Tag: coaching

New Golf Guru Podcast – Dan Carraher – The Rainman Returns

February 29, 2024

Dan Carraher

On the latest episode Guru talks to teaching and coaching prodigy Dan “aka The Rainman” Carraher. Dan is the Director of Instruction The Golf Club at South Hampton in St. Augustine, Fla. In this Dan is a has been teaching and coaching since he was in his college days and starting working with tour players immediately as he had his PGA tour credentials since the age of 24. He has coached many great players over the years, spent time with so many great coaches and now focuses his time coaching juniors and college players. He has coached players like Kaitlyn Shroeder who is a freshman at Alabama, former #1 junior in the world since she was in middle school. Dan doesn’t do much self promotion which is why you may not have heard of him but deserves the credit for the work that he has done with so many players such as PGA tour player Julian Suri, where he helped him get his tour card and there are many others. This was an awesome conversation that is chocked full of information especially in respect to his juniors, the recruiting process and how he creates an enviroment for training competitive kids. So without further delay here is Dan Carraher….enjoy

This Is A Football (I mean golf ball): Back To Basics

April 5, 2011

This Is A Golf Ball
This Is A Golf Ball

For many of you, the week of the Masters constitutes the start of your golfing season. Even if the weather isn’t great where you live, after you watch the tournament it makes you want to go play. As this is the 25 years after the greatest Masters Tournament, the 1986 Masters, it brings me back to a philosophy that many legendary coaches bring into the start of any season. Revisiting the basics. Every year, Jack Nicklaus would go to his coach, the legendary Jack Grout and say,”Let’s start over and review the basics.” Grip, Posture, Ball Location and alignment. The great UCLA basketball coach, John Wooden would start every season by showing his players how to properly put on their socks as to not create blisters early in the season and jeopardize valuable practice time. Coach Halas, the Green Bay Packers coach started every training camp by introducing his players to,”Guys, this is a football.” No one is too good for a spring brush up. My mini-tour players and advanced tournament players always start the season by asking me to check their grip and posture because they understand that without these things being in place, the rest of the swing is working on a faulty foundation. So this is a call to action for all of you golfers out there getting ready to start your season. Before you start to practice and in grain some bad habits, go to your coach and ask them to begin with the basics and work from there. You will be glad that you did. Here is a video that I did last year that will give you a head start to checking your grip and posture. Two of the most important basics that will help you put the ground floor on the house of your 2011 golf swing.

To schedule your lesson with the Guru and get your season started off right call 704-542-7635.

See you on the lesson tee,

Coach Guru