Defining Today’s Golf Teaching Professional

I know a famous golf writer (sorry, I can’t divulge his name) who has never, and I mean never, sat down in front of a computer. To this day, still writing for some of the top golf magazines, he hand-writes every single sentence. Then, he painstaking bangs out the final drafts of his work with his two index fingers on an old typewriter. I said to him the other day, “You’re a relic, you know that, don’t you? Nobody does it like this...

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Teach Low-Handicap Players

You’ve been teaching mainly recreational players, gaining experience along the way, when it happens: the accomplished low-handicap player looking to shave a stroke or two off his game shows up. After the appropriate interview, we watch him hit some balls. Shot after shot goes straight at the target. To the naked eye, his set-up and swing look pretty good. We start to get worried. I can’t find anything wrong, we might think. Oh no,...

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