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If your handicap is 25, you fall into the category of a high-handicap golfer. The golf industry makes excellent clubs that are specifically designed for your ability level.

Golf drivers must conform to specific dimensions in terms of length, weight and head volume. Club materials are also restricted to avoid any undue advantage, such as an excessive spring effect.

Golf shafts come in several levels of flexibility, and it's difficult to play your best without a shaft that matches your game.

Perfecting a golf swing requires repetition in order to hit the ball accurately. Although you can practice your swing with regular golf balls at a driving range, practice golf balls are designed to allow you to work on your swing in more limited quarters, such as your backyard or indoors.

To put your golf club in position for a powerful, repeatable downswing, you need link your arm swing and body turn on the backswing. Swinging the club too far around your body or picking it up too steeply forces you to compensate somehow on the downswing to get on a path for solid contact.

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Measuring the torque exerted by muscles is fundamental to many aspects of rehabilitation, industrial design, ergonomics and peak athletic performance.

With few exceptions, the average weekend golfer makes better shots hitting irons than hitting drivers. This is because it’s easier to maintain the shorter shaft of an iron on the correct inside-out swing plane. Problems arise when golfers attempt to hit drivers with the same swing used to hit irons.

Golfers strive for the perfect swing, hoping to drive the ball with power and accuracy. However, even the slightest flaw can result in disaster. Failing to make square contact with the ball can result in a shank, which describes a shot that goes wildly to the side, flying away at a sharp angle from the golfer.

Flipping your wrists through the impact area in your golf swing produces inconsistent contact and leads to fat shots, thin shots and high, weak hits. Essentially, flipping means your lead wrist -- the left wrist for right-handed golfers -- breaks down, allowing the clubhead to pass your hands before impact.

Just about every golfer wants to hit the ball farther. Unfortunately, you might be confusing hitting the ball far with swinging hard at the ball, a mistake that can cause you to lunge at the ball with your upper body on the downswing.