All I Want for Christmas

Is a new golf swing.

Well more than just a ‘new’ golf swing I want a ‘great’ golf swing. Unfortunately I don’t think this is achievable over the next six days!

However, I do begin working on achieving the interim goal of a ‘good’ golf swing in mid January of the New Year.

January, 16th 2008 marks the date of my first formal golf lesson (a watershed event no doubt!).

I have secured eight one hour sessons with a very experienced and well respected Canadian PGA Professional.

Obviously further instruction and coaching will be required beyond this but it will serve the purpose of defining a baseline (starting point), setting realistic interim goals, measuring progress (benchmarking), and setting long-term stretch goals based on my ongoing results and improvement curve.

My instructor has the following credits to his name:

2003 Alberta PGA Teacher of the Year
2004 Nominated Top 100 Teacher in America – Golf Magazine
2005 Top 50 Teachers in Canada – National Post

On my side of the equation I feel I am in extremely well qualified hands.

On my instructor’s side of the equation he has no idea what he is getting into.

Let the experiment begin!