Swinging into Success: Teaching Golf with Specialized Content Knowledge in Physical Education

Given golf’s growing popularity in the United States, school physical education serves as an effective and cost-efficient platform for introducing fundamental golf skills and sparking interest among children and youth. To teach golf successfully in physical education, teachers require sophisticated, specialized content knowledge going beyond performing basic skills and knowing game rules. This article presents teaching resources designed to enhance the specialized content knowledge of both preservice and inservice physical education teachers for teaching golf. Included is a comprehensive packet featuring common performance errors with corresponding error corrections, and a sample 15-day block plan for instruction.