Courtney Billing Joins ClubLink as a Senior Teaching Professional
By Margaret Swaine
Spring 2007 ClubLink NewsLink
Courtney Billing calculates she has given over 3,000 golf lessons but hasn’t yet met a person she couldn’t help improve their game. The thirty-year-old Billing who recently joined ClubLink as a senior teaching professional seems too young to have taught so much. Her auburn hair, freckles and perky demeanour belie a burning ambition.
“I’ve always been ambitious. I have very high expectations of myself and my career,” said Billing. “My goal is to become the best teacher I can be.” Billing who started playing golf at eight, turned pro in 2000 and took her game to the SBC Futures Tour and LPGA Tour. She got into teaching while married to a golf pro at a South Carolina course. There on Pawleys Island in 2002 she started up the “Direct Approach Golf School”.
It grew to become one of the top golf school’s in the southeast. Billing, recognized in both Golf Digest and Golf For Women for her teaching accomplishments, was able to recruit leading PGA and LPGA professionals to join her school. With this elite teaching staff around her, she continued her quest to be among the best in her field.
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“The key is to keep the learning fun and simple,” she noted. “When you leave a lesson you need to have a clear and precise understanding of what you did and how it improved your game.” She always writes up notes for her clients with a lesson goal, key thoughts and drills to follow after. The student gets a copy and she keeps one so when a client returns she knows what’s been accomplished so far.
“Regular instruction is important,” said Billing. “You have to find an instructor you mesh well with.” She started at ClubLink in the middle of February in the indoor facility at Glen Abbey. Now she divides her time between Glen Abbey and Rattlesnake working three days a week at each.
Better players appreciate her extensive background in clubfitting. When she ran her school she had a division devoted exclusively to the fitting and building of custom golf clubs. She applies her knowledge of lie/loft/shaft flexes and various manufacturers’ products to help ensure her students have the equipment to take them to the next level.
What she’s discovered in her many hours of teaching is very positive for us hackers. “I’ve seen a lot of swings and spoken with lots of people who don’t realize the potential they have. They just need some tweaking. I don’t reinvent the wheel.” It’s not a gender thing. Half the people Billing teaches are men, half women. It’s just good news that we all may have a hidden tiger in our game.