A revolutionary but ancient learning method

February_2009 Issue

You have visited my golf lesson website at online-golf-lesson-and-more.com and have subscribed to this monthly newsletter.

I hope you have enjoyed and learned from the 150+ pages that I have written so far.

I am now preparing for my new season after what can only be described as a long winter season here in Austria. I have had plenty of time to further study, research and develop my coaching techniques.

With the help of a generic experience triangle, I hope to bring golf coaching into the 21st century. Read all about this on this link

Golfers would excel if they could learn to trust this highly developed process which has already been finely tuned through the wonders of evolution. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of the benefits that can be accomplished using this method.

Using simple feedback exercises a golfer can improve his skills more rapidly than with the conventional - do this/try that - lesson.

For example...

Did you notice that many blades of grass explode into the air when you swish your club through the turf. And if the wind is blowing these fragments are blown in that direction.

Maybe you have or have not noticed this before but now comes the mysterious part. Put a ball on top of the same grass and strike it, swishing ball and grass, and somehow you can no longer see the explosion.

Watch your playing partners execute such a shot and you will see these explosions clearly and also have time to look up and see the result of their stroke. It is all about enhancing your awareness and concentration skills.

So you can see these things happening with a practice swing or when your opponent is swinging but when you are playing your ball somehow or other you become less aware or as I like to say - impact blind.

So what can be achieved with this exercise?

Well, if you are guilty of topping the ball or hitting it fat, quite a lot.

You can then increase your concentration levels to noticing whether you are swishing the grass fairly straight, from inside to out, or from outside to in. And then trying to see the same results when swinging with the ball or as your playing partners swing.

Concentration leads to higher levels of awareness which in turn leads to rapidly enhanced learning.

And the beauty of this system is that when something has been learned in this fashion, it stays learned.

I am not telling you how to swing or swish through the grass, just to notice as you are swinging whether you can see the outcome as it is taking place.

Awareness, Concentration, and Learning.

Start by training your eyes to see more and then you can start on the other senses. Can you hear the sound the club makes through the grass and can you still hear this sound although the thwack of the ball dulls that particular sound.

Then I would turn to the other senses... Feel, smell and taste. Go here to read more on this!

If you can add enjoyment to your awareness and concentration skills, then the levels of learning will go through the roof and your golf experience will be magical.

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

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

All the best,

Patrick McHugh