Anthony Higgins PGA Golf Professional

Welcome to the online home of Anthony Higgins und Willkommen für meine deutschen und österreichischen Freunde.

I am a Fully Qualified Advanced British PGA & Diplom G1 Golf Professional.

Ich spreche auch fließendes Deutsch.

I hope you enjoy my website and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

THIS WEBSITE HAS 20 PAGES AND A LARGE COLLECTION OF PICTURES, BOTH OLD AND NEW, THAT ANY GOLFER WOULD FIND INTERESTING. IT WAS LAST UPDATED ON 2 SEPTEMBER 2025.

My book THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GOLF YIPS AND MORE has been revised and updated. The SECOND EDITION is now available.

https://www.anthonyhigginsgolf.co.uk/home/biography-english/golf-academy-english/professionals-shop/the-yips

Taken from The Complete Guide to the Golf Yips & More.

Photo:

Chamonix Golf Club, France.

The new revised and updated paperback 2025 colour edition of "THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GOLF YIPS & MORE" is now available from Amazon.

Premium full-colour hardback copies are only available direct from me.

Email higginsap@aol.com for more details.

This book has been featured in the Daily Telegraph.

"That book is worth a lot of golf lessons, very constructive and beneficial to any serious golfer."

The Professional Golfers Association.

A full description of this book can be read below.

Das Buch "THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GOLF YIPS & MORE" über die Golf-Yips und das richtige mentale Denken für das kurze Spiel wurde veröffentlicht und ist ab sofort bie Amazon als Kindle und Buch erhältlich.

This book has been described as different, realistic, direct and the most comprehensive and informative book ever written about the golf yips and the mental side of playing golf. The word “More” was added to the title because this book also covers a lot of other topics associated with playing golf and some of the goings-on at golf clubs that have never been written about before.

Its content includes illustrations and pictures, humour, stories, quotes, causes, cures, tips and it is instructional. Anybody reading this book will learn everything they need to know about the golf yips, the correct mentality to playing golf and a lot more including “The Secrets of Playing Golf” and “How to Generate Power in the Golf Swing.” Even if you are not a yips sufferer everybody will discover tips in this book that will help their golf.

This book took several years to write, it has 244 pages, 38 chapters and over 51000 words. There are 128 colour and black & white pictures, some very old which do, unfortunately, add a lot to the price. Those who have read it have said it has a huge amount of content, everything written is true and is a very good read.

I would also sincerely like to thank Mr Jack Nicklaus and the Fincher Files for allowing me to use their rare photographs.

RECENT COMMENTS

September 2025

Dear Anthony Higgins

I recently bought and read your book, having suffered from the putting yips on and off, mainly and cripplingly, for 30 years. Yours is easily the best I've read, and I've read them all!!! Coming from a fellow sufferer made all the difference.

Hope Springs Eternal!

Regards and thanks

Alan (surname withheld)

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July 2025

Hi Anthony, I thought I’d drop a positive message about your book and how massively it has helped me recently. Lately, I’ve been struggling with the mental side of the game in my PGA competitions, and reading your book has totally shifted my mentality for the better. It’s been a great help. I’m now back to enjoying the game once again, and I can’t thank you enough.

Hayden (surname withheld)

Taken from The Complete Guide to the Golf Yips & More.

Photo:

12 hole Son Quint Golf Club,

Mallorca.

Many talented junior golfers

often face 3 hurdles in

reaching their

potential.

The egos of their

parents, relatives

and friends.

”Manch ein Golfer steht zu nah

am Ball – auch nachdem er

geschlagen hat”.

Sam Snead

I WELCOME EMAILS WITH ANY

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

AND GUARANTEE A REPLY.

EMAIL: higginsap@aol.com

My philosophy for teaching golf is

very simple, "I will watch you hit

some balls, I will then tell you

what to do and then you

will play better and

have more fun".

September 2025

Palma de Mallorca.

Paguera, Mallorca.

Portal Vells, Mallorca.

18th green Golf de Andratx,

Camp de Mar, Mallorca.

Golf de Andratx,

Camp de Mar, Mallorca.

ESCORTED GOLF TOURS

IN THE UK, IRELAND

AND EUROPE

I am now offering escorted golf tours around the UK, Ireland and Europe personalised to your wishes. These can include the most famous, traditional golf courses, hotels and locations, and the secret hidden gems you would not find.

