Mira Costa Golf Coaches
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Tom is a veteran of education and coaching for twenty plus years. He has been a special education teacher at Mira Costa High School for the past fifteen years and is in his third year coaching golf for the high school program. In 2014, Tom was named Daily Breeze high school coach of the year for leading the Girl’s Golf team to an undefeated season and deep into the post season. He earned his bachelors in education from Eastern Washington University where he majored in Special Education with a minor in Physical Education. He is extremely proud of the foundation that has been laid in his tenure and looks forward to the continued development of Mira Costa Golf into one of the premier programs in the state
The most important thing an instructor can do for a student is to give that student a better picture in their mind of what needs to happen to hit better shots, and to then improve the student’s impact with the ball. Scott utilizes technology & video in his lessons to accomplish this.
Learning to play your best golf involves understanding what your golf ball is telling you. The flight of your ball will tell you on every shot exactly what your club face was doing at impact. The fight of your golf ball has no ideas about swing theory. It doesn’t know how you grip the club, whether you keep your head down, or whether or not you bend your left arm. All that matters to the golf ball is what the club face is doing when it strikes the ball. Your impact position is controlled by the way you grip the club, aim your club face, and the direction you swing the club. Scott will make adjustments in these fundamentals, improving your impact position, your ball flight and lead you to becoming a better player. |
Josh has been teaching golf in the South Bay for over 20 years. He began teaching at The Lakes at El Segundo in 2000 and founded Good Swings Happen Jr. Golf Academy in 2009 leading tens of thousands of youth through golf related programs over the past decade. Josh believes strongly that lessons learned developing life skills are as important as those developing golf skills. Passionate, fun, opportunity, positive, persistent and rhythmic flow are words that describe Josh and his instruction based value system.
Josh earned the 2018 SCPGA Youth Leader Award, has chaired the last 2 SCPGA Youth Golf Summits, is the SCPGA Player Development Chair, serves on the SCPGA Teaching Committee, the LA County Golf Advisory Board and has been a GRAA “Top 50” Growth of the game instructor the past 5 years running. He is as committed to providing a valuable experience for the members at Precision Golf Centers as he is supporting the growth of our game at regional levels. Josh is the owner of Precision Golf Centers located in Torrance, California. The new facility “The Lab at Precision” will expand their instructional practices to support small group and team program training as well as offer leagues and a variety of innovative and fun programs for their membership. Jeff Amaral
JV Coach, Boys Golf Chris Fan Assistance Varsity Coach Bryce Hawkins, Mr. Lim Assistance Coach, Boys Golf Howard Matsuoka JV Coach, Girls Golf |