The old-fashioned way to develop talent

Apr 13, 2013 | Articles

I’ve written about Greg Chappell previously and he certainly has a similar mindset to me when it comes to learning and coaching sport. I was forwarded this Greg Baum article by a reader and it offers a contrarian approach to developing talent. Chappell believes...

A golfing mission

Mar 25, 2013 | Articles

The young kid was having a blast. He was stepping up to the ball and swinging without a care in the world – and each shot sounded sweet, the ball flying off the clubface and then smashing into the net. He then repeated. Just swinging and hitting the ball....

What my Dad taught me about playing golf

Mar 16, 2013 | Golf Instruction

My Old Man is a terrible golfer and not someone who should be let near a golf course – he’s only played a handful of games and there’s nothing there that would suggest he’d trouble the scorers in a good way. In his professional life he was a...

Talkin’ with Dillon

Feb 28, 2013 | Golf Instruction

The other week Clare and I were invited out to dinner – it was our first outing with young Jessica and boy was it good to get out of the house for a bit. Our host’s young son was Dillion. He is a strapping lad, 17 years old, polite and full of questions. I...

Some coaching is just plain wrong!

Feb 18, 2013 | Golf Instruction

This post is going to discuss one of the most important emails I’ve received. It came from Brock (a regular reader) and was in response to this post on cricket. I’m going to add my own thoughts throughout and shed more light on the problems of traditional...