{"id":357375,"date":"2025-12-19T02:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357375\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:47:08","slug":"the-worst-golf-advice-amateurs-receive-according-to-5-top-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357375\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst golf advice amateurs receive, according to 5 top teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">Taking swing advice from your golf buddies is a lot like taking medical advice from your barber \u2014 well-intentioned, but rarely helpful.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s no shortage of <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/instruction\/best-golf-tips-top-teachers-timeless-tips\/?srsltid=AfmBOooG1Ru8gE1tWMYLUOkpQR4iy40ePrC_vd13RSk3_tUtYJ4JRcFG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great golf tips<\/a> you can receive from top-rated instructors, sometimes knowing which tips to ignore can be just as important as knowing which ones to follow.<\/p>\n<p>To help cut through the noise, we went straight to the source. This past week, more than 100 of the game\u2019s brightest coaches gathered at <a href=\"https:\/\/coursefinder.golf.com\/course-profile\/3907-Cabot-Citrus-Farms-(Karoo)\/#lat=28.69144,long=-82.481573,4.00z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Cabot Citrus Farms<\/a> for GOLF Magazine\u2019s annual teaching summit. <\/p>\n<p>And lucky for you, our Claire Rogers was on-site asking the questions everyday golfers actually care about \u2014 including this one: What\u2019s the worst piece of golf advice golf instructors overhear on the range?<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out their answers below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The worst golf advice amateurs receive<\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cYou\u2019re coming over the top. Most people don\u2019t know what they\u2019re coming over the top of,\u201d \u2013 Jason Baile\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cKeep your head down, grip it like a baby bird, swing slow,\u201d \u2013 Maureen Farrell<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cKeep your head down,\u201d \u2013 Stef Shaw<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cKeep your head down,\u201d \u2013 Cathy Kim<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cHead down, hit down, slow down. If that\u2019s the advice that you\u2019re getting, that\u2019s why you\u2019re not getting any better,\u201d \u2013 Jake Thurm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taking swing advice from your golf buddies is a lot like taking medical advice from your barber \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-357375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}