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Is There A Difference Between A Golf Teaching Professional And A Golf Swing Coach?

There is a difference and that difference can have significant impact on your golf improvement. The difference between revolution and evolution is the difference between Teaching Professional and Golf Swing Coach. This may not make sense at first but consider the Teaching Professional and Golf Swing Coach to be the same instructor, only at different phases of the instruction process.

Change Is Revolutionary
When a student first begins to work with a Teaching Professional, the student is given new information and is asked to make changes to their swing. This is the revolutionary stage, which is relatively short (maybe one to two years for someone who practices frequently), but can consist of intensely frustrating periods.

Refinement Is Evolutionary
After the revolutionary stage, the instruction gradually shifts from new information to refining the movements the student has already begun to learn. This is the evolutionary stage. In this stage the instructor becomes the Golf Swing Coach, focusing mostly on giving feedback with much less emphasis on teaching new information. The goal in this stage is to help the student develop a much deeper understanding of the golf swing in terms of how everything interacts.

It isn't until the student gets to the evolutionary stage that they can begin to get significant benefits from instruction. Once they reach this stage, they are working on things that they have already worked on before so it becomes less difficult and less frustrating. The more instruction a person gets in the evolutionary stage, the better their swing becomes.

Unfortunately, most people don't get to the evolutionary stage. The reason people don't make it this far is simple, far too many of them expect to see results quickly. Sorry, it doesn't happen that way. If you think it will, golf is not your game, at least not if you plan on improving!

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