# Designing a Lesson · Golf Level 8: Expert

Golf · Level 8: Expert · Insporta Book (https://book.insporta.app/golf/level-8/designing-a-lesson/)

Designing a Lesson in Golf (Level 8: Expert) on Insporta: 40 sourced facts behind 4 tests. Covers: lesson structure; demonstration and explanation; and more.

Building a lesson: structure and objectives, demonstration and explanation, feedback, and session plans.

## Test 1: Lesson structure

- Clear objectives keep a lesson on track. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Less is more in a lesson. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- It also lowers the risk of injury. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Ask the player to explain it back. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- It links one lesson to the next. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- The plan may change from the answer. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Confidence carries into practice. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Review, aim, practise, check. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Most of the time goes on doing. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- The biggest slice is practice. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))

## Test 2: Demonstration and explanation

- Seeing comes before doing. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Studied by Albert Bandura. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- One picture can replace many instructions. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- It describes the feel, not the mechanics. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Simple words, clear pictures. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Side by side shows the gap. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- A classic teaching sequence. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Doing is where learning happens. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Whole, then part, then whole. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Ball position shows face-on, posture down the line. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))

## Test 3: Feedback in lessons

- Where the ball went. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- How the swing moved. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- It keeps a correction from feeling harsh. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- On the course, the coach is not there. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- It shows trends rather than single shots. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Name the action, not just the result. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- The player learns to rely on their own sense. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- The player speaks first. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Feedback fades as skill grows. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Performance is about the movement. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))

## Test 4: Session plans

- Aims, activities, timings and safety. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Keeps the challenge right. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Success first, then challenge. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- One task, several versions. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Written before the session. (Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies))
- 'The player will chip to within two metres' is clear. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Plans get better with each review. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Outcome first. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Change one thing at a time. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))
- Harder as the player improves. (Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs))

Sources: Coach-education texts and coaching science (Newell, Mosston, Schön, Gibbs, Knowles, Balyi), safeguarding codes of national golf bodies, periodisation and load-monitoring texts, and organisation histories (R&A, LPGA, LET, EDGA); original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

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