If you are serious about improving your golf this winter, you need to take some golf lessons.
That's a horrible thought to many. Taking lessons have for sometime come with the stigma of making the golfer worse before getting them better.
Modern golf lessons may not be what you think. They are not hitting the same 7 iron to the same target lessons that were readily seen 10-15 years ago.
Today's golf coaches are highly knowledgeable and experts in instructional techniques.
Finding the right coach for you is important.
Some coaches will teach a specific method. Some will coach you a feel and not a method.
Most coaches will video you and some may compare you to elite tournament professionals on computer analysis programmes.
Any golf coach worth his/her salt has read many more books, watched many more youtube video's than you, and potentially invested thousands of pounds on training courses to help them coach you the golfer better.
In the end knowledge is KING.
But is it?
How about knowledge and communication are KING
As a golf coach it is my job to communicate the knowledge I have amassed into something that the golfer will understand. The information must also be relevant to the individual. This relevance to the individual is where a good golf coach will always be much more helpful than a book or video.
When relaying the information to the golfer the information should be concise and understandable and fact based.
My first professional Alan Bridge from Dibden Golf Centre, explained to me that the best way to coach is to imagine the pupil does not understand any words associated with golf. If, as a coach you have the ability to communicate your thoughts and knowledge using everyday words and phrases you will have greater success.
I still believe in this and it has certainly helped me here in Spain, where language is sometimes a barrier.
My advice is, if you want to improve your golf seek out a qualified golf coach who has good knowledge and great communication skills. Before booking a lesson talk to the coaches and see if you connect with them. Try and converse with some of the other golfers who have already taken lessons and listen to what they have to say.
This is your golf game, take control of your improvement
Knowledge and communication are king
Knowledge and communication are king
Andy,
ReplyDeleteGreat Post! This is so true. How many coaches would spend a bunch of money without reserching the product. The same needs to apply for golfers seeking instruction.
Communication and knowledge are the keys. How many ways can I say the same thing really separates great coaches. Finding the one that gets the pupil to say "Oh, I get it".
JG