"Using a "how-to" list is looking outside ourselves for answers, where self-discovery looks inward to where long-term learning is born"
MICHAEL HEBRON
"I do not believe any really good golfer has been taught their game"
GEORGE LOW 1899
"Trying to explain how a golf swing feels is like trying to write down how a banana tastes. You can't do it! You have to taste it! You have to experience it for yourself!"
KENDAL MCWADE
"We only learn what we want to learn, what we are interested in learning and learning is a function of fascination"
FRED SHOEMAKER
"The best thing Mr Grout did for me was I learned to teach myself"
JACK NICKLAUS
As Ben Hogan said to Nick Faldo when Nick asked him for some advice.."Well Nick, you're a fine player. I might only confuse you. You see, I've always believed we are better working it out ourselves".
"Golfers should first and most importantly learn how the clubface and ball interact at impact. No one can play good golf until they know the many ways a ball can be expected to react when struck in different ways"
BOBBY JONES
"Golf balls always do what they are told"
KENDAL MCWADE
"Teaching assumes that something is missing in the student and the teacher has to provide it. Coaching assumes that the students ability is already there, and only needs to be discovered and brought out"
FRED SHOEMAKER
"Is there another sport where in its initial stages of learning and, perhaps a long time afterwards, so little attention is paid to the area that makes contact with the ball?"
ANDY PATTERSON.
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go"
T S ELIOT
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go"
T S ELIOT
"You can't teach the one or two degrees that can make all the difference. You have to feel them"
KENDAL MCWADE
"The reason why most players don't learn golf from experience, is because few of them truly experience it"
KENDAL MCWADE
"You can teach a lesson for that day, but if you can help someone learn by creating curiosity, they will continue to learn as long as they live"
C P BEDFORD
"Golfers should school themselves to think in terms of cause, and not the result"
BEN HOGAN
"Focus on the process and the results will look after themselves"
BOB ROTELLA
"Many golfers probably do not understand cause and effect factors"
JACK NICKLAUS
"Learning is experience. Everything else is just information"
ALBERT EINSTEIN
"You must develop your own style, as you follow general principals. Discover what is useful to you and what is not. Tips from others only work for a few days"
HENRY COTTON (Winner British Open 1934, 1937, 1948)
"If you are going to practice, make it useful time, not time used up"
PIA NILLSON
"We will all get what we want from life, if we simply help enough others get what they want"
ZIG ZIGLER
"I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk"
ANTHONY ROBBINS
"Through your perceptions you can change anything"
RICHARD WILKINS
"Every shot has an outcome, it may not be the outcome you want, but the feedback it provides allows you to learn"
KENDAL MCWADE
"It's a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled all curiosity of enquiry"
ALBERT EINSTEIN
"What power could you unleash by asking some equally simple but powerful questions?"
ANTHONY ROBBINS
"Do you really listen or are you waiting to speak?"
RICHARD WILKINS
"I believe that my creative mind is my best weapon"
TIGER WOODS
"In a world that is doing its best to make you everybody else - be yourself"
E E CUMMINGS (Poet)
"Minds are like parachutes. They work best when open"
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
"It is better to miss a shot and know the cause, than to hit a good one and not know what you did"
MIKE HEBRON
"Virtually all golf coaching is based on how a swing looks, and yet all great golf shots are based on how a swing feels"
KENDAL MCWADE
"If you rely on others' information, you will never develop trust in yourself"
KENDAL MCWADE
"Tomorrow's performance depends on today's learning"
FRED SHOEMAKER
"Good players play by feel or touch. Muscle memory is feel. It is not memorizing "how to""
MIKE HEBRON
"Any number of players have devoted enough thought, time and practice to become reasonably good, if they had only started out with an accurate conception of what to do"
BOBBY JONES
"I am an advocate of the kind of teaching which stresses the exact nature and feel of the movements a player makes to achieve the results he wants"
BEN HOGAN
"In practice I am developing FEEL"
JACK NICKLAUS
"Let's not be afraid to have the intention of hitting a shot that doesn't go straight. Intention is the key."
ANDY PATTERSON
"Pop would pick a target and we would see who could get it closest. You had to either cut the ball or hook it and vary the trajectory and you had to call it in advance. Some of the shots you see me hit today in competition were dug out of the dirt of a practice range in shot-maker games with pop. We would always have a laugh, share a hug and a soft drink afterwards."
TIGER WOODS
"I just kept making up shots. I'd hit it below a tree, above the bush, and out to the flagstick. Chip it from a down hill lie, an uphill lie, a flat lie. As I got better my dad would work with me and we'd devise all sorts of games. Sometimes, my dad and I would try some crazy shots and then talk about why the ball did what it did. It was just fascinating to me"
PHIL MICKELSON
"People who gain mastery always stay students"
GEORGE LEONARD
"INSTINCT" - inborn impulse, natural tendency or ability
..The Oxford English Dictionary.
"Teaching is really the art of assisting discovery"
MARK VAN DOREN
