SwingPlay

Golf’s Greenland will allow users to experience a storytelling adventure of golf’s swing motion and putting fundamentals through imaginative play that is simple, easy and fun! The sensory enriching methods used in this book will help users easily learn to understand techniques needed in one aspect of golf, namely putting, yet keep the learning a game!

This program gives children a simple understanding for the game of golf and how a player would move a ball with a putter. Golf has traditionally been a difficult game to learn. Now, by combining golf with art, learning the fundamentals of golf is simple, easy and fun. Once a child learns the Activity Book Fundamentals, they could visit a nearby golf course putting green to act out and recreate the games with the help of the teen or adult mentors who were present during the learning experiences.

Sample Parent/Child Putting PAPERplay Lesson:
Needed materials: table, scissors, coloring pens, and whiffle ball

Storytelling Golf Experiences: Message from Nancy
“Each page you read and play Will make you a better golfer someday!”

Parents read to your child sample pages 6 ~ 7 ~ 9 of Golf’s Greenland

Acrobat Reader Required.

Page 6: The Putter and the Rainbow

Page 7: Practice Made Fun

Page 9: A Baby Dragon To Play With

For Parents: Golf lessons learned through Storytelling:
1. Name of club to use when putting
2. The upside down arc of the club
3. Clubs heel and toe to know
4. Thick rainbow making = square clubface when putting
5. Length of putting arc play
6. Predicting outcome of putting arc play

Parents download & print page 5 of Putting PAPERplay Activity Book onto heavy weight 8 ½ x11 Paper

Cut & Color Rainbow and Paintbrush out with your child-
Red, Orange, Yellow (a different yellow type?) , Green, Blue, Purple

1. Have your child hold the paintbrush over the rainbow and create a small rainbow
Put the whiffle ball in the middle of the rainbow so your child can see how the ball goes a little way

2. Have your child hold the paintbrush over the rainbow and create a BIG rainbow
Put the whiffle ball in the middle of the rainbow so your child can see how the ball goes a far way

3. Have your child hold the paintbrush over the rainbow and create THIN rainbows
Help your child to experience how the ball goes left or right when the paintbrush is looking anywhere but straight ahead

4. With your child holding the paintbrush, help them to create a THICK rainbows
Help your child to experience how the ball goes straighter when the paintbrush is looking straight ahead and you are helping them learn the lesson of a square clubface in golf practice

1. Stick the colored paintbrush to your child’s putter.
Use tape and attach the bottom of the paintbrush to the putter’s face. Stick the handle to the shaft of the putter at top

2. Play at home with your child using the putter and a ball. Create games using the BIG, small, and THICK rainbows around hallways and corners of the house.
This will help child to continue to analyze, recognize and build more self awareness and trust in the games learned

“Children are learning through SWINGplay are taking a much more active role in learning the game, and are even able to impart what they know to other beginners. Nancy has created a program that is truly remarkable.”

John Morrison
2000 Director
LPGA Urban Youth Golf Program

Experience SWINGPlay first hand with free downloadable activities from Nancy’s books Golf’s Greenland™ and Putting PAPERplay™

Nancy Dunn-Kato is a Certified LPGA Class A Professional who has both played and taught golf for over 24 years. She has previously been selected by Golf for Women Magazine as one of the 50 Top Teachers for her innovative methods of teaching.