Testimonials

"Smartpro is the most comprehensive and multi faceted business tool that I have come across in 35 years of being a golf pro. It has been designed by people who really understand the needs of coaches and our clients. Smartpro gives serious coaches an edge; it is brilliant for maintaining relationships and contact with customers, easy to use, impressive to look at, personal to the individual teacher. It is a fantastic marketing device, every time I go into my home page I come out with another use or idea from the material on offer.  Golf pros without Smartpro are missing out!"

Christine Langford
Advanced Fellow of the PGA
Christine Langford Golf Schools
Director of Desert Springs Golf Academy, Almeria, Spain

"Invest in Smartpro and your coaching will become more effective. Using the Stats cards is a must for any forward thinking, organised coach. Your students will have a better understanding of their areas of weakness and a clear direction on how to take their games to the next level."

Gary Smith
Advanced Fellow PGA Professional
Lead Coach EGU England A Squad
Golf Monthly Top 25 UK Coach

"The Coaching Toolkit is an essential resource to support Coaches and Managers working to develop young people with golfing potential, by providing a structured approach to how a Coach works with a young Player and enabling the Coach to guide the practice of a Player in between sessions.
The Coaching Toolkit greatly enhances the capabilities of the Player in accomplishing the hours of deliberate practice required for the achievements of performance.
A Coach utilising the resources within the Coaching Toolkit will inevitably find that they are providing an enhanced experience for the Player. The Coaching Toolkit therefore is a sign of quality coaching."

Stuart Armstrong
Development Manager- Coaching and Talent Pathways
England Golf

"Just a quick line to say how much I value the Smartpro system. It covers all of the bases that I need to run a successful coaching service at the Olympics.

I find it simple to use which will save me time in the future." 

Tim Absalom
Advanced PGA Professional
PGA Swing Tutor
  

"The Smartpro toolkit has revolutionised coaching as we know it.  For me it has enhanced my clients learning experience greatly.  Keeping pupil records using resources such as on-course stats, and having all the resources with my own branding makes my business a whole lot easier to manage.  Offering this service will improve both your professionalism and your profitability.  All coaches should be using the Toolkit, and along with the support from Sarah Claridge it is an invaluable and integral part of my business.  If you want to keep ahead of the game you cannot afford not to invest in Smartpro."

Steve Scott Bowen
PGA Professional
South West Regional Golf Development Officer for the Golf Foundation

"Sarah spent a few hours with me last summer and came up with some great ideas to help me increase my revenue and offer a better service to my customers.  I have managed to successfully implement many of these ideas and still have many left to try!  The level of professionalism and service that I received that day and in the following weeks was extremely high and I would therefore highly recommend Smartpro Coaching to anyone who wants to make their business/service more efficient and effective."

Richard King
PGA Professional
AASE lecturer, Hartpury College

"At the start of this year I made the decision to have a really good look at my teaching business, and see what I was doing already, and what I could do that was a bit different to what other instructors were offering.

Amongst many other things I decided to give my students notes after each lesson, this gave them something tangible to take away with them, but rather than just give the student a piece of paper I wanted something more professional looking, so I contacted Sarah and she put me onto the idea of having personalised lesson cards, I have my own website on them as well as my companies logo, after every lesson each student gets a card with notes from the lesson on. The cards have really helped me stand out from the marketplace and my students have all said how much they appreciate the notes."

Ian Clark
PGA Fellow professional & World of Golf Master Professional

"I have been successfully coaching full time for the past 12 years having worked at Sunningdale Golf Club as Head Assistant for 8 years previous to that. Every two to three years I find myself looking for something that is going to improve the standard of my coaching offering my client base something new and slightly different. Over the years I have discovered martial arts, NLP and the V1 computer coaching software package.

In 2006 having worked with a personal coach since 2005 it became obvious that my creative talents outstripped my organisational skills and I realized I had to address this issue. I then attended a PGA coaching seminar given by Sarah Claridge titled "The Professional Coach, is the Business", it was the most thorough and organised seminar I had attended for a long time and at the end Sarah mentioned that she was in the early stages of creating a package of assessment and evaluation of a coaches business. This would look for ways to improve organisational skills and communicational skills to give a perception to the student of interest in them and overall professionalism. I have now worked with Sarah over the past eighteen months and she has helped me to achieve all of the above which has led me to gain more enjoyment from my coaching and a 10% increase in my revenue.

If you work with Sarah you will get someone who is dedicated to organisational skills, forward thinking and consistent, a rare gem in the professional world."

Lee Mucklow
PGA Professional, Windlesham Golf School

"The Smartpro Coaching Toolkit is an integral part of my coaching business.  The "Lesson Cards " are particularly useful for my clients as this gives them quick reference to what we have worked on recently. The possibilities are endless with Smartpro and all credit must go to Sarah Claridge for developing such an innovative product. 

I would recommend and encourage any aspiring PGA coach to integrate the Smartpro Coaching Toolkit into their coaching programs."

Colin Williams
PGA Professional (AA Class)

"The Toolkit has proved a real asset to my business.  It has allowed me to provide a consistent level of service to my pupils in terms of all the information I can gather about their level of ability, history and future golfing aspirations

The pupils comment on the level of professionalism that the system provides,  they especially like the summary cards of the lesson.

From an administration point, all the relevant information is located in the one folder so I can prepare for my day's lessons in advance by reviewing my previous sessions.

It has certainly been a worthwhile investment, the perceived value of my lessons has increased allowing me to increase my price without pupil drop out."

Derek Wright
PGA Professional