The Best Golf Instruction, Golf Lessons and Golf Teaching in San Diego

Who is the best golf teacher?

January 5, 2023 by

There are a few important issues and factors to take into consideration in determining who is the ‘best’ golf teacher. First, is a particular instructor best for ‘you’   It almost doesn’t matter how ‘technically’ great a golf instructor is, if you don’t mesh well and get along with him/her, you likely won’t incorporate the directions

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Are golf lessons worth it for beginners?

January 5, 2023 by

Golf is hard enough, even using ‘correct’ technique, much less swinging with ‘incorrect’ technique. Likely a beginning golfer wants the game to be as easy as possible and to have fun. If the game is too difficult to the beginning golfer, s/he will likely not stick with golf and will eventually stop playing this wonderful

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Golf Range Synthetic Mats – To Hit Off Them or Not ?

September 27, 2016 by

Does practicing off those green rubber astro-turf-type synthetic mats help or hurt your game? While being interviewed by Golf Digest, Lee Trevino has said: “Synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball

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Golf Student of San Diego Golf Instructor Jim Hassey cards multiple birdies in post-lesson round.

April 11, 2016 by

Golf student Kyam stops to have photos taken to memorialize a couple of his birdies he made in the same round at Bonita Golf Club after his lessons with San Diego Professional Golf Instructor Jim Hassey. You can see some of his improvement here.

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West Hills High School Student Qualifies for His Golf Team After Working With Golf Instructor Jim Hassey For Only 4 Weeks !

March 3, 2016 by

Antonio’s father found Mr. Hassey after Antonio had worked with other golf instructors and wasn’t seeing improvement. With only 4 weeks before golf-team tryouts Antonio didn’t have much time. After 5 intense golf-training lessons, Mr. Hassey was able to get most of Antonio’s old bad habits corrected and his swing on the right path. After

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How To Grip the Golf Club

October 5, 2015 by

There are two main reasons the grip is so important and 3 main goals of the golf grip. The first reason the grip is so important is that it’s our body’s only connection to the golf-club. No other part of our body touches the club. Second, the grip is the only part of the golf-swing

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Fix the Right Hand Flip… Fix Your Swing

September 18, 2015 by

Probably the biggest cause of both inconsistent contact as well as loss of distance is the fact that the right-hand is not educated and trained properly. My students ask me all the time… “shouldn’t my right-hand just ‘go along for the ride’?” My answer is always the same. Absolutely Not! The right-hand actually has a

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The Correct Position At The Top Of The Backswing Is Extremely Important

September 1, 2015 by

I do agree with Mr. Hogan’s belief that if the golfer can get in the correct position in the back-swing it makes the through-swing much easier. Here I’m working with student Kyam. We’ve drastically improved his hand action through impact… now we have to give him the correct position in the back-swing so he can

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