how do you hit a golf ball straight?
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You can get some good tips from www.pga.com improve your game section\nor\nnext month get a free golf lesson from a local PGA golf professional  www.playgolfamerica.com to find one near you
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Try to use stiff shaft, I used to use Regular shaft but after I have changed the shaft to stiff, I can hit it much \nfurther than before and also straighter, so go can change your shaft immediately.\nHAPPY GOLFING!
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How Do I Keep Score?\nScoring in golf is sometimes a mystery to those unfamiliar with the sport because in golf - unlike most other sports and games - it's the person with the lowest score who wins. \nBut golf scoring is as simple as can be. Every time you take a whack at that little white ball, that's a stroke. Every time you make a stroke, count it. At the end of each hole, add up your strokes for that hole and write it down. At the end of the round, add up the strokes for each hole and, there you have it, your golf score.\n\nThere are some other circumstances - for instance, every beginner (every golfer of every level) will have to take penalty strokes here and there. At least, if you're playing strictly by the rules.\n\nBut most simply put, a golf score is the number of times you whacked that little ball around the course.\n\nScore in relation to par is also very easy to understand and compute. Each hole is given a number representing "par" - the number of strokes it should take a golfer to finish that hole. If the par is 4 and you make a 5, then your score in relation to par is 1-over. If the par is 4 and you make a 3, then your score in relation to par is 1-under.\nIf par for the course is 72 and you finished with a 92, then your score is 20-over.\n\nFor penalties, read the rules of golf.
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7-10-1? three pins? that's much easier than just 7-10. take a 8 lb ball, go from left and aim at the right of the 1 pin. let the 1 bounce and hit the 7 while the ball will also bounce to hit the 10! Got it?
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In Yahoo Pool, here is how you shoot:\nWhen shooting the cue ball, use the left mouse button to move the cue stick \n     around the cue ball. When you have positioned the cue stick where you want,\n     click and hold the right mouse button. Pull back on the mouse until you have\n      the desired power (displayed on the right side of the table). Let go of the right \n     mouse button to take your shot. To move the cue ball when you have ball in hand,\n     simply left-click the cue ball and drag it to the desired spot and drop it. \n     For more precise aiming you may use the arrow keys to line up your shot as well. \nHope this helps, and good luck!
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To hit longer and straighter, start back slower than normal and start down a little slower - gradually building up speed and then releasing it all at the bottom of the swing.  Most people try to hit from the top of the swing, but the bottom point is where it counts.
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1. Long and short forehands\n     Get the machine to send you a short ball on your forehand followed by a long one on forehand as well.\n\n2. Long and Short backhands\n     Same on the backhand\n\n3. Drop shot and lob\n     A drop shot very close to the net followed by a lob where you go back full speed to catch it\n\n4. Consistent Forehand\n     Forehands, same speed, same length\n\n5. Consistent Backhand\n     Backhands, same speed, same length\n\n6. Short forehand - short backhand\n     Machine sends you a short forehand, you hit and quickly catch another short one on your backhand.\n\nHope that does it for now :)
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*** Asumption of a Right Handed Bowler - Reverse if left handed ***\n\nStand with your middle to of your left foot (slide foot) on the middle dot (The Big one), holding the ball at hip level.\n\nPush ball straight away from you when you take your first step.  Ball should swing naturally, and should not be forced during delivery.\n\nAs you continue through your approach, release the ball toward the head pin and follow through with your hand, such as you were going to shake hands with the head pin, with your thumb up in the air, bring your arm all the way up to your right ear.  Your follow through is the most important part of your delivery, as it tells you where the ball is going to go.\n\nThe ball should travel near the third arrow, or just right of it and should hit the pins just to the right of the head pin.\n\nThis should get you off on the right start.  Good Luck.
