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Tom’s Bonus Tip:
Lesson Learned

For the sake of simplicity, all advice on swings and drills is provided from a right handed perspective; lefties …. well, you know what to do!

A have a student that stopped in the other day for a spring checkup of his swing.

This particular student started taking lessons last year, and after a few lessons he was really striping the ball. I had a lot of talent to work with, and he has a good mind for golf.

That’s usually a good combination.

I asked him what his handicap was and I was shocked to hear that he was a high single digit handicapper.

I mentioned that I thought that we could get it down very low this year, but he was disinterested, and that’s when I got a lesson on enjoyment of the game. By the way, he’s not a handicap sandbagger, he’s an honest guy.

He told me that he had a handicap that seemed to be a bit high for his game because he thrived on playing high risk shots. Even though he often succeeded, he also often failed and carded a big number.

Even so, that’s how he really enjoyed playing the game.

My thoughts were to get him to a really low handicap, but that was my ambition not his.

Lesson learned; he was right in that he found the way that he really enjoyed playing the game, and in the end that should be everyone’s priority.

Love your practice, enjoy your golf,

Tom