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Based in a contemporary styled club in the heart of the City our Golf Department is truly unique to London. If you are a Full Member or a Golf Member or just wanting to learn the sport then the City of London’s Premier Golf Academy is the place to be. We offer both PGA tuition and the City’s only dedicated Biomechanical Golf Program. Offering 2D video analysis, 6 Fullswing golf Simulators, three dedicated practice areas , over 50 Courses from around the world and introducing the city’s only official Explanar center, The Academy at City Golf Clubs is the place to Learn, Practice or Play.
LEARN
Golf Tuition Program
The club's instructional program has been universally designed for both beginner and experienced golfers wanting to dramatically reduce their handicap. PGA professionals will analyze your swing using the latest GASP video analysis to identify any inefficiency and using corrective practices will help you to simplify your technique. All our lessons use video as it is best forum for the student to learn about their swing and witness instant progress. Members also can use the 2D Analysis when practicing without an instructor.
Your tuition program will include of all aspects of the game from Basic Instruction, Shot Making Skills, Course Management, Equipment, Mental/ Emotional Instruction and Physical Conditioning, ensuring that you will improve your swing as well as your score. The tuition program runs in conjunction with your biomechanical program in order to allow you to fast track your learning. To learn more please email James Morrow at jamesmorrow@citygolfclubs.com
Biomechanical Golf Program
The biomechanical golf program at City Golf Clubs is unique to the City of London. It has been designed by some of the finest golf fitness specialists in the world, telling you exactly why you swing the club the way you do, and how to fix it through a golf specific fitness program. As a student, you will have access to a program that since recently has only been available to the elite tour players. Our screening consists of 12 tests that are golf specific and focus on the body's ability to be both mobile and stable in the golf swing. We focus on the ankle, knee, hip, pelvis/sacrum/lumbar spine, thoracic Spine, scapulo-thoracic, and the gleno-humeral/ shoulders. Our program is the link from your body to your golf swing.
Your first lesson as a full member will entail the player’s brief history, a golf specific screening that will find any physical limitations that can and will alter your swing as well as a comprehensive 2D Swing Analysis that looks at twelve of the most common swing faults.
Following your screening, you will be emailed a full report within 24 hours with your findings of any physical limitations that you may have and your Golf Fitness Handicap and your personal Golf Specific program that will improve both your Mobility and Stability. You will also have your very own personal golf fitness website designed that you can view your exercise program with and even download your program onto you Video IPOD.
If you have any questions about screenings or would like to book a screening as a member or even a non-member then contact Arthur Bates at arthurbates@citygolfclubs.com.
Video Analysis
Our 2D GASP video software enables instructors to capture swings from multiple angles. Your swing can then be compared to those of the world's leading PGA and European PGA Tours players, allowing the instructors to highlight the strengths and weaknesses in your swing.
The ability to draw lines, show club path and even overlay tour players with your swings allows our instructors to focus on specific aspects of your technique and implement drills and practices to facilitate your improvement. Swings will be archived so that technical improvement can be visualized.
Individual, Group or Package Lessons can be booked by both Members and Non-Members on a half hour or hourly basis. Please contact one of our team if you require any further information or wish to book a lesson.
golflessons@citygolfclubs.com
The club also provides the latest golfing equipment, so there is no need to bring your own clubs.
PRACTICE
Golf Simulators
The simulators have extensive practice areas, including a driving range that you can focus on your swing. Approach shot area where you can hit shots into a green from 25 yards up to 225 yards away with bunkers and trees. A chipping and putting area where you can work on the most important part of the game. All areas give accurate statistical feedback on ball flight including carry distance, launch angle, ball speed, direction, and shot shape. Information like this is not readily available when practicing outside or at your local golf course and is a great way to improve your technique before hitting the links. “If you can hit the shot consistently in the simulator than you can hit it outside”.
The club also provides the latest golfing equipment, so there is no need to bring your own clubs.
PLAY
Golf
The "Fullswing Simulators" can access over 50 courses from around the world including The Old Course at St Andrews, Pebble Beach, The Beflry and many American PGA Tour courses on which to practice course strategy, club selection or just play a round with a friend at lunch. With a variety of different formats to play from Stroke and Match play to Texas scramble and even Ryder Cup Formats you can enjoy hitting the links only minutes away from your office.