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Two things lead to most topped shots.  One thing you can do is taking something the size of a dime and pretend that the golf ball.  The concentration and the swing speed you use to hit the small item is the same you should use when you hit the golf ball.  Remember to concentrate on the bottom part of the ball not the top.  \nreasons for topping\n1.When you start taking the club back lifting your body up.  This is done by straitening the knees.  Try to keep them bent the entire time.  The ball is 1.5 inches so it only takes a little movement to cause a top.  Here is how you try to prevent this – Take some practice swing hitting something the size of penny.  You have to concentrate on it to make sure you hit it.  That is the same thing you need to do with the golf ball.  You want that concentration to keep you from moving away from the ball.  \n\nYou have to keep that left arm straight.  You bend it ½ and inch and your in the middle of the ball.  This is where you use your hand eye coordination.  The right arm just keeps things going, don’t let it over power your left or you will get those deep bone jaring divots.  You do not want that.
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For yahoo pool....\nWhen shooting the cue ball, use the left mouse button to move the cue stick \n     around the cue ball. When you have positioned the cue stick where you want,\n     click and hold the right mouse button. Pull back on the mouse until you have\n      the desired power (displayed on the right side of the table). Let go of the right \n     mouse button to take your shot. To move the cue ball when you have ball in hand,\n     simply left-click the cue ball and drag it to the desired spot and drop it. \n     For more precise aiming you may use the arrow keys to line up your shot as well. \nTaken from the How To Play link on the main page for the game.
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Typically this is called a SHANK.\n\nMany golfers consider "the shank" the worst shot in golf. In a shank (if you are right handed) the ball squirts almost straight right from the moment you hit it. The first time it happens, it comes as a complete shock. You were probably winning and/or about to shoot your best round ever, when it happened.\n\nYou were probably playing "a safe" or "no brainer" shot when it happened. It was "the worst" --- "most unexpected" thing that ever happened to you in golf. The scene gets worse because --- you probably shanked your next shot as well.\n\n\nSo what is a shank?\n\nWell technically it is NOT a "golf shot." A golf shot is something a player tries to hit. As far as I know, nobody has ever tried to intentionally hit a shank on the course while competing.\n\nThe shank is the portion or part of an iron where the clubface and hosel meet.\n\nWhen a golfer hits the ball in that area of the clubhead it produces a unwanted ball reaction which is called and widely accepted as a "shank."\n\nOddly, due to it's recessed position the shank rarely makes contact with the ball.\n\nThe reason a shank happens is because the golfer is trying to play a safe shot. They are trying to "push" the golf ball rather than hit it.\n\nIn other sports or games when we play a safety we "push" rather than hit. In baseball for example a "bunt" is a safety of sorts and we "push" or hold the bat rather than "swing it."\n\nIn golf when we "push," we "push" only the grip portion of the club forward and the clubhead lags behind. When that happens the face twists open allowing the hosel area of the iron clubhead to enter the impact area first.\n\nSo in a shank the hands are in front of the ball (as much as 6 to 8 inches) when the clubhead contacts the ball.\n\n\nNow for the second important part, "What do I have to do to get rid of the shank?"\n\nI'm sorry but as far as I know NO ONE has ever gotten rid of "the shank." We may control it and do our best to prevent it but that's the best we can expect.\n\nSo, how do you prevent or avoid them. Well you need to do, "the opposite."\n\n\nTo correct it, you "must" reverse the club's overall position at impact.\n\nIn this case the clubhead "must" now come into the ball (impact area) before the grip portion of the club.\n\nIn a properly hit golf shot, the "grip" portion of the club and the "clubhead" should be in a relatively straight line at impact. Indeed that is our goal, but at this time we need to overcome and reverse our present bad habit.\n\nSo to do the opposite you must get "the clubhead" into the impact area ahead the hands. Picture a pane of glass so big as to cover an area from the back of the ball up to your hands.\n\nIn a shank your hands or the grip portion of the club make the initial contact with the glass breaking the top of the glass first. Now to correct it, you want the clubhead to break the bottom of the glass first.