Team Profiles

2020-05-05

David Barry (Founder, Head PGA Professional)

David played his amateur golf in Mahon Golf Club where he reached a handicap of +2, competing in all the national & provincial championships. 

In 2008 David went to work in Bighorn Country Club in California where he learned about excellent customer care in a 5 star resort. Spending 3 winters in Bighorn Davids customer care and attention to detail became second to none.

In 2014 he started work in Douglas golf club with Stephen Hayes and joined the PGA training program.  In Douglas David set up numerous training programs for teams and individuals. 

David coached teams to Munster pennants and All-Ireland finals, he was involved in coaching individuals to provincial and national panels and also his students have won scratch cups and even Irish titles.

Davids reputation as a coach has grown massively and he looks forward to learning more and continuing his growth as a coach while helping as many people play better golf and have them enjoy their golf more. He takes as much pride in coaching his professional clients as he does beginners and everyone in between. 

David’s coaching style is very simple, he wants you to play your best golf possible by making the golf swing easy to understand and turning his knowledge into easy to understand instruction proven to help lower your scores. 

David’s coaching style has been admired by some of the best in the business and been a guest on numerous Podcasts talking about how he likes to coach and his approach to using technology (Trackman4) in his coaching. Click the links below to listen to some of them. We recommend listening to the ontheMark on first, Mark Immelman is the brother of Masters winner Trevor and works with the PGAtour as well as been an award winning College coach in America.

OntheMark – How to make your practice count

David also looks at golf from all angles and works closely with Mike Carroll aka Fitforgolf. If you have any interest in combining the 2 coaches make sure to check out Davids discount code. you can listen to one of there conversations here.

Fitforgolf Podcast