Teaching versus coaching

Here at GolfGooRoo Global headquarters I bang on a lot about teaching versus coaching. For starters, I like coaching. Don’t care much for teaching. Why? Because teachers just tell us what to do. “stand this way” “don’t do that” “swing slower” (insert instruction here) You get the idea. In my mind, teaching is outdated. It…

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Terrible golf teaching

The late great PGA champion and TV analyst Dave Marr believed the best way to learn to play golf was to pick up a stick, and whistle it through the air. “There: That’s your golf swing,” he would say. That’s another quote from the full Sally Jenkins article. If you’re stuck in a fix it…

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