Athletic Motion Golf- The Podcast · Mike Granato and Shaun Webb

How to Find a Good Golf Coach (Without Getting Screwed)

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Scott Hamilton is held up as the model because he measures swings, works with bad players, and keeps updating his teaching.

Sean and the coach begin by separating resort lessons from real coaching. A resort lesson is a band-aid. It is for the shanks, the emergency, the next two days. It may help, or it may only get a player through the trip. The serious work is different. It is for the golfer with a fundamental flaw who wants to improve for real. The conversation is blunt about that split. A quick tip is not the same thing as a swing change. The coach then uses Scott as an example of what good instruction can look like over time. The core idea is that a teacher should be willing to update when better data shows the old idea was off. That matters because golf instruction changes as the swing gets measured in better ways. The episode pushes hard against dogma. If someone is still teaching exactly what they wrote in 2007, with no willingness to revise, that is a problem. The coach argues that people who refuse to upgrade usually end up attacking anyone who disagrees. That is not strength. It is being stuck. The episode also gives a simple but useful filter: look at the swings a coach produces. If they all look exactly the same, that is a method. And method teachers are limited because golfers are built differently. Flexibility, mobility, sports background, and natural strengths all change what a player needs. The conversation keeps coming back to that idea from different angles. Individuality matters more than a one-size-fits-all pattern. The players they trust are the ones who diagnose the player in front of them instead of forcing the same motion on everyone. The episode closes the loop by pushing back on unrealistic timelines. A golfer who has built one pattern for 30 years is not erasing it in two weeks. Real change takes time, and the work has to match the size of the problem. The tone stays practical throughout. It is less about hype and more about what actually holds up in real swings and real practice.

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A clear look at when golf advice is a short-term fix and when it needs a full rebuild.

The piece draws a clean line between two kinds of golf coaching: a quick correction for a present problem and a deeper rebuild for a swing that needs real work.

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Need a coach who fixes your swing without feeding you nonsense?

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