Tony Ruggiero and Jackson Koert sit down with PGA Master Professional, 2019 PGA Teacher of the Year and a GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher in America; Kevin Kirk. They discuss the lifelong commitment to better coaching. Kevin shares how he started coaching after playing professional for six years. He explains what he's learned at looking back to his time as a player, becoming a good teacher, and why he believes the next ground breaking ideas for golf will come from outside of the insdustry. He...

Tony Ruggiero, Dr. Scott Lynn, and Eric Brunner answer questions from club golfers at a weekend retreat. They share their insights on topics about consistency, different disciplines ever coach should know, overestimating how good tour players are, learning strategies on how to deal with your bad shots, dealing with mental blocks, the drills they use, why you should separate your training and so much more. Packed with great advice!

Tony Ruggerio and Zack Sucher sit down to talk about a year that didn't get the results that Zack had hoped for. He shares how he took responsibility and what drills and focus to change his performance. Amazing episode on his process of the changes he's made and how it's impacted his game.

Coming off a weekend program for developing Juniors, Tony Ruggiero sits down with Kevin Kirk, Kevin Sprecher and Ian Highfield to talk about all things coaching. From the mistakes that young teachers make, how to make learning stick and what they've learned from personal experience. They discuss Team Coaching in depth; its benefits, how to manage it, and its potential detriments, if it's missing vital factors, such as discipline, and structure.

This episode is focused around our partner show, Tour Coach by Tony Ruggiero. He's joined by Cody McBride, from "No Laying Up", Wayne Flint and Ryan Smith, to talk about the unique culture of “The Dewsweeper” and the future of instruction. Tony’s guests share their Dewsweeper experience, from what their expectations from what they’ve seen on his Instagram to training in person. They also share what they’ve been focusing on with their players and what’s effective for instruction and players...

Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teacher, Ted Sheftic, joins Tony Ruggiero to talk about what’s the same and what’s changed in his 56 years of teaching. They talk about the greats of golf instruction, and how instruction has changed over time. They discuss how even with advancing training technology, the information still points back to the importance of timeless fundamentals. Ted and Tony share their favorite training aid, talk about developing juniors and so much more. An amazing episode with a...

Tony Ruggiero and Dr. Bhrett McCabe, a Clinical and Sports Psychologist, take a look at mental health, and the new pressures that players experience. He shares his thoughts on success, and incredible insight into success, doubts, and fears. Finding the Catalyst School, Dr. Bhrett McCabe offers training for managers, parents, coaches, everybody involved in a player's development. You'll hear seven key points that are crucial for you being an effective coach and learn from their personal...

Tony Ruggiero sits down with legendary instructions at the Golf.com Top 100 Teachers Summit. He’s joined by Tom Resendez, Rick Silva, Jackson Koert, Jake Thurm, Mark Hackett, Wayne Flint, Ted and Mark Sheftic. They review what they’ve seen at the summit, the golf instruction business currently and where it's going along with technology, the role of 3D, developing juniors and what is the model of a great teacher. This episode brings together nine incredible instructors weighing in on all...

Tony Ruggiero sits down with Brad Pullin to hear about how he went from an early age to becoming a golf professional. He never thought about becoming a teacher but as his career path evolved it became clear it was the right choice. Tony and Brad share their personal experience in understanding those pivotal moments in making professional changes. Tony and Brad share what they do to keep growing, what they would tell younger teachers and what they would've done differently. Brad shares his...

Tony Ruggiero and Dr. Greg Cartin discuss the adversities they've seen Tour Players and teachers face. They dive into how success follows the joy of the action and how balancing the three components of results, fulfillment and learning are intricately intertwined in preventing burnout and sustaining a long career.

Heading into Q School, Tony Ruggiero sits down with Tour Players, Rick Lamb and Emilio Gonzalez, to talk about heading into Q School. Both share how their mentality plays a huge role in the lead up, the process to getting where they are today, what they do to prepare and how it changes as they get closer. They also offer advice to younger golfers they learned from their own mistakes, other golfers and offer an inside look into what it takes to be compete at the optimum level.

Tony has Tour Player, Akshay Bhatia, on the show this week. Tony shares what really stood out to him about Akshay. They talk about his journey and choices with turning Pro at 17 years old. The uncharted challenges he struggled with and how he’s worked through them the past two years. He talks about the amazing coaches that have helped on the journey, and what he’s learned from playing with some of the greatest in the game: Phil Mickelson, Jon Rahm, Bill Haas, Bryson DeChambeau and many more.

