Coastal Golf Academy (CGA) is the leading golf academy in North East Essex. It benefits from a choice of four main venues and coaching from PGA qualified professionals.
Whether you are looking to learn to play golf, or already an established player striving to take your game to the next level, CGA can meet your needs. Offering help and advice at every step of your golfing journey is the aim of the academy.
CGA prides itself on its growing reputation as one of the best in Essex for offering children the chance to learn to play the game.
For more details contact us via email info@coastalgolfacademy.co.uk
and telephone 01255 424261.
The Children's University is a national organisation that provides 7 to 14 year olds with exciting and innovative learning activities and experiences outside normal school hours.
Children who are members of the university have passports that they log hours when they take part in activities at validated learning destinations. Locally there are many schools offering children the chance to get involved, if your child isn't yet registered please contact their school or visit The Children's University website.
Through funding from Sportivate, anyone aged between 14 and 25 is invited to attend free golf lessons which are available across many of our venues.
Please click: here to find out more details.
The second year Colne Academy students with be joined by 8 new student starting their 2 year Golf BTEC programme in early September.
This year the students will hopefully benefit from working with two new members of the team - fitness instructor Gary Mason and Gerry Weatherly who will be working on improving the students' mental approach to the program and their game.
Please click here to find out more about the program and students
Frinton hosted the final secondary school cup event of the year with TTC running out winners.
27 players from all of the local secondary schools took part.
Read more > a full report with all results
See the photos of the day on our > Secondary Cup FaceBook Album
Children from a number of the local primary schools recently took part in the Tendring Tri-Golf 2011.
The winning school was Rolph primary.
The Individual winner was Brandon Divers from Walton Primary.
Read more > a full report with all results
See the photos of the day on our > TriGolf FaceBook Album
CGA's Scott Rusbridge has qualified as a Level 1 Plane Truth Golf instructor. It is an exciting new qualification to add to the Level 3 PGA qualified status he already holds.
Plane Truth Golf is an American based company which gives accredited coaches the opportunity to offer the most comprehensive and organised golf instruction. Scott now uses the "+ and -" Impact System, which helps in understanding a player's impact and ball flight. This helps when choosing which part of the swing to fix to give the most positive effect on the golfers ball flight.
The MyProfile system is an amazing online tool that allows golfers to view their swings from their lessons with Scott, to see a detailed explanation of diagnosed faults within the set-up and swing, and recommends personalised drills, practice planning and goal setting. Please contact Scott on 07966892634 to book a lesson with him.
Now that CGA are established at Colchester driving range the coaching available there is set to grow.
The coaching offered is designed to encourage new people to take up the game, as well as offering the serious adult and junior golfer the opportunity to improve their game.
Details of all forthcoming coaching at Colchester Driving Range > Coaching at Colchester PDF
Details of golfing lunches at Colchester Driving Range > Golfing lunches at Colchester PDF
Millers Barn recently hosted the spring Secondary School and College Cup.
Harwich won the Secondary school cup with TTC in Second Place.
The college cup is played for by our own Colne Golf Academy and Colchester 6th Form College. Colchester 6th Form retained the cup as the match was tied.
There was also an individual competition which James Bull from Clacton Coastal Academy won.
42 students played which was great to see and there were a number of new faces that have come through the golf passport coaching program that are run at weekends.
Please visit our Facebook page for more pictures.
Over the past 8 weeks there has been free golf coaching for any girl aged 6 -16 at Millers Barn Golf Park with Coastal Golf Academy Professional Scott Rusbridge.
The number of girls attending have been really encouraging with up to 15 girls attending. Trying to encourage girls into golf is an English Golf Union and Golf Foundation initiative and the funding for the sessions has been provided by them.
Essex County girls player Faye Trigg has been lending a hand to help inspire the girls into making golf their hobby or maybe becoming the next golf star. The girls have really shown enthusiasm and have enjoyed learning and playing fun games. The sessions are held on Monday evenings between 5:30pm- 6:30pm, if there are any girls that would like to attend please contact us on (01255) 424261.
A good number of ladies braved the conditions to attend the recent English Golf Union funded taster sessions.
With every golf club trying to attract more woman and girls into golf it was great to see new ladies attend. During the sessions there has been basic tuition from Tom & Scott, but most importantly it has given every lady the opportunity to try golf for many for the first time. Lady members from Frinton have been on hand to offer support and show what the club has to offer to the new golfer. It is hoped that the ladies that attended will be keen to return and start the journey of making golf a really enjoyable hobby. There is one last session still to be held on Saturday March 12th at Frinton. To book a place please ring us on (01255) 424261
