Can Dancing Improve your Golf Game?

Golfing

Dancing

Point of contact:

Grip

Frame

Clothing:

Clothing ranges from practical to flamboyant in competitive events

Ditto

How it looks:

Work really hard to make shots look easy

Work really hard to make dance steps look easy

Variety:

There are a variety of clubs and each serves a specific purpose for progressing through the course.

There are a variety of dances to adapt and succeed regardless of the music that is played.

Competition:

You are always competing against your own best swing, yardage, score, and efforts.

You are always competing against your own best technique, timing, endurance, and efforts.

Age group:

Unlike football or rugby, golf can be enjoyed at a high level from youth to senior

Ditto

Difficult technique to master:

The Full Swing

Swing & Sway

Worst way to improve:

Watching an instructional video or listening to advice from other amateurs

Watching an instructional video or listening to advice from other amateurs

Best way to improve:

Private Lessons

Private Lessons

3 Most essential items:

A driver, a wedge, and a putter

A fast tempo dance, a medium tempo dance, and a slow tempo dance

Anxiety shows when:

You’re teeing off in front of experienced golfers, or you’re putting in a pressure situation

You’re dancing in front of other dancers, or in front of family and friends.

Most common mistake:

Picking your head up to see where your shot goes

Keeping your head down to see where your feet go

One on One instruction:

Private Lesson

Private Lesson

Semi-Private:

Driving Range

Group Class

The real deal:

A round of Golf

Practice Party

These two sports can help each other because:

The timing and shaping of ballroom dances, plus the range of motion of Latin dances, can improve your game by several strokes

Golf requires great mechanics, mental focus, and a layered process for improvement. Those tools transition perfectly for anyone at any level in ballroom dancing.