Professional Golf Instructor Training

[Toolish]

I know this advice was in the context of GSEB training...how much does memorizing chapter names etc apply to real world teaching though?

I am not implying you don't teach well, just wondering how useful that sort of information is, I mean I know what extensor action is, but no idea what chapter number is, that doesn't stop me using it though?

[comdpa]

I know this advice was in the context of GSEB training...how much does memorizing chapter names etc apply to real world teaching though?

I am not implying you don't teach well, just wondering how useful that sort of information is, I mean I know what extensor action is, but no idea what chapter number is, that doesn't stop me using it though?

Hey mate,

The point is not memorizing the chapters, verses etc.

However, they are absolutely essential in helping you categorize what belongs where - the first thing I teach my university students in memorizing mathematical formulas.

You most certainly can teach 'extensor action' etc without knowing where it comes from (6-B-1-D by the way). However when it comes to more 'involved' stuff like 12-3-0, having a frame that you categorize stuff into will go a long way.

Its far easier to memorize:

1. Finish Swivel
2. Left Wrist Alignment
3. Hand Location
4. Clubshaft Position
5. Balance (Body Position),

if you knew that they belonged to 12-3-0, under Section 12, the Finish.

Lynn personally told me when all these are internalized, teaching becomes an art form.

Experientially, when I look at my student swinging for the first time, his/her swing is being referenced against 1-L, 12-3-0, 3 Imperatives, Essentials etc etc.

This may sound like a whole lot going on in my head, but trust me, its something like 2 seconds because all this have been internalized, much like the mathematical operations we have been taught as kids.

We just do it...

[6bmike]

I know this advice was in the context of GSEB training...how much does memorizing chapter names etc apply to real world teaching though?

I am not implying you don't teach well, just wondering how useful that sort of information is, I mean I know what extensor action is, but no idea what chapter number is, that doesn't stop me using it though?

A STUDENT doesn't need to know but a TEACHER needs to organize his mind to understand the material to the fullest. Once organized the teacher sees the book as a small file that is instantly easy to open. Students,at first, see it as a batch of notes tossed randomly in a shoebox. Organize.

[kmmcnabb]

I plan to attend one next year (move to NY in the summer) and was wondering if it would be of benefit to come visit Lynn beforehand.

What do you think? Anyone?

Kevin

[MBCpro]

I plan to attend one next year (move to NY in the summer) and was wondering if it would be of benefit to come visit Lynn beforehand.

What do you think? Anyone?

Kevin

Any experience with an AI will help prior to a school and a visit to Lynn maybe the best of the best as far as getting a leg up on the school.
I always approached it in a way that any additional insight into the book was going to help me, even if I did not interpret the insight from someone else the same as they did.

Get all the experience you can.

Todd

[Yoda]

I plan to attend one next year (move to NY in the summer) and was wondering if it would be of benefit to come visit Lynn beforehand.

What do you think? Anyone?

Kevin,

Come see me.

Especially if you aspire to becoming a 'credentialed' TGM Instructor...

Come see me.

There is TGM 'between the covers,' and there is more. Much more.

Today I turned 60.

I expect to be around a good while longer.

But if I am not...

And if you forego my training, yet continue to pursue a future in TGM...

Then, in time, you will regret that decision for the rest of your life.

Braggadocio?

No.

It is a decision I made for myself in December 1981 when Homer Kelley called from across the country and said "Come see me."

I couldn't afford it. And I had no real business doing it. I was a 'middle income' earner with a non-working wife and three kids. I was not even a golf pro for cryin' out loud. But do it I did, and it changed my life.

Thirteen months later...

Homer Kelley was dead.

And now, he lives on. Through my personal work with students, public presentations and this website, the lives of hundreds, even thousands, of others have also changed.

No complaints.

No regrets.

Come see me.

[Yoda]

I know this advice was in the context of GSEB training...how much does memorizing chapter names etc apply to real world teaching though?

I am not implying you don't teach well, just wondering how useful that sort of information is, I mean I know what extensor action is, but no idea what chapter number is, that doesn't stop me using it though?

I am a 'blue-collar' mechanic. I fix Golfing Machines. Indeed, I build Golfing Machines.

I know how they work.

I can make them more efficient.

And I can repair them with a minimum of disruption to the other working parts.

Those interested in doing the same...can. But first they must pay the price. And that price is learning how The Machine works, the Parts Catalog that is available, and how some parts fit some models and other parts fit other models.

Suppose for a moment that you are a Golfing Machine Mechanic, and you are teaching, say, the Start-Up. As a professional, you know there are only four mission-critical alignments (excepting the Pivot alignments), and you know those four items. So, there are only four items to check. As my friend Comdpa has said, your awareness of these items, once internalized, becomes extremely sensitive, and you are able to spot immediately any mis-alignments.

Your students and those around will say, "You've got a great eye."

No.

You've got an organized eye.

Leona Helmsley, who owns one of the great hotel chains of the world, has a famous saying...

"Everything has a place and everything is in its place."

And so it is with The Golfing Machine.