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Illustrated portrait of Tom Ashworth
Lead instruction editor

Tom Ashworth

PGA Professional

  • 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.

Areas of focus

  • Beginner instruction and first-year fundamentals
  • Grip, setup and alignment diagnosis
  • Ball flight and fault correction for mid-handicappers
  • Club fitting basics for new golfers

Credentials

  • PGA Professional, qualified 2012
  • 14 years teaching at club level
  • Based in Surrey, United Kingdom

How these guides are checked

Every instruction guide on the site is reviewed against the same standard before it publishes: statistics carry a linked primary source, technique diagrams are drawn deliberately rather than generated, and any advice that good coaches genuinely disagree about is labelled as contested rather than presented as settled. The full standard is set out in our editorial policy.

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