Golf Coaching Lessons: Whats it all about?
Welcome to my blog, Golf Coaching Lessons. I’m sure you are asking yourself what this site has to do with golf coaching or golf lessons, as you will find no links to your local PGA pro here, no golf clinic, golf academy, or golf school promotions. But what I will try and do is share with you all the golf tips that I have come across throughout my years of playing the game.
I’m not sure how many of you have been to professional golf coaching lessons, and whilst in some instances they are really valuable, other times they can do more harm than good. Personally, I have gone for lessons. At an early age my dad showed me the fundamentals of the golf swing, such as golf stance, the golf grip, and luckily for me, he had a very good game and a technically sound swing, but he still realised the importance of not getting into bad habits early and enrolled me in a golf school over the holidays. That was really useful as I was able to assimilate my own natural golf swing with the technical teachings of the golf school. The result was (in my opinion), a pretty technically correct golf swing. I recommend that everyone who is starting off playing golf should get lessons from a PGA teaching pro, as it is much harder to unlearn bad habits once your golf swing is grooved into your muscle memory.
However not all golf coaching lessons have the same happy outcome. A good mate of mine was a really gifted golfer. Whilst still in high school he was playing scratch golf and aspired to one day play golf as a profession. In a bid to improve further he started taking golf coaching lessons from the teaching pro at his golf course. Unfortunately, my friends golf swing was not as technically correct as it could be, but his hand-eye co-ordination was exceptional and he was able to return the golf club to the correct position at impact every time. The golf instructor however took it upon himself to remodel my mates golf swing in an attempt to make it more technically correct, but unfortunately the end result was not great. After changes in his golf grip, stance, and swing plane, my friend developed a nasty hook. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a consistent hook and so sometimes he’d hit beautiful golf shots, and then play some pretty ugly golf. This led to a complete lack of confidence, and pretty soon, my mate gave up competitive golf. He still plays, but only socially, and he is still trying to remodel the ‘perfect golf swing’.
So, what’s the point of all of this? Everyone is unique, everyone has different body types, muscle type and strength, natural rhythm and so naturally everyone will have a unique golf swing. We can’t all swing the club like Tiger so we shouldn’t waste our time trying to emulate his swing. So in this blog, I’m going to post golf tips that will hopefully help fix the little things. No big golf coaching lessons, no golf school or golf academy promotions; just some handy golf swing tips and hints that’ll hopefully help shave a few strokes off your score.
