Learning Golf

Some observations-The teacher and the tournament Pro- My Maiden Clinic

  You may have noticed, indeed I hope you have, that there has been quite a lot of repetition in this book.

  This has been intentional. Certain simple truths about the technique require emphasis through repetition.  I have found, in the course of thirty years' teaching experience, that I can tell a pupil to do this or that, but while I know he has heard what I have said, it is by no means sure that his mind has retained it.

  The penny may not drop the first, second or even the third time.  Often I have had a pupil suddenly recall a piece of advice I gave him some time back.  He will say: "You know, I didn't attach much importance to it at the time.  Recently I've recalled it and I've been playing better since."

  In many cases the once unconsidered trifle has been the means of filling a gap in the mental picture of the swing-shape so far as that particular pupil is concerned.

  I do not want to leave you with an incomplete picture of the swing-shape I have outlined.  Therefore, I propose to conclude this endeavor to put over in print the principles which make for the effective and consistent striking of the golf ball by telling you something of my teaching experience and the way I teach when in personal contact with the pupil in my school.

  It may serve to fill any gap which remains.

  But first relax for a page or two and take a few minutes off from technical analysis while I make a few observations based on my teaching experiences.

  First, let me answer those critics-and they include some of my fellow-professionals-who assert that golf cannot be properly taught in the confined space of a net.

  Their argument is that the instructor cannot see where the ball goes.  I have a ready retort.  The teaching professional should never have to wait until the ball lands before deciding what needs to be done to the pupil's action.  To work on the basis of what happens to the ball implies that the instructor, in order to counteract a slice which he has seen on the open practice ground, is going to suggest a correction which may lead to a hook or at best prove only a temporary remedy.

  This is an attitude which I condemned in the opening of this website.

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