Welcome to The Golf College which has been based at Lindfield Golf Club since 2007.
As The Golf College has management control of its own facility it is able to give an educational and golfing experience like no other. Students enjoy unlimited access to golf course, practice balls, trackman, long game and short game facilities, which run alongside its 50+ tournament rounds which are delivered each year, including our own PGA Professional event and WAGA events.
Our first-class coaching team presides over an average of 17 hours of coaching each week consisting of 6 full time and the many specialist coaches in areas such as such as putting, chipping, Bio Mechanics and Sports Psychology enabling each student to ‘become the best they can be’.
This coaching team which consists of nationally and internationally recognised coaches with years of coaching experience including the coach to an Open Champion, two European Tour players and a Trackman Master Professional.
Everything the student needs is onsite;
- 18 hole golf course
- 16 bay covered driving range
- Short game area
- Putting practice areas
- Dedicated classrooms
- Gym
- Dining facilities
- Locker room
- Student common room
EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
Our educational record is outstanding and well above the national average for achievement in the BTEC qualification. In previous years an average of 85% of our students have achieved Distinctions leading to opportunities in Higher Education.
In addition, for those students who have not achieved satisfactory grades in GCSE English and Maths we provide extra tuition in these subjects. We are an approved Examination Centre and conduct nationally audited English and Maths exams on site.
Uniquely the college spends its winter term from January to March in Portugal and is the only college in the UK which is allowed to deliver The BTEC Extended Diploma in this way. This provides our students with the unique opportunity to continue with both their education and their golf development during the British winter.
OUR EXPERIENCE
Which has been gathered over the last 15 years has enabled us to understand and guide any student who embarks on their journey with us, not only providing them with a unique educational and golfing experience, but also life after the college, whether that is with us through our own BA Honours Degrees, college in the USA and even Professional ranks.
Below is an outline of what each student receives:
- BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma
(delivered by our educational partners and taught in small class groups allowing for more personal attention.) - PGA Professional Trackman Golf Coaching
- Specialist short game, long game and putting coaching
- Mental toughness coaching from a top sports psychologist
- 3-D Bio-mechanics analysis feeding into swing coaching and improvement
- 17+ hours of golf coaching per week from a team of 6 highly respected coaches
- Unlimited access to golf course, unlimited free practice range balls, trackman, long game and short game facilities
- 50+ competition rounds per year including our own PGA professional event and a WAGA event
- One entire term (January through March) in Portugal where the student’s education and golf development continues.
EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
Our educational record is outstanding and well above the national average for achievement in the BTEC qualification. In previous years an average of 85% of our students have achieved Distinctions leading to opportunities in Higher Education.
In addition, for those students who have not achieved satisfactory grades in GCSE English and Maths we provide extra tuition in these subjects. We are an approved Examination Centre and conduct nationally audited English and Maths exams on site.
Uniquely the college spends its winter term from January to March in Portugal and is the only college in the UK which is allowed to deliver The BTEC Extended Diploma in this way. This provides our students with the unique opportunity to continue with both their education and their golf development during the British winter.
OUR EXPERIENCE
Which has been gathered over the last 14 years has enabled us to understand and guide any student who embarks on their journey with us, not only providing them with a unique educational and golfing experience, but also life after the college, whether that is with us through our own BA Honours Degrees, college in the USA and even Professional ranks.
Below is an outline of what each student receives:
- BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma
(taught in small class groups allowing for more personal attention.) - PGA Professional Trackman Golf Coaching
- Specialist short game, long game and putting coaching
- Mental toughness coaching from a top sports psychologist
- 3-D Bio-mechanics analysis feeding into swing coaching and improvement
- 17+ hours of golf coaching per week from a team of 6 highly respected coaches
- Unlimited access to golf course, unlimited free practice range balls, trackman, long game and short game facilities
- 50+ competition rounds per year including our own PGA professional event and a WAGA event
- One entire term (January through March) in Portugal where the student’s education and golf development continues.
The coaches you will be studying under at The Golf College are outstanding in their individual fields. Golf College Coaches include Master Professional Denis Pugh, who coached Colin Montgomerie to eight European Tour Order of Merit wins, Founder and Head Coach Paul Lyons.
Weekly golf competitions during term-time in the UK, combined with 9 weeks of golf training abroad during the winter months, provide plenty of opportunities for students to reduce their handicap, sharpen their games, and prepare for a season of golf. Are you competitive?
New Government Legislation from the Department For Education requiring all students to remain in education until the age of 18, we have the perfect platform to deliver all the Golf Education Programmes leaving students with endless possibilities within the industry.
We run our popular Golf College Open Days throughout the year, and we are now recruiting for our 2022/2023 intake. Open day starts at 10:00hrs and finishes approx. 14:00hrs. To book your place either call us on 01444 484467, or click below to register your interest.
