Expert Coaching
We provide focused coaching with clear, simple guidance. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned player, we tailor our approach to fit your needs and help you reach your goals.
Personalized Plans
We create a plan that’s specific to you. By understanding your strengths and weaknesses, we ensure your training is designed to improve your game effectively and efficiently, step by step.
On-Course Focus
Our sessions take place on the course, where real improvements happen. We help you apply new skills directly in the game, ensuring they translate into better performance during play.
About Us
Provide Golf Expertise
At The Playing Academy in Basildon, Essex, we welcome golfers of all levels. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced player, we aim to help you improve your game. We offer both group and one-on-one coaching to support your growth on and off the course.
We focus on more than just fixing mistakes; our goal is to help you enjoy the game and take control of your performance. Our sessions combine on-course practice with skill-building training. We create personalised plans and track your progress, ensuring each session brings you closer to your goals.
Our mission at The Playing Academy is to make golf accessible and fun for everyone. We aim to inspire players of all ages and skill levels to try golf, grow their skills, and keep playing for years to come.
Years Experience
Happy Members
Dedicated Coaches
Golfers Trained
What We Offer
Expert Golf Coaching for All Levels
Beginner Golf Coaching
Learn golf in a relaxed, supportive environment. Improve skills at your own pace while making new friends. Whether you're starting fresh or progressing, we ensure you feel comfortable and confident. Enjoy the journey, build your game, and have fun on and off the course.
Social Player Support
Refine your game with expert guidance. We assess your skills, correct bad habits, and create a personalised plan. Improve through on-course play and group training. Gain confidence, enjoy smoother rounds, and make the game more enjoyable while playing with friends or in social golf settings.
Competitive Player Training
Lower your scores with structured coaching. We analyse your game, identify weaknesses, and create a plan for improvement. Whether you take lessons elsewhere or not, our focus is real-game results. Step by step, we help you break scoring barriers and play at your best.
Peak Performance Golf
Overcome barriers stopping your progress. Identify key mistakes, refine your technique, and follow a personalised improvement plan. With expert support and accountability, unlock your full potential. Gain confidence, stay on track, and take your game to the next level. Let’s achieve your best together!
JUNIOR GOLF
WHY YOUR KIDS SHOULD BE ENTICED TO PLAY GOLF
Golf is a game of a lifetime. Every hole on the course, like every day in life is a new opportunity to experience joy. There are challenges and rewards. There is hard work, but there is luck. There’s friendships and solidarity. There’s solitude and reflection. You “never arrive” at golf, it’s an endless journey and getting your child on this journey is one of the best things you can do for them.
Here’s why,
IT’S FUN
Golf offers a variety of situation and experiences that keep kids engaged and having fun
IT”S SAFE
Golf courses are safe environments where your child can be free to play, have fun and grow.
GETTING OUTDOORS
Children today are spending too much time indoors in front of screens. Golf is a great way to get them out into the fresh air for hours at a time.
GETTING PHYSICALLY ACTIVE
Spending hours playing and moving is so important for the development of a child’s physical literacy. Junior golf programmes are one of the best ways to get your child active.
QUALITY FAMILY TIME
Golf is one of the few sports that enable the entire family to be together and enjoy the same game for hours at a time.
FRIENDSHIPS
Children will learn how to acquaint themselves with others and will have many opportunities to make new friends.
RESPECT FOR SELF AND OTHERS
The tradition of etiquette in golf teaches children how to behave and treat others respectfully.
BROADER WORLDVIEW
Golf brings people from all walks of life together to share in their enjoyment of the game. This help children appreciate diversity.
BUSSINESS SKILLS
Golfers are faced with a variety of situations during a round that require problem solving skills and self-confidence to manage. These skills will be invaluable for business in later life.
SELF IMPROVEMENT
Golf challenges players to assess themselves, accept critique and look for ways to improve. This teaches children self-reliance.
Let them enjoy what golf has to offer.
Whether it’s the immediate benefits like fun, outdoor exercise and family time or long term benefits like physical and mental development, golf has so much to offer your child. Give them the chance to experience it all.
This was written by Rob Noel
JUNIOR GOLFING FUN
These sessions help young people see golf as a fun sport with a gentle introduction to the skills needed to play the game. Weekly sessions of games and tasks to complete including a subtle nudge of learning incorporated. Introductory level for young people from 4 – 7yrs
LEARN TO PLAY
These sessions are slightly longer giving ample of opportunity to improve the skills required to get on the course. More instruction on the technical aspects required to help control the ball. Develop an understanding of how the different shots might fit together to complete a hole on the golf course.
. Weekly 90 min sessions
. Develop the 5 core shots to complete a round on the course
. Opportunity to play monthly Tour series
9 Hole Event
PLAY TO COMPETE
The time of these classes increases further, but the class size decreases therefore allowing more time to implement individual improvement plans with the coaches. There is more golf course time. For players working through the hat system on the monthly junior tour events.
. Weekly 2Hr sessions
. 4/6 :1 Player coach ratio
. 6 month or more commitment
. 3 Monthly sit down with Coach
ELITE PLAYERS
The class is for the more dedicated player, a player who is looking for club and county representative honours. More emphasis of ball control, shot shaping and individual excellence. The following might be true for these players:
. Dedicated
. Open Minded
. Special talent
. Appetite to succeed
. Driven
. Special attitude
This class is by invitation only
Perks
Benefits You Don't Wanna Miss!
Our Team
Meet Our Professionals
Albert Thomas
Frank Gibson
Amanda Toms
Larry Klark
Pricing Plan
Choose Your Suitable Plan
Individual Session
One to One Valid for one month
- Video analysis
- Physical bio-mechanical test
- 1D Force Plate Data
- Flightscope Data
Junior Lesson
45 Mins Valid for one month
- Swing Video Analysis
- Skill assessment
- Specific Improvement identification
- General Improvement Plan
OUR IDEAS
We Guarantee You Improve And Reach Your Goal
For Competitive Players Wishing To Break Personal Scoring Barriers
You currently play on a regular basis, you may have an official handicap and wish to take your game to the next level. You could be having golf lessons at another facility and need another perspective, we don't mind if you have lessons elsewhere, we are about your performance on the course. Our coaching is result based and we guarantee to get you to your desired outcome. We start by assessing your game and current skill levels; we achieved this by quantifying and testing your current performance level. Throughout the process, we assess, we consult, we plan, we implement and we support you to your desired outcome.
For The Player Wishing To Be The Best Possible Version Of Themselves
You would have been playing for a while, possibly to a high or very high standard but seem unable to move up to the next level. You are being held back by that one re-occurring hurdle, or an accumulation of small mishaps, that you just can’t overcome. It could be you are not sure how to go about achieving your breakthrough, you require help in identifying the reasons for your lack of progress. You might be a player that understands their game but just requires a plan to follow and some support through that journey. We can provide the experience, knowledge and know how, to hold you accountable. We want to share the journey with you.
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