Bernadette Moore is a Class A member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division and has thirty years of
experience teaching golf at the high school and college level in Ireland, Australia, and the U.S. She has been
a fitness advisor to the Irish mens and womens golf teams and an instructor at the Gillette LPGA Golf Schools.
Detty is currently a professor of physical education at Lamar University, a director of the LPGA Girls Golf Club
in Beaumont, Texas, and an instructor at Peggy Kirk Bells Golfari at Pine Needles, North Carolina.
Summary
Teaching Kids Golf is all any parent will ever need to welcome a child to the sport he or she will play for
a lifetime. Written by a golfer with more than 25 years of teaching kids and adults at some of the countries most
prestigious golf schools, this latest addition to the acclaimed Baffled Parents series covers everything from the
basics of proper grip and swing techniques, to putting, pitching, driving, and managing time on the course.
Q&A sections provide solutions to problems new instructors face
Designed for golfing and non-golfing parents alike
Takes a drill-based approach to teaching the basics
Table of Contents
Foreword by Sandra H. Eriksson
Introduction
1. Creating a Positive Atmosphere
A Word on Teaching
Be a Role Model
Be Encouraging
Taking the Game to the Course
Keeping Score
Play the Ball as It Lies
Keep Them Challenged
Competition
Play Your Own Game
Winning and Losing
Misbehaving on the Course
A Word on Physical Conditioning
Questions and Answers
2. Before Hitting the Golf Course: Golf in a Nutshell
Introduction to Golf
Getting Started
A Typical Scenario on the Course
Scoring
Basic Rules
3. The Journey of a Lifetime
History of Golf
Clubs
Everything But the Clubs
Questions and Answers
4. Fundamentals
Teaching GPA: Grip, Posture, and Alignment
Grip
Posture
Alignment
Preshot Routine
Questions and Answers
5. Putting and Chipping
Teaching Putting
Teaching Chipping
Putting and Chipping Drills
Putting and Chipping Games
Questions and Answers
6. Pitching and the Full Swing
Pitch Shot
Full Swing
Ball Flight
Pitching and Full-Swing Drills
Pitching and Full-Swing Games
Questions and Answers
7. Bunker Shots
Basics
Beyond the Basic Sand Shot
Drills for the Bunker
8. Special Shots
Hilly Lies
Around Trees
Wind
Drills for Special Shots
Appendix
The Rules Simplified
Glossary
Resources
Associations and Organizations
Programs
Web Sites and Electronic Newsletters
General
