Why don’t you teach individual, one-on-one, private lessons anymore?
After several years of doing just that, I found that individual, private lessons were no longer the best way to help a player to achieve his or her goals. There is nothing about the driving range that simulates what players experience out on the golf course. Think about it. The lies are usually flat, you’re hitting balls into an open field, and if you hit a poor shot, you just scrape in another ball and hit it again. Then when you get out on the course, what happens? There’s Out of Bounds on either side of the fairway, and you only have one golf ball. Uh oh.
Why do you prefer to coach in groups?
Think about all of the sports you ever played while growing up. Whether it was football, basketball, baseball, or soccer, you always trained as a team. Why don’t we train that way when we play golf? Usually, you play golf with other people, so why not simulate that environment? When you train, you want to practice like you play in order to simulate the pressure you’re going to feel when you’re playing… with other people.
