THE COACHING CHARTER

The coaching team at La Wantzenau Golf Club bases its activities around the three pillars of the coaching profession.

Initiate

FREE OF CHARGE
Free initiation sessions are organised once a week from April to September in line with the national campaign: “ TOUS AU GOLF ”.
GROUPS
Group courses at a reasonable price will allow total beginners to discover golf in a school structure with the bonus of loaned equipment and the necessary coaching.

3-MONTH DISCOVERY PACKAGE
An “ all in ” offer gives three months to “future” players to take their first steps when and as often as they want on the practice and school course, accompanied by as many group lessons as they like or five individual courses.

CORPORATE
Numerous commercial companies have already tried out our events menu and group initiations.
Introductions to golf are a chance for companies to offer seminars or group sessions to their staff to discover golf on the school and practice course, with high quality coaching.

INDIVIDUALLY
Various offers are available for individual lessons for beginners on the practice and school course.

JUNIOR SCHOOL
On Wednesday afternoons, from 14H to 16H, juniors from 7 to 18 years of age start out and improve in groups of levels, accompanied on the school and practice course by the instructors of La Wantzenau Golf Club.

Encourage a love of golf

The desire of the coaching team is to enable people to PLAY GOLF who have chosen to take their first swings at La Wantzenau Golf Club.
Golf is discovered and practised on a course suitable to the level of the audience concerned.
Situation scenarios take place both on the course and on the practice course.

Learning the rules of the game, the philosophy of the game and especially the PLEASURE of playing will be presented on the course and on the practice course.

Fun is the key word in the organisation of coaching at La Wantzenau Golf Club.
Competitions on the school course for subscribers, preparation for the green card, and various events are offered to beginners.

Improve

The homogenous coaching method enables beginners and experienced players to make continuous and harmonious progress.

Several levels are offered to players.

BEGINNERS :

INITIATION on the school and practice course: instruction in the basic fundamental techniques and their application to the course.
Instruction in the rules of the game and etiquette, integration into the world of golf and immersion in the philosophy of the game.

INITIATED PLAYERS:

PREPARATION FOR THE GREEN CARD which is the passport to the large course. In the form of clinics, groups courses and individual lessons.
Taking the Green Card test: organisation and forwarding of results to the French Golf Federation.

SEASONED PLAYERS:

Clinics, group courses and individual lessons to prepare for and obtain the first ranking.
Organisation with the Sports Association of rankings competitions, enrolments and management of handicap indexes.

CONFIRMED PLAYERS:

Improvement of performance through clinics, group courses and tailor-made individual lessons on the course and on the practice course.
Checks on progress and the assimilation of technical coaching through participation in competitions scheduled on the Sports Association's calendar, which organises competitions at the weekend and manages the handicap indexes.

ELITE CLUB PLAYERS:

The club's best players are trained and prepared for regional and national team and individual competitions.
Coaching is handled by the instructors and the planning of objectives and travel are handled in tandem with the Sports Association at La Wantzenau Golf Club.
The La Wantzenau team was champion of Alsace in 2002 and has been highly placed on several occasions.

THE COACHING METHOD

Whether you are a beginner or an elite player, the golfer at La Wantzenau Golf Club will find that a single method is practised by both coaches.

This method is based on the transmission of simple technical instruction, conveyed by coaching rich in actual situations and appropriate demonstrations.

The student is observed in actual game situations, resulting in a short- or long-term correction plan adapted to the actual needs of the student.

The coaching objective is to produce and control trajectories to make it possible to achieve a decent score and, of course, to enjoy the success of playing shots adapted to each situation.

The organisation and user-friendliness of the structure highlights the progress of the student and gives the coaching team the opportunity to assess actual progress and points that still need work.

A FEW FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

The golf swing has only one purpose: TO STRIKE A BALL A DEFINED DISTANCE AND IN A CHOSEN DIRECTION.

The fundamentals of a successful golf shot are:

- THE CONTACT BETWEEN THE CLUB AND THE BALL

- THE FEELING AND DIRECTION OF STRIKING THE TARGET BALL WITH THE CLUB

- THE SPEED OF THE CLUB

The harmonious combination of these three points enables the student to make a certain number of successful shots with greater regularity and therefore with greater pleasure!!!

HOW TO LEARN

Ask yourself three questions:

-What do I want to do: with the ball, with the club?
-How should I do it?
-Am I capable of doing it?

HOW TO MEASURE PROGRESS?

Ask yourself three questions:

-What did I want to do?
-In terms of shot?
-In terms of score?

-Did I do it?
-YES? I'll do it again.
-NO? What did I forget???

-Am I capable of doing it?

TACTICS
To the extent that the player has mastered a little of the technique, he should be able to construct a game plan suited to his technical abilities.
This tactical concern is a daily priority for the coaching team in order that players can play confidently at their level, which is the only guarantee of pleasure.