We start by learning how to hit the golf ball, not to make a golf swing. This will be the last lesson you will ever need to hit a golf into the air – no more. What a waste of time. 

We move next to the short game which was a real eye opener for me. These simple chipping and pitching techniques are easy to learn and execute with a grip change. Most golfers don’t even know that you should change your grip in golf – now you know! This method will help save strokes around the green and throughout your round. One shot save every 3 holes is 6 strokes a round. How does that sound?  It will not take you long to become real good in getting up and down in two plus you may even hole-out a chip or two. Now that is fun!

Just beyond the distance of a chip or pitch, you will learn how to use your wedges to score inside 100 yards with simple accuracy. For most players, this scary shot turns into opportunities to make birdies or save par by understanding how your hands are used in these shots.  This technique requires a change in hand action but you will be able to master it quickly when you learn the why and how of this shot.

The last aspect of game I will teach you is putting. This is the easiest shot to execute in golf but it is the hardest to produce results. The true measure of success in putting is to making the putt. Success or Failure, 50/50, there is no in-between. I will show you how to improve the odds of making more putts and lower your scores. This session require a grip change and a change of mindset. It is so worth it!

An on-course playing lessons offers a golfer the opportunity to incorporate all aspects of Transmission golf from tee to green. Typically, a nine-hole playing lesson gives me the insights on how you have mastered the techniques and execute them. The insights I can gain from watching you play the game will help me focus on your improvement and areas of strengths and weakenesses.

Now, let’s get your game in gear!

The funny story here is that no one in my family plays golf – no one. I didn’t have anyone to show me the ropes or take me golfing. I learned it by trial and error. I mimicked the best golfers I knew from the country club where I was a caddy. I didn’t have a teacher or did I have years of playing experience before I tried out for the golf team in 9^th grade. Not only did I make the team, I was playing college level golf within four years. If this is your child’s background, I can help.

It is from these experiences in junior golf, high school golf, collegiate golf and playing insides the ropes with amateur status, I can help your junior succeed. If success is measured by just making the team or the starting line-up, I have been there and guide your junior how to play their best golf in competition. Not just teach them how to hit a golf ball better.

Golf is an easy game to play but a terribly hard game to score and post good rounds. If a player doesn’t have a plan or knows his and hers strengths and or weaknesses, competition golf can be a mentally brutal sport. I am eager to pass my knowledge of competition golf to the next generation.

In the end, being a good golfer doesn’t make one a great or good person. Dealing with the adversity that inevitably occurs in competitive golf with calm and composure does. That skill translates to your junior golfer’s entire life. That is a worthwhile exercise!

Let’s get their game in gear.

A friend of mine asked me if I wanted to caddy and make some money at a local country club in Bethesda Maryland. I did not know what a caddy was since I have never stepped foot on a golf course but the idea of making some money was a winner. We went to caddy camp and started caddying. At that time, I didn’t think much of golf since I had played team sports all my athletic life, which is the source of my ultra-competitive spirit and golf was an individual game.

To my surprise, the members I caddied for were fun, easy going, trashing talking athletes that were also ultra-competitive. The same comradery from playing team sports was also in golf and I had a great time caddying. I watched with full attention to the swings of the best players and I mimicked their game. Golf to me was similar to baseball. It had a ball, stick and the goal was to hit it as hard and far as possible. What is not to like? I was hooked after I broke 40 that summer.

I made the high school golf team the next year. Our team won the Maryland state championship in 1984 and placed 2nd in 1985. That summer, I was a semi-finalist in three different Washington DC area junior tournaments and I felt like I could play at the college level. I went on to play for the local Junior College (Montgomery College) where I qualified for two National Junior College Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NJCAA) tournaments. Division I golf didn’t work out for me at University of Maryland after walking onto the team.

Why? My swing did not hold up. I can honestly tell you that I never felt I could get to the next level in golf because my “swing” always fell apart at some point during a round. I was missing something that the better players knew but they were sharing the secret.

If there is such a thing as a PhD in Golf, I think I would have three degrees by now. Toski and Flick, Jim Ballard, Golf My Way, Square to Square are just a few curriculums I have studied but none of them delivered the goods. Then I meet AJ Bonar from The Truth about Golf TV fame. I flew out to San Diego to have a private lesson and my golf life changed. It took just a short amount of time under his watchful eyes to instantly improve my ball striking, chipping and putting. We played a round the next day and I shot 69, which should have been better. It also solidified how important face-to-face golf instruction is for anyone’s game. You just have to find the right instructor.

I became a plus 2 later that year and qualified as an amateur to play in two consecutive Maryland Opens – a profession event. My swing held up! It made me think that if I knew this method when I was younger, I could have had an even better golf career and maybe won some titles. There is my competitive spirit again. I think there is a song about that somewhere.

So what does this all mean for you, I would like teach you the same methods and techniques I learned 22 years after I started to play the game. You are never to old to learn what really works in golf and you are not too young to learn how to use the club properly. I am honored and excited to carry this legacy to this generation of golfers and those to come.

Let’s get your Game in Gear!

Golf instruction goes in the wrong direction when the goal is to teach you how to swing a golf club in order to make perfect swings that will produce perfect shots. In my experience, this approach does not hold up under pressure. The more effective way is to learn to “hit” the ball using hand eye coordination to compress the ball properly to produce effortless power and control. Would you like that?

Using your hands properly is a technique or skill that you can develop and stop your golf transmission from slipping. Other signs that you may have a faulty transmission are: slicing, hooking, shanks, thin shots, fats shots, poor distance and excessive effort. Sound familiar? Did I miss one?

Getting your transmission in Gear it is not as hard do, it is simple to understand and easy to achieve results quickly. Once you learn it, you’ll never need to learn it again. Isn’t that a novel concept in golf instruction and should golf instruction be this way. Positive results that happen quickly to allow you to move to the next aspect of the game – chipping, pitching and putting. If your instruction is not easy for you to understanding and execute, then you are wasting your time.

Get Your Game In Gear!

Golf is how a person chooses to spend his or her valuable time. A golfer chooses to spend two or four hours with someone or a group of people that they consider a friend or they love. Perhaps it is a person they would like to know better, or meet a perfectly good stranger and last play by themselves for practice or fast round. Enjoying the outdoors and getting in some exercise are real life benefits of this great game.

Golf allowed me to grow as a young man by giving me countless opportunities to meet and make new friends at the local public golf course in Rockville, MD. The TIME I spent there developing my game created a personality that welcomed anyone into my life willing to make new friends regardless of race, creed, religion, economic status or station.

However! Golf can be hard time to pass if you struggle to get the ball into the air in the direction you want it go. It can be a terribly frustrating way to spend your valuable time trying not to lose all your newly purchased golf balls. I am here to help you enjoy your Time on the golf course by teaching you how easy it is to “hit” a golf ball in the direction you wish it go with effortless power and control.

This will allow you can spend more time talking with your playing partners. I hope one or of those persons is your spouse and children. That is Time well spent!

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