The letter with the highest number after it is your highest learning style. The second highest score indicates your secondary preference. If you have equal ratings, you are fortunate in that you can shift between styles which is very helpful for learning and playing golf.
Tips for Using Your Primary Learning Style to Improve Your Golf...
Now that you know which learning style you rely on most, let's use it to boost your lessons, practice, game plan and play.
AUDITORY:
-Golf Lessons
Have your teacher fully explain everything he wants you to do. Discuss and repeat back or rephrase what he/she is asking you to do as a way of reinforcing learning.
-Golf Practice
Have an internal conversation with yourself, discussing what you are working on. Coach yourself, correct yourself or congratulate yourself with this internal conversation.
-Golf Game Plan Discuss your strategy for playing the course with your coach, instructor, caddie or "yourself" with your internal dialogue. Verbalize details of the course, yardages, targets and clubs.
-Play
Talk to your caddie or yourself, a lot. Especially before each shot. It is especially important for you to verbalize to yourself or to your caddie what you plan to do before you do it...i.e. the club you will use, the directional and landing targets you will use, the shape of the shot you intend to hit.
VISUAL:
-Golf Lessons
Ask your instructor or coach to teach your lessons with sequenced demonstrations. And, to use video to show you what he/she is trying to help you do. After your lesson, write down what you learned. It will help if you or your teacher creates simple little diagrams or sketches or pictures illustrating what you are trying to do.
-Golf Practice
Use lots of visualization in your practice and preparation. "See" yourself confidently executing your shots and putts before you "do".
-Golf Game Plan
Imagine how you plan to play each hole. Better yet, get out a course map and draw your strategy on each hole.
-Play
Especially emphasize visualizing every shot clearly before you execute...see the ball flight, see the landing, see the roll. Same with putts...clearly see the speed of the roll and the ball rolling, see the ball falling into the cup at a definite spot.
KINESTHETIC:
-Golf Lessons
Ask your instructor to start your lessons by putting you in positions to get right into "doing" and waste little time "telling"! You will get far more from actively feeling and doing the lesson than you will hearing about or seeing the lesson.
-Golf Practice
Try to duplicate and lock in the "feel" of shots and putts you hit well in lessons or in play. Make it your goal to warm up this "feel" before you play.
-Golf Game Plan
Be the ball! Sounds strange, but just as if you are the ball, feel yourself traveling from tee to targets to hole on every hole.
-Play
Especially emphasize the "feel" of each shot or putt before you execute. Make this a kinesthetic feeling in some part of your body rather than a check list of positions.
Multiple Learning Styles
If you are fortunate enough to have multiple strong learning styles, you will be able to blend use of the above in a variety of ways to get the most from your lessons, practice, game plan and play.
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