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Casey Eberting Golf Schools and Golf Instruction
In Texas Hill Country between San Antonio and Austin, Texas
(40 minutes north of San Antonio International Airport)

The Five W's

1) Who

The most important of the five w's is who—who should take lessons from me? This is an overly simplistic answer, but if golf is just a game to you, don't bother. My students take their golf very seriously and this is the only type of golfer I care to teach. Obviously, this is an infinitesimal percentage of total golfers, but I have no interest in volume instruction. It's all about quality—quality of student and quality of instruction. I prefer to give no more than one or two Private Schools per week, and if I get busier than that I will raise fees to keep it at that level.

Many of my students tend to be engineers, which is great because what I teach makes sense from an analytical point of view, but one doesn't have to be the analytical type to benefit from my instruction. There are basically six simple concepts—two for the backswing and four for the forward swing that will eventually resolve down to one backswing and one forward swing concept. The analytical info is just an explanation as to why these movements are correct and once you understand that, you can forget it (the analytical info, that is).

2) What

Now that 99.9 percent of the golfing population has been eliminated, let's get down to what's really important—what I teach! I teach a fundamentally correct swing, which is basically a swing that is absent of hand and arm manipulation. Ben Hogan was, and still is, the only professional golfer who was able to figure out how to swing this way, and while it took him a long time to discover, the results were truly amazing.

You don't have to do it anywhere near as well as Ben Hogan to benefit greatly from this swing. Anyone who is able to practice a reasonable amount (the more, the better) and who has enough dedication to overcome some pretty strong frustration will become a much better golfer, but it always takes longer than you want it to! Because it is a whole swing and you have to practice until the pieces start to at least somewhat come together as a whole, expect at least one year, maybe two, to pass before you begin to see significant improvement in your score. Of course, you'll see swing improvement almost immediately, but until the pieces start working together, score improvement will have to wait. There are people who have improved much quicker, but I feel you should know the most common results.

You'll be learning concepts of a fundamentally correct golf swing and how to apply these fundamentals, but you'll have to go home and practice what you've learned because understanding them doesn't mean you'll be able to do them. As an example, you may understand the concept of how a gymnast does a cartwheel on a balance beam, but it would take an awful lot of practice before you would feel comfortable doing one, if ever!

The concepts of a fundamentally correct golf swing are simple and straight forward. The key is to practice enough so that your body is able to apply them to some degree. Regardless of your experience, skill level, and how much instruction you've had, each concept you learn from me will be something you've never heard before, except for address position, which was just as Ben Hogan described in Five Lessons.

3) Why

Why take lessons from me? Because from what I can tell, I am the only golf instructor on the planet who knows how to teach what Ben Hogan did in his golf swing. I'm not as arrogant as I sound, but I am very confident in what I teach and I have yet to come across anyone else who has shown they understand Ben Hogan's swing! If you think it is anything like what you've read in Five Lessons, The Modern Fundamentals of Golf, no, it isn't. Was Ben Hogan going to give the secrets he learned through years of sweat on the range to anyone willing to pay a few dollars for his book? No, of course not! It's amazing how elegantly simple it is, both from a biomechanical and physics point of view, once you begin to understand the big picture.

4) Where

I schedule a school about once a month in San Antonio, Texas. I also give Private CE Golf Schools year round at my home in San Antonio, Texas. Since my lessons are conceptual, I am able to teach indoors or out. It works great because I don't have to worry about altering the instruction or schedule due to the elements (rain, heat, cold, etc.) that affect most other schools. Almost all of my students fly into town and for a large city, the San Antonio airport runs very smoothly, although there is an ongoing construction project.

For those needing an excuse for the spouse and family, bring them along. San Antonio is a great vacation area. Things to do include visiting the River Walk, Sea World, Six Flags, sight seeing in Texas Hill Country, float trips down the Guadalupe River, etc. Of course, there are a lot of nice golf courses, as well.

5) When

My San Antonio CE Golf School schedule is listed on my golf schools page and anyone interested in a Private San Antonio CE Golf School can pretty much set their own schedule, as long as I have dates available. Details of each are discussed on my golf schools pages (a few pages forward).

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