Tony sits down with legendary instructor Rick Smith. With decades of experience coaching the game’s greatest players, this episode is full of wisdom to all players and instructors. Rick shares the greatest lessons he’s learned from his players and experience. They also discuss the art of teaching, current obstacles for competing and the mindset a player needs to be the best.

Coach Adam Schriber, is recognized as one of the top 100 instructors and known as a pioneer of integrating fitness, biomechanical-influenced instruction, and digital technology tools into the game. Adam shares how meeting Mark Verstegen had a significant impact on his philosophies, the ways his approach to coaching Tour Players has changed over time, the new program he’s starting and why “a lot of things that help you to be good hold you back from being great.” Tony and Adam have a candid...

This week's episode is a roundtable at the Ocean Reef Retreat with Tony Ruggerio. He's joined by Dr. Scott Lynn, Jackson Koert, Michelle Winkler and a few players. They discuss the benefits of technology, science has brought to coaching alongside of the “old school” principles that will never lose their value. Along with what they see commonly overlooked components in coaching and how there’s a lot more to learn about the variations of anatomy. Amazing episode full of stories and examples for...

Kevin Kirk, PGA Master Professional, 2019 PGA Teacher of the Year and a GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teacher in America is Tony’s guest this week. Kevin attended the 2021 Olympics and has incredible insight from what he saw firsthand. Tony and Kevin also dive into the past, present and future of coaching. From expanding the scope of developing adults, the evolution of a coach’s role, coaching imperatives to what the path forward looks like for golf and the discrepancy of current youth programs to...

Jeff Smith and Tony talk about the recent boom in golf and give their predictions for how that'll play out in the future. Jeff shares how he started, the lessons he learned starting out from coaching all levels and how that led to his current success. Tony and Jeff exchange coaching's most valuable experiences, their greatest influences after they've had success and what they've learned from their different tour players.

Suzy Whaley, former president of PGA tour and Top 100 instructor, shares her experience learning from the greatest coaches, the non-linear path from college golf to the LPGA and instruction, and how to continue growing the game. Tony and Suzy dive into how the game of golf hasn’t changed but expectations, technology and readily available information have had a significant impact for junior players and young coaches. They also talk about overcoming the greatest challenges of coaching. Suzy and...

This week we hear the great story of how Noah Montgomery went from being an officer to coaching some of the best players in the world, like Gaganjeet Bhullar and John Catlin. He shares candid stories of being on tour, how players have changed the DNA of his coaching through the years, where he starts with players and what he focuses on the most.

Five experts: Tony Ruggiero, Kolby Tullier, Wayne Flint, Dr Greg Cartin and Jay Coffin discuss how to create a successful training program. Each sharing their experience on the environment, process of instruction and the significance of having different expertise but the same coaching values. This episode is full of key insights and good stories.

Michael Jacobs - 50 Best Teacher in America by Golf Digest, and top 100 Teacher in America by Golf Magazine; shares his journey, with Tony Ruggiero to creating his own research software and what the Jacobs 3D team is working on now. Teaching for 22 years, Michael explains how his focus changed and the 2 steps to becoming a great coach if you’re just starting out. Tony and Michael also discuss the culture of golf instruction and the great modern debate of pushing vs. pulling on the back of the...

This week’s guest is Shaun Webb - he’s a top 100 teacher, been coaching for 20 years and has achieved great success with his business Athletic Motion Golf. Athletic Motion Golf integrates other sports' exercises and drills to golf instruction. He also studies the commonalities of great players to incorporate and improve the uniqueness of each student. Tony and Shaun share four different similarities of great players, they also talk about what it takes to become a successful coach. This...

Tony Ruggiero is passing over his baton as Director of Instruction at Frederica Golf Course to Jackson Koert. For this significant moment, Tony sits down with Jackson and Abby Koert, Emilio Gonzalez, Nathan Jolly, and Joseph Dent to talk about mentoring. Tony shares the immense amount of wisdom he’s gained from mentors and years of coaching. They all reflect on the purpose that they find in their work and the biggest lessons they’ve learned. This episode is entertaining and insightful - a...

Tony Ruggiero and Tim Briand talk all things Golf Technology, from hybrid instruction, remote learning, on-course data, to fitting and equipment. A major driving factor is directly related to the average golf's age being younger. Tim Briand is the Global Director of Business Development with Foresight Sports. He’s spent the past 20 years in different aspects of the golf industry, helping companies be cutting edge in their Sales, Marketing, and Operations.

This week, Tony Ruggiero talks with Rick Silva, from Movement 3 Golf, about implementing golf research and biomechanics into better coaching. Rick was one of the first teachers in the USA to build his own 3d-capable studio and study advance biomechanics for golf performance.