I’m Steve King, the founder of Weekend Golfers.
I started Weekend Golfers in 2012 as a place for ordinary golfers who enjoy the game, want to get better at it and accept that golf has a habit of making all of us look slightly foolish from time to time.
I’ve played golf for more than twenty years and have spent most of that time doing what golfers do: playing, practising, changing things, buying equipment, selling equipment, trying different courses and looking for answers whenever the game stops behaving.
I’ve played off single figures for much of my golfing life, but I’ve never pretended to have golf worked out.
I’m still learning.
That is really what Weekend Golfers is about.
My Golf
Over the years I’ve played club golf, society golf, amateur tour events and Pro-Ams, as well as running my own amateur golf tour.
I’ve also volunteered within golf in a number of roles over the years, including as a competition organiser and junior coaching organiser, as well as helping clubs and societies with press and media.
I’ve played plenty of different courses, experimented with equipment and practice methods, worked with PGA Professionals and experienced most of the ups and downs familiar to club golfers.
These days I’m a member at Cumberwell Park Golf Club in Wiltshire.
I still play competitions, practise and work on my game, but I’m increasingly interested in documenting what actually happens rather than pretending every round or practice session produces a breakthrough.
Sometimes something works.
Sometimes it doesn’t.
Quite often golf finds an entirely new way of making things difficult.
Those experiences increasingly form the basis of what I write about on Weekend Golfers.
How Weekend Golfers Started
An important part of the Weekend Golfers story came through my work with PGA Professional Richard Lawless.
Richard provided the professional coaching and instruction while I concentrated on filming, producing and organising the material and building the website around it.
Together we created an extensive collection of golf coaching videos covering different parts of the game.
That material became the Weekend Golfers Coaching Library.
Years later, the library remains a substantial part of the site. Rather than leave all that useful coaching sitting behind a membership system, I decided to make it freely available through the Free Golf Coaching Library.
There is no membership required and no attempt to turn me into the coach.
Richard is the PGA Professional delivering the video instruction. My job has always been to make that material useful and accessible to golfers.
Weekend Golfers Today
Weekend Golfers has gradually become much broader than coaching.
That’s partly because golf itself is broader than coaching.
We learn from lessons, but we also learn by practising, playing competitions, trying different courses, making equipment decisions and getting things wrong.
So today I write about golf as I actually experience it.
That includes my own rounds and competitions, practice sessions, courses I’ve played, equipment I’ve used and the things I learn along the way.
Some articles are intended to be useful resources. Others simply document an experience that another golfer might recognise or find useful.
There doesn’t have to be a profound lesson at the end of every round of golf.
Sometimes golf is just golf.
Golf With Emma
Golf is now also something I share with my girlfriend, Emma.
I introduced Emma to the game and she subsequently caught the golf bug herself.
That means she naturally appears throughout Weekend Golfers, whether we’re playing together, visiting courses, entering events or simply experiencing the game from two different perspectives.
We aren’t trying to present ourselves as experts.
We’re golfers playing golf, learning as we go and enjoying the experiences that come with it.
Learning From Better Golfers
One of the advantages of having been involved with golf for so long is the opportunity to spend time around people who understand the game at a much higher level than I do.
Richard Lawless was a major part of the original Weekend Golfers coaching project and was also my own coach.
More recently I’ve worked on my own game with PGA Professional Chris Tyson during my time at Westbury Golf Club. I also helped out in the pro shop and, for a time, with the club’s Junior Section.
I’ve also had the opportunity to caddie for Chris in professional events.
That has given me a very different view of golf: inside the ropes, watching how a professional approaches tournament golf, makes decisions and deals with the conditions and situations that arise during a competitive round.
Those experiences form the basis of Caddying with Tyce, another part of the Weekend Golfers story.
I’m still looking at it from my perspective, the club golfer carrying the bag rather than the professional hitting the shots, which is probably what makes it interesting to me in the first place.
A Weekend Golfer on YouTube
Weekend Golfers also has a growing video side through the A Weekend Golfer YouTube channel.
There is quite an archive.
Over the years I’ve accumulated hundreds of videos, including the original coaching material with Richard, golf tips, course videos, amateur-tour footage, practice clips and other bits of my golfing life.
Rather than pretending all of that was created yesterday, I’m gradually organising the useful material while adding new videos from the golf I’m playing now.
The philosophy is much the same as the website.
Ordinary club golf, different courses, competitions, practice, coaching and the occasional appearance from Emma, friends and PGA Professionals I’ve met along the way.
No gloss and no pretending I’ve worked golf out.
Qualifications and Ongoing Learning
Although I am not a PGA Professional, I’ve always been interested in understanding more about golf, coaching and the Rules of Golf.
Over the years I’ve completed a number of golf-related qualifications and courses:
- England Golf – Board & Committee Foundation Governance 2026
- England Golf – Understanding Talent in Young Players 2026
- The R&A Level 1 Rules Exam 2016
- Sports Coach UK – Safeguarding & Protecting Children 2010
- England Golf – ASQ Level 1 Certificate in Golf Coaching 2008
They form one small part of a much longer education that has mostly taken place on golf courses, practice grounds and alongside people who know considerably more about the game than I do.
Why Weekend Golfers Exists
There is already more golf information online than any golfer could possibly consume.
Weekend Golfers doesn’t need to add to the noise simply for the sake of publishing something.
I’d rather build a useful record of ordinary golf.
That might mean sharing professional coaching that helps somebody with their game, writing about something I’ve discovered through practice, documenting a competition, visiting a golf course or talking about a piece of equipment I’ve actually used.
The common thread is experience.
I’m not a PGA Professional, a tour player or somebody claiming to have discovered the secret to golf.
I’m a club golfer who has been around the game for a long time and is still trying to get better at it.
If something I’ve learned, experienced or documented helps another golfer enjoy the game a little more, avoid a mistake I’ve already made or discover something useful, then Weekend Golfers is doing what I want it to do.