If you're looking for golf tip for beginners, then I'm about to give you probably the best single tip you can get, and it involves one person you shouldn't try to copy. His name's Tiger Woods.

When anyone hears that name, it usually conjours up 2 images. The first is of the dominant champion, sweeping away the competition to dominate the game. The second is of Tiger when he was a little chap, being shown how to swing by his father.

Those 2 images are precisely the reason why you shouldn't try and copy his game!

If you are a beginner, and let's face it, most of us rank as 'beginners' after playing for decades, your golf tips should concentrate on 3 main areas -

1. A solid drive which goes to the middle of the fairway.2. A short game to get you to the green more often that not from 100-150 yards out.3. A putting stroke to dramatically reduce your 3 putts.

If you develop these 3 skills, your recreational game will improve by leaps and bounds, and your fellow players won't be able to keep up.

So why not look to Tiger for these tips? Because he is at the top of the world game, he is not interested in just hitting the fairway. He's interested in smacking it as far as he can, a monster 300 yarder which bends around the dogleg.

When he gets into the trees, Tiger doesn't choose to lay up and play safe, he tries to bend it around the tree in front of him to get on the green.

Once on the green, he will believe he can sink that 25 footer, he won't be aiming to take 2 shots.

The skills he uses to play that kind of game have been developed over year after year - can you imagine how many hours he has practised? And of course his body is finely trained to be able to cope with playing those shots. If you try to hit monster 330 yards off the tee, you'll give yourself a back injury.

So come on, the best golf tip for beginners I can give is to leave the Tiger Woods' game to Tiger, and instead concentrate on the 3 basics which will bring a much quicker reward.