ANDrew's Golf Creed

No matter how hard you try and how good your technique, you are humanly fallible and will hit bad shots.

Embrace and accept that the game of golf is very difficult and there is no "magic bullet" to success.

Golf is mysterious. Well hit shots will turn out bad and poorly executed shots will work out well.

In order to truly improve and mature as a player you must understand the inter-relationship of the four (4) parts of the game of golf: full shots (woods and irons), short shots (chipping, pitching, bunkers), putting, and management (personal behavior and game strategies).

Always maintain good body language, exhibiting dignity, grace and humility in success and failure. Accept personal responsibility for your bad shots as well as the good shots.

Andrew's mantra: "short game, short game, short game, randomize, randomize, randomize, routine, routine, routine."

Practice more often what you're weak on, NOT what you're good at.

Honest evaluation of your game demands that players have a reasonable knowledge of their performance statistics based on actual data: Not only scores and handicap but greens in regulation (GIR), fairways in regulation (FIR), putts in regulation (PIR) and "Trouble" Bogies (TRB).

Learning to play golf is generally a marathon not a sprint. The player/student does all the work and sees every shot they hit. Progress is normally slow with peaks and valleys but they are ALWAYS improving, even in failure and slow-growth periods. Nobody can ever take away the work that the player/student has done and this is what makes success in golf so satisfying and rewarding. You WILL get out what you put in.

Golf is a game and as such is meant to be FUN. If playing and practicing aren't fun and enjoyable, lower your expectations or don't pursue the game.