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Date: 16 Mar 2007 21:11:53
From: Tom
Subject: How do you know when it is time to move on to a new instructor?
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My son, who shoots in the mid to upper 70's, has been golfing for two
years and has been working with his current instructor for about a year.
I'm starting to feel that we've reached the point where his current
instructor can't help him anymore. If this is the case, how do you find
the next instructor and what should this instructor be showing my son?
Pro golfers all seem to have instructors. What are they working on with
their instructors? Are they focusing on hi-tech swing analysis to
squeeze every ounce of efficiency out of their swing?
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Date: 18 Mar 2007 08:44:45
From: Miss Anne Thrope
Subject: Re: How do you know when it is time to move on to a new instructor?
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"I'M starting to feel that WE'VE reached the point where his current
instructor can't help him anymore."
Kids, can you say "overbearing daddy from hell"?
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Date: 16 Mar 2007 17:45:28
From: George Hibbard
Subject: Re: How do you know when it is time to move on to a new instructor?
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"Tom" <thall91739-nospam@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:tKDKh.20$EA.14@trnddc07...
> My son, who shoots in the mid to upper 70's, has been golfing for two
> years and has been working with his current instructor for about a year.
> I'm starting to feel that we've reached the point where his current
> instructor can't help him anymore. If this is the case, how do you find
> the next instructor and what should this instructor be showing my son?
>
> Pro golfers all seem to have instructors. What are they working on with
> their instructors? Are they focusing on hi-tech swing analysis to squeeze
> every ounce of efficiency out of their swing?
>
>
I would hope they would be talking about "how to think".... A swing and
performance are based on the preparation --which is a matter of intentions,
decisions, information accumulated, judgement, and intuition. At all
levels, of course also, but especially when one has "good mechanics" which
don't have to resemble someone ELSE's perfect swing. They must fit the body
of the golfer.
Given that thousands of youngsters have the ability physically and
mechanically to hit 300 yard drives and laser 7 irons 170, those who go on
have other issues than what is caught on camera or even from performance: it
is the world of the mind, of what to consider, etc.
It will destroy a good talent to keep him with a perfectionist mechanic.
HUGEly.
I hurt for Michelle Wie as I think that has occurred, maybe already too
late. And Clampett seems to have succumbed. And on a much less advanced
level, it is a phenomenon of many average ability golfers that they obsess
over mechanics and ruin good swings because they incorrectly impute their
problems to the SWING instead of to their self- and course-management. And
avoid or neglect or simply do not know of the importance of intelligence as
105% of the game.
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