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.