Technology will, finally, destroy the golf instruction industry. FlightScope, Trackman, Top Tracer, and Pro Tracer are the four technology horsemen of our golf instruction Apocalypse. Thanks to data, interpreters are no longer needed. Centered impacts are self-realizing with a little technology alone time and some deductive reasoning. Golfers can change their numbers by changing their movement – formerly the domain of instruction’s puppet-masters.
Fortunately for instructors, destructive technologies are still cost-prohibitive for the average golfer. Therefore, their only option is to pay instructors for use of their machines. I think it’s funny because most of these knuckleheads will assume students are booking to hear their special insights. Lol!
Club-fitters, like my friend Gurbaaz, are actually the greatest beneficiaries of our aforementioned technologies. Their craft is immediately verified by ball-flight tech. assuming centered impacts. Shaft changes are faster. Good impact numbers, then, change with our shaft choice.
Some data is more important than other. Let me run down the most important numbers to help speed your Open Stance efficiency. Of course, your Open Stance is the overriding set-up assumption.
Path, Smash, Club-head Speed, Shot Height, and Carry Distance – in that order. Optimizing these five metrics alone will replace any drill seargent, movement guru, or artful dodger dazzling you with a clever explanation of throwing a bucket of water, bumping the wall, or exiting left. LOL. That one still kills me!
I just bought a FlightScope for my own business, and it immediately verifies my teaching’s every assertion. My golfers are willing to take much larger risks and move more uncomfortably, of their own volition, just to see how the numbers change. Consequently, they don’t get bogged down with self-loathing due to inefficient swings.
My new technological investment has turned refining our golf swings into a game within a game. Hence, making the smaller changes I suggest seem moderate, by comparison. While the number-crunching happens within the technology, my students and I anticipate and speculate on my top five metrics in their swings.
Their engagement and attention is nothing short of focused and rapt. Therefore, our time is an exercise in intuition, feedback, and connecting dots. Technological feedback is impossible for instructors to circumvent, surmount with word-pictures or drills, or even understand. Now, I’ll quote Ferris….
“If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. It is so choice.“
Open your stance, and play golf.
John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy
