Learn the World’s Most Enjoyable Golf Swing – From Beginner to Confident Golfer
Welcome to The Proper Golfing Beginner Series — 12 in-depth coaching episodes where PGA Professional Julian Mellor teaches Luke, a complete beginner, how to build the world’s most enjoyable golf swing step by step.
Across this exclusive series, you’ll see Luke go from 0 to hero, developing coordination, confidence, and a timeless, tension-free golf swing that works with, not against, the body.
💡 What You’ll Learn
• How to start golf the right way — no complicated positions or overthinking
• The Proper Golfing principles: Free-Flowing Motion, Coordinated Movement, and The 6-Second Finish
• Real-time coaching moments showing instant improvement
• How to fix common beginner mistakes using feel, not force
• Simple at-home drills to build rhythm, balance, and confidence
This isn’t just another “how to play golf” series. It’s a journey of transformation — a real golfer, real lessons, and real progress.
Watch from Episode 1 to 12 and discover why golfers around the world say the Proper Golfing Method is the easiest, most enjoyable way to learn golf.
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📚 Series Highlights
• 12 full coaching sessions filmed start-to-finish
• Ideal for beginners and senior golfers
• Evidence-based, easy-to-follow instruction
• Watch Luke’s swing, confidence, and enjoyment grow
• Learn the real fundamentals of a timeless golf swing
How are you? I’m all right. I’m all right. Looking forward to this. Uh, as you know, we’ve spoken before and you know, my experience is limited. Limited. Very limited. Uh, this year is the first year that I’ve actually tried to play 18 holes properly, but I’ve never had any coaching. Okay. So, uh, yeah. So, who’s who has helped you with your golf? My mom. Your mom. Okay. Cool. My mom plays a lot of golf and she’s had lessons. Uh, to be fair, she’s had a lesson with you, I think, as well. Um, so when we play together, she’ll give me little things to say. You’re going to tell me today whether that’s right or wrong. Yeah. Um, YouTube videos obviously, uh, to kind of pick up little bits and pieces, but to be honest, I don’t know. You pick up as you go along. So, I’ll probably develop loads of bad habits. Yeah. Over time. And yeah, I think it’s it’s about time I learn a proper swing. Do it correctly. I got great friends that play a lot and I don’t feel like I can play with them yet because I’m just going to embarrass myself. Uh, and I want to enjoy the game. Getting to that age where I want to play more regularly, whether it’s with work or with friends. So, yeah. Yeah. On a day like today, it’s makes sense to to do this. You don’t want to be outside in this. No, it’s freezing today. So, this is a perfect environment. Perfect. Right. So, um, if we think why what do you want to get out of golf? Do you just want to perform better or do you want to really challenge your playing partners? How, you know, what level do you want to get to? If I do anything, I always want to get better. I always want to improve. So, I don’t have a handicap at the moment. I’ve not really played enough or um been able to measure it properly. So, it would be good to start on something and then just gradually slowly get that up um or down and yeah, enjoy it because I was saying as well, a friend of mine’s picked up some injuries and if I’m going to start playing more, I don’t want to do it wrong to then cause my myself some injuries. Like, I’ll be not be playing football forever. And one of the reasons is because I don’t want to keep getting kicked. So, I don’t want to go into golf and get injured as well. Yeah. Too. So, um how old’s your friend who’s got injured? Yeah, I think he’s 36. Right. Okay. So, that’s too young. And is that golf related or is that life related? I think one of them is golf related. Uh, so shoulder and elbow. Wow. And the elbow I think is related to it, but um I think it was all sorts of like things that have been building up, but I know golf wouldn’t help it with the stance and swings and impact as well. So, I’ve I’ve had many injuries and I’ve learned very quickly that you don’t have to get injured playing golf. And in fact, you can be much more efficient when you don’t get injured because you’re doing some of the things correctly. So, we’re going to have a great time. Um, I know you might feel a little bit nervous doing this in front of me, but to start off with, we are I just going to let you hit a few shots. Yeah. Uh, and see what happens. So, what I want to do is just have a look at your golf swing before I jump in and uh and start helping you. So, uh, should we get a club? Yeah. No laughing. So, this is just a relatively short shot that we’re trying to hit it. Don’t worry if it goes in the sand or wherever it goes. Let’s hit a few shots. We are where we are and then we’ll see how we can start to help you. How 110 yards. That says 110 yards. So you you should have a enough club to get you