Private Instruction
Private Lessons
Individuals interested in learning more about private lessons led by the PGA Golf Professional at The Links at Mass Golf should contact the Pro Shop at 508-222-0555 or email Drew Chapman at: [email protected].
2025 Lesson Rates
Drew Chapman | Head PGA Golf Professional & Past RIPGA Teacher of the Year
Half Hour $50 | One Hour $90
Juniors (up to age 17) Half Hour $30
Individuals interested in learning more about private lessons led by the PGA Golf Professional at The Links at Mass Golf should contact the Pro Shop at 508-222-0555 or email Drew Chapman at: [email protected].
2025 Lesson Rates
Drew Chapman | Head PGA Golf Professional & Past RIPGA Teacher of the Year
Half Hour $50 | One Hour $90
Juniors (up to age 17) Half Hour $30
“Drew’s General Swing Suggestions (for the Right-Handed Golfer)”
Understanding the Three Parts of the Golf Club: “The only lesson that you may ever need”
1. Club-Face: Left Hand=Club-Face, determines 85-95% of the balls initial direction.
2. Club-Head: The grip of the club leads a Lagging Club-Head through Impact with a slightly forward leaning shaft, allowing you to hit down and put pressure into the ball.
3. Club-Shaft: Swing up and down a Roof-like angle at least from waist high to waist high.
Basic Grip: The club is held mainly in the fingers of both hands. The Left Hand controls the clubface and should be placed in your most “natural position”: Unless your balls consistently curve to the left, you will see approximately two to three knuckles when you look down and No Fingertips. The left thumb is placed on the back side of the grip at about a 2:00 position. The pocket on the palm or lifeline of your Righthand fits over the left thumb. Be firm with the last three fingers of your left hand and the middle two of your right hand. The thumbs and index fingers are very soft, allowing the wrists to act as a “free hinge”. Strong fingers/Flexible wrists.
Athletic Stance: Balance weight between balls of your feet and heels. Be able to lift your toes within your shoes. Knees slightly flexed for balance. Hips bumped slightly to the target to lower the right shoulder. Bend forward from the hip sockets and tilting your torso toward the ball(remember the ball is on the ground). The hips and head counterbalance each other (seesaw).
Arms hang from the shoulder joints, soft wrists, relaxed shoulders, and neck. Relaxed muscles allow the speed to happen, move quicker, and are more effective in transferring energy.
The ball position should be off the left armpit for your Driver and move back toward the center of your body/spine for shorter clubs (wedges), with most clubs played off your left ear.
Backswing: The Backswing is to put your club in the best possible position to start the downswing. Use your Oblique and Lat (back) muscles to rotate your trunk and shoulders (this is your Inside) to get your back to the target. The arms, hands, and club (your Outside) are movedbackwards and inwards, while the right elbow folds creating the upwards movement. The folding of the right elbow into an “L” also cocks the left wrist and raises the left arm so the club shaft can swing over your right shoulder at the top. “Let Your Inside move Your Outside”around a steady center (neck, or between your shoulder area). Feel pressure in your right heel.
Downswing: Intention…We want a smooth start down, allowing the speed to build gradually.Peak speed is “felt” when both arms become straight…about three feet or 45 degrees Past the Ball. Always Swing through the ball, not at the ball. The ball is not your target. Your target is your target. The ball is part of the equation, but it should receive very little of your attention.
1. Shift (Squat) around your steady center…while the clubhead is still finishing its backward movement to the top, shift your hips slightly left so your weight/pressure moves onto your left heel (step on a bug) at the same time drop your folded right elbow in front of your right hip,maintaining the cock in the left wrist. Make no effort to straighten your right elbow or un-cock your left wrist. This drop puts the club shaft back on the Roof or Plane of Motion.
2. Rotate your tilted trunk/torso from the ground up, feel like you are leaving the clubhead behind at the top (delay the club head). Feel a stretch up your left side from hip to hand with your right shoulder moving down-out-forward in the direction & through the ball.
