Proper foot work, weight distribution, and weight movement are fundamentals that many players can improve if they understand and practice properly while working on their golf game indoors. That’s where Golf Digest Top 50 Instructor Todd Sones is teaching these days: indoors. In the winter months, Todd works out of the Buffalo Grove Dome located 45 minutes northwest of Chicago. …
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In Advanced Teaching the other day, we were talking about what makes a good golf instructor. We were discussing the fact that no one is teaching people how to teach, and that instruction has gotten away from teaching people how to play golf. PGA Professional Jay Friedman belongs to a Facebook group with some pretty big-time …
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Wednesdays are one of our busiest days at the Golf Academy. In the morning, we have Financial Management and Workplace Ethics, and after lunch, we have Advanced Teaching. Advanced Teaching is probably the class I’m most excited about this semester. I want to go into instruction when I graduate, and finally, after a little over a year, …
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Dr. Robin Farran is at it again! Not only is he already widely regarded as one of the preeminent USGA Rules Officials in the country, this semester he’s back teaching Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy. Dr. Farran sends out incidents like the one you’re about to read below some 50 weeks a year to over than …
It’s hard to believe it’s been a little more than a year since I first enrolled at the Golf Academy of America in Phoenix. So much has happened in the last 12 months, and the time has just flown by! It seems like just yesterday I was standing in line to have my picture taken for …