1. Prevent your hips from moving towards the golf ball during the swing
This will help you maintain proper golf posture and produce consistent shots.
To get instant feedback, put the back of a chair up against your backside and make swings maintaining contact with the chair for the entire swing. This can be done with or without a club. You can also make swings keeping your backside up against a wall.
2. Close your shoulders
Many golfers have their shoulders too open at the address position. This consistently leads to the club coming down too steeply with the club face open producing a slice.
To get the shoulders square, grab a club, stand up tall and hold the club directly out in front of you with arms extended. The club should be parallel to the ground. From here, tilt forward until the club head touches the ground then bend the knees slightly. This will help you achieve a square address position and eliminate swing flaws.
3. Make a better turn
Many golfers swing their arms and do not turn their body enough during the swing. In order to get your back to the target and turn the shoulders properly, you must allow the right hip to sink(turn) back a little away from the ball. This will free up the left shoulder to get over the right foot much more easily (for the R-Handed Golfer).
4. Be aggressive with your chip shots
Amateurs tend to leave chips short more often than long of the target. Typically players have a fear of going over the green much more than coming up short. This leads to a deceleration (slowing down) of the club head into the ball. This is why it's best to error long because it encourages golfers to keep the acceleration up in the downswing which leads to crisp contact and better results.
5. Hit some one handed practice putts
Next time you’re on the putting green, try rolling a few with just one hand. This exercise helps the rhythm and tempo of your stroke. With two hands on the putter grip, it's easy to jerk the putter back and through making it difficult to control the speed and distance the ball rolls. One hand on the grip forces a smooth transition from backswing to through swing since you have less control over the putter head. After rolling a bunch this way, go back to your standard two handed grip and mimic the same feel as the one handed putts.
