Its a great feeling to hit the course with your child and play a few holes. Golf provides a perfect opportunity to bond with your kid(s), have some fun and spend some quality time together, but first you need to teach them how to play. Here’s some tips and advice to get your kids golfing:

Golf Tips and Advice for Kids

The most important thing to remember when you’re teaching kids to golf, is that you have to make it fun! Once you start setting to many rules and critiquing swings you can count the kids out, they only want to play and the PGA Tour means little to them. It can be hard, especially for competitive players, but you just have to grit your teeth and let the kids play for enjoyment and experience of the game, when they get older you can teach them the technical aspects. Let them have some fun while their young and you will have a golfer for life!

Keep your practice times to a minimum, the easiest way to overwhelm your child is to spend hours teaching the boring details. Try hitting the course for about thirty minutes or so, hit some balls and have a few laughs it will keep their motivation and interest high. Forget about grip techniques or how to hit the ball, just let them get use to the feel of the club and start swinging.

Unless you’re a wealthy individual that loves spending money(feel free to donate!), I wouldn’t suggest heading out and buying a set of kids clubs for their first time. Sure your child might want to be a golfer today, but tomorrow a fireman might be much cooler. Instead a used set of Women’s clubs should do the trick just right. They will be a little lighter and more manageable for the young ones and honestly you really don’t even need a full set. A 9-iron, a 6-iron, a 3-wood and a putter should get through a game. Should they decide they enjoy golfing and are sticking with it, get them their own set for their birthday.

Make up some little mini games to get them comfortable with the clubs. You can even do these in your backyard, something like bouncing the ball off of the face of a wedge develops ball control and its fun, even for us older guys. You might even take them to a local putt-putt course and play a few rounds, it will do wonders for their short game.

Try keeping games short and non-competitive, kids crack under pressure and it won’t take much. Try not to confuse them with to much all at one time, remember little steps. If you start demanding wins and emphasizing competition you’re going to be playing by yourself.

Once your child becomes more interested in the great game of golf, you might consider spending the money to get them some professional lessons. There are several schools that tech kids how to golf, although if you can private lessons would be the most beneficial. Children will usually learn better in a one on one environment.

One of the first things you should teach your child is a little golf etiquette. The reason being that you don’t want them on the green talking through someone else’s swing or walking in front of other player’s.

One last tip, take the initiative to praise how they play, let them know that their swing is so much better or that last drive was great and encourage them to do little things to make their game even better without dwelling on it to much.

Just think the next time you are preparing to tee off, your son or daughter might be standing right beside you, that is the best feeling of all. What a great way for you to build a stronger relationship with your child.

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