Originally Posted by ColtsFan
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All of Paul's drills can be found in this book for $30.00
http://www.paulbertholy.com/ Doug was his assistant for years and put this together. Just strated working on some of the drills. Very much Hogan/ Garcia type swing
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I owe a tremendous debt to my personal teacher,
Paul Bertholy. In addition to his several Training Programs, he instilled many verbal nuggets that, to this day, I pass down to my own students. Most especially, I demand that they
repeat out loud certain words and phrases
during lessons, as did he.
For example, from your link to
http://www.paulbertholy.com/whatthepros.shtml, here is one of my favorites. I use it in virtually every lesson:
"When missing a shot never scold yourself, but punish yourself with a conditioning program pertinent to the correction of the fault."
Personally, I say,
"Punish yourself with a conditioning drill."
For example, today I was working with
Sean Elliott, New Jersey State Junior Champion and long-time student of
Bill Castner, Master PGA Professional. The ball went left.
"What was the problem, Sean?"
"Plane?"
"I agree. What is your punishment?"
"
Start Down Waggles?"
"You got it. From the
Top, gimme two or three. And when you're done, take the motion through the
Downstroke and
Release. And from there, through
Impact and
Follow-Through. Finally, take the entire
On Line Motion to the
Finish. Can you do that for me?"
No answer.
Just the prescribed motions.
And then the
CRACK!!! of perfect compression and a ball sent screaming toward the target.
This is when
Mr. Pennick would say...
"Sean, I hope that made you as happy as it did me."
And it did.
