THE CHALLENGE IS....

As human beings we are inherent problems solvers.
As coaches we are asked to instruct the golfer on the best way to solve these problems.

I believe self learning and the interpretation of results is always the best method of problem solving.
I give my pupils challenges. These challenges promote self learning and always have results that need interpreting.
These results or feedback may be positive or negative. But the pupil will have learnt something.


These challenges I set, help the pupil learn what will happen to the ball flight if changes in the swing are made. These changes to ball flight are vital. I truly believe as a golf coach, that if the ball flight has not changed for the better I have wasted my pupils time and money.

In this video I took a new pupil who has suffered from a lack of ball flight control and distance for many months. Once we finished our 9 holes we went to the practice ground to help him improve his technique. His previous lessons had been technical and position based.

My direction for instruction was the opposite.

I offered the golfer a challenge, which he accepted. The challenge was. Hit the ball but the club head in the back swing must travel above the alignment stick and in the forward swing must travel under the alignment stick.
Those were the rules of the challenge.

Please watch THE CHALLENGE






From start to finish the changes seen here took 10 minutes.
He is now considerably closer to swinging the club on a more efficient plane for golf.
More importantly the ball flight changed and he realised that something must have changed in his swing for the ball flight to have been altered

We are good at problem solving, I promise you. We do not have to think about positions in the golf swing, let our instincts and natural problem solving ability help us.

Hope this helps
Andy