Friday, May 31, 2013

Notes from the Summit - 6



Notes from Time Kremer, PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit Presentation -Visionary Peak Performance Consultant
  • Pre-existing emotion affects conditioning. What we see is what we already believe to be true.  Unless we believe/imagine success, it can’t happen. Change the picture.
  • What if every tee shot always went in the hole… it wouldn’t be as challenging. Quantum Physics meets the Law of Attraction. We get what we focus on, not what we want. (I found this to be true the morning after the speech as I was tossing something out in the trash and thought “Wouldn’t it be funny if my key card fell in there at the same time?” and low and behold, it sure did after I had forgotten about that!).
  • If it was only physical talent and hard work, golf would be easier. Rearrange your emotional paradigm. Imagine the future as if it’s a done deal. Work out your imagination 5 minutes before you go to sleep and 5 minutes after you sleep (less left-brain awareness/control going on).
  • Let things go if it doesn’t feel right. Don’t get so locked into problems that you can’t see the solutions. Shift your focus to what your desire, not what you don’t desire.
  • What we believe is what we see. We need to be in positive states of emotion and receptive.  Move towards what we want and stop giving energy to what we don’t want. ‘Disemotional energy scale.’ We get sloppy with emotions.
  • DETACH (learn to allow/accept), SHIFT (already doing well, move up) and EMBRACE (keep it going)

Notes from Ian Poulter, PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit Presentation…
-PGA Tour Professional & European Tour Professional
  • In the 2 weeks before the Ryder Cup, he practiced a total of 15 minutes of putting. He does not like a lot of tweaking, mechanics and high tech. He is a feel player. Ian doesn’t putt to a spot. He putts on a visualized line. He sees the hole in his peripheral vision and sees the line faster when the pressure is on. He stays intense but focuses on the line. During one key putt at the 2012 Ryder Cup, “I felt very, very confident I was going to make it.”  He never asked “What happens if I miss?” but instead asked himself “How crazy will my teammates be when I make it?” Many golfers don’t want to feel the pressure. You have to want that position. He knows he’ll never miss a 3’ putt!
  • Ian works on different shots at the range and in short game practice. All games and challenges, less mechanics. Betting is good and one-on-one is the best. 
  • A great amount of respect goes to Ian for his clothing line, his interest in growing the game through youth golf and his genuine and honest attitude about life

Friday, May 24, 2013

Notes from the Summit - 5



Over the next few articles, I will be conveying information learned from attending the PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit in Orlando, Florida earlier this year.  There were many of the great’s among the top teachers on hand… enjoy the seminar highlights!

Notes from Peter Draovitch, PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit Presentation -Physical Therapist, Special Surgery


  • Internal hip rotation decreases with ages, lumbar spine pain increases with age
  • If you have what works at the right time, check that out and make notes!
  • Recreational golfers need to work on posture, trunk stability and movement. Functional Movement Skills are important before sport specific skills.


Notes from Coach Bobby Bowden, PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit Presentation -Popular FSU Football Coach and motivational speaker

  • Loyalty and knowing how to win make a great coach. A leader is a problem solver. If you’re good, you’re expecting something bad to happen. If you’re bad, you’re expecting something good to happen. It’s just going to happen. It’s the way life goes and is character building.  (Just play golf, good and bad will happen. Reduce expectation and just play).
  • The repetitions one needs to get good are huge.
  • Be a continuous learner. Instead of saying “What I should have done…”, say “What I learned that I’ll do from this experience…”
  • Those who you are leading need to be self-motivated. Do they depend on you to practice or can they work on their own?

Friday, May 17, 2013

Notes from the Summit - 4



Over the next few articles, I will be conveying information learned from attending the PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit in Orlando, Florida earlier this year.  There were many of the great’s among the top teachers on hand… enjoy the seminar highlights!

Notes from Martin Hall, PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit Presentation -Top Global Golf Instructor 

One of the most engaging golf instructors in current times, Martin Hall brings wit, great training tools and enthusiasm into golf instruction. I took a lesson from Martin Hall my freshman year at Wake Forest University while on spring break and hit some of the best 5 irons of my life after he put my against a hedge to help my swing path!

