Welcome to
Andrew Emery Golf
About Andrew
Andrew Emery is a seasoned Golf Professional, with 30 years of extensive experience. Hailing from the UK, his journey in golf began at the tender age of six under the guidance of his father, David.
Andrew played professionally from 1994 to 1998, earning a European Challenge Tour card before turning his attention to the United States where he practiced, played and competed on multiple tours with some of the top PGA Tour players in the world. This experience gave Andrew valuable insights into elite performance levels. In 1999 Andrew decided to utilize his broad talent and ability to communicate, by devoting his career to helping others increase their enjoyment of the game.
To date Andrew has 25 years of Golf Coaching experience. He has given 28,000 lessons to every level of golfer from beginners and Recreational Golfers to to Elite Juniors and College golfers. Andrew’s experience working with elite players also extends to the highest level of professional golf. He has been privileged to work with PGA & LPGA Tour Players. Andrew’s Full Swing, Short Game and Course Management expertise have taken him to four different continents throughout the world. He has accompanied and advised Tour Players at some of the world’s premier tournaments including The Masters, The Players Championship, and The Solheim Cup.
From 2001-2020 Andrew was the Resident Teaching Professional at Westmoreland Country Club in Wilmette, Illinois. WCC is a premier private club on the North Shore of Chicago that was established in 1911. Andrew has always motivated and encouraged his students. He believes that there is nothing more important than owning his own energy and enthusiasm. Those traits served him very well at Westmoreland Country Club; his core focus wasn’t just to provide excellent instruction, but equally as important to establish a fun, friendly and inviting learning environment for the members. This holistic approach enabled Andrew to establish one of the most robust and successful Golf Performance Programs on the North Shore.
In 2020, Andrew and his wife Jessica made the decision to relocate with their three children Morgan, Paige and Blake to the Palmetto State. They currently reside in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Coaching Philosophy
Andrew believes that method teaching is problematic because everyone is uniquely different. No two swings are the same and what works for one student does not necessarily work for another! Golfers all have different learning styles, body types, swing patterns, personalities, skill levels and physical limitations. In short, with golf one size will never fit all!
Andrew has developed a coaching framework rather than a teaching method for his students. That framework follows scientific research on not just peak performance, but more importantly effective practice. It turns out that while people’s learning styles differ, the way the brain translates and learns is remarkably similar!
No matter who Andrew is working with, his philosophy remains the same: The goal for every student is to find the best version of themselves! Not someone else! Students have to build on their strengths, and identify the “cause” of their weaknesses in order to change the effect and get the desired result. Andrew believes creating a customized game improvement blueprint for the player’s unique individual needs is the most productive way to ensure success.
“With Andrew's help I am currently ranked #1 in South Carolina (2023 class) by JGS…. Andrew has helped me tremendously in understanding my golf swing and giving me information to become a better player. When I was struggling with my swing, he was able to identify the cause and work with me to better understand what was going wrong and work to fix it. I look forward to continuing my work with him and becoming a better player.”
- Waymon T.
Guiding Principles
“There are always lessons to be learned, but there can be no improvement without a plan!”
“You have to begin with the end in mind by asking a lot of questions. You need a crystal clear vision for what success looks like for each individual student. The gift of any successful coach is to significantly shorten the time it takes to turn that student’s vision into reality!”
“A student should never have to adapt to a coaching style. Rather, you have to adapt your coaching style to the needs of each student.
A foundational change is a conscious change that positively influences contact, speed or direction. Unfortunately, so much time and effort is wasted in front of a video camera getting students into ‘positions’ that will NOT influence any of them!”
“Experience has taught me to accurately diagnose cause and effect, to communicate using plain and simple language, and to make impactful changes in the shortest time possible.”
“Coaching doesn’t start and end with improved ball striking on the driving range; it’s incumbent on the coach to help the student transfer their skills from the range to the golf course – golf will never be played on the lesson tee!”
I’ve learned that it’s not as much about the amount of time you practice but how effectively you practice that’s the true barometer for accomplishing a desired result.
“Success isn’t accomplished by impressing your student with your library of knowledge. Quite the opposite, it’s about using that knowledge to teach complex concepts in a simple manner. It’s about expressing NOT impressing!”
“The technically competent golfer will control their ball flight, the creatively competent golfer will develop a wonderful short game, but it’s the emotionally competent golfer that wins at what really counts: enjoyment of the game!”
“You can only control the process, and how you ‘react’ emotionally to results, most golfers waste 100% of their valuable energy on the one thing they cannot control – the results!”
Get In Touch
Fill out the form below to book a private lesson or learn more. You can also reach Andrew at: andrewemery.golf@gmail.com