A Heart-Warming Moment American Sign Language
We USGTF teaching Professionals know golf is a marvelous, challenging game filled with many experiences. Those experiences can be good, not so good, and every once in a while, heartwarming (fuel for the human soul). A heartwarming experience might be watching a man, paralyzed from the waist down in a wheelchair, tee off on the first hole and send it down the middle of the fairway. (Do you remember that thrill when that was first...
POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST: WHAT RARE GOLF BOOKS CAN TEACH US
As much of golf is played between the ears, it is not surprising that the game should have spawned more books than any other sport. A high proportion of these books are instructional. The quest for the magic swing secret is probably as old as golf itself. But, what is a “rare” golf book? As I always tell my clients, they are not making them anymore. Over time books get lost, damaged or destroyed. Any book printed before the Great War...
Taking A Page From Our Certification Courses
If you are a member of the USGTF or a WGTF member federation, think back to when you attended the certification course. Whether you were an experienced teacher looking for professional credentials or someone who never taught before, you probably wondered what exactly was in store for you. For the first couple of years of its existence, the USGTF was still finding its way in attempting to solve that puzzle. After keeping concepts that...
We Are Pleased To Accept Your Entry We Are Accept Your Entry
I was walking off the 18th green of the Craigielaw Golf Club in Aberlady, Scotland, when the voice called out. “Excuse me, Mr. Stevens, Edinburgh radio would like to interview you and Mr. Gallacher about tomorrow’s tournament.” “Mr. Gallacher, as in Bernard Gallacher,” I said. “Why yes,” came the reply. Then, there I was, standing next to the former Ryder Cup captain and Lionel Freedman, the tournament director, answering questions...
Golf’s Word of Fairness
EQUITY: “The quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality… the application of the dictates of conscience or the principles of natural justice to the settlement of controversies” –www.dictionary.com. In a USGA Rules of Golf video of some years ago, host Peter Alliss said something to the effect that not every situation in the Rules is fair, nor meant to be so. A ball that lies in a divot hole in the middle of the fairway...
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