Performance Training Tips for Golf Coaches
The world’s greatest golf instructors and golf coaches are always learning, always searching for tips to enhance their skills as top performance trainers. Whether you’re a novice instructor or an expert, it’s best practice to continually search for new tips for golf coaches that might help you do your best work.
We assume that this is why you are here and we are honored to assist by periodically posting tips and techniques that we have found to be most helpful to our own clients, and to our trained GolfPsych instructors and coaches located throughout the world.
As an experienced golf teacher or golf coach you already know that the influence you have on your students goes far beyond just teaching them good swings and strokes. Often what you teach them for golf, you also teach them for life.
Our site is filled with tips for coaching, many of which have their owned articles dedicated to them. Here is just a sampling of some of our tips, focusing on the mental game.
Remember that learning styles vary. Just like in school, not everyone learns the same way. Learning style can affect how someone learns and performs in competition. We have an article on this topic to teach you more about how to use learning styles to your advantage. We’ve also looked into the different ways that we learn golf.
Focus on swing tips and mental tips. Obviously the physical game is important, but you can’t forget about the mental game. Coaches will sometimes be so focused on improving play during practice that they’ll avoid tips that are necessary for translating practices skills to performance skills. Provide a holistic coaching experience by emphasizing both aspects.
Understand how your student reacts to failure. Everyone deals with failure in different ways, and everyone has a different definition for failure. Keep your student confident and interested in golf by taking the time to learn their goals and expectations for themselves. This will help you react appropriately, and give them the right amount of praise.
Keep track of your student’s goals. This is especially true for coaching junior golfers, as goals will have a wider range for them. Help them understand how hard they’ll need to work if they want to get on major tours or get a division 1 scholarship. Keep these goals in mind for inspiration when needed.
Coaching Products
We also offer coaching products such as our Mind Meter Pro and weekend mental game schools. If teaching the mental game isn’t your strong suit as an instructor, we can help your student master the mental game of golf in a single weekend. Our mind meter is a product that we invented to give us insight into how much our students and clients were thinking while playing shots. It is hard to tell what is going on in someone’s head if you cannot read another person’s mind. While body language is pretty good, it is easy to misinterpret. You may think you know what is going on, but the student may deny it or disagree with your assessment. This tools gives definitive information about the mental arousal level of the student. Find out more here.
We hope to impart a few ideas for helping you and your students be the best they can be by addressing a variety of topics. These will include a wide range of tips for golf coaches and golfers themselves, including:
- General tips regarding the mental aspects of the sport
- Health and Wellness Tips
- Junior Golfer Recommendations
- Personality Game Tips
- How to practice the right way
All of our articles are based off psychological research, and we have coached over 400 tour pros. We hope you take some of our tips for golf coaches to heart, and are able to learn a thing or two from browsing our site. Feel free to contact us with any additional questions you may have.
