Social Media Content Overload

Be Careful of What You Consume

It wasn’t too long ago that the golf instruction industry was a reticent business. In general, the world’s premier golf instructors were reluctant to share their information. If you wanted to learn from the best, you needed to show up on their lesson tee and pay for their time and insights. Fast forward to the social media age we find ourselves in, and now we have the exact opposite dynamic. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok are flooded with golf instructors who are posting content on a daily basis. You could consume content 24/7 for the rest of your life, and still not even come close to gathering all of the information that is floating on the Internet. 

There are several benefits of social media. A few benefits being able to watch some of the best instructors in the world from the comfort of your home, interaction/Q&A (several renowned instructors will interact with their followers and answer questions), and the ability to take quality online golf instruction.

Before I go any further, I have a question for everyone reading this: how many times have you played golf and had a particular swing thought in your head? Even further, how many times have you played golf with a particular swing thought one day, and then had a totally different swing thought the next day? I see this happen with golfers at an alarming frequency, and it tends to stem from how willingly golfers are to consume golf instruction content via social media. To reiterate the title of this blog: be careful of what you consume!

I find way too many golfers doing a drill or “working on something” on the range, and after asking them why they’re doing what they’re doing, they say that they saw it on social media. In some cases, the drill might be great for their long term development. In other cases, the golfer is working on something that is harmful for their long term development. If you are a casual golfer who isn’t sure what the root issues are in your golf swing, I strongly advise you to stop blindly “trying” new drills or swing thoughts on the range. 

This is where SMART Golf & Fitness Instruction comes into the picture. During our initial performance assessment, we will definitively answer the following questions:

• What are the root issues in your golf swing?
• Why are they happening?
• How are you going to improve your game? 

Once you understand cause and effect, and why you do what you do, you will have one of the most important feelings that a golfer can ever have: CLARITY. The hope is that you will eliminate bouncing around from swing thought to swing thought, blindly attempting drills you saw on social media, and ultimately expediting your rate of improvement.

About the Author

Reece Bartelt is a PGA Professional who specializes in growing the game of golf by helping golfers play their best. Whether he’s teaching a beginner, 15 handicap, or a touring professional, he has consistently proven that he excels in helping his students have more fun and shoot better scores. Reece finds his success as a golf instructor through his ability to listen and communicate to his students, pinpointing and correcting root issues in the golf swing, and customizing every lesson to each student’s unique physical and mental capabilities.

During the course of his collegiate and professional career, he has had the opportunity to work at some of the country’s best golf facilities, including Montreux Golf and Country Club, The Palms Golf Club, and Nantucket Golf Club. Over the years he was fortunate to be able to learn from some of the world’s best instructors. Years of shadowing the best instructors combined with expertise with some of golf’s best technology and resources like Trackman, Boditrak, K Vest, SAM Putt Lab, and TPI, have helped mold him into the instructor he is today.

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