[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Not bad for an 8 year old that has never done it before.

One of my teachers early on was the great Paul Runyan. Held told me that kids are great imitators. When teaching groups of young people, he would place them in a circle facing in and holding a club. He would then stand in the center of the circle and make practice swings asking them to copy what he was doing. He got great results with this method.

So many times we try to teach children how to play golf and we start with the old chestnuts. Keep your left arm straight, turn, shift your weight and the most damaging of all, "keep your head down". What we usually do it confuse them and encourage paralysis through analysis.

Show the kids video of great players. Al Geiberger did a great video series called Sybervision. You can find it on youtube. Get your young aspiring golfers to watch it and then leave them alone. Or better yet, take video of them and show them their swing along side Al Geiberger's Sybervision swings. And above all, don't try yo teach them too much all at once. A teaspoon at at time is what is needed.