Identifying A Student’s Learning Style
Connecting with each student is the most important thing you can do. If you can develop an individual relationship with each student, you will be more efficient in your teaching. And, students will learn more, better enjoy the experience, and come back to you. Students I talk to say they like to feel like an individual. Even though they may have the same issues as dozens of other golfers, they like to be treated as if their problems...
A Launch Monitor’s Influence on Teaching: How You Can Improve a Player’s Number
High tech has certainly arrived when it comes to instruction and fitting. Just about every golfer – and instructor – on the planet has heard of swing analyzers and launch monitors. While today’s launch monitors, with Trackman being the most well known, are primarily designed as fitting tools, there is much that can be learned from them that can be applied to teaching as well. By combining what a launch monitor can tell us about ball...
If you were a golf course manager, how would you respond to the following scenarios?
During a busy day early in the season, several groups legitimately complain about the slow pace of play on the course. Do you… a. Apologize for the slow play but explain that your Players Assistants were doing the best they could to keep play moving? b. Explain to the golfers that it was a busy day and slow play is to be expected particularly early in the season? c. Tell them that you understand that play was unusually slow today and...
The Four Stages of Learning
You’ve probably had the occasional student protest after a few lessons with a statement like, “I seem to hit the ball a lot better when I don’t think about the things you are teaching me!” I’ve had this happen many times, and at that point I usually take a few minutes to explain about the process of learning a new technique. It doesn’t seem to matter whether it is a sport, a new job function, or virtually any new activity. Change or...
A Review of Teaching Techniques
Golf has always seen a proliferation of teachers touting “new” or “better” ways to swing a golf club than what is considered conventional. The reason that these methods gain traction is that there are golfers who actually play better with them than with the “conventional” swing. Some teachers of these methods, unfortunately, become quite militant in saying that their way is the “only” way for all golfers to play the game. Their...
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