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Beginner training plan
Your first lesson- First lesson generally runs 90-120 minutes for me in order to get a proper and thorough understanding of the students current game, start implementing some fundamentals, and also assess short game. If the student does not have that much time I am flexible and can shorten the timeframe and/or push the short game fundamentals to the following lesson.
- Baseline assessment of current golf game 5-10 mins
- Overview of golf swing fundamentals starting including:
- Grip lesson (I start teaching with a neutral, interlocking grip unless the player is opposed to interlock then we can do a classic baseball or an overlap grip. I will work to strengthen or weaken the grip as appropriate in future lessons based on a variety of factors)
- Lesson on stance/posture + balance and understanding weight shifts
- Tilts + Rotation feels drill
- Load-shift-fire tempo drill with no ball
- Half-swing drill going from 9 to 3 on the clock face with a full 90 degree wrist set in the backswing
- Lesson on swing planes
- Understanding of correct position at the top of full backswing based on individuals physical capabilities
- 3/4 swing practice
- Full swing practice
- Chipping and putting basics -20 mins
Lesson 11+There’s really not much that will differ going forward as I already mentioned my lessons are completely tailored to each individuals games and their desires to improve various aspects of their game. I will continue to ingrain our basic fundamentals while also working with the player to promote constant improvement in their game, as well as increasing their consistency. I will also focus more on short game in lessons 11+ as that is how the average beginner player will lose most of their strokes. Once we can get the ball in play, we need to focus more on short game as that is where we can improve our scoring the most.
Lesson 4-10The student will now have a baseline ability to hit the ball and an understanding of the fundamentals of the game. No two lessons will look the same going forward as all individuals will have their own issues that they struggle with. I will have a completely tailored approach going forward with either 60 or 90 minute lesson plans where we will continue to ingrain golf swing fundamentals, further our consistency in the grip and stance/setup, how to get the club and body in the proper positioning in the backswing, how to use the body and legs in the downswing. I will challenge every individual to improve their game rapidly by having focused training sessions where we build on our confidence with every session. Focusing on swing mechanics and implementing mechanical tweaks only as needed, while letting the individual get more comfortable at switching no their brain into a performance- based mindset, where we don’t care how the swing looks, only that the ball goes towards our intended target. I like to start each session with up to about 30 minutes of technical swing thoughts and drills max, transitioning to the performance focus for the following 30-60
Mins, competing against yourself with fun and stimulating challenges on the driving range and practice greens. We will work to fill out a table of the players stock carry yardages using my highly accurate launch monitor, and also go over some basic course management skills to lower our score on the course and understand how to play the game once we have that understanding of our stock yardages. In one of these lessons from lessons 4-10 we will have a full lesson exclusively on putting and another on pitching, chipping, and how to hit off tempo wedge shots into greens.
JC
Golf with James C.New to TeachMe.To
