Confident Golf

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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Michael Landgrebe, http://confidentgolf.com

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