Gaining Better Performance in a Tristate Golf Course Area

Though it looks pretty easy, any experienced golf player will tell you that looks can be deceiving. Golf requires a steady hand and a keen eyes, golf is best knowledgeable whenever you allow the ball travel to its designed target at all times. The question is: how could you improve on your speed and agility in this career, and where is the perfect TristateGolf Course Area that will allow you to learn the skill with precision?

It’s All About Your Position

The correct posture can determine whether the shot you are going to take will be an on-goal hit or a very frustrating miss. The real key to a proper posture depends on putting the body in a place where it moves with every photo. Make sure that your legs are wide apart and parallel for your shoulders to give your entire body the stability it needs. Next, maintain your knees a bit bent as well as your back straight. This will help our bodies shift the weight forward as the club makes contact with the ball, resulting in an accurate picture.

Tightening Up on the Grip

When you practiced on your own stance, the next action to focus on is the way you maintain your team. For beginners, the most effective grip is definitely a natural position wherein the biceps and triceps hang loose in front of your system and their dominating hand holding the club’s handle. This position enables near-perfect accuracy while also allowing them to build on their strength for additional challenging tourneys.

When holding the club, make sure that your thumb firmly shuts on the index finger as well as its tip reaching half of the middle finger. Also, you should support the club strongly until you a bit see the knuckles in your index and midsection fingers. When you have gripped the club securely, let your non-dominant hand rest on the dominant hands and make sure which it follows the club in every single shot.

Control that Temper

The key to a successful time in any golfing course in Tristate is based on your ability to controlling your temper. As such, golfers with very hot heads have a tendency to get progressively worse in each and every shot they miss due to the buildup of rage and frustration. By keeping yourself calm and funky, it is possible to retain your focus and recover.

Always remember that mastering your golfing performance will require time and training. By controlling how you will react to any mistake on the Tristate Golf Course Area, you may optimize your training and become a dependable golfer as soon as possible.

Training with EyeLoc

OK, another training aid to look at. One of many that I am asked to evaluate and frankly at first I doubted it would be of any help in my seemingly never ending quest towards a perfect game.

But from the first time I put EyeLoc on I saw I was wrong.

EyeLoc is a pair of sunglasses but with a significant difference. A vertical slot cut in the center of each lens results in the wearer seeing two lines. The idea then is to take your address position and move the position of the two slots by turning the adjustment knobs on the frame until they align and you see just one line with the ball in the center.

Easy, simple and significant since when hitting the ball if you see the ball move from the line (it’s slightly wider than the ball) your head has moved rather than staying steady.

Realizing at once this would be a big help during putting practice I tried it out and was right. Any head movement was instantly obvious so time on the practice green with EyeLoc will train you to keep both eyes and head steady which of course is a major factor in making more putts.

Having seen the benefits on the putting green I went to the practice tee to find out what movement—if any—I had in my full swing and right away I found the answer was, “a lot.” So now I am using EyeLoc to train myself to make a better swing, more around instead of the old slide and glide. Admittedly it’s a work in progress but I can see results…much better ball contact, distance and trajectory.

At $80 EyeLoc is not inexpensive but with consistent practice the improvement to your ball striking should be more than recovered from winning wagers plus of course, this game is a lot more fun when you hit the ball solidly and make lower scores.

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Picking the Right Golf Clubs: What To Remember

For far too many times, many a golfer has not given a thought as to which golf club in Tristate they should use. The truth is that every golf club is designed for a specific purpose and skill level, and, when used correctly, will result in a very successful performance in the field. Before you head on to the nearest sporting store you need to know a few factors that will help you pick the right club.

Shaft Material

The first thing you have to consider is the material that the club is made of. As of now, clubs are either made with graphite or steel. Though more expensive, graphite is lighter which allows you to swing it at a greater speed, resulting in a larger distance covered. Steel, on the other hand, is slightly heavier, and allows for more control over the ball. For advanced players with a strong swing speed, these clubs are ideal for letting the ball travel accurately.

Flex

The flex of the club’s shaft will determine how much it will bend on each swing. Since the flex will play a part on how accurate the ball will travel in flight, it is best to pick a club that has the right shaft flex. For beginners, the ideal clubs are those with a high shaft flex as it allows the ball to fly off without wasting its energy. There are also no-flex shafts wherein the shaft remains stiff in every hit. This will allow for a great rate of accuracy while still maximizing its kinetic energy.

Club Head

Being the one that directly makes contact with the ball, the club’s head will play a role in determining how far the ball will travel and where it lands. To determine which one is best for you, take a look at what material the club is made of. Titanium club heads, for instance, are ideal for those looking to optimize their accuracy as they are lighter. Since they are of lesser weight than other metals, titanium club heads have a wider area which allows for greater ball control.

For golfers seeking to improve their play, it is suggested to look for a golf club in Tristate with a titanium head and a graphite shaft. This combination allows for the highest rate of accuracy and ball control, making the ball fly wherever the golfer wants it to go.

The Greenbrier Bunker

From 1958 to 1992 it was a well-kept secret but even now when guided tours pass visitors through the 25-ton blast proof doors there is an aura of mystery about the bunker underneath the Greenbrier hotel. During a recent trip to The Greenbrier, “America’s Resort” and premier golf destination in the West Virginia mountains, I had the opportunity to satisfy my curiosity and learn the background on the underground hide away.

The bunker is more than two football fields in size at over 110,000 square feet and was built beginning in December 1958. Finished three years later specifically with the purpose of providing a location for Congress to continue doing business if there was a “national emergency.”

This of course was a euphemism for a nuclear attack by the USSR and begs the question of how member of the House of Representatives and Senate would be able to get out of the nation’s capital if intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads were on the way. But one has to understand it was a different time, it was the Cold War, when children were being taught in classrooms to “duck and cover” under their desks in the event of a missile attack and the U.S. kept thousands of nuclear warheads at the ready.

And there were at least three other secret bunker facilities around the country to house the Executive Branch and the Supreme Court plus military leaders.

To us today it’s somewhat amazing something of this size could be built in secret in so public a place but that was the idea, hiding in plain sight. Press announcements by The Greenbrier described the project as an addition to the hotel, the so-called West Virginia Wing and the huge area being dug as part of the construction project adding additional rooms. In effect construction of the bunker and the hotel went on at the same time with many of the bunker features such as fuel and water storage tanks, massive electrical generators and miles of piping passed off simply as necessary for a modern guest facility.

The deception of course could not stop with completion since dozens of technicians were needed to keep the secure facility in readiness not to mention man the then state-of-the-art communications systems installed. Nothing says more about the mood of the country and particularly the way the media looked at the project than the cover story for these resident workers. They were said to be audio/visual support specialists for The Greenbrier, in effect, TV repairmen.

In addition to the rooms meant as substitutes for the House of Representatives and Senate chambers there was living space consisting of 18 dormitories behind the four massive entrance doors plus a cafeteria, medical clinic, decontamination chambers and everything else Congress would need for an extended stay.

The bunker was maintained as one of America’s frontline facilities in the event of catastrophe until 1995 though the secret of its existence was revealed in an article published by Washington Post in 1992 and the government began the process of decommissioning.

Today though open to tourists the majority of the space is used for secure records storage and not open to the public.

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