Summary

• Golf lessons at The Winston Golf Club start with a skill evaluation covering grip, stance, swing, and overall technique. This helps your instructor understand your strengths and tailor a lesson plan to match your goals.

• Setting clear, achievable goals—like improving consistency or mastering bunker shots—helps to keep your lessons focused and your progress measurable.

• Lessons typically follow a focused format with warm-ups, targeted drills, and instructor feedback—plus options for group, private, or on-course sessions.

• Reinforce skills through custom drills, real-time adjustments, and follow-up sessions designed to build confidence, consistency, and lasting results on the green.

Golf lessons are a great way to brush up on your fundamentals or polish advanced skills in a relaxing environment. And when you’re taking lessons from pros who understand the game deeply, you can count on them to zero in on the areas that will help you grow the most.

Golf lessons at The Winston Golf Club are designed to meet you where you are—whether you’re stepping onto the course for the first time or aiming to fine-tune specific aspects of your game. With expert instruction from PGA of Canada professionals, each golf lesson is structured to help you build confidence, improve technique, and reach your personal goals.

From your initial assessment to follow-up sessions, here’s what you can expect when you start golf lessons with us.

Initial assessment & evaluation of your skill level

Before starting golf lessons, you’ll begin with an initial assessment to evaluate your current skill level. This important first step gives your instructor a clear understanding of your strengths, challenges, and overall experience with the game.

During the assessment, your instructor will observe key fundamentals such as your:

• Grip: This directly affects the clubface, swing path, and shot accuracy. A proper grip helps promote control, consistency, and better overall performance.

• Stance: You need a balanced, stable foundation for your swing. A proper stance helps with alignment, weight distribution, and overall consistency in your shots.

• Swing: An improper swing can affect power, accuracy, and consistency. By analyzing your motion, an instructor can make targeted adjustments to improve your overall performance.

• General technique: Grip, stance, posture, and swing need to all work together. Your instructor will look at how you’re integrating these aspects of your game and make broad recommendations on how to improve your performance as a whole.

If you’re a beginner or an experienced player looking to fine-tune your game, this evaluation helps your instructor tailor a lesson plan to your individual goals and abilities—setting you up for steady improvement and greater confidence on the course.

Setting goals & determining what you want to achieve

​​Setting goals is a key part of getting the most out of your golf lessons. Whether you’re aiming to break a certain score, improve your swing consistency, gain confidence off the tee, or simply enjoy the game more, clearly defining what you want to achieve helps shape your learning experience.

Examples of goals can include “making consistent contact with the ball”, “increasing driving distance”, “improving bunker play”, and more.

By discussing your goals with your instructor, you can create a focused plan that targets specific areas of improvement. Having clear objectives not only keeps you motivated, but also makes it easier to track progress and celebrate milestones along the way.

Lesson structure & typical format

Golf lessons at The Winston Golf Club are tailored to meet your individual needs so that you can enhance every aspect of your game. Each lesson is designed to provide the kind of support that will help you take the next step as a player—it’s based on your needs, not a “one size fits all” curriculum.

Most lessons will begin with a warm-up—after which your instructor will make recommendations on the specific skills they think you would benefit from practicing the most during that particular session. From there, you’ll be given specific drills, along with personalized feedback and advice based on what your instructor observes. Whether you’re just starting out or are aiming to improve your game, our lessons provide the tools and support to help you reach your goals.

Lesson Packages at The Winston Golf Club

At The Winston Golf Club, we offer a variety of lessons designed to help golfers of all skill levels improve their game. Whether you’re focused on perfecting your putting, enhancing your short game, or refining your full swing, our team of fully trained and certified PGA of Canada Professionals is here to help. Our programs include:

• Individual lessons

• Playing lessons for 3 or 9 holes

• Year-long lesson programs

We also offer private group lessons for up to four participants, junior lessons to help grow the game for young players, and club fittings to make sure you’re always able to use the gear that supports your needs as a player.

A Note on Club Fittings

Finding the right clubs is an important part of acing your game—so we provide professional club fittings for top brands like Callaway, Cobra, Ping, TaylorMade, and Titleist.

Using TrackMan technology, our PGA of Canada Professionals assess key factors such as brand, shaft, settings, and more to ensure your clubs are perfectly suited to your game.

Our fittings cover essential details like length, lie, head model, shaft flex, grip size, and skill level. We also have the option for distance gapping assessments to make sure you have appropriate numbers between the distances you’re using each club to hit.

Practice drills & exercises

Practice drills help you reinforce the techniques you’re learning in your lessons and build muscle memory. This helps your new skills become second nature when you’re playing on the course.

Depending on your skill level and lesson focus, your instructor might guide you through drills to improve your swing mechanics, grip, posture, or alignment. You might practice short game exercises focusing on chipping and putting precision, full swing mechanics to improve your driving, and on-course playing strategies to better understand game management.

For junior golfers, most programs emphasize physical literacy through activities that develop agility, balance, coordination, and speed, laying a strong foundation for golf skills.

These drills are designed to isolate specific parts of your game, allowing you to build consistency and confidence over time. To solidify your new skills, we encourage regular practice between lessons to help you build lasting habits.

Feedback & adjustments to improve your technique

Your instructor will also help you refine your technique through consistent feedback and regular adjustments. By closely observing your stance, grip, swing, and follow-through, they can identify specific areas for improvement and provide clear, constructive guidance to enhance your form.

An example of feedback could be: “I noticed your grip is a little too tight, which can create tension in your arms and affect your swing fluidity. Try loosening your grip just slightly”.

Using a combination of verbal cues, demonstrations, and sometimes video analysis, your instructors will make real-time corrections and suggest additional drills to focus on the areas where you still need extra help. This personalized approach is the best way to make sure you develop good habits, build confidence, and see steady progress in your game.

Follow-up sessions & the importance of practice

Remember: a single lesson is never enough! Your first golf lesson might introduce you to the basics of proper technique, but taking more lessons on a regular basis is essential if you want to reinforce the skills you’ve already learned and help you develop new, more advanced ones over time.

And the more you work with a specific instructor, the more efficiently they can help you learn! Repeat sessions give your instructors the chance to:

• Track your progress

• Fine-tune your mechanics

• Introduce more advanced strategies as your confidence grows

With this consistent guidance and your commitment to the sport, you can turn the positive progress from your lessons into lasting habits on the course.

Drive your game forward with The Winston Golf Club

Golf lessons are one of the most direct ways to improve your game—and they can also be a lot of fun! When you choose the right club, you can practice your skills in beautiful surroundings and learn from pros who have absolute mastery of the game. It’s a hole-in-one proposition.

Swing into action today with golf lessons at The Winston Golf Club. Whether you’re just starting out or are looking to fine-tune your skills, our expert PGA of Canada professionals are here to help you play your best. We’ll run through all aspects of the game, from putting precision and club fitting to on-course playing strategies.

Book your lesson today and start seeing results on the course.