Golf & Investment Academy #6

Make Your Practice Swing Count

One of the best things you can do to help give you a better chance of hitting a good golf shot is to make a purposeful practice swing. A lot of times amateur golfers don't take a practice swing, or when they do it's used more as a way of just loosening up. But they're not really thinking about what they want to achieve from the shot, and often they're not even facing in the direction they're going to hit. It pays to watch the pros. Professional golfers make practice swings with a purpose. While their swings may be different the approach is most often the same. They'll line up in the direction they want to play and they'll take a full swing at slow speed to capture a feel of the type of shot they want to hit. If your practice swing has a purpose you'll reap the rewards.

About Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab Corporation's Founder and Chairman, Mr Charles Schwab, is an avid golfer himself. Over the years, the has found both golf and investing are tough games and that there's no short term fixes. His firm, which is the Official Investment Firm of the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour, strives to guide investors along their investing journey, formulate plans, and provide resources to help investors be successful. When Schwab first opened its doors in 1971, the company knew that the key to success would be getting the fundamentals right. By focusing on the basics, the firm managed to take the early market lead, offering a combination of low prices with fast, efficient order executions, and soon became the United States' largest discount broker. Today, the company is one of the US's leading financial services firms with around US$1.83 trillion in client assets. Charles Schwab, Hong Kong, Ltd. is a subsidiary of The Charles Schwab Corporation.