Largely because "learning" technology has not increased overall, despite the increase in numbers of "better" club technology and ball technology. The masses of golf instructors are not being taught "how to help students learn" or even how human being learn a motor skill, or even that there is a best way to swing the golf club. They tend to keep parroting the "old" clichés. The Golf Channel is a good example.
Bob Freer Bob Freer Golf Training 856 228 9332 609 202 3868 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Tutelman Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:38 PM To: Recipient list suppressed Subject: ShopTalk: Why no improvement? It is generally agreed that the average handicap has not dropped in the past ten years. (I have seen references. All estimate the ten-year change between 0 and 0.25 strokes improvement.) Why do you think this is, given all the improvements in golf club and ball technology over the same period? BTW, this lack of improvement on average also seems to be true for the tour professionals. So I can't write it off to a huge influx of novices dominating the stats. DaveT
