Junior Coaching: Club face control – The Golf Shack Academy

Today we will be looking at club face control.

Junior coaching in golf can raise many questions. What’s the most effective way to get the best out of your kids, and how can we keep them interested in the great game of golf? This is because the approach to coaching juniors is different to that of coaching adults.

Andrew Simmonds and Phillip Akers from The Belfry have it all figured out with their junior coaching programmes.

In this video, Andrew and Phil discuss their club face control with the Pro down at the Shack.

Club face control

Often what we see with people down the range is that they just hit to one target and play just one type of shot.

What we try and teach is a little bit of variety, we make it nice and colourful, get goalposts and hula hoops out there and we get the kids to change their targets each time.

We also use a lot of chalk with this drill too. We get the kids to understand that the ball starts mostly via the direction the club face is pointing at impact.

So we get them to draw a line to understand that process a little bit more

About… Andrew and Phil

Andrew Simmonds is a PGA Professional with over 10 years of coaching experience. He taught at The Darren Clarke Golf School in Northern Ireland and then went on to complete the Advanced Certificate in Golf Coaching at the University of Birmingham, specialising in research of participation/drop rates in youth sport.

Andrew now consults with other PGA Professionals on how to run effective golf coaching programmes.

Phillip Akers is a Senior PGA National Academy Coach & Director of Junior Golf at The Belfry. Phillip specialises in Junior Development and coaches some of the finest junior golfers in the U.K.