Tony sits down with Ben Carr, Erica Shepherd Williams, and Jackson Koert to talk about what they’ve learned at college, and how they are prepared for the next level and stage of their journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with Troy Grant of Long Beach, California. Troy is a great young up-and-coming teacher Tony met on his travels. Lots of insight from being a good player playing professionally, to transitioning to helping others play the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with his two friends and long-time mentors Wayne Flint and Mark Wood to talk about the timeless instruction of Hank Johnson, as found in the old Golf Digest archives by Luke Kerr Dineen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with Jackson Koert, Justin Parsons, and "Coop" to discuss prep of their players this week, how to play Augusta National, and what to look forward to this week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony and Jackson Koert talk practice round prep with Ben Carr at the 2023 Masters, and discuss being a first-time Patron with Golf fans Tom Lee and Wade Hamilton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with Golf Magazine Top 100, and Golf Digest Top 50 instructor Shaun Webb in this edition of the Golf Coach Development Forum. Shaun shares his journey in coaching, how they built AMG Golf online, and findings from his research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with former PGA Player - and 2-time winner - now a teacher and coach, to talk about the lessons he learned as a player; and how he's transferred these lessons to helping the next generation of players! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with Golf Digest Top 50 instructor Martin Chuck to discuss his journey from club professional to the Guru of training aids, and teaching regular golfers every day who want to get better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Insights from two students of different levels, and what they took from working with Kolby Tullier, Mark Hackett, and I together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with Ryan French and talks about his journey to becoming a social media sensation; and writing about the lesser-known stories of the journeys of those trying to scrap and scrape through mini-tour, and Monday qualifying to get to the PGA Tour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with new Golf Teaching Hall of Fame member Mike McGetterick to talk about influences and mentoring; and how to practice and play from his Hall of Fame career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wayne Flint, Justin Parsons, Jackson Koert and a host of others sit in with Tony Ruggiero to discuss where the process starts to get better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony sits down with Drew Steckel - one of the top teachers and coaches on the PGA and LIV Tours! They talk all things teaching on tour, and how you can get better as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Neff - founder of GEARS - takes us through his journey into the 3D technology that is so prevalent in teaching today. Michael shares some of the secrets and findings from his work and journey! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Korn Ferry player Emilio Gonzalez, college player Will McFadden, and Jackson Koert sit and talk about the stages of growth, and development in preparation for a new season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Taken from the Golf Coach Development Forum this week, Tony, Justin Parsons, and a host of others discuss the need and use of technology in instruction from a teacher and player perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Round table discussion with Dr Greg Cartin, Mark Hackett, Dan Terlescki, Lynn Valentine, Morgan Hale, Josh Bialowans! The instruction staff discusses how to practice, how to improve and how to coach players of all skill levels as well as helping and mentoring teachers and coaches ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ben Carr and Tony talk about his past year; the mistakes and lessons that led to finishing as runner-up at the U.S. Amateur Championship. They share what they did to get him back on track, such as blocking out external pressures, getting back to fundamentals, understanding his swing, and what are the next steps in leveling up his game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony Ruggiero and Jackson Koert talk with Peter Knade and Emilio Gonzalez about this year's Q School, and getting their korn ferry cards, after missing it last year. They discuss the differences and process that lead to their growth and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tony is hanging out with Donald Cooper and Vaughn Taylor at RSM, for the last tour event of the year. They talk about what the best players do with practicing and practice rounds. Coop shares how practice rounds are to adapt to the conditions, not to work on your swing or your game. Cooper and Taylor share what they focus on the days before the tournament, what he needs to get out of practice at home vs. a tournament. Cooper shares the best practices he's ever seen, and why he studies divets. Le...
Justin Parsons is Tony’s guest this week. They discuss the cyclical patterns that come with coaching and managing those ups and downs. Justin's advice is to be realistic about your players within the plan you would like for them and where they are in their lives and physical ability. He also emphasizes the value to committing to the process and appreciating even little gains. Justin shares the blueprint of his players' success and how he’s helped one from being a mediocre iron player to one of t...
Tony hosts a round table with Mark Hackett, Dan Terlescki, Lynn Valentine, Richard Terga, and Tim Jankowsski to discuss the many ways to help cut handicaps by 20%. Everyone weighs in on what to focus on to make that happen. From understanding how far you carry the ball, your numbers, using technology, important fundamentals, short game, and course management. They discuss how to navigate the challenges and help players from recreational to advanced improve their game. Learn more about your ad ch...
Sean Foley joins Tony Ruggiero and Jackson Koert to answer questions and share his coach development journey. You’ll hear what and who he credits from when he started playing at 10 years old to creating his own Elite Journey Program. Over the course of his life he’s always been curious and willing to out work everyone. He also shared how social media has alleviated some difficulty for coaches which helped his success. He recommends his favorite resources for coach development and advice regardin...
Tony Ruggiero, Jackson Koert & Morgan Hale hold a Q&A with their players before heading into a training program. You’ll hear their team philosophy and plan for the training program. Each of them weigh in on how to coach recreational players, advanced players returning to the game, their advice for players transitioning from high school to college. They explain the foundations of golf, how not to overcomplicate practice and why they often find themselves coaching players on how to unlearn...
They kick off with Josh’s journey from playing in college and on Tour to coaching some of the best players today. The most important factor for him is having a personal connection and relationship. He shares past mistakes and how he’s developed his simple and effective approach. You’ll hear how he helps his players get out of learned tendencies, bringing technical feels onto the course, and how he focuses 99% of short game training on and why. This episode is full of advice on how to get your pl...
Tony Ruggiero is joined by Paul Schempp, Steve Moore, Robert Campbell and Jackson Koert to discuss the differences between good and great coaches and define what novice coaches do compared to confident coaches. This episode is full of great advice on how to get your players to owning the information you teach them. Each of them share significant coaching moments that will help every player and coach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After Tony Ruggiero and Smylie Kaufman reflect on their years working together – Smylie was one of the best students Tony ever had. Smylie shares the secret to his success was his understanding of his swing and kept it very simple, by having three to four things he’d monitor. They dive into specific techniques and approaches, as well as the best advice he’s ever received, what the best players can do and how his greatest strengths as a player have helped him in broadcasting. Learn more about you...
Zack Sucher, Eric Brunner and Tony talk about getting Zack ready for Q School - mentally, physically and technically. They dive into the biggest factors that have improved his short game, full swing and how to get back to the habits that work best. For Zack, refocusing his priorities was crucial. For some time he was chasing speed, but he had to go back to focusing on hitting the ball solid all the time first, before working on distance and speed. They also discuss the lessons learned during the...
Ralph Bauer and Tony talk all things putting. He explains where he starts when work with tour players, it’s changing their perspective to understanding how they missed is due to misreading instead of pushing or pulling. He talks about his new app, and how it solves the missing part to putting better is reading the greens better. The technology accelerates what would take years into weeks. They also discuss which grip is best for your putting, and the data he found from testing twelve tour player...
Hal Sutton joins Tony to talk about what he learned from his success of playing on Tour and how he transitioned into instruction. Hal shares how instruction has taking away his feel for the game, and what he would tell his younger self about goals, who to work with and how to navigate success. He gives his best advice to college players wanting to pro, how to gain experience, the necessity of being honest, disciplined and playing with freedom. This is episode is full of great insight, stories an...
