Why join my 12 month Programme ?

I would just like to explain why my 12 month Guaranteed Improvement Programme (GIP) is working, and helping players of all standards to play better golf.

I’ve been running the GIP for 2 years now and I can’t tell you how much I’ve learnt about teaching and making my pupils better at playing golf.

It’s a little bit like doing mini case studies, whilst I’ve been helping my clients I’ve also had the chance to see what happens to golfers when they are taught something new, let me explain.

First I video their swings and we chat through the things we are about to change and why. We then apply the changes and I encourage them to go away and practice.

Now quite commonly golfers book a course of say 5 lessons and we work though any required changes in their game, they then go away and within the space of 4 to 6 weeks of playing their swing reverts back to what I call their default movement and nothing has changed. However, the GIP is different.

The programme guarantees up to 4 hours tuition each month, which allows time to really fix golf swings permanently. It seems to take about 6 months before the old swing faults disappear and the new ones become the norm, which has been quite a surprise to me. One of the main reasons for this is a lack of practice, and don’t think playing 5 rounds a week is practice. A typical professional on tour would be hitting balls for at least 4 hours a day. I’m not suggesting that amateur golfers should start doing this because I know full well that they haven’t got the time nor would they enjoy doing it , but if you expect your swing to change without working on it, then you’ll be sadly mistaken.

The regular coaching my GIP clients receive every month on their whole golf game means they are all now beginning to reap the rewards. I’ve had one guy shoot his lowest round ever which was level par 72 (his previous best was 76), another has constantly started to shoot 3 or 4 better than his handicap week in week out, others have won tournaments they never thought possible, and without exception they are all enjoying their golf more and loving being on the programme.

Before I finish I just want you to have a think about this. To play your best golf you probably require Professional help, so here’s a tip – analyse your whole game, not just the bits that you’re good at. The things to look at are

. Rules and how to apply them
. The equipment you use
. Course management, this would take into account playing the right shots at the right time
. Driving
. Fairway woods
. Long irons
. Rescue clubs
. Mid irons
. Short irons
. Pitching
. Chipping
. Bunker shots including fairway bunkers shots
. Long putting
. Short putts
. What food and drink you take in during your round
. Your mental attitude on and off the course
. Your physical fitness and is there anything you could and should be doing

So you can see, taking all of the above into consideration it would take much more than a couple of golf lessons to improve your whole game and achieve your goals.

If this blog has made you think about the things you could be doing to become a better golfer then why not have a chat with your local PGA professional and see how you could work together? Or better still, contact me for more details about the GIP. I’m based near Coventry and I’m always happy have a coffee and a chat

Don’t wait – act today!

Happy Golfing 

Julian Mellor

PGA Professional

Positive Impact Golf Coach

Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club

07595 157452

Julianmellorpga@icloud.com

www.julianmellorgolfschool.co.uk

Why positive impact golf?

It's been a while since I wrote a blog but I felt it time I did.

So what's new? What's the last 7 months looked like for Julian Mellor

Well let me tell you, it's been absolutely awesome. why you ask? Because of Positive Impact Golf. 

Let me share my story with you if I may!!

It all started when I sent out a tweet and had a reply from a dear friend of mine Pete the butcher, he asked to meet up ASAP as he had something he wanted to tell me. Firstly I got a telling off in a nice way then he progressed to tell me about a great friend of his Brian Sparks and how he is now coaching all over the world, and the fact that he's that busy he needs more coaches like myself, he made me promise to meet up with Brian and discuss what's happening to him. 

Well we met up at a fantastic course called the Centurion and we chatted for hours and hours. He was telling me about a video he put on YouTube (easiest swing in golf) and the amount of interest it has created, he's had well over 200 thousand views, he also gave me a copy of a book he's written called Positive Impact Golf and went on to explain how many countries it's sold in,over 32 at last count. 

I asked what was his secret and how come he had become so popular, simple was his reply , I've made the golf swing easy again!! I've broken so called modern teaching and allowed people to swing freely, I was Intrigued and asked if he would explain it to me. 

So my journey began, never before had I seen anyone make the golf swing look so easy and yet the ball fizzed off so straight and true, no loss of distance and he did it time and time again. 

It was then my turn, all my professional golfing life I had worked on positions , if "A" wasn't right there is no way "B" could be right , I had pieced my swing together to what I thought was a good swing yet my mind was full of thoughts, never being able to play my shots freely, always thinking each and every swing had to be perfect!! well how wrong could I have been??!! 

Once I started to fully understand the methodology I couldn't believe how far away from a natural swing I was, no wonder I could never trust it under pressure, no wonder I found golf difficult, and once I had adopted the method there was no way I would ever go back to swinging in positions.

So I started to coach the Positive Impact Golf way and to say I've been blown away by the results my clients have been achieving is an understatement , never before have I had so many , calls, texts and emails from golfers shooting their best rounds and winning competitions. 

The strange thing is, if I taught this was in my PGA exam I would fail, how wrong is that!!  because we don't preach perfect and we don't restrict movement we would be seen to be not doing it right. 

If you read the press you'd hear doom and gloom especially in America, courses closing , golf on the decline but the reality is Golf teaching has become too technical and unachievable and it's made golf hard when it needn't be, social and occasional golfers have been switched off. People don't want to play golf by numbers , they want to stand on the tee, apply their most natural swing and watch as their ball sails down the fairway, and that my friends is why Positive Impact Golf is here to stay and why we who coach it, will bring back the enjoyment of the game . 

If this has Intrigued you please make contact and let's chat about it in more detail, thanks for taking time to read this

Happy golfing 

Julian mellor 

PGA Professional 

Positive impact golf coach 

Stoneleigh Deer Park Golf Club

www.julianmellorgolfschool.co.uk

Julianmellorpga@icloud.com