I first became aware of Australian PGA Teaching Professional Ryan Mouque via Twitter, where he has nearly 70k followers. Mouque (pronounced Mo-Kay) conducts a global online coaching academy, giving up to 20 lessons a day to clients all over the globe. His videos and threads on how and why certain swings produce certain ball flights, are brilliant and entertaining. His drills are simple and effective, we’re hooked on his content in a big way. In 2024 alone, Mouque gave around 4,000 online lessons.
“If they’ve got set-up issues, grip issues, takeaway issues, wrist angles at the top of the backswing issues, online you can nail the set-up as their first lesson. Players on my unlimited plans can send me a video immediately. Mouque says that the immediacy and convenience of having a golf coach on call is why so many of his clients see consistent and sustained improvement.after practising their set-up in their loungeroom and I will give them feedback within 24 hours.”
For those who don’t think an online lesson can be effective, read on . . .
In February of this year, after the PGA Show, I decided to embark on my own golf swing boot camp, I spent 4 weeks working on nothing but set up, posture and backswing. My situation was a bit unique, as an aging 1.8 index with some injuries and physical limitations (not to mention my declining athleticism) I still have aspirations to play in a few county and state competitions as a senior golfer (it still feels weird referring to myself as a senior golfer, vanity stays with us). The way I had been swinging the past 30 years wasn’t sustainable going forward for many reasons. After correcting my setup positions, which went really well… it was now time to put things in motion.
- I was too far from the ball at address and would crouch down a bunch, which caused my hand position to be too low at address. From this position I would stand-up at impact, and often flip the clubface – which robbed me of speed and accuracy. I sounds horrible, but for a long time, I made it work because of a decent amount of athletic ability and an exceptional shortgame that mitigated a lot of mediocre ball striking.
Once I began actually hitting some golf balls, it was clear to me that I couldn’t quite get my backswing on plane or as deep as I was hoping to, every swing was recorded to see if my feels were real (they weren’t). I needed some help, and I sought out a bloke from the other side of the planet. Enter Ryan Mouque. We recently discussed his career, methods and thoughts on being a global online Swing Coach…
LinksNation – How did you get involved in the game, and what inspired you to become a Teaching Professional / Swing Coach
Ryan Mouque – So how I got involved with the game was my grandfather was a golfer and he used to take me to the driving range and to the golf course after school. I’d play a little bit of golf. We’d have some KFC after golf and that was about it. I never really played the game at an elite amateur level. so I didn’t compete in any tournaments growing up as I played another sport as my number one sport, but what inspired me to become a teaching professional was I started my traineeship here in Australia and I would practice really well during the week leading up to events and then come time to play in the event, I wouldn’t really play very well. So I decided to try and find out why that was happening. And that’s what led me to become a teaching professional over trying to play for a living.
LN – Your approach to teaching is an impressive combination of very specific communication and lots of visual elements (video drills), how did you formulate your teaching methodology?
RM – To be honest, what formulated my teaching methodology was just doing a lot of lessons. I taught at an in-person venue for six years and did a heap of lessons there and now I’ve been coaching online for going on three years now. And in that three years I’ve been able to give over ten thousand lessons and what that’s been able to do for me is work with so many golfers and come across so many different issues that golfers face as well as the same issues that golfers face or very similar issues, should I say? And basically through a combination of my in-person coaching and the amount of online coaching I do, that’s kind of how I’ve been able to formulate my teaching.
LN – Since you communicate with so many students from around the world, how does your location in Australia effect your daily schedule / time management?
RM – Most of my students are in the USA, so to be honest, being in Australia doesn’t really affect anything for me because when I wake up it’s going on two o’clock in the states. So basically when I wake up, I can talk to all my students for about eight hours and then everyone goes to sleep as I continue to do my lessons. So being in Australia and scheduling everything doesn’t really affect much to be quite honest.
LN – I found it very easy to decipher and implement much of your teachings and drills to quickly improve my swing in a relatively short time . . . is it easier to teach a skilled player who’s let’s say a scratch or professional, or is it easier to work with a high handicap player who knows very little about the golf swing?
RM – I think better players are better players for a reason in that they move a lot better than a recreational golfer or a high handicapped golfer who knows very little about the golf swing There’s definitely things when teaching good players that you have to be very careful of that you don’t have to be so careful of when teaching a higher handicapper, but they both have their own challenges and it’s exciting to work with both types of players
LN – My Aussie bucket list includes NSW, Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath. What are your favorite places to play in Oz? And what is your American Bucket list look like?
RM – To be honest, I haven’t really played a whole lot of courses in Australia. I like to actually play in New Zealand more than I do Australia, but my American bucket list would be Pebble Beach, Shadow Creek, Bethpage Black, Riviera, places like that.
Having regular access to a home practice set up, whether it’s a synthetic practice mat/net or an indoor simulator, can be helpful. Mouque doesn’t need to see a ball flight to advise on how to make meaningful improvement. He says the convenience of having a golf coach on call 24-7 is why so many of his students see consistent and sustained improvement.
After working with Mouque in March, this was my new golf swing in early April of ’25.
For more on working with Ryan Mouque – https://ryanmouquegolf.com.au/academy/
