TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
Golf is a game and should be fun, as well as a challenge. Golf lessons should be fun and beneficial for the student.
I teach the game as a whole, not just the swinging motion. Improving your score while ensuring that the fundamentals of grip, aim, posture, ball position, and swing plane are intact are the foundations of any good teacher. Every golfer should learn how to think on the course to manage his or her game better. Learning how to hit shots under real life course conditions, and handling your emotions during the round of golf are a mark of a good player. Whether you want to be a tournament competitor, or a semi-serious recreational player, or simply a casual player, I will do my best to meet the goals and expectations you have for your game. I care about my students’ progress toward their goals and remain attentive to them.
As a teacher of this great game, I strive to be:
· Ambitious and enthusiastic
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· a good communicator
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· a great listener
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· articulate
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· patient
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· motivational
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· caring and compassionate
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· tolerant
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· understanding
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· a good coach
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· a psychologist
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· a trusted friend
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· dedicated to my students’ success
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· innovative yet simple
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· professional
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A key goal in teaching the swing is to get the student to understand how to get their ball to get from here to there. In teaching the swing, my primary focus is the basic fundamental skills FIRST and one of my goals is that the students to know that having the proper grip, ball position, stance and alignment are the crucial elements in being able to hit a good SOLIDLY STRUCK golf shot. I understand that no two people swing alike, but they all can prepare to hit a good shot. For every student, there is a way for him/her to do what is necessary, but not only one way, and it is my goal as a teacher is to help him/her find it, and repeat it.
I do not try to deal in the mechanical details of the golf swing with most of my students as they may focus too hard on some minor point that they fail to perform the major functions of the swing and not make good solid contact. The more advanced students need work on some of the finer points and we will work together using video and computer analysis in order to help them achieve their goals.
I teach about the need to swing the club down through the ball with a square clubface at impact. I teach the grip and its purpose of controlling the clubface. A good, solid setup and posture and its effect on the swing plane and the swing path is essential to ball strinking. Learning about how to enjoy practice and how to do it effectively will certainly allow a golfer to have success quickly and will most definately help him or her enjoy the game for a long time.
Club-fitting is an important part of my teaching. In order for our students to play good golf, their equipment must suit their swing needs. I have attended and taught clubfitting seminars and have a solid understanding of how the clubs must match the swing to produce the desired result.
I prefer to teach the complete game and give golfers a practice program to follow. There are many aspects of training and I teach them all. I think it’s important for golfers to have a complete golf training program in order for them to play better and shoot lower scores.
Golf is more fun when you play better. The job of the PGA professional is to help people enjoy the game. I can do that by being effective teacher
Monday, April 4, 2011 at 10:33PM 