Simon MacWhirter
Teaching Professional
Simon is a PGA of Australia Certified Golf Coach, South Australian Girls State Coach and is a Golf SA High-Performance Coach.
He started his career in the North East of England where he completed his PGA traineeship before heading overseas. After five years spent competing in Europe, Africa, the US and Australia Simon worked as a David Leadbetter Academy Instructor, coaching in Austria, Spain and Florida. This experience and education allowed Simon to set up and run his own Academy back home in the North East of England.
He moved to Adelaide in 2009 and worked at Drummond Golf Driving Range until 2015 before joining North Adelaide golf course where he continues to improve as a coach. Through attending seminars and completing online modules and webinars Simon is an Advanced and Certified PGA Professional.
Individual, shared and group coaching is available for absolute beginners, experienced golfers and elite players.
Simon helps you play better golf by offering simple, easy to understand pointers, skills tests and drills with before and after comparisons, using putting and swing technology and slow motion video footage.
Taking you through a custom fitting process he ensures your current or new equipment is suited to complement your technique.
Simon brings his worldwide knowledge and experience in group and individual coaching and custom fitting to the position of Teaching Professional at the North Adelaide Golf Club.
Gavin Fontaine
Teaching Professional
Certified PGA Professional
Advanced in Coaching
As a young child Gavin found his passion for golf. During his golf apprenticeship in Perth, he soon realised he wanted to share his passion with other people - and teach them how to play golf. In the last 27 years of teaching, he has gained a wide range of experience through playing with top golfers, learning
from the best teachers and playing courses all over the world.
During those years, he participated in numerous golf seminars to improve his skills as a teacher, focusing more and more on the mental side of the game. Today, with a diploma in sports psychology, his goal is to get that satisfaction into all his students' golf games - not only through their technique, but also their mental strength.
Gavin is an advanced golf coach and has been a qualified Australian PGA member since 1990, he has worked in Austria and Germany for 15 years.
Gavin's other qualifications are a level 1 in TPI golf and an accreditation in teaching disabled golfers.
Gavin looks forward to bringing your game to the next level, for more information go to Gavin's website.
Jamie Clutterham
Golf Professional
Certified PGA Professional
Advanced in Coaching
Jamie started his golf in Adelaide as an amateur, he played in representative teams for South Australia and Australian School Rep Teams. Jamie completed his traineeship on the Gold Coast at both the Surfers Paradise Golf Club and the Coolangatta Tweed Heads working there for a number of years. From there Jamie spent two and a half years as Club Professional at the Renmark Golf Club and then three years at the West Lakes Golf club as coach and assistant.
Jamie’s coaching philosophy and delivery is one of appropriateness for your swing and physical capability, analysing what you would like achieve within any given lesson, then combined with the appropriate implementation of drills, exercises and practice loads all suited to your lifestyle and needs.
Keeping up with the latest in technology to ensure all students are getting the most out of their lessons, Jamie has available for use some of the latest in golf coaching technologies. Including in this is high speed video, TOMI Putting analysis and Flightscope Launch Monitor to provide the best possible outcome for all clients and their golfing abilities.
Jamie joins the North Adelaide Golf Club as the current Assistant State Coach and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in retail, club fitting and coaching to the position of Golf Professional at the North Adelaide Golf Club.
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