I'm confused. Is that a jab at the 8xx rated guy or are you saying rating doesn't matter for coaches.
Rating doesn't matter for experience whatsoever in coaching. This is a bit of a touchy subject for me, so understand this isn't an attack on you or anyone in here, but on the topic and idiotic idea overall of you gotta be good to teach.
If the attitude is that a player must be some level of elite to teach, then there isn't a single coach out there that can teach you other than Dave Feldberg or Scott Stokley.
Cause it sure is shit aint Uli. Nor is it Josh at OT, Coach T, Clint, anyone. Not seabass, loopghost, me, brychanus. nobody except the 2 coaches above who have shown outstanding ability for years on the golf course and actually know how to coach and teach and understand the mechanics of the swing. Feldberg far more than stokley. Almost all of the best coaches in history were not star athletes, they were geniuses on understanding the game and had above average skill levels in the game. Very few elite level players in sports have turned into elite level coaches. Larry Bird is one that always comes to mind, but there isn't very many.
It's not that peoples opinions out there might be invalid.
But present the information if you are trying to coach from a humble viewpoint, especially if you've not even played the game for a year. And this is where a lot of bad ju ju is coming in the coaching area now. I probably don't help it whatsoever by pointing fingers. But the fingers were pointed at me when I started making coaching video's before I knew I didn't know jack shit. Nothing like having loopghost come in on your video and drop a duce on you. And people get upset about me pointing it out.
And so we got a bunch of un studied people trying to teach, and good on them, but lack the whole picture because they are not studied on the topic.
So, Just cause I have a crap rating doesn't mean my brain doesn't work, and my teaching methods are bad. I can still throw 2 to 3 times as many shot shapes as you. Could care less if you throw 100 foot further than me or 500 foot. I still will always have a higher skill level because I have to practice ALL the shots and shot shapes, disc methods, putting methods, upshot methods, roller methods. So I can teach players to do them when they ask. Yep. I'm going to be a baller level 1010 player.
But, I can tell you when I play money rounds, I keep up with the 980 rated guys. I just jack up 1 or 2 holes really bad to take me out of the cash because they are that good of players that those 2 strokes I lost on that 1 hole takes me out cause of a bad tree hit, or a missed up shot. So, while my tournament rating might be outright garbage because I will play 1 round and go home of the 2 rounds. Or things go bad for me, cause I'm not a tournament style player. Doesn't mean a damn thing about my ability to play the game overall and what I "can" do.