Why the open stance?
When hitting a normal full shot, ideal set-up alignment features our feet, knees, hips, and shoulders parallel to the target line. For shorter shots, such as pitches and chips, ideal alignment means having an open stance at address. This may confuse certain students as to why this is necessary, and it may also confuse some teachers as to the correct explanation. Actually, the reason is very simple. Through impact, the hips must be...
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...
Unique Ways to Market Yourself Online As a Golf Teaching Professional
The Internet provides a wealth of opportunities to find new students and new income opportunities for golf teaching professionals. Furthermore, to take advantage of many of these opportunities, you do not even need to have your own web site. While having a web site can only be helpful, all you really need is an e-mail address, a computer with an Internet connection, and a commitment to spend sometime on pursuing these opportunities....
The changing face of golf instruction part I
INTRODUCTION Over the years golf instruction has changed. This is really no surprise to anyone who has kept up to date through the years. The following article will give some insight into the many changes, subtle and obvious, over the years. Some may surprise you. The changes in instruction have occurred in the physical, mental, video and apparatus areas. Instruction is designed to develop learning. No learning – no teaching. If...
ANGLE OF ATTACK
Of the five aspects to the ball flight laws, angle of attack often receives short shrift from most teaching professionals. The other four aspects – clubhead path, clubface angle, clubhead speed, squareness of strike – receive much attention from both players and teachers alike. However, all five are important in determining the quality of the shot, and that includes the angle of attack the clubhead takes into the ball. The longer the...
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