Your learning style directly correlates with your ability to score. Much has been said about on course golf attitudes and sports psychology I believe golf is a game learned on the left side of the brain and translated to right side for athletic performance. This translation is no easy task and in my humble opinion is the cause of double digit handicaps.
Having taken as many lessons as I have given the majority of golfers desire to students of the game, they read books, the latest golf magazines, and watch instruction on the golf channel. Yet when they attempt to learn proper mechanics and on-course management they rely on a guess and check methodology using the ball flight as the dictator of each ensuing swing.
If golfers understood how they process information and learn undoubtedly they would see better results from their efforts. Learning to their strengths, golfers could then truly become students, seeking information from sources which they understand. For example, if you have ever bought a training aid and swore it was totally ineffective odds are the aid was either garbage or you are not a kinesthetic learner. Kinesthetic learners prefer to have hands-on experience, they translate their successes and failures to memory and build road maps for success. The struggle for a kinesthetic learner is translating the descriptions of others to feel which they find intuitively. On the contrary, auditory learners can listen to explanations, understand the meaning and attempt incorporate what they have heard, the auditory learner struggles to identify strengths and weaknesses on their own (at the rock pile). Then there is the visual learner, through observing and mimicking the visual learner can copy the positions of another and transform their own game, the visual learner is not receptive to words like feel or "move from your...this way" he or she is a master of imitation.
So how do you learn... follow the link, find out, and comment here, maybe you have been seeking the wrong form of instruction?
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