Here's some important aspects to what a good golf coach will bring you:
- Help you identify your goals
- Give you a comprehensive physical screen
- Teach strategy and tactics course and game management skills
- Work with you to monitor, measure and reset goals as necessary
- Provide advice and strategies for improving
- Ensure that your equipment and ball is optimally fitted
And then the next steps:
- Teach you how to practice effectively
- Teach mental skills and strategies
- Teach the rules of golf
- Teach competitive skills- event preparation/ game plans
- Help formulate a detailed goal-setting program and training regimen
- Help establish a balanced and challenging competitive schedule
- Collect accurate data from rounds
- Teach proper nutrition and hydration
- Help create a strength training and flexibility regimen
- Communicate openly with the athlete, parents and collegiate coaches
- Encourage and support you on and off the course