Teaching Golf

How I go about it-One thing at a time-The positive approach

  There is nothing unorthodox about the method I teach at golf school.  It is based upon simple, sound and well-tried principles and does not ask the player to force himself into contortions in the belief that the golf club face is being kept square when in fact it is being shut.

  You will have realized by now that I offer no gimmicks in an attempt to by-pass one golfing fundamental or another.

  But while there is nothing unorthodox in the method I teach, I do depart from generally accepted principles in the method of teaching it.  My system of instruction is, as I see it, the logical one to follow the detailed and thorough analysis which I have made of the golf swing and the action through the hitting area.

  My experience is that golf players have great difficulty in discarding long-standing habits in favor of more constructive actions, and this system of mine, which starts with the finish and works back through the whole action, has proved most effective in personal instruction.

  To follow the same sequence in print would have been out of the question.  The reader would have been puzzled and beset by doubt from the very outset, and the whole purpose of this golf swing website would have been strangled at birth.

  When a pupil, not a complete newcomer to the game but one who has handled a club and already endured some of the trials and tribulations, comes to me for the first time I watch him play a few golf strokes, then check his grip and stance, advising on such improvements as may be necessary.

  Having seen him swing I can decide whether that swing needs a major or a comparatively minor repair, or entire dismantling and re-building.  If it is a badly shaped swing there is obviously only one form of treatment, the second.

  I set to work to give him a poised finish first of all.  And this is the way I go about it.

  I show him the initial movement in the backswing, the take-away, which, as you know, is performed by moving the golf club head straight back from the ball, with the arms and hands only, for some twelve to eighteen inches.

  From that position I make him swing the golf club head slowly through the hitting area into the follow-through and on to the poised finish held from the waist-line.  This is a simple, smooth operation which you will see many a golf tournament professional carry out while he is waiting to play.

  I then get the pupil to bring the hands down to hip level and check the angle of the club-face.  He will keep working at this until I am satisfied.  Then I allow him to increase the backward movement by stages and so the swing develops, shaped from the poised finish back ultimately to the top of the swing.

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