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Provided that a player can make a solid impact with the club in a good position, swings through on a good line and approaches the ball on the correct angle, there is no reason not to try and improve one’s clubhead speed for shots that fly high and long.
To test your clubhead speed at home or on the range, try this drill:
l Pick up your driver and hold it upside down, so your hands are near the club head end and the grip end is a few inches off the ground.
l Establish a solid stance, ensuring your posture is good and that your arms hang directly down from the shoulders.
l With a soft hold and relaxed arms make a slow, measured backswing.
l The key to the speed is to allow your hips to turn in the forward swing and to try and ‘swish’ the shaft over the point where the ball would sit.
Practice this move a few times to ensure you hear the noise, being careful you don’t hear it before or after the normal point of impact.
If you would like to know more about improving your golf game, book a lesson with a Royal Golf Club PGA teaching professional by calling 17750777.
Rob Lane narrowly claimed victory in the Royal Golf Club’s (RGC) annual Captains’ Day sponsored by VIVA with a score of 35 points. Barry Hobday was named runner-up after a countback was needed to separate the two as he also finished with 35 points.
Robert Timmers took the top spot in the second category of the individual stableford competition with a score of 36 points and Nayel Al Borshaid was second with 34. Ashley Price had a highly successful weekend winning category three of the competition with 31 points having successfully won division two of the Euro Motors BMW Medal Series Grand Final earlier.
More than 65 competitors took part in the popular members’ tournament which was played on the club’s challenging Montgomerie championship course and concluded with a prize-giving ceremony and buffet lunch courtesy of VIVA.
The winners of the Captains’ Match Play competitions were also honoured at the awards ceremony. Ben Elsworth won the gent’s match play division while Debbie Lane won the ladies. The individual match play competitions were played in May and June.
Results:
Category 1 (handicap 9 and under): 1st Rob Lane (35 c/b), 2nd Barry Hobday (35). Category 2 (handicap 10 – 18): 1st Robert Timmers (36), 2nd Nayel Al Borshaid (34). Category 3 (handicap 19+): 1st Ashley Price (31), 2nd Jeong Hae Kwak (31).
Captains’ Match play: Men – Ben Elsworth. Ladies – Debbie Lane
Introduce your children to golf this New Year by signing them up for the next six-week-long Junior Golf Programme at the Royal Golf Club.
They’ll gain strength, speed, agility and balance, while learning the fundamentals of golf, all in a fun and engaging atmosphere and all for BD60 per child!
The new programme starts on January 9 and 10 and is open to all youngsters, not just club members. For details and to sign up, contact 17750777.
Essa Al Qutami clinched the inaugural Middle East Union Cup with a one over par gross 71 to be the overall gross score winner at the Awali Golf Club.
The emphasis was on quality golf in the competition, sponsored by Middle East Union, with the main prize and trophy being awarded to the player having the lowest gross score.
Al Qutami shone brighter than others and finished one shot ahead of Ali Musbah.
The prizes were presented by Atiq Mujali on behalf of the sponsors and assisted by tournament director Paul Beaumont.
Other prizes were awarded for net scores as follows:
Overall net score winner Ahmed Mohammed (net 64/gross 79), 2nd Salah Al Shaer (67/77), 3rd Abdulrahman Amin (67/73), 4th Adnan Al Sowaidi (68/79), 5th Jeff Paa (68/92), 6th Nasser Eid (68/80), 7th Ahmed Al Noaimi (69/74), 8th Abdulla Al Kaabi (69/80), 9th Sanjeev Bhalla (69/97), 10th Ali Musbah (69/72), 11th Rashid Al Qutami (70/76). However, one of the prize-winners was absent and consequently forfeited his prize, which was awarded instead to Nasser Al Kaabi in 12th place (70/76).
There were a couple of other noteworthy feats during the tournament.
The ladies, with a nearest the pin prize on the fourth hole, managed the dismal accolade of complete failure – six lady players and, unusually, not one of them on the green!
Musbah was highlighted not only for his net score, but also his hole in one on the sixth made more impressive as the pin was located in the most difficult position. He graciously took his medicine as expected by tradition and rang the bell.
To make the taste more palatable and to acknowledge his hole-in-one achievement, Musbah was awarded the unclaimed ladies nearest the pin prize!
After a three-way tie on points, the pairing of 12-year-old Taimur Malik and 14-year-old Yaseen Le Falher narrowly won the Royal Golf Club’s annual Christmas Cracker golf tournament on countback.
Husband and wife Rob and Debbie Lane were runners-up and Mohammed Akeel and Andrew Wyman came third, all with 36 points apiece.
Twenty golfers competed in the festive competition which was played on the club’s Montgomerie championship course.
Results: 1st Taimur Malik & Yaseen Le Falher (36 points c/b), 2nd Rob & Debbie Lane (36 c/b), 3rd Mohamed Akeel & Andrew Wyman (36).
