Not such a warm welcome today with a frosty start, but an introduction to Mark Beveridge who will be working with me and inspiring new idea for 2007. Mark is an ex Scottish International and a PGA Pro who has caddied on Tour and who has a wide base of Teaching Experience including time spent with Scott Cranfield Academies. Mark’s enthusiasm for teaching and coaching will become more evident over time.
What we did today was ask everyone to complete a few questions and indicate the type of key thoughts they use and some of the essential elements to their game. We’ll take a closer look at some of these elements next time. We also asked everyone to indicate what sort of clubface angle or shaft angle was typical for them at key points during the swing.
Mark and I considered that with a clubface angle in reasonable control at the top, then delivered ‘on plane’ we had a good chance for success. Then with some assessment of the amount of pressure being created on the ball, our controlled results should be delivered powerfully down the target line.
With a simple video analysis of each player we assessed each players answers against their real swing – the ‘leaderboard’ showed those players with the highest match of their ideas to their video analysis and with their shots to target. Tied in the lead were Bronwyn, Lorely, and Sian with 4/4.
The session hoped to get players thinking about their fundamentals and highlighted some mis-matches between players’ thoughts /visions of their movements and their actual technique. One or two went home having seen excellent technique on camera, with increased confidence and better focus on their technique for practise.
In ‘model’ terms we tend to seek a clubface angle parallel to the lead-arm at the top, followed by a clubshaft on an angle ‘in the slot’ as shown in the following image. With the arms and wrists working as levers we tend to optimise the amount of pressure on the back of the ball with the following images…[coming soon]
Finding a vision of our swing to commit to paper was probably the most challenging element of todays session but with help from our new coach Mark most of us managed it! And with further help from the video session and feedback from Scott we were able to see if our ‘visions’ met ‘reality’! Maybe ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures will help us further with our practice. Congratulations to Bronwyn, Lorely and Sian for obviously having more perception of what it’s all about than the rest of us!
Don’t forget our next coaching will be on 11th March and afterwards for more foursomes challenges at Wyke Green with thanks to the Lady Captain and squad member Christine Philipps for her organisation
Anne Koychev
First Team Captain
Finding a vision of our swing to commit to paper was probably the most challenging element of todays session but with help from our new coach Mark most of us managed it! And with further help from the video session and feedback from Scott we were able to see if our ‘visions’ met ‘reality’! Maybe ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures will help us further with our practice. Congratulations to Bronwyn, Lorely and Sian for obviously having more perception of what it’s all about than the rest of us!
Don’t forget our next coaching will be on 11th March and afterwards for more foursomes challenges at Wyke Green with thanks to the Lady Captain and squad member Christine Philipps for her organisation
Anne Koychev
First Team Captain