Don't Be the Wrist Shot Guy (How to Actually Become Better at Golf)
Think about a hockey player. High level, Junior C, College, even high school. Would they just work on their wrist shot for an hour a week, hoping to be the best player on their team? Almost every coach/golfer you will see will fixate every hour on the lesson tee on just the golf swing. For some reason as golfers, we are just taking wrist shots, not realizing we need a lot more skills to play the game well. Our group, Secrets to Scratch, is here to solve that dilemma. ---- THE ORIGIN STORY AND WHY SKOOL + GOLF LEARNING IS NEEDED IN GOLF Cam and I growing up were lucky to learn from not just our coaches on the lesson tee. Our now PGA Tour coaches gave us real classroom time. Yes, classrooms were rented. We had our high level golfing friends to bounce ideas off of. We played against dozens of future professional golfers now playing the PGA Tour, DP Tour, KornFerry Tour, Mini Tours, and hundreds that made it to the NCAA. We watched Tiger on Sunday's, Phil's DVD's, and were lectured by the old, yet savant like grouchy club pros on elbows to the target. We read books, and listened to audio books. More then that we had each other, and our older brother Mike who played NCAAD1. Beating balls in the cold garage, shovelling off snow on our artifical putting green after every day of school, chipping contests on the pool table, rounds at Glendale, drives to tournaments every week when the snow stopped. And our Dad, a great golfer in his right, guiding our steps. We had a golfing world. A golfing world that was different 20 years ago from today. A golfing world that was priceless, that produced champions. ---- THE STATE OF INSTRUCTION TODAY In North American golf today, golf coaching has not improved as deeply as technology in golf has improved. Sure we all have centre shafted putters, a treasure trove of youtube knowledge, and Youtube golfers. LIV and GolfNow and AI golf apps, Trackman, Decade Golf and Aim Point. But it doesn't fulfill the real education we were given. The linear path. The real secrets to scratch.