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I was speaking with some golfers at my club about playing golf in the wet and how they manage to maintain control of the club in their hands when playing and an amazing method of keeping control came to light from one of the younger players. The 15 year old club champion (yes thats right a 15 year old beat all the big guns to become club champ) said that in the wet he has a secret weapon in his bag.

After accusing him of cheating to gain an unfair advantage in the wet and giving him a little bit of banter to see how much he blushed, he came clean on this wonder method. He uses his Mum’s washing up gloves in the wet!

After a little while we started to discuss how this would work and if it was within the boundaries of the rules. It turns out that it is an old trick and has been used by a number of different players over the years on rainy days.

I have to say the thought of a golf course full of people playing golf in wonderfully colorful rubber gloves does raise a smile but at the same time as the thought of sinks full of washing up because rubber gloves are missing gets a laugh as well.

It works though, the gloves are designed to keep the hands dry and to grip onto the most slippery of wet dishes covered in soap, so being able to grip a golf club that has a specially designed grip that when combined creates a great deal of friction and sticks like glue. You do however need to make sure you get the right size, if you get golves that are too big for you then your hands can move around inside the glove and make your shots a lot less accurate.

The sound of it made me think that it was a wind up, but it wasn’t and it is a tried and tested method. So the next time it rains or your heading for the course and there are grey clouds above make sure you raid the kitchen sink and grab a pair of marigolds before you go!

In a few weeks time I have an appointment with my local golf pro and we are going to spend time on my swing to make sure that I am progressing in the right method and that I am not deviating from what I wanted to achieve. I have however just discovered a great little gadget for my home computer that lets me check to see how I am doing!

Motion Coach now have a home version of their software that you can hook up to a normal web cam and have your swing analyzed in a step by step system. This is great for those that don’t want to spend a great deal of money each month checking their swing to see how it is going and then spending time with the golf pro. Now it would seem we can go to the golf pro and tell him what we need to be working on.

All joking aside having a proper analysis of my swing was one of the best things I had ever done for my game, following the advice of the professional coach that showed me my step by step problems and then how to iron out those problems helped me drop a great deal of head speed and yet maintain the distances I was getting. In some cases reduction in head speed gave me more distance as the club was doing all of the work.

Technology has come on such a long way in the past 15 years that the game is becoming easier for all to participate, there is of course still the element of skill involved but the more and more technology grows the more benefits people will see in their game. Balls are now rounder, clubs are now more forgiving, gloves offer greater grip and don’t even get me started on how much drivers have evolved. Basically the world we live in has allowed for development within the game we love so I for one will not be fighting it but embracing it full on.

Speaking of which I am now off to test out another new set of golf irons that I will be reviewing tomorrow!