Instruction - How the
Golf Channel Can Help Your Game
If you’re tired of golf instruction
magazines, check out the Golf Channel (TGC) cable station and its
popular Web site (www.thegolfchannel.com). Available through cable,
satellite, and wireless companies, the TGC offers enough instructional
material to more than satisfy both the beginner and the scratch player.
The Golf Channel
The Golf Channel is the brainchild of Joseph Gibbs and Arnold Palmer,
who co-founded it in 1991. It offers a unique blend of golf information,
news, features, and instruction.
The Golf Channel offers TV specials,
documentaries, celebrity interviews, movies, video tours, lifestyle
segments, and original programming, including Golf Central, a nightly
golf news show and What’s in My Bag. They also have a series focusing on
golf equipment, accessories, and manufacturers.
It also offers live tour coverage. Its
first live televised tournament was the Dubai Dessert Classic in 1991.
Back then, it offered limited tournament coverage. Today, it features
extensive coverage of the Nationwide, European, Canadian, and Champions
tours, as well as the PGA Tour, LPGA tour, PGA of America, and USGA.
In addition, the Golf Channel offers
golf instruction and golf tips designed to lower golf handicaps. Academy
Live is a weekly call-in show that gives viewers an opportunity to
improve their game by consulting with top teaching pros. Playing Lessons
from the Pros provides golf lessons and golf tips from professional
players on their off-day practice rounds. Golf Channel Academy offers
golf instruction designed to help improve every aspect of your game.
The Golf Channel Web Site
More interactive than the cable channel, the TGC Web site offers its own
share of golf instruction including In Their Bag, which looks at what
clubs the winner of the latest tour event carried during the win. One
such look included a review of what Phil Mickelson carried when he won
the Master’s a couple of weeks ago.
The Web site also provides online
instruction in the form of articles written by teaching pros throughout
the country. The articles cover a wide variety of topics, from the
set-up and sand game to the mental game and the basics of golf fitness.
They even cover swing theory.
But the Web Site’s most unique feature
is Game Tracker Pro. An innovative online instruction tool, it provides
in-depth game analysis and pinpoints major playing problems. In
addition, it provides a USGA Handicap Index based on your state golf
association’s regulations, a calendar, and an e-mail center, called My
Inbox, where you can send and receive e-mails.
The analysis tool is user-friendly. It’s
based on details you provide each time you play a round of golf. First,
you select the course you played at. If the site’s databank has
information on the course, a score card with all pertinent information,
like the course’s rating, slope, and type of tee, appears on screen. If
the course is not in the databank, you can provide the information
yourself.
Next you input the round’s key details,
such as the score on a hole, number of fairways hit, and distance of
your drives, onto the scorecard. There’s room for information on the
total number of putts you made, any penalty strokes you received and the
number of up and downs you completed.
After the information is saved, Game
Tracker Pro analyzes your rounds to see where your problems lie,
providing you with a sense of which instructional articles you should
read and what you need to work on to improve.
Game Tracker Pro basic is free of
charge. You just sign up to take advantage of its features. The site
also offers a chance to become a premium member for about $30 annually.
The benefits of a premium membership include all the tools of TGC Basic,
plus access to other instructional content, such as the site’s Video
Vault, which contains more than 2500 golf videos.
Conclusion
Improving your game just got a little easier thanks to the Golf
Channel’s help. Offering features like Game Tracker Pro, a practical
tool to help pinpoint and correct weaknesses, the cable channel and Web
site provide enough top notch golf instruction, golf tips, and/or golf
lessons to satisfy all levels of play, from beginners to experienced
players.
Jack Moorehouse is the author of the
best-selling book “How
To Break 80 And Shoot Like The Pros.” He is NOT a golf pro, rather a
working man that has helped thousands of golfers from all seven
continents lower their handicap immediately. He has a free weekly
newsletter with the latest
golf tips, golf
lessons and golf
instruction.
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