Pros to offer classroom teaching

Two PGA professionals at Ramside Hall Hotel & Golf Club in Durham are to offer recreational golfers a year-long programme of classroom teaching instead of simply providing driving range lessons, a bid to improve their game. The learning will centre on practice, preparation, psychology, fitness, course management, scoring strategy and swing technique.

Kevin Jackson and Mark Rayson believe the traditional approach of merely teaching golfers how to hit balls on the driving range is not effective, and will therefore offer seminars featuring coaches, psychologists and fitness and nutrition experts.

Kevin Jackson, the head professional, said: “In the 13 years I’ve have been teaching people to play golf at Ramside, advances in technology and golf equipment have made the game so much easier to play yet people’s scores and handicaps haven’t improved.

“The average player rushes onto the first tee unprepared without any warm up, practice or a composed mental approach and wonders why they struggle.”

The duo have launched the ‘North East Golf Experts’ series of 10 seminars for 2012. Each one will be followed by a practical skills clinic where golfers can put what they learn into practice.

The series gets underway on February 23 at Ramside Hall with a seminar led by sports psychology graduate Gordon Morrison, an advanced PGA Professional from Linden Hall Golf Club, Northumberland, on improving practice.

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