COLLEGE BLOG
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NEW GOLF COLLEGE GROUP PHOTO 2021
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Golf College Degree Celebrations Class 2021
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Well done Callum! 👏🏼
Well done Hugh!!🏌️♂️
Well done to Callum Pearce on winning the Silver Barrel Trophy at lpswich GC. Callum is Ufford Park's Junior Captain, he won his 2nd Suffolk Order of Merit event of the season with two great
rounds. He shot gross 73 in the first round and 1 under par 70 in the for round 2 for a -9 nett total to
take the Win 👏🏆
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Congrats to our winner of the Golf College Champs 🏆 @hugh.adams1 >>> swipe for the top 5 leaderboard, well done all!
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Laurence hitting a 🚀 down the 1st hole at Lindfield yesterday getting our Golf College Championships underway 👏
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HOLE IN ONE ALERT! 🚨🚨🚨 @stephen_evans_golf on the 12th at Lindfield Golf Club 🔥
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Interested in a career in golf? Contact us to find out how you could join us at The Golf College - email info@thegolfcollege.com or drop us a DM ⛳️
Big congrats to our alumni @alf1e_p on the @challengetour win in France 🇫🇷 🏆
#Repost • @challengetour The moment @alf1e_p secured his second Challenge Tour victory in France ❤️
#OpendeBretagne
The swing that is -15 under par for the last 4 tournament rounds at Lindfield Golf Club 🔥🔥
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Another great performance by @josh.hayez in this weeks Order of Merit at Lindfield Golf Club with -4 👏
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Great to have @1nextgenerationgolf in this week! Students were working on green reading and start line from various distances around the hole⛳️
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Welcome to our new sports psychologist @sarah_performanceedge 👏 who helped to deliver The Golf College mental toughness program this week
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Congratulations to our former Golf College & Degree students @jamie_wood18 & @montins_ for making it through to the final qualifying of @theopen 🙌 let’s go and get one of the spots next week for the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews 💪🏌️♂️
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Olivier is one of our first year’s from Switzerland 🇨🇭and for the past 3 seasons his handicap has been stuck at 7. But since joining us in September he has dropped down to 2 handicap and is playing some amazing golf and improving all the time!
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“My handicap has come down so much because of a few things, I’ve worked hard on my swing work with the coaches, I basically play all day every day now and things have felt like they have fallen into place” Olivier Schneiter, Bern Golf Club.
@hugh.adams1 2 putts the last to finish on -7 for the tournament to win The Golf College Challenge 👏 well played Hugh and to all our students, what a great experience!
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What a great first day of the PGA Golf College Challenge 👏Micah Blowers Jnr takes the joint lead with 66, with our students Hugh Adams and Josh Hayes with 67's, just one back 🏌️♂️ ready for the last day tomorrow in perfect conditions!
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This morning our Year 2’s arranged the inaugural Golf College Seniors Invitational for the Lindfield GC seniors. A morning of putting, chipping and Trackman analysis followed by a 9 hole event. The students have arranged this event from start to finish as part of their BTEC coursework and even managed to secure a sponsor (Zebedees.co.uk) to provide the prizes - well done year 2’s 👏
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Great work @ameliacurtis.golf 3 years in a row 🙌 #repost
• @ameliacurtis.golf Got the ‘W’ at Club Champs, that’s now 3 years on the trot, and 4 years out of 5, buzzing
Who doesn’t love Friday skills testing at The Golf College 👏
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Swipe to see @josh.hayez teeing off the last for a superb score of 64, 6 under par and victory in today’s Golf College Order of Merit
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Our student @jackhalliwellgolf in full practise mode on the range 🏌️♂️
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Well done to our current first year student Olivier who won a Swiss Golf Regional event over half-term 👏
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The vision of The Golf College in West Sussex, UK is precisely as you’d expect: expansive, ambitious and all-inclusive. For our players, we expect to help you become the best that you can be; to give you an education and a qualification you can use; and to put you on a career path in the golfing world.
The vision of The Golf College, West Sussex, for our teachers, is that they will deliver the highest quality of speciality coaching and educational teaching for golf and for careers in golf – including the physical, mental and academic preparation that will give our students the start they need.
- Students will live in family accommodation.
- All families have been carefully selected, CRB checked and inspected by Fiona Handcock, who has 27 years experience in teaching, looking after and placing students in host family accommodation.
- Most of our families are in the Haywards Heath/Lindfield/Cuckfield/Burgess Hill area and have many years experience in hosting overseas language students and are used to caring for young people away from home.
- Accommodation will be in twin or single rooms, 1, 2 or 3 students to a family. Rooms will have a bed, wardrobe and cupboard space and a desk with chair for homework for each student.
- The families provide comfortable family accommodation, two meals a day (breakfast and evening meal) and students live with them as a family member and may enjoy normal family activities with them.
- Students join their families on Monday evening after college and depart on Friday morning to go to college. Extra nights or weekend stays may be arranged on an individual basis with each family. The Golf College provides a minibus service transporting students to and from Lindfield am and pm with pick-up points in Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill and en-route.
Our facilities are all on-site.
- 300 Yard Grass Range
- Trackman Launch Monitor
- Fully Equipped Gym
- 2 Purpose Built Class Rooms
- 18 Hole Golf Course
- Putting & Short Game Zones
- Indoor Swing & Putting Studio
During the UK winter months the golf students head of to our locations in Spain and Portugal.
Our Supporting Partners
