• Always use a tee on the tee off, which ever club you choose.
• Always place your hands in front of the ball except for the driver
• Place your tee so that half the ball will be over the top of your driver.
• Align the club then set your body
• Keep left arm straight during your swing
• Rhythm is the key to a good swing
• Dont rush the down swing. Start slowly with the legs and hips the rotate shoulders and arms. Wrists should react 1 foot from the ball.
• Accelerate gradually up to impact.
• Complete your follow through until your body is facing the target.

• Attend a driving range as often as you can
• Training develops your muscular memory. While swing it is impossible to remember every detail your body has to perform within one second in order to hit the ball properly.
• To develop the feeling that the left side of your body is leading your swing hold your drivers club head in your left hand only and swing normally.
• Practice with a broom. At the beginning of your downswing you will really feel your hips working as well as your shoulders and arms.
• Practice without spikes. You will know if you tend to move backward and forward to fast. You will learn to swing with control and rhythm
• On the practice green develop a feel of the green by putting uphill and downhill along the same line.

• Select a longer than usual club e.g. 5 iron instead of 6
• Choke down on the club
• Aim right of target
• Place ball forward in stance
• Move more weight on to higher foot
• Increase flexion of the higher knee
• Limit the backswing
• Limit sway by limiting body turn

• Select a shorter than usual club e.g. 8 iron instead of 7
• Aim left of the target
• Place the ball back in your stance
• Place hands in front of the ball
• More weight on the lower foot
• Increase flexion in lower knee
• Limit backswing
• Limit sway by limiting body turn

Fundamentals
Proper fundamentals in putting leave plenty of room for personal preferences. However, there are a few that I have found to be common among most good putters.

The Grip
The hands should work as a unit and not be spread too far apart. The further apart the hands are the more tendency there is to get the wrists involved in the stroke, which is not desired. A normal (proper) golf grip is fine or you can experiment with cross hand, reverse overlap, or a 3 and 3 grip (3 fingers of each hand on the club and the others just along for the ride). Grip pressure should be relatively light (5 on a scale of 1-10) in order to promote feel.

Aim
Find a target and imagine a straight line coming through your putter. Dont get too caught up in the line of your feet but make sure the putter face is square to the target. This line is also the line your stroke should follow. When aiming in golf, especially in putting, keep the head level. Tilting it one way or the other distorts the perspective.

The Setup
Be sure to have your eyes over the intended line of the putt (ball line). Placing the ball either inside or outside the ball line will distort the perception of the path to the hole. To determine if your eyes are over the correct line, try holding your putter loosely and directly under your eyes as you address a putt and let gravity take it straight down. Now make sure that when you look down at the putter that it covers the ball. If not, move closer or further until it does. Ball position should be slightly forward toward the left foot (for right handed players) and the hands forward as well. Align the putter shaft with the left forearm. This position promotes a good roll on the ball as it leaves the putter face.

Stroke
A consistent stroke is usually dominated by the shoulders and arms and should involve as little wrist movement as possible. Minimize body movement and try not to shift weight or turn the hips. (Forget what every instructor has told you on the full swing!)

Acceleration
Most successful putters will have at least as big a follow though as their back swing. This promotes acceleration and aids in distance control. One of the most common faults I see is a player taking the club way back and then stopping at the ball on the down stroke, anticipating the hit. Remember to stroke through the ball, not at it.

• Always offer to tend the flag for long golfing putts. It is good golfing etiquette and it gets you an extra look at your golf ball from the hole.
• When another golf player is hitting, it is polite to stand still and be quiet to show etiquette on the golf course. It takes a lot of concentration to play golf so respect your fellow golfers.
• Do not play until the group in front is out of the way or at least 100 yards further than you can hit the golf club in hand.
• When you have agreed to golf with others, be sure you are on time or early. Making other golfers wait for you is bad golf etiquette. If you cannot make the date, call the pro shop and let them know you will not be able to be there.
• If your group is holding up the group behind you, let them play thru. They will appreciate the gesture and it is the right thing to do as a golfing courtesy rule.
• Always mark your score on the score card after you have left the putting green. This is to allow the group behind you to hit on the putting green.
• To keep the golf course in nice condition, always replace your divots (the sod that has been dug out from your golf club) and repair your ball marks on the green (the indentation left on the green from your ball landing).
• After hitting your shot out of the bunker, always rake the sand smooth for the next golfer who has the misfortune of being in that same bunkerMost golf courses have a dress code. Appropriate clothing would be a collared shirt instead of tank tops or tee shirts, trousers instead of jeans, and shorts that reach the knees..
• You have the right to repair patches on the green; others will appreciate it too and it is good golfing courtesy. Use the proper pronged tool available for free at the golf course. You simply pry up the crater from all sides and work the surface grass towards the center of the crater. Try to have the grass cover the dirt, then press the repaired area down with your golf club or foot to flatten.

Equipment is very important for the Junior Golfer. There is no point using a set of cut down adult golf clubs. The heads are too heavy causing a flick of the wrist on the start of the back swing, over swing at the end of the back stroke and inbalance on the forward swing.
Junior Golf Clubs are specially weighted for the junior golfers. Manufacturers such as USKids make there clubs upto 25% lighter than an adult golf club. Any weighting on the club is set as low as possible in the head too help get the ball into the air as quick as possible. In general junior golf clubs have medium flex to help drive the ball, this obviously requires the golfer to keep the head down a little longer which in the long run is a good habit to form at such a young age.
A good selection of clubs such as 3W, 5, 7, 9 & PW is sufficient for the junior when starting golf. Adding a driver, long iron hybrid and a SW/LW as the game develops.