Teaching women golfers: A bit like herding cats

“Women don’t know what they don’t know …. they have to be led ….. but leading women is like herding cats!” (A quote from myself).

Think about it. Once you herd cats, you think they are all with you …. then …. they all scatter all over the place and you have to herd them again. I’m a woman, and I know.

Here’s why women have to be “herded” in golf instruction. I have taught many women and I have taught just as many men. Women take lessons very well and they generally will practice what they learned in a lesson, but then, they start listening to every amateur golfer who feels the need to help them - from the old guy down at the end of the range who sees a “damsel in distress,” to the husband who continually says “keep your head down” so much that now she can’t even move …. to the women’s club member who says, “oh, it will be alright, hit down on it!”

GEEEZZZ …. why do women get all this friendly advice? They wouldn’t dare give all that advice to a man!

Instructing women also involves helping them know how and what to say to “friendly advice” so that they don’t offend anyone yet get the point across that they want to stay with what they are learning in lessons. What if they just said, “Who asked YOU?!”