CrossGolfPro

This video might help you: http://youtu.be/mWf1AGqn3PU

If I was you, just focus on making solid ball contact first, here's a video on finding your swing plane: http://youtu.be/euAdy8CHWg4

This might help http://youtu.be/xDJ7FsuGHZA

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Here's my home course - http://youtu.be/gOFhJknXNjs Roddy Ranch in Antioch...really fun track...not to expensive!

- Roddy Ranch Golf Club, Antioch, CA

You're in the business to teach golf and make a profit so turning away business from people who can make payments doesn't make sense

iacas...seems kind of cold hearted to say "you have better things to do" than chase people for payment plans. What do you have to do that's better than growing the game and still generating revenue? I'd rather have a quick nickel than a slow dime.

Newt, Coming from my own student experience, unfortunately a lot of teaching pros don't take the time to ask their students questions about their goals, sports background, injuries and etc. So there I would definitely concede that point and you're right. I've had teachers that basically had no plan on what they wanted to teach. One instance I told our pro for the following week we wanted to work on putting, he picks us up in the cart to drive us to the range and I ask where we're going..."we're going to work on driving". No.we're not! If there's a way Newt I can help you out finding a teacher and what to look for let me know.

I one way golf instructors can help grow their business and meet the needs of their customers is help them to make paying for lessons reasonable. You may not have to drop your prices, but work out ways for students to make payments on lessons that won't destroy their budgets. We don't have to be hard headed and say you have to pay me X for Y all in one shot.

Newtogolf, Only area I would disagree with on that point is everyone has a different learning curve. So if you came to me and paid $100, does that fee last a month? two months? a year? I understand where you're coming from, but what I do is give the first lesson for free so the customer can decide if I'm worth the investment. Second is to state that here's my rate, but if you cannot pay in full we can work something out. Growing the game is important, but it would be like going to work and your company paying you a paycheck but then saying well we will pay you again when we're satisfied with the progress you made. When does that happen?

Lizzyboy, That's a toughie to answer but my suggestion would be to find a store where they can let you demo the hybrids before you purchase them. Usually what happens is they'll charge you a small fee and if you buy the clubs they'll apply that fee to the price. With golf, there's ball flight laws and most everything else is simply preferences on your part. I hope that helps

We get ads on tv all the time for it, it's just impossible to beat the real thing outdoors

I'm an instructor, but I've also ran other businesses and it's more about what your target market will bear...despite what you think you're worth