The Golf Guru Show

After a long but very rewarding week of golf schools and private lessons, I get a day off to relax. The week started with our Signature Golf School on Tuesday. When asked about this unique school, I always answer that this is the way we would teach in a perfect world. In the Signature School, Dana, Julie and myself take the students out onto the course first thing in order to observe them playing golf. This gives us teachers a live look into the students golf game that we normally don’t get. This is so valuable as most golfers have a hard time with self assessment and tend to leave things out or don’t assess accurately (not intentionally). We then bring them back in and go through what we observed and pick their brain as to what they were thinking as they were playing certain shots. We spend three days on the golf course coaching and playing a few holes in the meantime. It gives me a great opportunity to work on the mental side of golf including course management and decision-making. We have seen awesome results from this fantastic program and I thank the students that I had this week (if any of you are reading my blog) for their willingness to change and great attitudes that is crucial for long-lasting change. What they find is that it is often as hard to make a routine or mental change as a physical motion change. The week ended with a co-ed three-day school which was well attended with 18 students. I had so much fun with my group of brand new players, guiding them through the learning process and arming them with etiquette and golf course questions that would help them to be comfortable getting out and playing golf. It is very rewarding to expose new golfers to this great game that you can enjoy for a lifetime. I normally work with the lower handicap players so it was a nice change of pace to work with these very excited and ambitious beginners that were soaking up every nugget of info like a sponge. We finished on a high note with all of them hitting some quality shots which makes it all worth it. So back to my day off. For those of you that know me understand that I don’t do relax very well so I will be shooting a few episodes of Guru TV tomorrow and then spending a few hours at the Quail Hollow Championship pro-am capturing some video. Why, because I care about you….Guru Nation and I want to take advantage of every opportunity to help you all play better golf. It is my mission and my privilege to teach and coach and I try to never take that for granted.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE NEXT

Feel free to leave a comment on a topic or a question that you would like to see on upcoming episodes of Guru TV and I will try to make it happen or at least do a post about it. Have a great week and enjoy the one of the best tournaments on the P.G.A. Tour. Most of the players stay at our hotel so It should be an interesting week. Stay tuned for upcoming posts and some video.

See you on the lesson tee,

Guru