Golf Tips
Coaching tips and drills to help young golfers build good habits early.
Indoor Golf Practice Ideas for Rainy Days and Winter
Safe, genuinely useful indoor drills for wet weekends and winter, sorted by how much space you actually have.
Which Tee Should My Child Play From? A Guide to Junior Tee Yardages
Choosing the right tee turns an impossible course into a playable one. Here is how to match tee length to how far your child actually hits it.
How to Improve Junior Golf Swing Speed Safely
Speed comes from growth, good contact and general athleticism long before it comes from training - here is the safe order to build it in.
How to Handle Pressure and Nerves in Junior Golf Competition
Nerves are normal and useful. Here are the tools that help a junior manage them, and what the adults around them should and should not do.
What Is a Legal Drop in Golf? Explained Simply
Knee height, the relief area, and what to do when the ball rolls out - the drop procedure explained step by step.
Golf Rules Every Junior Golfer Should Know
The dozen rules that cover almost every situation a junior will meet in a round, plus what to do when something unusual happens.
How to Read a Golf Scorecard, and What Par Actually Means
Par, birdies, bogeys, stroke index, gross, net and Stableford - the whole scorecard explained for a parent who has never played.
Common Junior Golf Swing Faults and Simple Fixes
The faults coaches see most often in young golfers, what each one looks like in ball flight, and a simple drill for each.
Bunker Play Basics for Junior Golfers
Why a bunker shot is the one shot where you do not hit the ball, and the setup that makes it work for a junior.
Chipping Basics for Junior Golfers
The setup, the stroke and the landing-spot habit that turn a missed green into a routine up-and-down for a young golfer.
How to Teach a Child to Putt: A Step-by-Step Guide
A step-by-step putting progression for a young child, from first grip to reading a green - with the drills that actually build feel.
Reading Greens: A Beginner's Guide for Junior Golfers
How to introduce slope, speed and grain to a young golfer without overwhelming them - and why pace matters more than line.
A Simple Pre-Round Warm-Up for Junior Golfers
A five-minute warm-up that gets a young golfer's body and focus ready, with versions for a full practice facility and for no facility at all.
How Often Should a Junior Golfer Practice?
How often a junior golfer should practise by age, what should go in a session, and the signs that the schedule needs to come down.
Golf Grip and Stance Basics for Junior Golfers
The two fundamentals worth getting right before anything else - how a child holds the club, and how they stand to the ball.
Golf Etiquette Every Junior Golfer Should Know
Safety, pace, care of the course and green manners - the on-course courtesies that get a junior golfer welcomed back.
How to Choose the Right Junior Golf Club Length
Height, not age, decides the right club length - here is how to measure, what the bands mean, which sets cover which heights, and when to re-fit.