If you wish to make a booking please contact the club at golfbookings@citygolfclubs.com
Monthly Medal
If you are a member then sign-up for City Golf Clubs Monthly Medal were you can win great prizes from Champagne, Whiskey to rounds of golf at many of our Golf Club partners, weekend hotel packs from The Old Course Hotel in St Andrews and a trip to Northern France from Your Golf Holidays.
If you’re a member or would like to become one and would like to sign-up for the Monthly Medal then contact arthurbates@citygolfclubs.com or jamesmorrow@citygolfclubs.com
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor with City Golf Clubs then please contact arthurbates@citygolfclubs.com
The club also provides the latest golfing equipment, so there is no need to bring your own clubs.
Lesson Packages
Lessons are 30 minutes unless otherwise stated
Introductory lesson - £25.00
a taster of the club
Golf Lesson - £50.00
Golf Lesson with 30 minutes practice time - £75.00
Designed for GOLFERS who enjoy a lesson from time to time but may not have the time to commit to longer term practice
3 Golf Lessons - £130.00
3 Golf Lessons with 30 minute Practice Time - £175.00
the perfect gift for the person who loves golf
5 Golf Lesson - £200.00
5 Golf Lessons with 30 minute Practice Time - £275.00
Ideal for the Beginner golfer. FOR THOSE looking to learn about golf with proper tuition and TO prepare for playing golf on a course
Playing Lessons
9 Holes - £70.00
18 Holes - £125.00
An 18 hole playing lesson enables YOUR pga TRAINER to CHECK YOUR GAME on the course. It enables us to teach you shots that WOULD OTHERWISE BE difficult to practice properly indoors and allows us to focus ON ALL aspects of the game
Biomechanical Screening - £150.00
Biomechanical golf screening allows us to closely examine the impact individual body parts have on your golf game and therefore how to improve your game by targeting specific or isolated movements. This program can be used either by the individual or with your personal trainer.
• 30 minute golf Specific Fitness Screen
• 30 Minute 2D Swing Analysis
• PersonaliSe website with your Exercise Program
• Golf Fitness Handicap
Explanar Package
5 lessons for £200
Explanar Packages at The Academy at City Golf
• Learn how to swing the club on your Optimum Biomechanical Swing Plane (does this make sense?).
• Swinging on plane helps you to hit the ball consistently further and straighter.
• Explanar makes it easy to find your optimum plane and, through feel, creates a more powerful and repeatable motion.
• Let Explanar take care of your swing, so you can focus on playing the shot (this sounds clumsy but probably makes sense).
Ideal for Golfers with the following Swing Faults
• Flat or Steep takeaway
• Poor position at the top of the swing
• Over the Top swing
• Chicken Wing
City Golf Clubs HAS the only Golf Academy in the city of London THAT OFFERS the Explanar SYSTEM TO ITS MEMBERS AND GUESTS full time
Testimonials:
Peter Cowen, the No 1 coach in Europe and one of the World’s leading teachers has incorporated the Explanar Golf Training System into his Academies in Rotherham, UK and Dubai
“Explanar’s a terrific learning tool and we are having great success with it. The spoken word is never enough. Feeling promotes rapid understanding and sends the correct message to the brain. People talk about muscle memory, but the muscles will only do what the brain tells them. Explanar gets that message to the brain more quickly. Proper movement then becomes much easier. In my opinion Explanar is the ultimate feel machine.”
Butch Harmon
“I believe that this is the best training system I’ve ever seen in my 40 years as a teacher. It’s quick and it’s easy. It works everytime you use it and I use it everyday at my school in Las Vegas”
Explanar on Tour
EXPLANAR IS NOW USED BY TOUR PLAYERS, MEN AND WOMEN, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. FROM A NOVICE AMATEUR TO JOANNE HEAD, PAUL MCGINLEY AND JERRY KELLY, EXPLANAR IS MAKING A DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE TO GOLFERS OF EVERY LEVEL.