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The above 3 photos demonstrate just how critical and exact AIM is.  Where talking 1/2 the diameter of a golf tee!

My question is HOW important is AIM, really?

One point of view like the golfer who stopped to talk to me while taking these photos is:  

AIM is really important because even if you have the perfect stroke but you miss your immediate target a fraction your going to miss the putt.  My new friend then promptly in excitement out of his discovery waved his teacher over to show him this new game changing breakthrough.

What happened next was very interesting to listen too.  

With one look the Pro came to the same conclusion...looks like in our next lesson to make more of those 8 footers to save Par of Bogey like we've been talking about to bring your score down we need to work on your AIM.

Well that is certainly ONE way to SEE it.

But if you took on that belief where would it take your game? How would it shift your practice- would it be more enjoyable?  more intense? more free? would you have fun? What if not only you believed that but your teacher supported it too?  What would your futures lessons be like?  What do you think they would tell you?  How would your conversations be structured?

I am really interested in what your first thoughts are after seeing this?  I invite you to leave your comments below.  I will be expanding on this in the near future on the blog and our soon to be launched Ezine Golf Caffeine, a monthly update on the ongoings of Confident Golf, please look for it and sign up.  Like the RSS feed its FREE and who doesn't like FREE!

But I am suggesting that there is another empowering point of view.

(Please note: During the photo shoot I moved the camera to give my friend and the pro a demonstration and I forgot to mark where the tripod was, so you will see the photos do not line up exactly.  But it does transfer through the thought) 

Confident Golf basic coaching and Mentoring steps for accomplishing short and long term goals:

1. Clarify and confirm commitment (This is what your working on and you want me to observe?)
2. Let the student do it
3. Observe the students "performance"
4. Celebrate or refine or redirect approach

4.5 All great performance starts with having a clear Goal (a commitment) and Confidence. For short term enjoyment and long term progress you can't accomplish one without the other. 

CLARIFY:

One of the reasons golfers don't improve is they actually change their focus.  Clarifying defines the commitment not only of the full lesson but of THIS moment.  If may start with a general goal, I am here to work on my putting and end up with putter face over rotating. As a coach by asking intelligent questions you narrow unspecific and general putting down into something specific the student has interest in. It is important to note this is not teacher directed.

LET THE STUDENT DO IT:

Once the student clarifies their intention. Get out of the way!

OBSERVE THE PERFORMANCE:

This is where REAL learning and the seeds of self coaching are really planted, if steps 1, 2 and 3 are congruent the student should be able to handle step 4 on their own.  

CELEBRATE or REFINE or REDIRECT Approach

As a coach the one thing your looking for is *progress* When students ask: How do you do it? I always tell them the same thing I make success very, very easy to achieve and make it almost impossible to fail. In golf we rarely learn things perfectly the first time so what I am looking for is tiniest moment of success. If I have a goal for my students its unlocking their skill to manage-THIS-moment before the moment manages them.  

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