The Basis for Effective Coaching

The accepted traditional coaching model administered by thousands of coaches the world over means well but unfortunately, it gets players far too bogged down in "thinking" instead of "expressing" the swing!

The only way a golf coach learns how to deliver effective coaching is by actually coaching. It takes many hundreds of hours, maybe thousands of hours over several years to develop the ability to communicate ideas that the pupil can grasp.

You cannot do a one week course and be proficient as some coach training schemes claim!

A Good coach puts as many hours into their coaching as a tour player puts into their practicing. On top of this, a good coach will have been, and maybe still is, a good player to which he or she must have spent many hours achieving this standard as well.

Further to this, I realised many years back that whenever I gave a lesson, two people were learning; in fact on many occasions, I learnt more than the pupil. This is invaluable experience which any dedicated coach must utilise in order to improve his or her skills; How this experience is utilised defines the coach.

My own coaching education is built on thousands of hours on the range in conjunction with writing and researching ideas over an intensive 25 year period which produced around 400 articles for newspapers. The entire body of work I estimate runs well in excess of 1.5 million words on the subject.

The result of this work will form the content of this blog and the subsequent series of eBooks I have produced.