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What to Do Between Golf Lessons
A lesson changes one thing. The week after decides if it sticks: write it down, turn it into a drill with a score, film a swing, and bring the results back.
The lesson ends. You hit it well for twenty minutes. By Saturday the old swing is back. Most of what a lesson is worth happens in the days after it, without the pro there.
Write down the one thing
Within an hour, write what you worked on in your own words: the fault, the fix, and what it felt like. If your pro writes the note, read it before your next range session, not after.
One change per lesson. If the note has five things on it, ask which one matters this week.
Turn it into a drill with a score
“Work on the takeaway” doesn’t get done. “Gate drill, 30 balls, Tuesday and Thursday” does. Ask your pro for a drill that matches the fix and a way to score it: balls through the gate, makes out of ten, feet left on lag putts.
A number tells you whether the change is working before your score does.
Put it on days
Pick two or three days and keep them short. Twenty-five minutes on the drill, then hit whatever you like. Regular beats long.
Film one swing a week
Same spot, same angle each time: down the line with the camera at hand height, or face on at belt height. Ten seconds is enough. Send it to your pro in the middle of the week instead of saving every question for the lesson.
Take it to the course gently
A change often feels worse on the course before it feels better. Watch the one stat the lesson was about: fairways for a driver fix, greens for an iron fix, putts for putting. That is the number to judge it by, not the total.
Bring the evidence back
Walk into the next lesson with what you practised, how often, the drill numbers, and one clip. The lesson then starts where the last one stopped.
How Swilkin handles it
Your pro writes a lesson note after each lesson: what you worked on, photos, up to three links and a clip of up to 60 seconds. A note can become homework: drills on set days, starting the next day, with a reminder you choose. You log it in Practice, and your pro sees what you did.
You can send your pro a note too, with your own swing clip. The phone shrinks the clip before it sends. A student who doesn’t want the app can take the lessons by email.
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