01 Aug Using the advances in technology to improve your golf.

The future of golf coaching?

This is a topic close to my heart as I coach in a state of the art indoor golf studio.  I live in the UK and have coached for many years outside and have always struggled to make it a year round consistent and reliable service for my clients, mainly due to the weather.

The option of indoor golf lessons has recently been seen as an appealing alternative to traditional, seasonal outdoor driving range instruction.  Compared to outdoor instruction, indoor lessons are a distinctly different learning experience, which offers advantages to golfers of all levels.  Indoor golf instruction provides privacy and discretion in a comfortable, climate-controlled environment.  Adverse weather conditions present no interruption to a regular lesson regimen.  Golfers who play and compete at the highest levels recommend maintaining a consistent, year-round practice/training schedule to avoid slumps and muscle memory loss.

The greatest advantage to indoor golf instruction is sophisticated ball flight data and video swing analysis software. Technology can now provide precise feedback that the coach can interpret and give feedback order to address swing issues.

The indoor learning experience in a private setting provides an atmosphere that encourages excellent communication between pupils and coach.  Privacy is important to golfers of all levels for numerous reasons. Most important, it removes the intimidation factor and anxiety associated with learning something new and performing in the presence of others.

Indoor instruction also encourages students to focus on the dynamics of the golf swing rather than the outcome. While taking a lesson, it is more important to concentrate on the process and not the results that can be seen looking at the ball flight. In an outdoor setting students often becomes focused on what the ball is doing, confidence be be affected and compromise their commitment to the process. If you make a fundamentally good swing and the ball will take care of itself.