Taking swing advice from your golf buddies is a lot like taking medical advice from your barber – well-intentioned, but rarely helpful.<\/p>\n
While there’s no shortage of great golf tips<\/a> you can receive from top-rated instructors, sometimes knowing which tips to ignore can be just as important as knowing which ones to follow.<\/p>\n To help cut through the noise, we went straight to the source. This past week, more than 100 of the game’s brightest coaches gathered at Cabot Citrus Farms<\/a> for GOLF Magazine’s annual teaching summit.<\/p>\n And lucky for you, our Claire Rogers was on-site asking the questions everyday golfers actually care about – including this one: What’s the worst piece of golf advice golf instructors overhear on the range?<\/p>\n Keep reading to find out their answers below.<\/p>\n The worst golf advice amateurs receive<\/p>\n 1. “You’re coming over the top. Most people don’t know what they’re coming over the top of,” \u2013 Jason Baile<\/p>\n 2. “Keep your head down, grip it like a baby bird, swing slow,” \u2013 Maureen Farrell<\/p>\n 3. “Keep your head down,” \u2013 Stef Shaw<\/p>\n 4. “Keep your head down,” \u2013 Cathy Kim<\/p>\n 5. “Head down, hit down, slow down. If that’s the advice that you’re getting, that’s why you’re not getting any better,” \u2013 Jake Thurm<\/p>\n The post The worst golf advice amateurs receive, according to 5 top teachers<\/a> appeared first on Golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taking swing advice from your golf buddies is a lot like taking medical advice from your barber –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,153581,153580,80322,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-354667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-golf-advice","12":"tag-golf-tips","13":"tag-medical-advice","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}