If you're coming to Moses Lake to perfect your golf swing, you don't want to leave the lesson tee with abstract concepts and awkward positions you can scarcely remember. With Owen McClain, you won't have to worry about a thing. He understands the golf swing, and just as importantly, knows how you learn!
Teaching Philosophy
Learning is easier when it relates to something you already know. If you've gone fishing, skipped a rock, sliced an onion, or any number of common activities, these skills apply to the golf swing. This approach to teaching motivates and builds confidence in the student by a) allowing the student to relate the golf swing to skills they already possess, and b) reassuring the student that the golf swing isn't really all that foreign to them.
Approach
The foundation of Owen's teaching is to allow the student to learn a proper grip, the correct starting position, and correct finishing position. From there, we then have only to connect the starting position to the finishing position through the application of natural, balanced motion. This forms the foundation of the proper golf swing.
“Good balance in the golf swing is highly over-rated….perfect balance in the golf swing is highly under-rated!”
Correcting swing faults isn't too terribly difficult, but requires patience. The trick is to determine why the fault is occurring, because most swing errors are incubated by something occurring far earlier in the set up or swing. Most frequently a correction in grip, starting position, finishing position, or dynamic balance will resolve a fault. Timing and tempo must also be considered: the finest formula racer in the world cannot perform if the engine’s timing is off.