May '24 • Admin/Guidelines
PASSED THE PAT
PAT a.k.a. the Player's Ability Test on my way to a PGA certification!
I signed up for the test back in March, and since then have wondered if the certification is something I want to pursue. It takes on average 4 years to complete after the initial phases.
Nevertheless, the test is something I have wanted to do for about the last 3 years. I hadn't felt ready enough to make the leap until this year, thanks to a lot of work on my short game this past year and really putting in work on my game over this past winter at Denver Golf Performance.
My game isn't where it could be, but that is going to be the case for all of us! It comes down to the decision making calculus/the tradeoffs we are willing to make to pursue golf. And, as a plug for what I do, the right type of coaching. I chose to go about it the hard way - on my own. Without resources to pay somebody, I decided that the only way was to do it on my own. Furthermore, no (other) coaches are really invested in helping you achieve a certain result. It is a "by the hour" situation, where you might see improvement, you might not.
Not me!
Regardless of how long it takes, my coaching is based on your actual improvement, depending on what YOUR GOALS are! For some, it may be to increase club speed by a certain amount. For others, they may want to achieve a certain "record" score, others may want to shoot a certain average score/scores within an acceptable range.
Defining the problem scope is so key. That is where I am so glad that I have an engineering background to think about these problems in a way that is completely out of the box relative to the status quo, and allow US to optimize your coaching experience around the goals YOU have. Regardless of how much time it takes, we are going to get you there. We simply need to define the parameters and then we can outline the process.
Granted, the speed of your results are still based on your personal commitment to practicing what your coach tells you to do. That is where appropriately defining expectations and incentives is huge. Only you can decide how badly you want it, what you want exactly, and how much you can/would like to invest in the process, and how much support you would like.
Golf is fun, and also really hard. Being able to create strategies and goals that allow you to "win" even when the results are not PGA TOUR level (even they get frustrated and hit bad shots), is so key to the journey.
Love you all, God bless!!!
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PASSED THE PAT
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