there. I mean it’s bad enough going on hole one with people behind you, but this is a bit different. Brilliant. I’ve struck lucky there, haven’t I? Well, if that goes in, we’re sorted. Yeah, nobody laughs. That’s good. Um, so you’ve just hit that 103 yards and you’re incredibly accurate. So I’m thinking why we’re here. Let’s try it again. See if it was luck. Brilliant. That matches my consistency on the actual golf course. So relatively common to see that you good one and then one goes off to the right. Don’t be surprised now if one suddenly went to the left. Might, it might not. But let’s uh let’s see. Is that cuz I’m overcompensating? That’s exactly what starts to happen. Yeah. Nope. No. Gone in the bug can now. So, and this is where you get that inconsistency when it’s on the golf course. And whilst you’re out playing golf with your friends and you start to enjoy it, if you’re hitting shots way offline, that enjoyment gets a little bit less sometimes, especially if you’re competitive, you know, if you you’ve done the football. So, already I can see some uh things that we can definitely help you with. Um, so you’ve you’ve hit one that’s gone over 100 yards, the other ones are going like 80, 70, 80 yards. So there’s definitely some things that we need to work on. So the way that I like to coach is think of yourself as a bit like a piece of clay. So you’re rough rougher at the edges. And what I want to do is start to shape it to get a kind of a shape of golf swing. But we can’t do that unless we’ve got good foundations. So let’s think of building a golf swing. It’s a bit like building a house. We have to have good foundations before we can put the walls and the roof on. So, if we can get you set it up correctly, that helps the next bit. If we get that bit right, then that helps the full swing. So, that’s the way I generally like to to do this. Um, so a lot of people skip the setup. Yeah. Go, I’ve done that bit. That’s fine. Yeah. But most commonly, it’s incorrect. And straight away, I can see that you’ve got some uh you’re you’re actually standing too far away from the golf ball. Okay. Wouldn’t if if I left you to play for a length of time, you would end up with a sore back very quickly. Okay. Uh so that’s something that we we need to avoid and we can do that through the way that we’re going to set up which I’ll explain in a second. I’ve learned something already. Already we’re learning something. So can you just make your normal setup for me? Okay. Do you want me to talk you through it? No, I just want you to make your setup. Okay. So right now if you just have a quick look at your knees. Mhm. Would you say they’re quite bent or straight? Yeah, they’re quite bent. They’re quite bent from there. Yeah. And it’s really Can you see now where the golf ball is in relationship to your club face? Yeah. So, if we were connecting with it, it’d be quite quite close to here. So, technically, we’d be better off if we hitting it more in the middle. So, what we’ve got to figure out, is there a way that I can set you up consistently with every golf club so that you’re always correct? So, the answer is yes, we’re going to do that. So the best way I found of doing this is just for me to demonstrate it first. So if you just pop over here. So most people when they set up to a golf ball, they put the club behind the ball, they put the feet where they think it should be and then they kind of build the body posture around that. And everybody thinks that they’re correct. Yeah. But nine times out of 10, you’re not correct. So what we’re going to do is is change the sequence. The other thing that I noticed very quickly as well is when you were setting up, you had quite a wide stance. Yeah. And your body movement through impact was restricted. Any idea why that might be? I think I know why I do it is because I always feel like golf clubs are too small for me. Yeah. Yeah. So then Yeah. So I think that’s something to do with why I go further away. If you’re wider, you can get down easier. Okay, cool. So what this does is this starts to lock the body movement up so you can’t move as efficiently as you’re going to move. So what is there a correct width of stance? So nice and simple. All it is is a natural stride. Okay. Turn to face the ball and that will be your natural balance point. So what you’ve done because you’ve gone almost a shoe wider than that now you’re starting to restrict body movement. So the width of stance is going to be really important when we start talking about how the body needs is it worth just doing that when you’re on the golf course? Yeah. And if you do that a few times, you’ll get used to it really quickly. Uh but if you suddenly did this, it looks way too way too weird. Yeah. So, we’re going to get that right width of stance. Uh which you’ll do you you’re doing it now. Yeah. So, you’ve got the correct width of stance already. I’ve overthought it when I’m going to the golf ball. Yeah. You’ve got it. So, you’ve tried