Golf Tips - by LPGA pro Michelle Dubé

Thank you for your purchase of the EZ Line® Golf Impact Tape. Below you will find various drills to help improve your contact on the impact tape. The first 3 video's are key to improving your consistency with hitting the sweet spot. These videos include the Pre Swing- Grip, Aim, and Setup along with Balance and proper Impact using the golf club. 

​I have also included a few chipping, putting, and mental game tips for you below. Please enjoy this golf game improvement page and feel free to use the menu at the top to look at other content on my website. The Golf 101 page has some great information for the beginner golfer.  Best Regards, Michelle

BALANCE DRILL 

Use Balance discs to feel weight stay centered. Falling towards your toes at impact will cause a heel mark on EZ Line® impact tape. If y​ou hang back on your heels you can get both bottom edge and/or toe marks. 

IMPACT DRILL 

Use EZ Line® golf impact tape on your club when doing this drill. You will learn exactly how you have to transfer your weight to your target side which will put your hands ahead of the ball at impact getting the club head to hit the green dot. Replace Impact bag with a golf ball and feel same sensation when hitting the ball as it felt to hit the impact bag.

PRE-SWING Fundamentals- Grip, Aim, and Setup/Posture 
Keys to a good swing are sound pre-swing fundamentals: 

These fundamentals are important to allow the club to swing and your body to move properly. Incorrect placement of your hands, grip pressure, poor alignment, or not proper posture can lead to heel, toe, and other poor impact marks on the EZ Line® impact tape. It is especially important to keep your arms and hands relaxed, and the grip low in fingers - NOT in palms. This will make hitting the green dot on the EZ Line® impact tape possible. These areas will always need your attention to ensure positions are correct. It's easy to get off track! Using a mirror at home is a great way to check your posture. On the range use alignment rods on the ground to verify your alignment is correct. Do 5 minutes a day of only grip placement and tension awareness holding the club. 
Check out the videos above. 

EZ LINE® IMPACT TAPE 

SHORT GAME TIPS THAT CAN LOWER YOUR SCORE

CHIPPING DRILLS 

Extended Club Shaft with Aim Rod

This is a great chipping drill to give you the correct feel of how your hands/wrists work at impact. Be careful when doing this drill as the shaft will hit you in the rib cage if you use your hands incorrectly during the chip shot. Watch the video below:

Criss Cross Foot Drill

This chipping drill will help you be more aware of your spine/sternum during the chipping motion. Often times when golfers are chipping they lean back in an effort to help lift the ball, this will cause thin with no mark on the EZ Line® impact tape or a topped shot - tiny mark on the bottom of the tape near leading edge of club. Make sure to place the EZ Line® impact tape low enough on the club head so you can see these marks. Practice this drill to get the proper feel of keeping your sternum ahead of the ball at impact.

PUTTING TIPS - LOWER SCORES QUICKLY WITH THESE TIPS

Putting - Placement of hands on Putter Grip

You can use the EZ Line® impact tape on the putter if you would like. I suggest placing the label upside down (green arrow at top edge of the putter). You will need to wrap excess label around the putter head. The green arrow on top will help you with your aim, keeping club face perpendicular to the target line. 
There are many ways to grip the putter. The 2 most important things we must do when gripping the putter is get the putter grip placed under the thumb pad of the target hand, and the trail hand placed more underneath so that the forearm is on same line (plane) as the putter shaft. The main reason we need to grip the putter this way is to help minimize how much the wrists break during the stroke. 
Watch the video below for some tips:

Photos of putter grip placement
Placing the putter grip under the thumb pad will help you keep your wrists from breaking down at impact. 

Putting Routine

Following a specific routine when lining up your putt is very important. Watch this video and learn various options. The most important thing is to make sure you keep your eyes looking down at the ground after the ball has been struck. A great way to ensure that you do this is by "Looking for the Burn". What this means is when your eyes stare at an object your retina retains the object a split second after it is gone. The ball that you were staring at when you struck it, is now gone but appears on the putting green as a spot, shadow, or flash. 

PRACTICE DRILLS AND OTHER TIPS - Click button to print information

PRE-SHOT ROUTINE: 

LPGA Player Lydia Ko - first hole of a sudden death playoff. Notice she has a routine prior to hitting the ball. She will do this routine for every shot!! You need to find a routine that works for YOU! Every golfer is different. 
  1. Standing next to ball, making two relaxed shoulder turns and then swinging club thru to finish.
  2. Walks back behind ball, confirms her target with Caddie.
  3. Steps up, sets club behind ball to target, practice waggle club back, looks at target, swings to finish.