Why Do You Think HI's Haven't Come Down?

[KevCarter]

Respectfully, I think it's too easy to blame the teacher...

hanging your golf swing is difficult. You have to learn a new mechanical procedure. You have to translate that mechanic into a feel that works for you. The teachers work is pretty much done at this point except for coaching.

Now, you need to take that new mechanic and become proficient at it. You need to be able to repeat it. When you can repeat it, you need to find a way to bring that new mechanic to the course with your new feel. You have to remember what you are trying to accomplish with that mechanic while not hitting the little white ball outside the stakes on the left, or into the water on the right.

Even if it seems to work right away, you need to putt when you get to the green. Remember that part? That's right, I've been focusing so hard on my new swing mechanic that I forgot to practice putting. Now the score runs right back up and I've thrown away all my good swing work. Now I get to the next tee, I'm pissed, and I revert right back to my old habit and forget the new feel.

We are all looking for that magic bullet. It's not there. The student has got to go to work to make the new mechanic stick, and to remember and replicate that new feel.

There are good teachers and bad teachers, but the student has to do the time. The student has got to put in the effort. It takes a good teacher, good student, then a good follow up with the teacher becoming a COACH to really get better.

Just my opinion.

Kevin