Teaching Patience to Your Students
Golf is a game of a lifetime…and you as a teacher of this amazing global game need to bear the torch for its disciples. Create awareness in your students that there is no easy way. No real shortcuts. Enjoying practice and having an understanding of the steps necessary in order to advance is the only “secret.” One must learn and truly grasp fundamentals that are time-honored in order to advance and prosper with this game. The...
A Golf Story
It’s just a story. There are probably thousands like it. But it is a reminder of how life is just one big circle and how in some, golf plays an important role. For me it is a constant reminder of why those of us who play the game love it so and how it humanizes us. It begins in the spring of 1965, with this young lad wandering the halls of Cathedral High School, a bag of golf clubs slung loosely over my shoulder, hoping it would fi t...
The Comeback of Unique Swings on Tour
It wasn’t too long ago that USGTF examiner Mike Levine remarked how everyone on Tour looked like their swings came from an assembly line – all very similar. In contrast, he noted that when viewing old clips of Shells’s Wonderful World of Golf from the 1960s, many of the swings looked very homemade and not all that great aesthetically. What comes around goes around. Today, we have seen a return to the homemade and unique swings of...
Preserving Golf’s Legacy
Everyone can recall a favorite high-school teacher. Algebra? Chemistry? French? Surely it wasn’t equations, formulas or verb conjugations that made the most memorable impression. Most likely the nostalgia one feels when remembering a favorite teacher stems from that individual’s passion for teaching, love and mastery of the subject matter and, perhapsmost importantly, commitment to students – their learning, progress and...
Teaching Bunker Play
A number of years ago at a certification course, I was struggling with my greenside bunker play. My tendency was to either take too much sand, or getting too much of the ball. Bob Wyatt, our national coordinator, noted that this was the result of the clubhead coming into the sand at too shallow of an angle. I started coming in steeper and the results improved immediately. Later that year I was hitting bunker shots at a tournament. An...
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