photo credit: D.Hilgart “I can’t take the slightest bit of credit for Jack Nicklaus, but he is the greatest player in history. Most anybody would have said the young Nicklaus couldn’t have played well with that right elbow flying up the way it does. But he moves it back to his side as he starts down. And they’d say you can’t play well lifting your left heel as much as he does, but they would be wrong. He doesn’t lift it any more than Bobby Jones did. Lifting the heel gives him a good turn and a comfortable position at the top.”
“At PGA School, Byron (Nelson) and I thought Nicklaus stood out head and shoulders above the fifty players in the school.”
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photo credit: mahalie A beginners first lesson is always a tense experience. Knowing that very educated eyes are watching is enough to rattle even an experienced professional. Most ordinary teachers don’t even consider how nervous a beginner may be during their first lesson.
Before the lesson begins, a truly good instructor will spend at least fifteen to twenty minutes, with the new student, talking quietly somewhere other than on the practice range. There are two reasons: 1) The instructor needs to know what direction the student wants to take. 2) It gives the instructor the opportunity to get the student to relax.
The wise instructor knows that unless their student is relaxed, nothing may be accomplished during the lesson period. He also knows what he has to do to meet the goals the student has set.
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