Gary Shaw Golf

1,500 lessons delivered through the Skillest platform since January 2025 🏌️

It doesn’t include group coaching or any lessons before January 2025, but it’s a lovely milestone to pause and appreciate!

Every player brings a different game, personality and way of learning. Those lessons haven’t just helped the golfers I work with develop; they’ve developed me enormously as a coach too.

Thank you to everyone who has trusted me with their game ⛳️

A meaningful moment for LGBT Golf. 🌈⛳️

My Gay Games experience, and the wider purpose behind LGBT Golf, has been featured by The PGA, the original and world’s oldest PGA.

The silver medal opens the story. What means most to me is seeing the work behind LGBT Golf recognised on this platform.

LGBT Golf is creating a more welcoming route into the game through professional coaching, on-course experiences and genuine connection.

It isn’t about creating a different or diluted version of golf. It is about helping more LGBT+ people enter, return to and grow within the game, while keeping improvement, ambition and the game itself at the heart of the experience.

Through The Monthly in London, complete beginners, returning golfers and regular players can learn, improve and connect in a professionally led environment where their lived experience is understood.

I’m grateful to The PGA for giving this work such thoughtful coverage, and to Matt for capturing both the Valencia experience and the wider purpose behind LGBT Golf with such care.

Read the full feature through the link in my bio, and discover LGBT Golf and The Monthly at www.lgbt.golf

Silver at the Gay Games Federation of Gay Games, the world’s largest LGBTQ+ sports event 🥈

Proud to say I finished 2nd in the All-Genders Division A Gross category at Gay Games XII in Valencia - the top gross scoring division of the week

I got to represent Ireland, compete again, and come away with a silver medal. It brought back a competitive feeling I didn’t realise I’d missed ⛳️

Golf has given me so many opportunities throughout my life. I’ve had periods away from it, rebuilt my relationship with the game, turned professional with a much deeper purpose as a The PGA Professional, and found a new mission through building inclusive spaces like LGBT Golf | Inclusive Community + Coaching.

The course, El Saler, was incredible and gave us a proper test over 36 holes in the Valencian heat!

Huge congratulations to Tom E. Smith, PGA, on a brilliant win - a fantastic player, a genuine ally to the LGBTQ+ golf community, and a pleasure to compete with throughout the week. We’ll be over for a visit! 🇺🇸🏌🏻

Thank you to everyone I met and spent time with in Valencia - competitors, organisers, volunteers, playing partners and new friends

Already looking forward to the next 🥈🏳️‍🌈⛳️

Monday at the Stack & Tilt Network training day with Andy Plummer.

Days like this are a reminder of just how deep this game really is - and how much detail sits underneath simple, effective coaching.

A standout piece from the day was Andy’s breakdown of where speed is really created in the swing: the angular velocity of the trail shoulder, and the abduction/adduction of the lead arm — rather than simply trying to rotate the spine and chest harder.

Serious detail. Serious clarity.

A special mention too to Billy irvine and Rob Cheney | Golf Instructor & Coach, who first introduced me properly to Stack & Tilt a couple of years ago. That opened up a whole new level of understanding for me as a coach, and I’m very grateful for that.

It was also brilliant to see my old Head Pro and old co-worker Ryan Gribben, who had both flown over from in Ireland - where I first began my The PGA training. A lovely full-circle moment!

The final image probably says it all: Andy’s drawings from the day. Incredible detail, knowledge and structure behind what, at its best, should look simple to the player.

Always learning. Always sharpening the craft.