Playing with you and tuition given as required, tee times, accommodation and transport are all arranged by me.

Email me for more information and advice at higginsap@aol.com and also see my page of great golf courses.

Domain Imperial Golf Club,

Lake Geneve, Switzerland.

7th hole

Crans Montana Golf Club,

Switzerland.

Switzerland and France have some of the best, most beautiful and spectacular golf courses in the world. Their taste for champagne, fine wines and food is also something to be experienced. It is a class act.

17th green

Chamonix Golf Club, France.

14th green

Český Krumlov Golf Club,

Czechia.

Royal North Devon Golf Club.

Sunningdale Golf Club.

THE GOLF SWING

The golf swing has never changed neither has the technique it never will and there is no such thing as a modern day golf swing. However, modern technology like fast cameras and TrackMan has made the learning, improvement and correction process quicker and easier.

Above is a picture of Brooks Koepka born in 1990 and Jim Barnes who won 9 major titles and was born in 1886. These pictures were taken about 100 years apart and comparing the positions they are both in they are nearly identical.

Above is a picture of Sam Snead and Tiger Woods who were born 63 years apart. Looking at the photos and their positions they too are nearly identical, which proves that the difference between old school and new school is only the clothes they wore.

Above is a picture of Charles Sands and Xander Schauffele both Olympic gold medal winners but 120 years apart. Sands in 1900 in Paris and Schauffele in 2020 in Tokyo. Very little difference between these 2 backswings.

Above is a picture of Chic Herbert one of the longest hitters of the 1940's and Jamie Sadowski one of the longest hitters of modern times. Photos taken about 70 years apart, note how far the upper body has moved to behind the ball taking the left heel off the ground. These are 2 very powerful backswings and difficult to see the difference between them, Sadowski I believe is a the top of his backswing and Herbert is nearly there.

Ben Hogan one of the best ball strikers that ever lived, level eyes and ears showing great balance.

A rare picture of Ben Hogan before impact, at impact and after impact.

Nice picture of Francis Ouimet who won the US Open in 1913 as an amateur at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts defeating Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff.

This is a great position, note the lag, left wrist position and not a lot of movement in the hips and legs.

A film of his life called “The Greatest Game Ever Played” was undoubtedly the best golf film ever made and a true story. Above is a picture of Francis Ouimet and his famous caddy Eddie Lowery.

Golf Digest USA June 2018.

An interesting picture of Tiger

Woods with eyes, shoulders

and shaft parallel.

Jack Nicklaus

Eyes, shoulders, hips at a similar angle, right knee lower than left with arms on his chest, a

very good module.

Above is an example of

a good swing plane.

Illustration of the swing plane 1930 Seymour Dunn.

There is nothing new about the

Explanar it was invented by

Seymour Dunn in 1930.

Swing plane tool 1930, Seymour Dunn.

Modern day swing plane tool, The Explanar.

A classic and timeless golf swing will quite often have some similarities to the modern day swing, one being the position at impact and sometimes the top of the backswing position, however there are still many different ways to hit the fairway.

What has grown through the years are the different ways the golf swing is explained and interpreted with many top teachers using their self invented drills, words and ways of teaching. But an experienced golf instructor can always be identified as somebody who can explain something in more than one way.

Not much has changed.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE

MODERN GOLF SWING.

Absolutely nothing has changed in 700 years except the amount of BS teachers that have been added to the simple instruction we were first introduced to, which worked then and works now.

It’s still quite a simple game to learn, the only difficulty is trying to master it.

Ben Hogan

Creating a lot of lag and a very

powerful golf swing.

Fred Couples

Renowned for his power and rhythm.

Ernie Els

Is known as the "Big Easy" for what looks like an effortless swing.

Rory Mcllroy

The most successful British golfer of the modern era.

Due to the ever increasing modern day advanced technology, golf equipment and the condition of golf courses, the quality of golf being played has improved and with golfers hitting the ball a lot further golf courses have been designed or made longer.

See GOLF ACADEMY on this website.

https://www.anthonyhigginsgolf.co.uk/home/biography-english/golf-academy-english

WHO AM I?

See BIOGRAPHY on this website.

https://www.anthonyhigginsgolf.co.uk/home/biography-english

Home is in Mallorca a nice

place to spend some time

in winter playing golf.