Tag Archives: Articles: How To Improve

When people ask how it is that I can stand out on the practice tee and teach for eight or nine hours without getting bored, frustrated, or exhausted, I give them an answer that comes straight from the heart: teaching is interesting, challenging, and fascinating, and a full day of lessons simply flies by. The key is variety. Continue reading →

I have always opined that success breeds confidence, instead of the other way around. In other words, confidence is not something that can be created simply by thinking or acting confidently: there needs to be real reasons to feel confident. When thinking of how to create confidence we acknowledge a lack thereof. Continue reading →

Getting better at golf is the focus of most of my writing in one fashion or another, and since the cold days of winter make it even harder to do the things necessary to improve I figure that focusing on spending the winter constructively would definitely be a good idea. Continue reading →

In my years as a teaching pro I have preached at length to students and to the readers of my columns about the value of limiting goal setting to one in particular – that of simply improving every year, and just as importantly viewing the search for that improvement as a journey to be enjoyed, not as a destination to obsess about, two concepts easy to understand but hard to put into practice. Continue reading →