to do it to get down to the ball, but we’re going to do it in a much better way than that. Okay. I haven’t checked your grip yet, but I’m going to do that in a second. But what I’ll do first is just get you the right distance from the golf ball. So we’re going to stand nice and tall. Mhm. Arms out in front of you and then we’re going to relax them onto your body. So this is going to be your start point. Now what you will have done from here is you will have bent your knees. Yeah. And this is putting some pressure on your on your back. Now this is the wrong way around doing it. So what we’re going to do is arms relaxed on your body. We’re going to keep your legs straight. We’re going to bend forward from your hips until the club hits the floor. Once it’s hit the floor, then we’re just going to soften the knees. But what you’ll see now is the club is too far away from the golf ball. So that’s how you’d make that measurement. So then we’ll just nudge him. Okay. So we’ll check again. Arms, hips, knees, and now we’re in this perfect posture. But what you’re actually in, you know, you’re 36 is we’ve got you here 34, your friend’s 36. Yeah. So now we’ve got you in a really strong position where you could hold a heavy weight. Yeah. So it’s actually very athletic this. Okay. So when you were doing it here, this is nowhere near as athletic and as strong as as we’re going to get you. So this golf swing is very powerful. You know, we’re moving the club at at great speeds in one second. So if we get the setup right, it helps everything else. So shall we have a go? So it’s just a natural. That’s it. There you go. So straight away now your the width of stamp now looks super. Yeah. Really happy with that one. You can as well if you want to you can have your toes slightly turned out. Again, that’s something they I’ve just heard like have your toes straight. They say that that line is the line that you are directing in. So that that’s going to help with what we call alignment. But if you start to have your your feet too straight and we turn in this direction, it puts a lot of strain on your hip and on your knee, which again are common injuries in golf. Mh. So if you turn your toes out slightly, that will give you more range of motion, more mobility. Okay. So that and hopefully that feels quite comfortable. Yeah, it does with my toes out now. Yeah. So if you keep hold of the golf club, I’m just going to Okay, so we we’re going to tweak the grip in a minute, but let’s do this setup first. So from here, I just want your arms to relax on your body. So this should feel really comfortable. Okay, I’m actually going to move the ball out the way a second. So if you now keep your legs straight and just bend forward from your hips. So bend, bend, bend, bend, bend. And now just relax your knees there. So already now you look in a much more athletic posture. Okay. So if you now stand up here, just bend your knees, push your arm away. Yeah. You feel on my back already. Straight away. Yeah. Yeah. So knees straight, arms relaxed. So in terms of tension, this should feel quite comfortable. Yeah. We don’t want to start locking it up. So nice and relaxed. Just bend from your hips and then just soften the knees to finish. There you go. So, I’m going to put the ball here. So, now all you’ve got to do is nudge your feet. That’s it. There you go. So, what what height are you? About six foot on the on the Perfect. So, does that club now feel too short? No. So, this is a standard length golf club. Yeah. I’m 6’1. They’re actually the clubs that I I use sometimes, but um there’s a lot of evidence to say that you should have a set of golf clubs custom made. But if you go through this routine, you don’t necessarily have to do that. Yes. So, let’s try it again. That’s it. So, there you go. Arms, hips, and then the knees just relax. There you go. So, what we’re building now is more of a consistent setup. So, it’s nearly right. But let’s hit one because this will feel very different. Very good. So, we’ve changed one little thing already. We’ve not even touched the golf swing. How different did that feel in terms of setup? A lot different. I like So I think I’ve avoided in the past being too over the ball. Y I don’t know why. There’s no reason to it. So I felt kind of closer with the ball or closer with everything that I’m doing rather than like trying to Did you potentially feel a little bit more upright? Yeah. Great. So the more we bend forward from your from your back here, that puts a lot of strain on the back. Yeah. And then from there, people tell you to keep your head down, and that puts so much strain on the back. So, I found through through practice and through evidence is it’s actually better to be a little bit taller than two bent over. So, what I’m going to do now, I’m going to be naughty. I’m just going to move it slightly too close to you. So, now you’ve got to move your feet. There you go. So, what everybody does is move the arms. Ah, it’s the