Richard Lawless is the PGA Professional behind the Weekend Golfers Free Coaching Library.
With more than 20 years’ experience as a PGA Professional, Richard has coached golfers across a wide range of abilities, from recreational club golfers to experienced competitive players.
Richard was also my golf coach, and together we created the extensive collection of coaching videos that now forms the Weekend Golfers Free Coaching Library.
Richard provided the professional coaching and instruction. I filmed, produced and organised the material and built the website around it.
Today, that entire coaching archive is available free through Weekend Golfers.
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Coaching Philosophy
Richard’s coaching is practical and straightforward.
Rather than constantly changing a golfer’s swing or chasing the latest idea, his approach is about helping golfers understand what they’re doing, why they’re doing it and what they can work on to improve.
Throughout the coaching library you’ll find lessons covering the golf swing, driving, putting, short game, common faults, course management, the mental game and more.
The videos were created to give golfers something they can understand, practise and return to whenever they need it.
Experience & Background
Richard has spent more than two decades as a PGA Professional and has coached golfers across a wide range of abilities.
That includes Weekend Golfers like me who simply want to improve, as well as highly accomplished competitive players.
His ability to explain golf clearly was one of the reasons we created the original Weekend Golfers coaching library together.
Rather than trying to turn every golfer into the same player, the coaching is about understanding the problem in front of you and finding practical ways to work on it.
Notable Work with Players
Among the golfers Richard has worked with is Trish Johnson, an eight-time Solheim Cup player and multiple winner on the Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour.
That experience at the highest levels of the game sits alongside many years spent coaching club and recreational golfers.
For Weekend Golfers, that’s an important combination: professional knowledge explained in a way that golfers like me can actually use.
Richard & Weekend Golfers
Richard has been part of Weekend Golfers since its early days.
Much of the coaching library was originally created as paid membership content. Rather than leave those videos sitting unseen in an old membership system, I’ve now made the complete archive freely available.
There’s no membership, no account and nothing to buy.
Richard remains the PGA Professional delivering the instruction.
I’m still the Weekend Golfer trying to put it into practice.