CaddieMasterNews
April 2004
Creating Your Own Philosophy

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A Message From Brian Yager...

In order to bring value to golfers like you who have subscribed to my newsletter and in order to ensure that I can regularly publish really useful golf information, I have formed a relationship with Mark Anderson.

Mark is a certified CPGA golf professional who has what I think is an innovative approach to teaching amateurs. Mark's rather impressive resume is posted on the CaddieMaster.com web site. Check it out at http://www.caddiemaster.com/aboutus.html

As well as providing the CaddieMaster development team with useful tips on how to improve the program, Mark will be a regular contributor to this newsletter.

To set the scene for future newsletters, I'm now turn things over to Mark....

Creating Your Own Philosophy

I do not believe there is one "best approach" to learning golf. I have spent a great deal of time studying MANY of the various approaches to teaching golf. I utilize all of the various methods and/or philosophies to some degree.

But to pin point for each individual student what is best for him or her is the real challenge! It involves predicting, as accurately as possible, how the student might end up many years in the future. This is pretty well impossible!

What I can do is educate people on specific approaches once I know a bit more about the student's history with the game. But what I really like to do is to study the challenges of golfers that have succeeded in elevating their game to a new level of competence and learn from their experiences.

I like to have the student take control of the teaching approach.

The best teachers (and that includes ALL teachers; not just golf instructors) have learned how to provide the student with unbiased information and thereby put the student in a position to form his/her own opinions and to develop his/her own strategy for self- improvement.

Just as an aspiring artist can learn from the geniuses of the past, so too can a golfer learn about the fundamentals used by the PGA touring pros. But learning the fundamentals is just the starting point -- it is after this has been done that my somewhat unique approach becomes valuable.

I have carefully compiled data about the teaching methods and tools that I have used to instruct hundreds of students over the years. Over time, I discovered various approaches that would allow the student to begin to define his/her own personal approach to improvement -- that is, to develop a strategy that would result in improvement in the shortest possible time.

I have noticed that most golf professionals and scratch amateurs have their own opinion on how to develop a good golf swing. The key is that there are many differences on the best approach even among these expert golfers.

So... the conclusion is that there is no "one best" approach for everyone but there generally is an approach that is best for each particular golfer.

There is an old saying -- "to avoid a conflict or argument, there are some things that most people will not agree on; opinions on which no one person is always right or wrong. So the best approach is to avoid such confrontational topics as religion, politics and the golf swing!"

So where are we going with all this?

Well, in future newsletters I want to help you widen your perspectives to learning golf and to help you create your OWN golf book. This is the real key to success in just about any endeavour.

Determine what works for you, document it, study it and practice the techniques.

Thank you for letting us serve you,
Brian Yager, Mark Anderson
& the CaddieMasterNews Team

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