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Prompting Golf

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Golf instruction, from the front lines.

Prompting Golf is a weekly letter by PGA teaching professional Mitch Bozentka — the patterns he sees in real lessons, the mistakes amateurs keep repeating, and what's happening as AI enters the teaching bay. No fluff. No tips you could Google.

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The letterAbout a 5-minute read

Three things. Every week.

One email, about a five-minute read. Free.

  1. 01. Front-line patterns

    One thing I saw on the lesson tee this week, and why it keeps showing up. What the ball did, what caused it at impact, and the change that fixed it.

  2. 02. The repeat offender

    A mistake amateurs keep making. Why it feels right, why it isn't, and what to do instead.

  3. 03. AI in the teaching bay

    What's actually changing as AI shows up in lessons. What helps, what's hype, and how to ask it a better question than “why do I slice?”

Topics

  • Clubface
  • Path
  • Impact
  • Ground contact
  • Course management
  • The mental game
  • AI in the teaching bay

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Pre-written answers, not a chatbot

Who is this for? Mitch: Golfers who want to understand why the ball does what it does. If you've tried tips that didn't stick, this is for you.

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Shot LabIllustrative · right-handed 7-iron

The face sets the start line. Face-to-path sets the curve.

A 7-iron seen from above. Flip the shot and watch which numbers move.

Draw. The ball starts 2 degrees right of the target because the face is 1.5 degrees open to the target. It then curves left and lands about 1 yard left of the target, because the face is 2.5 degrees closed to a club path that points 4 degrees right.

Face to path

Face closed to the path: the ball curves left.
Club path
+4.0°
Face angle
+1.5°
Face to path
−2.5°
Start
2.0° R
Shape
Draw
Carry
150 yd

Right-handed 7-iron · + means right of target · Side-to-side stretched ×6

The coach

Most misses start at impact. Most get fixed with one change.

I'm Mitch Bozentka, a PGA teaching professional in Austin. I spend my days on the lesson tee, and I watch the same handful of problems show up in very different swings.

I also pay attention to what's coming. Launch monitors, phone video, and now AI are changing how golfers learn. Some of it helps. A lot of it is noise. Prompting Golf is where I sort one from the other, using what I see in real lessons.

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See you on the lesson tee.

One letter a week: the patterns, the mistakes, and what AI is actually changing about how golf gets taught.

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