Enjoy better golf with our professional golf coaching


We coach, we fit, we care We coach, we fit, we care
Our added value to you

After spending years honing our skills and working closely with club golfers like you, we're confident that we can lend a helping hand wherever your game needs a little fine-tuning.

As your PGA Professional team, we deeply care about your golf game and the happiness it brings you. That's where the philosophy of We Coach, We Fit, We Care comes into action – our approachable team is always ready to listen to your concerns and help you make positive changes that bring success on the course.

Find out more

Golf coaching is all about you and what you want to get out of your game. Here at Upminster Golf Club Pro Shop we pride ourselves on being good listeners and aim to provide the best possible professional advice, whilst ensuring each lesson is tailored and enjoyable for the golfer.

Why Coaching?

Here at Upminster Pro Shop we’re passionate about helping you play better golf.

Every golfer enjoys the game more when they’re hitting good shots and playing well. This is our mission for you.

As coaches and fitters, we are extremely experienced and have a strong track record in helping golfers of all abilities improve and reach their goals, whether it be by improving technique to hit it further, straighter, chip and pitch better or hole more putts, we can help! We use only the best equipment and technology when carrying out fittings and have years of experience in finding the best head and shaft combinations to suit your needs.

Through our experiences in the game and our PGA education, we appreciate that every golfer is different. That’s why we offer a range of lessons and packages to suit everyone. Many of our lessons include the use of the GCQuad launch monitor.

Lessons will cover:

  • Golf Fundamentals
  • Swing Basics
  • Short Game
  • Long Game
  • Course Management

Our Staff

pro image

Joe Ellis - Head PGA Professional

PGA Head Professional. Tournament Player. Premium coaching and club fitting service provided, aided by GCQuad launch monitor. After taking up golf at the age of 10, I joined Thorpe Hall as a junior in 2007. Since turning professional in 2013, and starting my PGA training in 2014 I have focused on playing golf along with coaching, custom fittings and working in the Professional shop. The majority of my time is split between playing competitve golf and coaching. Having won several professional events Im hoping to continue my development as a player whilst also offering a top quality one to one coaching service, which is part of my job that I really enjoy. Along with Mark, running overseas coaching trips have been a very enjoyable and successful opportunity for us to help people people with their games.

pro image

Mark Talbott - Head PGA Professional

PGA Head Professional at Upminster GC. Coach, club fitter and tournament player. Sponsored by First Intervention Team. In 2009 Mark enrolled for the PGA foundation degree. During this time and since graduating in 2012 Mark has coached golfers of all standards as well as maintaining his shop duties and competed to a successful level on the PGA East region circuit, winning the East Region order of merit in 2020. Mark was the Captain of the PGA in Essex in 2018 where he hosted the Essex Open Championship and also runs successful overseas coaching trips will fellow PGA Professional Joe Ellis.

Book a lesson today