When to Change Coaches
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Hack It Out Golf podcast, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk coaching—and when to consider changing coaches. With some big name Tour players either changing coaches or making headlines from seeing new coaches, it's a good time to consider the reasons that you might find benefit in a different instructor. Greg will talk about his own experience with coaching on a Tour level, Mark brings his experience with years of coaching, and Lou has had a handful of coaches (including Mark).
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| 0:00.0 | When should a pro change students? |
| 0:03.5 | Or you could look at it the other way. |
| 0:04.9 | When should a student change pros or coaches? |
| 0:07.7 | Because I look at it from both sides. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm working with Lou at the moment, Greg. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm thinking, like, at what point do I have to say, Lou isn't working to me? |
| 0:17.8 | Are you get to fire Lou? |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:22.4 | It doesn't work that way. So we've got Rory hinting his hints around the interweb that he might be |
| 0:27.1 | seeing another coach or working with another people and tall pros and |
| 0:31.2 | amateurs change coaches all the time you know what should make you change coach |
| 0:35.6 | what what the triggers um it'll be an interesting discussion. People have lessons. People want to have lessons. Big question I get is, you know, I don't know which coach to choose, which is a similar idea to this. So to kick it off, Greg, you've played for a living. How many coaches have you gone through in your life? Are you a serial changer or are you a loyal stick? |
| 0:56.0 | Let's go the journey with most of the years. |
| 0:58.4 | No, pretty loyal. |
| 1:00.1 | Like particularly long or early in my career, I played the, you know, sort of long game and did a bit of research on students they had coached and kind of concepts that they used, mainly students they coach |
| 1:13.1 | more than concepts, because to be fair, I'll be honest, I didn't really understand some of the |
| 1:16.6 | concepts when I was early in my career. And to some extent nowadays, I do rely heavily on |
| 1:23.0 | their knowledge because my knowledge is not not as strong in in golf swing knowledge |
| 1:30.8 | I understand my swing a little bit but um and what I need so great coach now let's give |
| 1:37.0 | your coach a name job because he's one of the best coaches in the industry so yeah john |
| 1:40.9 | sinclair uh john sinclair here in fort worth and and how I met John actually, well, I was working with Colin Swatton. |
| 1:48.2 | And Colin, he worked, he was Jason Day's coach. |
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