Leela is double champion, again.

August/September 2007 Issue

I hope you have enjoyed and learned from the 100+ pages that I have written so far.

I have been busy over the last 6 weeks with my private lessons and have been preparing Leela for the girls and ladies club championship.

There are one or two new additions to the site and I would like to direct you firstly to the competition at the bottom of this page: Click here

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I have also updated Leela's story which can be found under the heading 'Toddler Lesson' on the navagation bar. Click here

Leela has now achieved her goal for the season having won both the girls and ladies club champion titles and getting down to below 8 handicap (7.8).

I am still pushing her to get down to 6.5 before the end of the season in mid October. We will see.

Of course I could not be more delighted with her progress and am at present researching what it is that we are doing together that has brought about this huge success.

Let's face it I have other students who have been working many years longer and dare I say much harder on their games than this 12 year old, and they are unfortunately stuck at a certain level and are not moving on. I even asked Leela if she could explain why this is the case.

Her simple answer:

"I just do what you say!"

This short reply got me thinking and I asked myself this question:

"Doesn't everyone do what I say as their coach?"

That's it in a nutshell.

For example, I may instruct Leela to use simple bowling skills when she is putting, explaining that there are huge similarities in their mechanics. We will work on this and sure enough when I see her putting on the course she performs this bowling method to the letter.

However, I have spent the same amount of time or more with many adults on the same theme and their version of this on the course is quite disappointing.

"Why then?"

I will be writing a few pages on this theme and can access them on the links that will be appearing soon at the bottom of this page: Go here!

O.K. that's it until next month.

Please enjoy reading further into the website and I'll send another newsletter in October.