Does the Course Fit Your Eye?
Professional golfers often say a course either does or doesn’t “fit their eye.” What are they talking about? A course that fits your eye means different things to different players. A fader like Jack Nicklaus loved holes that doglegged to the right, and he also liked greens that angled diagonally from front left to back right. A low-ball hitter like Lee Trevino didn’t like obstacles in front of the green, or greens that were elevated....
Winter 2014 International News
The Canadian Golf Teachers Federation is pleased to announce the appointment of Marc Ray as its new president. Ray, a native of Belleville, Ontario, assumed his duties earlier this August. Ray succeeds longtime president Bob Bryant after his retirement. To his past students and members, Bryant commented, “I have had the pleasure of directing the Canadian Golf Teachers Federation since its inception in 1994. From our first course in...
Entering The Zone
Players look for an edge to help them play better. Golf is at least 80 percent mental once you have learned the basics. Unlike reactive sports, in golf you have plenty of time between shots to overthink, over-analyze, get scared, or scold yourself for the last putt you missed. Today, amateur and professional golfers seek the advice of sport psychologists in addition to coaches or instructors. Sports psychology focuses on...
Marking A Major Milestone
If we take a walk down memory lane back to the year 1989, golf was quite a different game than it is today. Wooden drivers were still used by the majority of players, balata balls were the choice of expert golfers, and virtually no golf teachers had been adequately trained in teaching the game to the very people to whom they were charging good money for lessons. The latter changed permanently in September of that year, when an entity...
President’s Message
As the front cover suggests, 2014 marks the USGTF’s 25th anniversary! One of the things that I’m most proud of is having taken the golf teaching profession and making it a separate entity unto itself. This certainly needed to be done, because the golf teaching profession was too important to the game to have been ignored. Of course, the other thing I am proud of is having provided over 30,000 people worldwide the opportunity to teach...
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