Coaching Golf Successfully (Coaching Successfully Series)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0736033912 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Madonna has earned the Teacher of the Year award and has been chosen by GOLF Magazine as one of the Top 100 Teaching Professionals in America for the last three years. Madonna is a teaching consultant for the National Golf Foundation and serves as the national golf coach for Bermuda. Bill Madonna has been a PGA teaching profe
Coaching Golf Successfully is a standout resource for golf coaches and instructors. He is also the founder and head of the National Association of Golf Coach Educators (NAGCE), the organization responsible for supplying general information, teaching materials, and certification for high school golf coaches. The methods are so straightforward and practical that you will be able to apply them to your own team immediately.. You will learn how to conduct effective practice sessions, identify technical flaws more easily, and teach winning strategies. It's specifically designed to help you build winning golf programs. Included with the instruction are stories and examples of what has worked for other coaches across the country.Because of the highly technical nature of golf, great emphasis is put on teaching swing technique. The book covers subjects such as mastering contact, ball flight, and distance; focusing on the short game; improving scoring performance; and developing a pre-shot routine. If you are involved in coaching or working with young golfers in any way, then this is the book for you. Author Bill Madonna, who has been a PGA
"Wish they would update it!" according to Grant R. Meyer. I haven't made it through this whole book yet, but so far it has been pretty helpful. It's about 15 years old, so some things are outdated, but there is still a lot of very useful information in it. If you're a golf coach, I definitely recommend buying this book.. J. Smith said A Good Read for the New Coach. I've been coaching golf at an area High School for a few years. It is one of the most rewarding jobs I have ever had the pleasure to perform. It is often true that, as a coach, you will have to work with a student who golfs better then you do. In such circumstances, what do you say? How do you coach these kids? How do you get them to play their best game?As a coach, you have to be able to reach every kid on the team. If your not a scratch golfer (I'm not), the only way to reach every kid is to increase what you know about the game. For me, that means spending the winter reading golf books, looking for wisdom, inform. "good Book" according to John Merz. This book has a lot of good ideas. Some are more for coaching at a higher level. I am a high school coach at a school that gets mostly beginners and was still able to get some good ideas from it.
He has also owned and operated the Bill Madonna Golf Academy since 1975. He and his wife, Bonnie, live in Orlando, Florida.. Madonna is a teaching consultant for the National Golf Foundation and serves as the national golf coach for Bermuda. About the AuthorBill Madonna has been a PGA teaching professional for 30 years and is currently the director of instruction for the National Association of Golf Coaches and Educators (NAGCE), which he also founded. Madonna has earned the Teacher of the Year award and has been chosen by GOLF Magazine as one of the Top 100 Teaching Professionals in America for the last three years