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Video Tutorial: Golf Set Up Routine

Written by  Andrew Wild on Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Is this practice session familiar to you? It is to me. I've seen it hundreds of times walking along golf ranges, people just rushing through shots, trying to get a good shot to go. As a result they rush, and they think that by going quicker it's going to help. 




It actually makes it worse: you don't practice any consistency in your set-up routine, and we all hear time and time again that 90% of the golf swing is revolved around that set-up. You've got to have consistent set-up.

Let the Power Tee help you to get your practice at the right speed. If you want to play off the mat that's fine - what you can do is to take the golf ball off the tee, go ahead and take your shot. After you've played your shot, you know the Power Tee is going to do its job and get the next ball ready for you. That gives you time to stop, take a deep breath and relax, so it's more realistic to the golf course.

Even take a practice swing to get a feeling of the kind of swing you're after. Choose your target, and you're ready to go and take the shot.

Come forward, take the ball off the tee to get it on to a fairway shot, you're fully prepared, now you can set yourself up and go ahead and play your shot. With that preparation, it's bound to be a good one.

The Power Tee can help you get in the flow state, and it can also help regulate your practice to make sure it simulates exactly what you're going to do on the golf course.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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