Are New Drivers Getting Better?
Greetings and Happy New Year! In the last issue of Golf Teaching Pro magazine, I wrote about golf driver technologies. I explained what I call my “Water Hose” analogy about launch angle, ball speed and spin rates in the new drivers. If you don’t have a new driver, or know what your launch angle, ball speed and spin rates are then you’re giving up 20-30 yards. The object is to hit the new drivers high, with low spin rates to create...
Teaching Golf and Human Behavior
Here is a little story. Two men were talking, and one said to the other, “I taught my dog how to whistle.” The other guy said, “Okay, let me hear him whistle.” The first guy answers, “I said I taught him, I didn’t say he learned.” There is a difference between taking a golf lesson and learning from the lesson. We know as teachers that we do not have complete control of the learning process. Could one of the problems with...
Tall Students vs. Short Students
At 6’5 and 230 pounds, the power that big George Bayer possessed was astonishing. In an era of laminated maple clubs and inconsistent wound balls, Bayer repeatedly smashed his drives over 300 yards. Many feel that if he was playing the game in today’s Titanium era (he passed away from an aneurysm in March, 2003) he would be out-driving everyone by 40 or 50 yards, just like he was doing in the 50s and 60s. Bayer won three times on the...
When your students ask
Do you remember in grade school when a teacher would ask you to define a word? Of course, you knew what the word meant, but actually providing a good working definition often proved very difficult. Our golf students will frequently ask questions we may consider basic, but giving them an accurate answer that they can understand is a challenge in itself. Just like our teachers challenged us to come up with coherent definitions to words...
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