Based on notes compiled over the past thirty years of teaching golf, I have reached the conclusion that only about ten percent of golfers actually invest in formal golf instruction. In every other sport, lessons are an integral part of the learning process, but golf instruction often meets with ambivalence among many mid to high handicap golfers.
This series of three articles will insure you get your money's worth from professional golf instruction.
Does this scenario sound familiar? You sign up for a series of golf lessons every Spring hoping a refresher will exorcise the demons that return year after year to wreak havoc with your game.
Initially, you make good progress. Once the lessons have ended, however, the new and improved method slowly evaporates and you try to revert to your old inconsistent but comfortable style.
Is it any wonder many golfers feel disillusioned with golf instruction?
The first step to permanent improvement is developing clear communication between yourself and the instructor.
Clarify your expectations. Be up front with the instructor. If your goal is to break ninety, then tell the instructor. Don't assume he/she has the same expectations. A competent teacher will base their instruction on your goals.
The second pre-requisite for effective learning is to stop focusing on faults. Second-guessing the faults in your swing, sets the lesson tone to consistently focus on faults instead of cures. There is no such thing as a perfect swing. You're paying good money for competent instruction. Let the instructor figure out the most effective solution(s).
The third essential for instilling a new movement is to rehearse daily without concern for results.
We all resist change. Ease your mind and body into a new technique by rehearsing daily away from the golf course. Newly acquired knowledge is not enough to guarantee immediate improvement.
Allow at least thirty days to see consistent improvement. Pick up a club throughout the day and hold the new position. Rehearse the new position in slow motion. Rehearse with your eyes closed whenever possible. This will help develop a "feel" for the new technique.
Rehearsing for just five minutes a day, every day, will create new muscle memory in just thirty days. In effect, you are making the new technique a habit. Once formed, habits become automatic.
Today you learned the first three essentials for getting your money's worth from formal golf instruction; clarify your expectations, focus on cures not faults and develop the habit of rehearsing daily.
In the next article, you will learn how to reinforce the new muscle memory and put your best swing on automatic pilot.
How often have you heard golfers lamenting that golf lessons do more harm than good? Perhaps you've enrolled in a series of golf lessons but ended up going back to your old familiar swing. Never again.
This article is the introduction to a series of three articles designed to help you get your money's worth from golf instruction. An awareness of the underlying factors that are present between student and instructor, will set you on the road to constant improvement.
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