wrong way around doing it. We should always move the whole body. Yeah. And then, as you said, I want to be connecting with it like here, not correct. Yeah. Okay. So, let’s try a few more. Oh, he’s gone left. Let’s go left a little bit more. Okay, good. One more. So, just now what? Let me put that there. So, if you keep hold of this, so you’re six foot. So, we’re going to if you let go of that a second, I’m going to make this too short. So, this is an eight time that you’re using. If you if you pop this hand down, so this feels now too short this, but I want you to go through the same routine. Okay. Okay. So, arms That’s it. And then the knees. And then just nudge in. Okay. So, technically this club is miles too short for you. But let’s just see if we can make contact. There you go. So, you can still hit the golf ball even though that’s now almost a junior golf club because you’re the correct distance from the ball. So, with your technique, you’re saying regardless of what iron it is, what size the club is, the method stands follow the routine. Stands true. Yeah. So the worst habit for you to get into, if I just pinch this one second, is to just put your club behind the ball, put your feet in, and think that you’re correct. So what we’ve fundamentally done now for you is just completely changed the way of setting up the golf ball. And what will happen, you get good at it very quickly. Yeah. It’ll take it takes no longer cuz I um if I if I’m to remember this as well when we go away and I go to the golf course if I break that down into three Yeah. I’m I’m working with a stride stride. Yeah. Um so that’s got my shoulder width well on my width apart. Yeah. Club down and then shuffle in. That’s that’s my three. Perfect. Yeah. So it’s so the the routine to get it absolutely correct. You’ve done the bit width of stance. Great. Arms, hips, knees. Yeah. Top, middle, bottom. Arms hip. Yeah. Okay. So, that’s a good way of doing it. So, if you do arms, knees, you won’t bend forward from your hips. Yeah. Because nobody does. They just push push the arms away. Just work downwards. Arms, hips, top, middle, bottom. Okay, that works. Should we try that one more? Okay. Okay. Cool. That felt good. What What felt different if anything? Not necessarily the swing. More posture. Okay. It felt quite clean. Yeah. Cleaner. Okay. So now you’ve kind of found the bottom of the ball a bit more consistent. Yeah. The one I did before was a lot lower. Yeah. So can you set up how you used to? Yeah. So just just it get Okay. So now you’ve got that wide stance. There you go. Okay. And then the knees were more bent than that and your arms were more pushed away. Okay. And I feel a lot tense or my arms feel really tense. Great. Now you look in a sitting posture. Yeah. That light looks really painful. I was like and it’s gone. It’s gone way offline again. Yeah. So, I would say where you were be, you know, when you’re doing it the other way is it was very restrictive in terms of movement. Yeah. Uh and I know we haven’t even spoke about the movement yet, but when you were getting it right, your body was already starting to move slightly differently. So, I could get quite easily. Um, obviously there’s a bunker here, so it’s quite obviously bad, but because the connection was okay on the golf course, it’s like I’m hitting the ball okay, but I’m not having any control over where it’s going really. Correct. Um, and also over time it’ll cause me pain. So yeah, I could quite easily be misled by these types of shots throughout the year that I’ve had thinking it’s okay, but realistically if I’m getting kind of more rounds in with friends, I don’t want to be there. Call it military golf. Left, right, left, right, left, right. We’re trying to avoid that. Yeah. Um but the way that you were setting up would make that happen much more often. You’ll get that inconsistency. So, what we’re trying to do is build in natural consistency through doing things the right way. Uh, the cool thing is if the ball’s slightly above your feet or below your feet, you can just follow the same routine, it’s going to work perfectly. Out of interest, how important do you think it is to have golf lessons before you start playing on 18 hole courses as opposed to start playing and then get So, great question. Uh, 100% important that you get coaching first. Yeah. The hardest thing uh for for pros to do is to coach a really good player because they’ve got into habits that they’ve ingrained. Yeah. We don’t have that danger. Complete beginners haven’t got any habits. Yeah. So, it’s a million times easier coaching a complete beginner. Yeah. Because we we we’ve got the shape now. We can already start to do things correctly. So, you you’re not slipping into bad faults because you don’t know what they are. Okay. which is so yeah, it’s a great question and one that I would tell any any beginner definitely have some coaching. When you’re ready to hit the shot, I want you to close your eyes and hit it.
