A New York Times story today on the golf page reports that Tiger Woods’ coach Hank Haney has taken over as director of instruction at the International Junior Golf Academy located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. This is a top school for which some students pay as much as $47,000 a year. The academy is free of the conventional general educational traditions and mores that shape a very great deal of the schooling experience. Golf is also unapologetically competitive. The academy will do what it judges most effective to teach golf to its students. With that background in mind it is instructive to note that podcasts and Web-based instruction are part of the mix, as reported in the article:
Haney plans to review each student’s form every month. One of Haney’s gifts, he says, is sizing up someone’s game after watching one swing. A video center at his Dallas facility will make podcasts and Web-based instruction available to the juniors ”even when I’m not with them.”
