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The Professional Golf
Teacher
A Career Teaching Golf
 The
professional golf teacher of the 21st century would be unrecognizable to his early
20th-century counterpart. Today's professional golf teacher has a wealth of knowledge
and tools that a teacher of 100 years ago could only dream about.
The USGTF became the first organization of golf professionals open to all that
required education in teaching the game in order to be certified as a member.
The USGTF's existence has forced other organizations to require teaching education
of their prospective members, too. Not only that, but the education required for
today's professional golf teacher is much more involved than that of even 20 years
ago.
A modern-day professional golf teacher not only has to have
an in-depth knowledge of the golf swing and how it works, but he or she must also
be well-versed in motor learning and the psychology of the different students
they will teach. They need to know about various training aids and technology,
such as video, to be effective today. They are also people who are running a business,
so they need to be familiar with marketing and accounting principles.
Contrast that to the early 20th-century golf teacher, who didn't have the knowledge
and technology we have today. Yesterday's professional golf teacher often taught
by having their students imitate him. Note that we say "him" because almost no
teachers back then were women. Teachers of long ago simply didn't have the benefits
of the mountains of research and biomechanical information that today's teachers
possess. While there is something to be said for this method of teaching, there
were, of course, extreme limitations.
A career as a professional
golf teacher is very rewarding and potentially very lucrative. If you are interested
in exploring the possibility, you owe it to yourself to gather as much information
about it as you can in order to make a decision that is right for you.
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