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Skillest coaches win 3 times in 3 weeks on Tour!

Skillest coaches have seen and incredible run of form over the past month on Tour. They have had players win on both the PGA and the European Tours. 3 weeks ago we saw Lucas Herbert win for the very first time and only 4 weeks after obtaining full status on the PGA tour. He battled…

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Learn how to hit the spectacular stinger!

Zac Radford has become synonymous with hitting perhaps the most captivating shots in golf. He has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on social media hitting stingers in visually spectacular locations. Tiger Woods made the shot famous earlier in his career when he began hitting these incredibly low piercing shots when he wanted both accuracy and distance….

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18 Putts in 18 holes! Cam Smith gets better and better!

2 Weeks ago we saw something pretty amazing. In the second round of the WGC Fed Ex at St Jude, Cameron Smith took only 18 putts to get around the challenging course in Memphis. He was only the 9th player in the history of the PGA to achieve this incredible stat. Smith has always been…

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Skillest teams up with Brandon Hagy for the Fed Ex Cup!

First Skillest was being used by touring professionals on major tours around the world and now the brand is going to become even more visible on the PGA Tour. Skillest has announced it‘s first player partnership with the long hitting and emerging superstar Brandon Hagy. Brandon will be repping the Skillest logo on his shirt…

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The ultimate Brooks Koepka bunker analysis

We are incredibly excited to have the coach of Brooks Koepka, Jeff Pierce now coaching on Skillest. Jeff is an incredibly talented PGA Tour coach who has made a name for himself as a short game specialist. To launch his profile on Skillest we sat down with him for the most comprehensive breakdown of Brooks…

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Skillest on the Me and My Golf podcast

Skillest founder Baden Schaff has been friends with Andy and Piers from Me and My Golf for some time now. As leaders in the digital golf coaching space they are always discussing where the future of game improvement lies. Thus, they thought it might be time to do a podcast about it. In this podcast…

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Belgium’s best swings analysed!

Over the weekend we saw Thomas Detry come so so close to getting his first European tour win. For the size of the country Belguim has always punched above its weight in term of performance at the elite level. Players like Nicholas Colsaerts and Thomas Pieters have been regulars on the European Ryder Cup team…

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Skillest in the “New York Times”

It’s official. Skillest has hit the big time! We were incredibly excited to be featured in The New York Times on Wednesday 7/7/21. Paul Sullivan wrote a wonderful piece on the growth of the platform, how COVID has accelerated golfers willingness to learn golf online and just how powerful it is as a learning model….

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Student in Iceland makes incredible swing change!

When we started Skillest we wanted to connect students of the world with the best coaches. We have been obsessed with breaking down all geographic barriers as we expanded our coaching marketplace out. There is no better example of this vision being realised than a student in Iceland learning from an elite coach in Vancouver….

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