Know-how vs Knowledge

The most significant difference in my golf between before and after pandamic is how to learn golf. Too much information and too many techniques in golf. Before pandamic, I only focused on what my golf instructor taught once a week. I hardly took my swing video or watched any golf lesson programs.

Now I have to find my swing by myself. I am so overwhelmed because I realized 1. I need to learn a lot about golf swing by myself, 2. I need to fix a lot of parts of my swing and 3. even changing a small part of swing is so hard and I barely know how to.

It is fun to learn about golf and my swing. I know these parts needed to change, but finding ‘how to’ is another challenge. My body, not my brain needs to know how to.

Today I watched golf lesson videos from a famous Korean youtube channel. The first guest instructor was SeiYoung Kim, LPGA KPMG winner this week and the other instructor was NaYeon Choi 2012 US Open Champion. That is why I think about knowledge and knowhow. SeiYoung told how to make powerful driver swing (wow 277 yards) from her own simple know-how, while NaYeon told what makes good driver swing with so much anatomy knowledge. NaYeon sounded so smart and she can be a professor of golf college, but I felt SeiYoung’s lesson was more helpful. Not because she taught us how to, but because she made me realize I need to find my own knowhow. In golf: Know-how > Knowlege.