Apr 24, 2010
How To Find A Golf Pro
When you have practiced learning how to hit the golf ball by pitching, chipping and putting and you feel confident that you can hit the ball fairly well, it’s time to spend a little money on some lessons with a golf professional in your area.
In the UK the Professional Golf Association (PGA) is where you can search for golf professionals in your area. NOT ONLY that, but you can search for coaches in other countries too.
On the UK PGA website, click on the tab ‘Find your PGA Pro’ on the Home Page. You will see that you simply have to enter some basic area information to find a pro in your area.
My local search produced a map with eight golf courses with pros within about 10 miles of my home and 4 local clubs with PGA Pros within 2-3 of miles of where I live with the telephone numbers of the courses.
If you are based in the US, Australia, Spain or wherever, go to the national PGA website where you live to find information on local pros in your area. Simply type in ‘pga, Spain’ or Australia or any country that you live in.
Now let’s have a look at accessing International PGA Pros in the United States from the UK PGA website. On the ‘Find your PGA Pro’ page you can search for PGA pros in your country of choice. I simply left in the ‘United States of America’ default international country and was presented with a list of pros.
These are listed alphabetically by name, and by club with contact details. The problem here is that America is huge and the listings are not by state or town which is not be very helpful.
To narrow the search type in “USPGA official website” into Google and you will be directed to the USPGA website.Click on the ‘Instruction’ tab on the Home Page and then on the ‘Find a PGA Instructor’ link which will take you to another page where details on the type of instruction you want e.g. ‘Beginners lessons’, ‘men, women, group’ can be ticked.
I simply ticked the ‘Beginner Lessons’ box at the top and entered ‘Idaho’ as the state and left the ‘Within’ box at 10 miles of Boise, Idaho which produced a list of instructors and locations in and around Boise.
From there, to trace the contact details of local pros I typed in the name of one of the courses listed into Google and came up with the website including telephone numbers.
You could of course Google local clubs in your area – “PGA Golf Pros in Boise, Idaho”, or “Beginner golf lessons in Wolverhampton/Sidney/Alberta”, for example. I’m sure you don’t need me to explain how you do that.
Finding a pro anywhere where golf is played couldn’t be easier. Once you have tracked them down through an internet search, you just need to pick up the phone and call them. If you are just starting to play, ask if the instructor does beginner lessons, women’s lessons, group and individual lessons and what they charge. Simple.
