A Typical Golf Certification Day
"Thanks for a great experience!" -Samuel Calderone, North Carolina
Our goals at
certification courses are:
To ensure you are taught how to teach every facet of the game and to ensure that you enjoy
the process. As a teaching professional, you will also want to have goals of a similar nature
with your students. Ensure that your clients enjoy themselves and are taught the mechanics
of the golf swing in a simplified, easy to understand manner.
From the opening orientation to the closing banquet, our teaching staff is there to help
you become the best golf teaching professional that you can possibly be. All
aspects of teaching golf are covered during your stay with us. This does not require that
you be kept in the classroom all day long. Classroom theory is kept to a minimum each morning.
During the week the following topics are covered in detail:
- Common Sense Golf Teaching Ideas
- Understanding
Ball Flight Laws
- Teaching the Golf Swing - Full Swing,
Short Game & Trouble Shots
- Psychology
of Teaching Golf
- Rules of
the Game
- Marketing
Yourself as a Golf Teaching Professional
(you are given a book by the same title for reference)
- Clubfitting - What Teaching Professionals
Should Know
- Faults &
Cures for Teaching Professionals
- Use of Video
in teaching
Both Classroom Theory and Learning
on the Golf Course
After the classroom theory each morning,
groups break up with the various teaching professionals. Again the focus is on learning
to teach but this time you are on the practice facility itself. You are also with a different
teaching professional each day so you can gain the knowledge and methodology of several
teachers. You have the opportunity to hit plenty of balls as well as become familiar with
the golf course.
We usually break
for lunch at noon and reconvene in one hour. Each day you have the
opportunity to practice teach with your fellow students. In this
scenario, we make it a point of never putting people on the spot
or making them feel uncomfortable. For the most part, practice teaching
is done one on one and not necessarily in a class type format.
Afternoon play on the golf course is scheduled after 2 pm with your fellow students. Your
teaching professional is present with you until 3 pm. Weather and daylight permitting, participants
have the opportunity to play 18 holes per day.
All meals are
on your own, however many participants choose to dine together.
The Playing Ability Test and Verbal Teaching Test take place on the last two days. The multiple choice Written Rules Test is issued to you the evening before play is scheduled and turned in the following morning.
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