Myrtle Beach Golf Tips and Instruction

Welcome to the Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday Golf Instruction page. Here you'll find video and text golf tips from Myrtle Beach golf professionals around the Grand Strand.

Within the Golf Holiday program, 6 golf academies are offered: The Chuck Wike Golf School located at the Tradition Club in Pawleys Island, The Classic Swing Golf School at Legends Golf Resort, The Grande Dunes Golf Academy at the prominent Grande Dunes Golf Course, The Nick Bradley Golf School at Barefoot Resort and Golf, the Steve Dresser Golf Academy now located at the prestigious True Blue and Caledonia golf courses on the southern end of the grand strand and finally, Champions Golf Academy at Long Bay Golf Club.

These golf academies offer some of the nation’s top golf instructors as well as some of the country’s best instruction available. Whether you are just picking up the game or have been playing for years, these golf schools can all customize a lesson plan aimed at improving your game and maximizing the benefits to your game.

Other Professional Tips

Posture - The Start Of A Great Swing

A great many of the golfers I work with for the first time need to understand and get into a great address position. Let's look into this. The golf swing takes approximately 3 to 5 seconds. That isn't a lot of time to try to do many things, what's more from the top of your backswing to impact happens in 1/10 of a second. So as you can see it is very important to control the things that happen early in the swing because they can make or break it.

A great address position consists of 2 things:

Having the correct body position
Having the club in the correct position

To get your body into a correct position try this drill. Stand at attention. Place a club on your back where the club head is touching your head and the grip is touching your rear end. The lower part of your back should be arched in and not touching the club shaft. Without letting the club head come away from your head and without the grip coming away from your rear end, bend from your hips slightly forward. After you have bent forward about 20 to 30 degrees from you attention position you now flex your knees slightly. Your weight should be even on both feet and towards the balls of each foot. Now let your arms hang down below your shoulders. To most golfers who haven't been in this position it seems very strange and uncomfortable, but if you do it in front of a mirror you will see that it looks correct. The uncomfortable feeling will go away as your body gets use to it.

The club position is important at address. Many golfers believe the club shaft and your lead arm should form a straight line. This leads to many problems in the takeaway. It mainly causes the club to move to low and inside the proper swing plane. If you face a mirror in your good posture your hand should be in the middle of your body, straight from your belly button. When you grip the club you will see that lines drawn up your arms and from should to should forms a triangle. A line drawn up your club shaft would bisect that triangle and go through your lead eye. Looking down at the club face it may appear that your hands are behind it. If you look at the mirror you will see that is not the case.

Work on these two ingredients to help you get your swing and your game off to a great start.

Pro: Brad Redding

School: Grande Dunes Golf Academy

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