  • The best coaches make students feel special. It’s about the people skills. 
  1.  The 4 E’s are crucial… Expectations, Emotion (teacher certainty and empathy), Examples, Encouragement.
  2. Learn from the best teachers and masters.
  3. Promote Proper Practice. WE ALL HAVE NATURAL ERROR.  Nick Price “has the same ghosts in his golf swing at 54 as he did when he was 12.”  Get off positive feedback (it guides and leads you like a plane board or pool noodle or track) and onto negative feedback (you do it near something all by yourself and then it lets you know when you’re off track). Instead of practicing on a putting track, putt ½” away from it and create that feel. If your swing goes inside, it will hit the track but it isn’t making the move for you.  That is negative feedback / negative reinforcement.
  4. Teach with stories and make them impactful.
  • If you want to be a good player, you need to have a good attitude.
  • If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’re going to keep getting what you’re getting.
  • Muhammed Ali hated training but hated losing even more. You have to pay the price to get what you want.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Notes from the Summit - 3



Over the next few articles, I will be conveying information learned from attending the PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit in Orlando, Florida earlier this year.  There were many of the great’s among the top teachers on hand… enjoy the seminar highlights!

Notes from Will Robins, PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit Presentation
-National Golf Instructor and Tsunami Survivor    http://willrobinsgolf.com/

PGA Member Will Robins recounted the horrific tale of survival with his wife from the 2009 Tsunami and his battle to re-emerge into life and then golf.


  • What do you want? If you don’t know what you want, how do you know where to go? Golfers constantly want more distance, more consistency, more adept skills… what about more enjoyment?
  • Will’s golf culture is shifting more into coaching. The goal is to get into an environment where one can reach one’s potential.  His Platinum Coaching Program involves team teaching, 1 specific task with feedback, team pressure (how to practice, the practice mindset, the REAL game of golf… how do YOU as an individual best get the ball into the hole?).
  • Will to Student: If we think we can create a plan together and you put in your work and hold up your end of the work, your results will come. 
  • Make not just golfers but AVID golfers!


John Novosol Jr., (Tour Tempo),  PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit Presentation
-Top Golf Instructor and Owner of Tour Tempo       http://www.tourtempo.com/john-novosel-jr.html
 
• John spoke about the technology that his Dad discovered regarding tempo in golf. The golf swing has a 3:1 ratio (3 times faster from top of swing to impact) and short game/putting have a 2:1 ratio.  By watching video frame counts, John’s father discovered golfers fit into a 18:6, 21:7, 24:8, 27:9 or 30:10 tempo in most cases. (Nicole is a 24:8 and Paul Kruger a 27:9). What a more consistent way to work on consistency than with a metronome! 

 (Nicole has been working with Tour Tempo for over 5 years and uses the Blue Tooth technology in the BTM class, as well as private lessons. Tour Tempo now has an App available for use).

Friday, May 3, 2013

Notes from the Summit - 2



Over the next few articles, I will be conveying information learned from attending the PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit in Orlando, Florida earlier this year.  There were many of the great’s among the top teachers on hand… enjoy the seminar highlights!

Notes from Mike Mulaska, PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit Presentation 
-Top Global Golf Instructor        http://www.malaskagolf.com/


  • Golf is a game of emotion and adjustments (Jack Nicklaus)
  • There are a lot of ways to do it. Don’t spend time copying other people who have figured out what works for them.
  • The PGA Tour is an injury clinic. Generating such speed and force in one direction will create an opposite speed and force in another and the body will break down.
  • BIG into fitness. It promotes awareness, injury prevention, conditioning, performance… Golf overloads muscles that aren’t designed to hold those motions. Golf builds dysfunction in the body. If one compensates the body to generate speed, it will break down with the opposite force.
  • Common misconceptions of swings come from poor camera angles (people will see different faults based on poor or different camera angles – not one set standard), visual concepts of aim and path and kinematic sequencing (the unwinding sequence from ground up from feet-legs-core-upper torso-arms-hands-club head) varies from person to person.
  • Changing athletic personality is VERY DIFFICULT and takes a long, long time.  Several lessons doesn’t create change. Get moving with balance, movement and motion drills versus just static positions. 
  • On the range, you know you have a better idea of owning a concept if you practice at the range and put the same amount of time between shots that you’d experience on the course, not just hitting shot after shot.