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Lance Ringler 
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 12:43am |
A few weeks ago I ask you all what your thoughts were on picking a school for the coach or for the facilities/school and we got a lot of answers ... now I have another question:
We always hear (on these boards) about players and their swing coaches back home and how the college coaches don't teach your son/daughter the swing.
There are more than 4,000 golfers that play Div. I golf ... how many of those players actually go home during the season to get lessons? I think this is grossly exagerated. Am I right or wrong?
Are players really going home to see their instructor every chance they get?
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 12:49am |
If a swing instructor has done his/her job the student should not have to run home every chance they get. The student should know his own swing well enough and his own faults and fixes that all he has to do is see where the bad shots are going and they should be able to get themselves back on track. Once a swing instructor has done a good enough job that a student has gotten a Div 1 college golf scholarship a lot of the work should just be about maintenance. And just as well, a player who is that good should at some level be able to be their own coach and get things straightened out w out having to hit the panice button every time he plays a bad round and run home to the instructor.
During breaks and the summer is when a student can work w an instructor to implement changes or fixes to help take them to the next level
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 1:02am |
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I send video back and forth to my players coaches at home. Mainly we work on short game at school. I don't think as college coaches we should be in the business of rebuilding golf swings.
I'm sure most of the people on this site will find something to criticize me about with that statement and label me as 100% wrong all the time.
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 1:04am |
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I think golfguy is exactly right. As a coach you recruited the kid w the swing he built w the instructor. Let him stick w it and let the instructor do his job while the coach does his and the player does his
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 1:42am |
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golfguy...we found something we can finally agree upon. Because college golf is a year round sport there really is not much time to rebuild a swing during the season...with small rosters a coach can not afford to have someone in the rebuilding process. At the same time, it is important for a coach to know his/her players swings well enough to help them get back on track.
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 1:43am |
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lance, i would say no. players are not going home all the time to get their swing fixed, but my guess would be that it is becoming less common because of the ability to email video back and forth.
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 1:45am |
at the same time it is a coaches job to help their players get better....and helping them improve their swing and ball striking is a part of this job.
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 2:57am |
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There you go Golfguy30, your not 100% wrong.
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 9:07am |
You better know your swing when you enter school and hope you have a coach that can help you when times get tough because I can assure you at some point you'll hit a glitch.
Coaches that aren't knowledgeable about the swing or lazy (and there are a lot of both) will cut your scholarship and recruit over you AND/OR cut you from the team, not thinking twice about you individually.
Edited by All American - Mar/17/2009 at 10:23pm
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Posted: Feb/19/2008 at 1:41pm |
I think most coaches would tell their recruits that they would be allowed to go home for lessons during season as a way to make the recruits feel more comfortable to the coach.
There is no way that players are able to go home specifically for lessons that many times during their careers...mainly because of time restraints. With student-athletes attending classes all throughout the week to make sure their schedules are clear during practice times, the weekend is usually used for qualifying, traveling, or competing. That doesn't allow many opportunities for athletes to go home and get lessons.
How many coaches have told recruits/their own players, that they (the college coach) will be the ones working with their swing? I don't think many would do that because they could potentially scare the recruits/players away right off the bat and that's exactly why I think coaches go the other route by telling their recruits/players that it will be ok to go home and work with the instructor that you trust.
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