About Learn Golf

What we do

Learn Golf teaches the game to people who are learning it now. Most of our readers are in their first three years, play a couple of times a month, and are getting better more slowly than they expected. The guides are written for that golfer, not for a scratch player and not for a tour pro.

Every page answers one question and finishes it. If you arrive asking why the ball keeps curving right, you get the causes, the fixes, the drills and the practice dose on one page, in the order a coach would work through them. You are not sent to a second page halfway through. Coming over the top is a section inside the slice guide, because that is how a golfer experiences it: you do not think you have an out-to-in path problem, you think the ball keeps going right.

Good instruction also has to be honest about its own limits. Golf teaching genuinely disagrees about several things, and where a topic is contested we say so and give you the trade-off rather than picking a side and hiding the argument. Feel cues always come with a translation of what they are actually producing, and drills come with reps, frequency and how long before it should feel different.

Who writes it

Tom Ashworth

• PGA Professional
• 14 years teaching
• Surrey, UK

Tom Ashworth is a PGA Professional who has taught golf since 2012, working mainly with beginners and mid-handicappers at club level in Surrey. He reviews the instruction guides on Learn Golf for technical accuracy before they publish.

Most of his teaching is with players in their first three years of the game, and most arrive having been told too much: six swing thoughts collected from videos, half of them contradicting each other. His approach is to check the grip and the alignment before touching the swing, on the basis that most bad ball flight is decided at address.

Read Tom’s full profile →

Every instruction guide carries a byline and the date it was last checked, so you can see who stands behind it and how fresh it is.

How we write about gear

This is the part most sites are slippery about, so here it is plainly. Our gear pages are buying guides, not hands-on reviews. We have not hit these clubs, we have not run them across a launch monitor, and we are not going to write as though we have.

What we do instead is compare published specifications, explain the fitting logic that should drive the choice, and say who a product suits and who it does not. Every performance number on the site is either a manufacturer specification or a cited dataset, and it says which. There are no scores out of ten, because a single number cannot express that the right driver for a 95 mph swing is the wrong one for a 78 mph swing.

If we later buy and test a core set of gear, those pages will change and will say so on the page. Until then, the honest framing is the one you are reading. Our editorial policy sets out the whole process, and the affiliate disclosure covers how the site makes money.

What you will not find here

• No signup wall, no email gate, no paid tier, and no course to buy at the end. Every page is open.
• No promises about yardage or handicap. Anyone offering you twenty yards in a fortnight is selling something.
• No invented testimonials and no fake credentials. If we quote a golfer, it is a golfer.
• No stock photography of people laughing on fairways. The illustrations are drawn for this site, and anything showing technique is a coded diagram with the geometry set by hand.

Tell us when we are wrong

Golf instruction is full of confident people repeating things that are not true, and we are not immune to it. If something here looks wrong, we would rather fix the page than defend it. Corrections get a real read. Get in touch and tell us which page and what looks off.

Otherwise, start with golf for beginners if you are new, or head straight to all the guides.