club shafts are more preferred by professional golfers while graphite shafts become more popular with women, senior players and beginners. Steel shafts are less expensive than graphite shafts though.

One more golf tip that could help you is that the golf clubs that must be the main content of your bag must suit your skill level. Since various skill levels need various golf clubs, it won't be wise to just use or bring a golf club that is just lying around. And, don't ever forget about the maximum golfclub load your bag is allowed to hold. You can only bring 14 golf clubs in your bag. No more. No less. Aside from your skill level contemplation, your mastery of a certain golfclub and your being comfortable with using it must also be put into consideration in deciding which golfclub to hit.

A good combination of the right moves and good choice of equipment will better arm you to become the best golfer you could ever be. 

Junior Golf Show May 27th - June 2nd 2013

Welcome To The 2013 US Open

Welcome to the 2013 U.S. Open! Our national championship will be contested right here in our very own backyard! We’re obviously excited to

be able to do our little part to help you prepare for the biggest golf event in the tri-state area in what seems like forever. We know you’ve been bombarded with stories from all types of media detailing the unparalleled history of Merion

Golf Club. By now you’re very familiar, probably too familiar, with what Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Lee Trevino and David Graham accomplished at Merion. You know about the wicker baskets, the white faces and the “back five.” So we we’re not going to give you all that good stuff in this guide. We’ve attacked this Open from a totally different angle and given you a preview that’s totally unique

and, we hope, totally interesting. Our main feature, in our humble opinion, turned out phenomenally.

We found 18 golf professionals, all local Philadelphia Section PGA

pros, other than former Merion GC Assistant Chandler Withington, who understandably couldn’t turn down an offer to take the reigns at famed Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota, to discuss how those other pros will tackle Merion. Each pro picked a hole and gave us just awesome insight into how he thinks it will play in the Open. We’re eager to hear what you think.

Our other features include a profile of Applebrook Golf Club Teaching Professional Jim Masserio, a former PGA Tour player, who competed in both the 1971 and 1981 U.S. Opens at Merion, a tapping into the mind so to speak of MGOLF Driving Range & Learning Facility Stu Ingraham to find out just what it’s like to compete in a major championship, a story on the origin of Merion’s iconic emblem courtesy of Merion’s Pro Emeritus Bill Kittleman, and in-depth descriptions including photos of the top 10 spots to spend the day at Merion and 18 punishing places, one on each hole, those in the field must avoid at all costs. Take some time to thumb through all of that and a whole lot more.

But before you have a go at it, we’d be remiss if we didn’t allow our staff writer, Nate Oxman, to talk to you a little bit about what Merion means to him. After all, he’s spent more than half of his life at the place. Lucky him.

2013 US Open