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GOLF TIPS

Setting a realistic goal

TO GIVE you a perspective of
teaching from an instructors
point of view, take the recent
case of a beginner who decid-
ed to take a series of three
lessons to prepare for a com-
pany golf tournament about a
week away.

By Jason Paukkunnen
Contributing Writer

Every pro teaching will recog-
nize this scenario. On his own, the
player would have been in for a
very long, and frustrating, day on
the course. Players in his group
would offer a number of sugges-
tions to help him keep up for the
day.

The golf course is not the place
to iiprove your swing — it's the

JASON PAUKKUNEN

place to test your swing. For exam-
ple, once you hit a shot with your
driver it may be 20 minutes later
that it’s back in your hands again,
so you won't even remember what
the last swing with it felt like.

You need the opportunity to hit
a number of balls with the same
club when trying a new method or
swing. Don’t pul pressure on your
first attempts.

Hit 10 balls when working on a
change and see if the last five are
better than the first five. Then try
another 10 balls again and see if
you are progressing. Now you are
being realistic. With repetition any
new pattern will start to get com-
fortable and start to become habit.

To play gol! yeu need to repeat
a shot. That means you learn one
swing.

To repeat the swing you need to

start from the same position each
time.

With the above gentleman we
started with a simple routine in set-
ting up. Then we showed him how
to turn his body away from the ball.
When he was able to turn back to
that position at impact he generated
some power and decent contact.

Once confident that he could
control making contact after a cou-
ple of practice sessions he was
ready to learn more.

In the second session we worked
on controlling the swing path with
his arms with the turning of his
body producing the power.

Although there were many mis-

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hits at least he could feel what went
wrong. We had one more session
the morning of the tournament
which was spent on reinforcing
what he already knew plus a simple
method for short shots.

We didn’t turn him into a golfer
in a week, but he left the session
with an established routine and
swing pattern that if repeated could
create a solid shot. Realistically, if
he hit 30% of his shots solidly that
day. T would call it a success and a
fun experience on the golf course.

Jason Paukkunnen is a golf

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