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 

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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.