Joel Rickard Golf

I like learning golfing techniques to hit the ball further. When I first started Joel's lessons, as I attempt to hit the ball, I spun round (literally doing a full twist) (360 degrees) (laugh out loud). Joel showed me how I did it and then how it should be done and he twisted a lot less than I did (probably only a few degrees) and that soon got me out of that bad habit! I like Joel's motto of everyone is different because that is a good way of trying to meet the needs of the individual. I assumed that I was too strong for putting because my shots on the green would overshoot the hole by quite a long way. But Joel taught me to do the pendulum technique, where my shoulders go in a pendulum motion and the rest of my body has to be still (ideally) and definitely do not move my wrists otherwise the club can scoop the ball in any direction. Otherwise there is no secret to putting apart from practice and strength does not come into it. The bunker can be tricky because there is a technique of how you are meant to position the club and you are suppose to change your position slightly. I was told to hit the sand about 3 centimetres in front of the ball, so that I would hit the ball first. I thought I did because I saw the sand move but I thought wrong because I hit the ball without realising it. I remember the last session when Joel could not touch me directly because of the health and safety of Covid 19. I had a golf club hovering over my head and must try not to raise my head over the club. I took it very seriously and made extra effort to put my head down and the funny bit was when I had a golf club to the right side of my head and again I made extra effort to move my head to the left, which I think made my body shift to the left leg and I could not help but notice the club to my right and burst out laughing and he said "keep your eye on the ball!" I went to Cambridge Lakes and scored 4 Pars (4 holes in 3 shots each). The Par 3 is saying that a professional player should be expected to get each hole in 3 shots (all holes are Par 3). If I am a beginner would that make me Par 5 or 6 (maybe more)? That would mean that I have 4 eagles (-2) or 4 albatrosses (-3) or better scores like what I have seen from the Internet: condor = -4, Ostrich = -5 and Phoenix = -6. I managed to find some long sticks for the swing plane and I managed to do it. Dad drew a line on the rolling pin and Mum only found out after we practised hitting the rolling pin with the golf club. It was a lot more difficult with a rolling pin, I managed to keep it straight some how, didn't work for my Dad as much. Dad gave the rolling pin a very thorough wash (laugh out loud!). Dad and I tried putting 2 books a little more than a club head apart. Dad managed to aim the club through the gap between the books. At first my club went above the books and Dad told me to aim lower and I generally managed apart from one attempt. We also tried putting a ball on the top of the club and another ball at the heal of the club and the balls did do what Joel said, they crossed over each other when hit. Dad and I tried the exercise of making the line dissect through your head and the imaginary rod close to your hip. At first I made extra effort to move my right hip far left and Dad told me to just do it naturally. Dad and I more or less did the exercise as it should be done. I am looking forward to more lessons when the time is available.
Jan 16th, 2021

Having had a few lessons with Joel earlier in the year, I found his teaching easy to follow and beneficial. The recent videos were good and recreating them at home in this present situation has been fun. Keep up the good work Joel. Kind regards Malcolm
Apr 29th, 2020

Aug 8th, 2019