Setup & technology

How We Teach

Coaching at Woodside Golf Club, Holmes Chapel — indoors and outdoors, measured with Flightscope radar and video so every change in your swing is shown to you, not just described.

Indoor simulator studio session with launch monitor data on screen at Woodside Golf Club

The facility

Everything in one place, all year round.

The academy is based at Woodside Golf Club in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire. Between the indoor studio, the outdoor range, the short game area and the 9-hole course, we can move a lesson to wherever the work needs to happen — whatever the weather.

01

Indoor simulator studio

A heated, all-weather bay with launch monitor data on screen. Ideal for winter coaching, technical work and playing full courses in simulation.

02

Outdoor range

Grass and mat hitting areas for flight work, shot shaping and real ball flight feedback in the conditions you actually play in.

03

9-hole course

On-course sessions at Woodside for course management, strategy and turning range work into scoring.

04

Short game area

Chipping, pitching and putting practice space for the scoring shots that make the biggest difference to a card.

The technology

Measured, recorded and kept for reference.

Flightscope radar

Tracks club and ball data on every shot — club path, face angle, attack angle, spin, launch, curvature and carry. It removes opinion from the diagnosis: we can see exactly why the ball is doing what it's doing.

  • Carry & total distance
  • Club path & face angle
  • Spin rate & axis
  • Attack angle & low point

Video analysis

Face-on and down-the-line capture, reviewed frame by frame with drawing tools and side-by-side comparison against a swing model — and against your own earlier swings, so change is visible rather than described.

  • Frame-by-frame review
  • Model comparison
  • Before & after overlays
  • Voice-over breakdowns

OnForm platform

In-person lessons are captured and shared through OnForm. Every swing, drill and voice-over note lives in your own account, uploaded after you leave, so the plan is with you at the range instead of half-remembered in the car park.

  • Lesson library
  • Custom drills
  • Messaging with your coach
  • Online lessons via Skillest

Practice journal

Academy members track practice, habits and course tendencies in a journal. It turns loose practice into a record we can review together and adjust the plan against.

  • Tracked habits
  • Session logs
  • Course tendencies
  • Reviewed goals

How it fits together

Data first, then the swing.

We look at ball flight and radar numbers before touching technique. The three principles — contact, curvature and carry — give us a clear order of priority, and the data tells us which one is costing you the most.

Once a change is agreed, we prove it works with the numbers in the session, capture it on video, and turn it into a drill. That drill and the footage go to your OnForm account before your next practice session.

Nothing here is technology for its own sake — it exists to make progress visible and to keep the plan honest between lessons.

Coach checking ball position with a player on the outdoor range at Woodside Golf Club