3. Swing…Trust Physics and Allow the relaxed arms, flexible wrists, and lagging club-head to fly out on their own, slinging down the roof and past the ball without you applying any hitting force to the club, “a centrifugal reaction”. Feel as if you swing under your chest. Finish with your weight on your left heel, your tummy facing the target, up on the tip of your right toe for balance, standing tall with your club shaft finishing over your left shoulder.
Practice the Concepts into Images & Feelings, absent of thought! Let your Feel make the shot.
Understanding the Three Parts of the Golf Club: “The only lesson that you may ever need”
1. Club-Face: Left Hand=Club-Face, determines 85-95% of the balls initial direction.
2. Club-Head: The grip of the club leads a Lagging Club-Head through Impact with a slightly forward leaning shaft, allowing you to hit down and put pressure into the ball.
3. Club-Shaft: Swing up and down a Roof-like angle at least from waist high to waist high.
Basic Grip: The club is held mainly in the fingers of both hands. The Left Hand controls the clubface and should be placed in your most “natural position”: Unless your balls consistently curve to the left, you will see approximately two to three knuckles when you look down and No Fingertips. The left thumb is placed on the back side of the grip at about a 2:00 position. The pocket on the palm or lifeline of your Righthand fits over the left thumb. Be firm with the last three fingers of your left hand and the middle two of your right hand. The thumbs and index fingers are very soft, allowing the wrists to act as a “free hinge”. Strong fingers/Flexible wrists.
Athletic Stance: Balance weight between balls of your feet and heels. Be able to lift your toes within your shoes. Knees slightly flexed for balance. Hips bumped slightly to the target to lower the right shoulder. Bend forward from the hip sockets and tilting your torso toward the ball(remember the ball is on the ground). The hips and head counterbalance each other (seesaw).
Arms hang from the shoulder joints, soft wrists, relaxed shoulders, and neck. Relaxed muscles allow the speed to happen, move quicker, and are more effective in transferring energy.
The ball position should be off the left armpit for your Driver and move back toward the center of your body/spine for shorter clubs (wedges), with most clubs played off your left ear.
Backswing: The Backswing is to put your club in the best possible position to start the downswing. Use your Oblique and Lat (back) muscles to rotate your trunk and shoulders (this is your Inside) to get your back to the target. The arms, hands, and club (your Outside) are movedbackwards and inwards, while the right elbow folds creating the upwards movement. The folding of the right elbow into an “L” also cocks the left wrist and raises the left arm so the club shaft can swing over your right shoulder at the top. “Let Your Inside move Your Outside”around a steady center (neck, or between your shoulder area). Feel pressure in your right heel.
Downswing: Intention…We want a smooth start down, allowing the speed to build gradually.Peak speed is “felt” when both arms become straight…about three feet or 45 degrees Past the Ball. Always Swing through the ball, not at the ball. The ball is not your target. Your target is your target. The ball is part of the equation, but it should receive very little of your attention.
1. Shift (Squat) around your steady center…while the clubhead is still finishing its backward movement to the top, shift your hips slightly left so your weight/pressure moves onto your left heel (step on a bug) at the same time drop your folded right elbow in front of your right hip,maintaining the cock in the left wrist. Make no effort to straighten your right elbow or un-cock your left wrist. This drop puts the club shaft back on the Roof or Plane of Motion.
2. Rotate your tilted trunk/torso from the ground up, feel like you are leaving the clubhead behind at the top (delay the club head). Feel a stretch up your left side from hip to hand with your right shoulder moving down-out-forward in the direction & through the ball.
3. Swing…Trust Physics and Allow the relaxed arms, flexible wrists, and lagging club-head to fly out on their own, slinging down the roof and past the ball without you applying any hitting force to the club, “a centrifugal reaction”. Feel as if you swing under your chest. Finish with your weight on your left heel, your tummy facing the target, up on the tip of your right toe for balance, standing tall with your club shaft finishing over your left shoulder.
Practice the Concepts into Images & Feelings, absent of thought! Let your Feel make the shot.