Should Instructors Explain Mechanics?
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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How technical should golf instruction be? In this episode, Mark and Lou discuss whether learning the specific facts of the golf swing will help or hurt golfers. You need to find what works for you—and that might not be what you expect.
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| 0:00.0 | Interesting question. Just me and Lou here today. Hello, Lou. We're going to ask you a question from one of the listeners. |
| 0:06.3 | Let's go. Yeah. So the question, it's a fun one. I thought it would be a good one to do with you. |
| 0:10.6 | 12. The answer is 12. Yeah. 12.2, I think it is. Should golf coaches explain the mechanics of the golf swing? So using video or physical form before giving a lesson to beginners and maybe |
| 0:27.0 | improve us instead of trying to change or tweak some movement to obtain a result. |
| 0:33.7 | So the essence of the question, just so we put it in the context, |
| 0:36.6 | because it doesn't imply as much to maybe you, but I think it can. I think we can brought it out that. The question is aimed at he or she is aiming at beginners or improvers. I think they mean improvers as in they've begun, but they're on their journey to better, you know, they're trying to build foundations, maybe than you, who is an |
| 0:54.7 | improver because who isn't, but you're like near the top of your arc trying to push on, |
| 1:00.4 | which is a different... |
| 1:01.0 | I'm unimproving right now. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah, the unimprovers. |
| 1:06.4 | So we can do it in a maybe a few different con, because I think this question applies to any |
| 1:11.4 | level. And arguably, I don't even relate it to the level of golfer that much, that question. |
| 1:20.2 | I relate it more to the individual who is stood in front of me. |
| 1:24.1 | What's your initial thoughts on that question? |
| 1:26.8 | Because I know you have thoughts with golf tuition |
| 1:29.9 | because it does frustrate you you do get frustrated with golf tuition because you have a |
| 1:35.2 | tuition what does that mean golf coaching coaching yeah is that what you say in the uk |
| 1:40.5 | we can say that yeah we can say many that's versions. That's a word for coaching in the UK. |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:47.4 | Interesting. |
| 1:48.0 | I never heard that. |
| 1:48.7 | Tuition, that's what you pay to go to school, tuition. |
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