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.
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At The Golf College, we offer an educational & golfing experience like no other… Students enjoy unlimited access to golf coaching, 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 WAGR events 🏌️♂️
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Our golfers paradise 🌞 for our winter training 🏌🏼♀️🏌️♂️ @castromarimgolfe_algarve
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Taking it back to our Par 3 Championship at Lindfield Golf Club last term #Throwback
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Well done to both Xavier Hollands & Oliver Martin who shared the 2nd Year Student of the Year 2022 Award at our end of term prize presentations
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Albatross alert 🚨🚨 well done @ethan_hall_95 who holed out his second shot from 215 yards on the 534 yard Par 5 9th hole @knoleparkgolfclub 🔥
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Not only a great coach but also commentary skills on point @jackbadogolf - a little clip from the 18th hole with the winner of the Golf College Challenge 2022 @hugh.adams1
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Jake Boddie getting in the reps on the range at Lindfield Golf Club last term 🚀
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Throwback to our chipping skills testing at The Golf College - our proximity is good 👏
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A little #throwback to this year’s WAGR Tournament in Portugal 🇵🇹
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🚨 Sound on!! Great #throwback to the WAGR Tournament with a bit of 18th tee shot action from @mac.dunk.golf
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Nice moves from @d.razinskasgolf on the first tee at Lindfield 🚀
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Congratulations to our second year student Charlie Lund for winning the Academic Student of the Year 2022 Award in our end of term prize presentation 👏 @c.lund.1
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What a strike! 🚀 Harley Allan smoking a drive up the 4th hole @castromarimgolfe_algarve Grouse course
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Well done to our student @o_murphygolf #Repost
• @o_murphygolf Great week representing Ulster @golfirelandofficial interprovincial championship winning 5 out of 6 matches and undefeated in singles. ⛳️🚀
Thanks @alexbucknergolf for all your help with all of our students over the years 🙌 from all of us at The Golf College and @thegolfcollegedegree we wish you the best of luck with your next chapter #Repost
• @alexbucknergolf End of term and the end of a chapter for me!
Thank you to @thegolfcollege1 & @thegolfcollegedegree for a great few years! Been an amazing and rewarding experience helping the students games!
Thank you to Paul, @jackbadogolf , Spencer, Adam, @marksbrailey @richardfungon , Denis and the rest of the team! 📈
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Well done @hugh.adams1 The Golf College Champion 2022 🏆
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#Throwback to @billy._.golf warming up ahead of the Jack Mudd Memorial Trophy at the end of term
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They don’t come around very often. But when they do it’s special!!! Albatross on the 3rd hole, par 5 for Josh 👏
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Just look at our practise area👏 at the home of The Golf College Lindfield Golf Club
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Great putting sessions for our students with @1nextgenerationgolf
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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