\n\n\nTo do it properly:\n\nFirst --- relax your grip (this is necessary because the wrists must be able to act like hinges and allow the clubhead to pass in front of them).\n\nSecond --- mentally picture the clubhead hitting the bottom of the glass before the hands.\n\nThird --- just let it happen.\n\n\nOnce a golfer knows what they need to do, then the best way to do it is to simply let the body do it for them. I tell my students, "What the mind can conceive, the body can achieve --- "if" you let it."\n\nThe next thing I had my students do was to shank the ball on purpose. That's right, in order to correct anything you must completely understand why it happens. What better way to understand a shank then by intentionally hitting it.\n\nSo for your drill, I want you to intentionally hit three shanks in
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Power comes with practice. Curve comes with technique.\n\n1.   Approach the ball straight on.  \n  \n2.   Place your nonkicking foot to the side of the ball and about 12 inches behind the ball.  \n  \n3.   Take a full backswing with your kicking leg.  \n  \n4.   Keep your ankle locked at a 90-degree angle.  \n  \n5.   Point your toes severely to the right before making contact with the ball, if you are kicking with your left foot, or to the left if kicking with your right foot.  \n  \n6.   Strike the ball on the side closest to your planted foot.  \n  \n7.   Follow through, keeping your toes pointed to the right.
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the club face is small and easy to make a mistake with. One common error is trying to come in from an arc and straighten up 2 inches (5 cm) from the ball ... to have a better chance of hitting correctly, straighten up the swing 7 inches (18 cm) before the ball.\n\nThere are a few sites with good info on bettering your golf swing. Areas to make sure are right are the Stance; Grip; Pivoting the sholders; keeping left arm straight; keeping eye on the ball; practice lots. \nMy first tip though is something i haven't seen in many tips, yet helped my game a lot
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You take your hands and curl them a little bit, like cat claws\n\nGet under the ball and face the direction you want to hit the ball at and the player you want to set it to\n\nKeep looking up at the ball, raise your curled hands over the front of your head and you're gonna swiftly extend your hands and make contact under the ball with your fingertips(that's why you have your hands curled)  when the ball comes down just about above your head. \n\nI think also bend at the knees and then extend your legs when you extend your arms to hit the ball\n\nNO PALMS WHEN SETTING A BALL!
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A couple of things you can do.  At a practice green.  Place about 10 or 12 balls in a circle around the hole starting at about 2 feet.  Make each putt.  Then make the circle 3 feet. Make each putt.  Then 4 feet.  etc. out to about 15 feet.  This helps you learn feel.  Remember to let the arms hang feely and make the putting stroke smooth like a pendulum keeping the face of the putter on the target line back and through.  Same distance back and through.  If you go back 6 inches then follow through 6 inches.  Other than that call me for a lesson.
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Shot putts to make sure you accelarte as you hit the ball, set the putter about an 1/2 inch behind the ball.  The trick is to think you have cheated yourself on the back swing so you have to make sure you accelarte the stroke.  That is OK came form the pro at Doral.  Here are some more\n\nPressure Putting\nhttp://www.pga.com/improve/tips/shortgame/improve_nesbitt120505.cfm\n\nThe fundamentals of putting\nStrategic planning of the putt\nhttp://www.pga.com/improve/tips/shortgame/improve_beck110904.cfm
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If you are pulling the ball left, it's because you are not swinging straight through the ball.  Maybe just getting you thinking about a good swing path will cure any other related flaws.\n\nMake a box out of six tees by making two parallel rows of three tees each. The rows should be about 12 inches long and 6 inches apart.\nLooks like this:\n* * *\nswing-path \n* * *\nPractice swinging with your driver making the club path go through the box (i.e. through the two parallel rows) without hitting a tee. This exercise will help you see flaws and teach you to swing straight through the ball.\n\nOne additional reason I like this exercise is that when you don't swing right, you have to stop and fix the tee box - penalty.  If you swing right, the box is still there ready to go again and this helps with building muscle memory of the good swing.