Top Golf Tips – Putting

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Five things to remember when putting

After a smashing tee of shot and a great chip onto the green, you need to be able to have a great finish in order to keep your score down. Here are my top five things to remember when putting to help improve your final swings.

•    Keep the wrists out of the stroke. Shoulders, arms and hands move together as a unit in a good putting stroke.

•    Keep your head still. Just like in pool or snooker you must keep the head still during the stroke. Listen for the ball to go in the holes; don’t look up to watch it.

•    Keep the rhythm of your stroke like a metronome. Count ‘one-two’ to yourself to keep the stroke smooth. Rhythm in a putting stroke
is just as important as rhythm in a full swing.

•    Make sure you get the golf ball up to the hole. All putts from inside twenty feet should end up past the hole. Make sure you read the green to end up eighteen inches past and not lamely to lag into the hole at dead weight

•    To read a green correctly you must look at the hole from both sides. If you really want to putt well from distance you must take time and look from the other side of the hole. The break often looks different from behind the hole.

Donnington Grove Course Guides

As a recent addition to our website we have added an area where golfers can view our course guide.

The area is designed so that Golfers can see all the hole plans and information such as distance and par before they play on the course. The plan also includes several top tips for each hole to help you with your game. The course guides include a bird’s eye plan of the hole and its layout, as well as a photo of the course from the tee looking towards the flag. Golfers should be able to use this to plan their shots as well as seeing where they have gone wrong in the past.

Donnington Grove is also offering businesses the chance to sponsor one of its 18 holes. Donnington Grove Country club has one of the best courses in the area; a historic hotel; a great clubhouse, with a friendly environment; and really good practice facilities. Theses, together with its thriving membership, make it one of the busiest corporate and society gold venues in the area attracting over 15,000 visitors each year.

We would like to offer you the opportunity to promote your company to this wider market by inviting you to join the Donnington Grove Business Executive Club. This will entitle your company to 8, 12 or 16 rounds of golf each month, A full colour advertisement on each golf buggy’s GPS system, a hyperlink to your website from ours and discounts on buggy hire, corporate golf days, hotel accommodation, functions & conferences.

If you would like to know more information about how to sponsor one of our holes then please click here. Alternatively you can contact Dave Alan by email or by phone on 01635 581000

Top Golf Tips – Backspin

In order to play a great game any golfer needs to think about the shot ahead. In order to play one step ahead you need to command a great deal of command over the ball, in many situations this means applying backspin to your shot. The principle of backspin is to cause the back of the ball to mover at a higher rate than the front restricting the balls momentum when it lands. This is prevent the ball from rolling forwards when it hits the green or the fairway.

How to apply Backspin
the grooves incorporated on the club face are what you need to focus on to apply backspin. As the face makes contact with the ball, the grooves grip is, pulling it backwards and therby imparting the spin. For optimum performance from  both the ball and the club, it goes without saying the both should be wiped prior to taking the stroke in order to remove any soil or sand an ensure clean contact.