Rebecca Dengler Golf - A Better Approach to the Game

If you're reading this, you're looking for a better approach to learning the game of golf.

We all know that golf instruction for a lot of players has not been very helpful. It is a common occurrence that many players get more frustrated with golf instruction rather than improving. In fact, many players and teachers seem to think you need to get worse before you get better! Perhaps this is why many players quit the game altogether.

I promise to teach differently.

This short slide show explains my teaching philosophy and some of the key concepts I employ. Please take a few minutes to view my website. Contact me with any questions. Or find the "Book a Lesson" link below and schedule a lesson at our Wilmington, DE facility.

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Named One of 50 Top Teachers by the LPGA, Golf Digest and Golf for Women Magazine!

Simple Instruction with Smaller Steps

Behavioral specialists, researchers, fitness experts and golf pros who really teach more effectively agree on this key concept:

Skills and behaviors can easily be changed for the better if they are taught in simpler and smaller steps.

I am always seeking new ideas and techniques to make me a better teacher. I consulted the best minds in golf, including the Swedish golf coaches who worked with Annika Sorenstam. They all agree most players get too much information while learning and they can't keep up with it all.

Too often the golf swing is made overly-technical and so complicated that improvement is impossible for the average player. "Simpler is better" is a key concept in my teaching, and it has been working successfully for my students for years.

There's More to Golf than the Full Swing The full golf swing is not the whole story!

In fact, full swings make up fewer than 50% of your strokes in a game of golf, yet most players (and many teachers!) spend 90% of their focus on the full swing.

Players need to learn all the skills of the game in their proper proportion. Short game skills are crucial. Putting, alone, makes up more than 40% of all players' shots in a round of golf!

Be Positive!

Positive reinforcement encourages change much more effectively than negative reinforcement.

It is more effective to approach a golf skill by thinking of what you want to do, versus what you do not want to do. For example, instead of telling yourself "don't top the ball," you can more easily learn to "hit the ball in the air."

I want to create an environment where really positive change is possible for all players, from beginners to those playing at tournament level. I invite you to schedule a lesson through this website.

Find the "Book a Lesson" button below and come see me.

I hope learning and playing golf brings you as much enjoyment as teaching the game does to me!

News from Becky Dengler

Starting off 2012.......

Click here to listen to a podcast of Becky discussing off-season ideas with Rick Woeffel of Women's Golf Report.

I just returned from playing a few days in North Carolina, it was 65 degrees so I made a quick trip. I hope everyone else is enjoying the mild weather while it stays. A few notes to begin this season with .....

*My friends at Vision 54 ask the qeustion "what is your most important intention for 2012 and what can you do about it in the next few days." I personally will be pondering this thought and hope you will to. Life does not need to happen to us, we can make it happen!

*My predictions for 2012... short game is in, less obsession with the full swing, yeah! Good body, good golf swing, golf fitness becomes even more mainstream! Tee it forward tees and easier courses get the business, we are getting tired of paying alot for as difficult golf course. Perhaps one or two more course closings in the area and more around the rest of the country. Public golf is in, private CC's continue to struggle.

* I want to apologize to everyone concerning the golf industry and how it often seems ungrateful for your business (the women reading this perhaps are more aware of this then others)! Golf can learn from the skiing industry who is much more successful making customers feel welcome and accomidating to all their needs.

*My intention for 2012 will be to make sure you are aware of how grateful I am for your support. I often feel as though I am learning as much as you in a lesson. I vow to provide more cost effective and innovative programing.

Best to everyone in 2012!

May you be happy, may you be well, Becky

Current news.....January 2012

Current news...

Want to good resturant savings as well, help out a girls golf teeam in NJ? Please go to juniors section of this website and consider helping out the Moorestown Girls golf team fundraiser ....

I will be off to the PGA Merchandise golf show at the end of January, please let me know if there is anything you would like to look at .....

I am honored to be presenting with some of my collegues at the upcoming World Scientific Congress of Golf in AZ come March! We are very excited to be a part of a program that present the most current research in golf! I will be bringing back some new information to be able to help out players reach their goals!

I have already been scheduling lessons for the spring, my schedule will be open soon for everyone to go online at smarterlssons.com. If the weather stays mild like this, lessons will begin in March!

Check out Becky's recommendation for insoles to imporve your game and comfort. See A-line insole artical under golf tips on this site! I love mine!

Best Regards for 2012!

Becky

Off season...

I have turned off the scheduling service for the off season, but I will be available during resonable weather outside (above 50 degrees) and as well available indoors at Play-a-Round Golf in Malvern, PA.

Please call me at 610-724-3913 if needed during the off season.

I will be posting programs and specials on this site as well as articles and other interesting material.

Best,

Becky

Congratulations Becky

Recognized as

US Kids Golf Master Teacher, 2011

Golf Digest Top Three Teachers in State, November 2011

November 2011,LPGA National Seminar highlights...

LPGA National Seminar highlights.....

As always, Lynn Marriot and Pia Nilsson, stole the show at our seminar. Their new book, Play Your Best Golf Now, is great. I got to spend alittle time with them and really like their 54 practice tips booklet and their play book as well. Go to Vision 54.com and pick up these for yourself and others, makes a great unique christmas gift.

Rick Jensen, a well known Sports Psychologist discussed the process the brain and body goes through in making changes in your swing. He emphasized that if the changes are not well enough learned, under stress players will revert to what their body knows best, perhaps the previous swing. He had some good fun analogies. Check him out and his newest book.

Say the stack and tilt instructors, Plummer and Bennett, and I am still processing that information. In discussing with other teachers they were as well equally challenged with the concept.

Heard from our commissioner, Mike Whan, watch out for a strong and growing LPGA!

Best, Becky