I totally disagree. Someone that has taught the game for 30 years knows what you need after about 15 minutes of playing. Can you tell me what Butch Harmon has won in world wide events? Yet, he teaches the last top 10 golfers for the last 20 years and has been number one in golf teaching. Having won big events means nothing as far as someone's skill in teaching, in fact, it probably means you'll get less for the money.
Somehow I just cannot compare a golf teacher to a pool teacher.
In the first place, golf is an athletic endeavor. There are many facets of it...(of which I know nothing...having never played it).
But there are a lot more muscles required, a lot more body motions to control, the course itself is not flat and level like a pool table, the cups on the greens are placed in different places, the golfer has to allow for the lay of the land to predict his rolls. He competes against the weather too.
Pool, on the other hand is played on a flat smooth surface...inside a building (except in some countries.)
Good eyesight and the ability to line up the shots and deliver the stroke in a straight pure manner, then get position...and that's about it.
Pool players can be fat, lazy, drunk, on dope, or upright and clean or dirty and asleep on a park bench.
I'd say the concept of "pressure" is about equal in the two...but one is a game and the other is an athletic sport, in my opinion .
Guess we'll just always disagree on that...but the top pool instructors are few and far between in my opinion. I think most just want a stable of customers from which they can steadily drain money. Notice I did say "most"...not all.
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