Fellow golfers - the "try this, try that" approach, quick-fixes, swing "tips", and a half-hour "band-aid" type of lesson once a year just won't get the job done. Most golfers experience little or no permanent improvement from this approach.  Motor skills learning research and our teaching experience confirm that a systematic, step-by-step approach to learning golf swing fundamentals is the easiest, fastest and most effective way to achieve permanent improvement.  This requires a commitment on the part of the student to a program of on-going instruction and to a personal proactive program. Both are necessary in order to achieve your goals of better shot-making and lower scores.

This does not mean that you must practice five hours a day for years before you finally master the swing!  It does mean following a consistent model for your learning, practice and play.  Consistency breeds positive results.  Inconsistency and continuing an endless pursuit of new swing tips breeds inconsistent results, confusion and frustration.  Practicing at home with out a ball (primarily doing slow motion drills in front of a mirror) for as little as twenty minutes a day will produce steady and permanent improvement in your golf swing.  Of course, you will still need to visit the practice range at least once a week as well.

We use two very different learning strategies in our private lesson programs.  First, Fundamental based instruction, which is by far the most effective way to achieve long term permanent improvement.  This means knowing what to do - a law of the golf swing for example - as opposed to "what am I doing wrong?" approach.  This approach works especially well for mid to high handicap golfers with poor swing mechanics.  It does however require a strong commitment on the part of the student to the changes agreed upon and especially to the practice plan that will enable the student to achieve permanent mastery of that skill over time.