What Henry said
Henry Ford said, If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. I like it. It reinforces my belief that we’ve got to be brave enough to walk our own path – that if you do what everyone else does you’ll get your own version of ordinary. There’s nothing wrong…
A golfing mission
The young kid was having a blast. He was stepping up to the ball and swinging without a care in the world – and each shot sounded sweet, the ball flying off the clubface and then smashing into the net. He then repeated. Just swinging and hitting the ball. Standing next to me was Kendal…
Some coaching is just plain wrong!
This post is going to discuss one of the most important emails I’ve received. It came from Brock (a regular reader) and was in response to this post on cricket. I’m going to add my own thoughts throughout and shed more light on the problems of traditional coaching. Brock: As a former junior cricketer with…
Automatic golf express
At it’s heart, automatic golf is really simple. You turn up, clear your mind, choose a club and then go hit the ball. Any golfer can do this. But it can be hard. Your Pesky mind likes to jump in and ensure you don’t get carried away. Plus there’s the plentiful noise and distractions. You…
A tough, but ultimately easier, way to fix your golf swing
The other day I wrote about my experience of playing with some great coaches. I’ve received some great feedback from those guys and Scotty reminded me of another, more profound, incident. As mentioned, Scott doesn’t play a lot of golf. He is a once or twice a year golfer at best – this is not…
What I taught 3 of Australia’s best coaches
Last Thursday I got to play golf with three excellent coaches. It was a social outing, but I was keen to learn as much as possible from these guys. Scott Barrow has been talked about here (and here) before, David Rath is the High Performance Manager at Hawthorn Football Club and Damian Farrow is perhaps…
Do you know a golfer like this?
These kind of golfers used to drive me nuts. I could never understand why they were able to play so well. All this despite, [green_tick_2_list width=”100%”] Having an ugly/unorthodox golf swing Seemingly being unprepared A lack of physical skill and talent Limited practice time Hitting the golf ball all over the place [/green_tick_2_list] It took…
