Consistency: Golf's Most Important Lesson

In this golf lesson. A Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor, covers the most important skill in golf. It is a critical step towards developing a consistent golf swing and producing consistent results. This drill can really change your golf swing for the better.

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More Distance

The two best words for any amateur golfer have to be: More distance.

Mike Rothera, director of golf instruction at Pinehills Golf Club, has a few simple instructions for how to add those two buzz words to your arsenal.

“Everybody is interested in getting that ball an extra 10 or 20 yards off the tee,” Rothera said.

The first tip is to attempt to launch the ball at a higher angle. Rothera likes to see a golfer set up with the ball a little forward in their stance, meaning off the inside of the front foot. Secondly, Rothera teaches golfers to tilt their body angle back to get a feeling that you are behind the ball.

“What this is doing is it is getting a spine angle that has more of a look of a reverse-K,” Rothera said. “You really want to have a nice, stable base at the bottom.”

This will allow you to hit up on the ball a little bit more. It’s good to rehearse that in a practice swing before hitting your tee shot.

“What we are really trying to do is rehearse swings that we are swinging up on the ball a little more, swinging up and to the right a little bit more,” Rothera said. “That should get the feeling that you are launching the ball up into the air to that most amount of carry that you can get.”

Rothera said these tips might help you produce a draw and increase the spin on the ball when it hits the ground to give you a little more roll out. So for the slicers, these are great tips to help cure that problem as well.

“When you make your back swing make a nice shoulder turn and from here you are just making a nice swing up and out to the right,” Rothera said.

Great Short Putting Drill

Not hitting putts solid is the major reason for leaving the ball short and I think we can all agree that if you leave it short, you are not going to make it.  The video only takes about a minute and a half and is really good advice.

 

Golf Instructors Looking For Other Career Options.

I just got a message from a friend of mine that is also a fellow golf instructor.  He was very upset.  He says that we need to start looking for another line of work.  He just observed something that is going to put all of us out of business.

While watching The Golf Channel this morning he observed infomercials where Rick Smith, Hank Haney, and Bobby Clampett are all giving away secrets that they have learned from tour players or while on tour.

So far the comments show that we instructors are in a panic:

“Well there goes my future lesson revenue! My students won't need me after they see Rick’s

“Are his secrets different than Bobby Clampett's and Hank Haney' free secrets”?

secret lessons and start shooting par.  Anyone hiring for odd jobs around the house”?

“Sam , all I know is it seems The Tour is some kind of secret society and a few renegades are blowing it wide open !!! This thing is bigger than all of us” !!!

Apparently there is a tour rookie orientation class where they are told all these secrets and

The golf instruction business will never recover from this.  Then on top of everything else, I opened my email and find out that Gary McCord is now doing the same thing.

I’m going to wrap this up now and go get on social media and let all the young guys out there know that they might want to start looking at other career paths.  Sad to see it end this way, but at least all the golfers out there will be scratch players hitting it 30 yards farther. 

have to sign an oath not to reveal them. Then you have these sneaky instructors drugging them or just getting them drunk and stealing them.  Now they are going to give them away free.

Guess there is a silver ling to everything.