About
I’m Ben Nelson. I help golfers make lasting improvements to their game
I began my golfing journey before I could walk and was breaking my parent’s kitchen tiles with a cut down persimmon driver not long after that.
I played all through high school and was an accomplished player posting a 34.5 scoring average for nine holes my senior year.
I attended NC State University where I studied both Professional Golf Management and Finance. Throughout college I had the pleasure of working at Interlachen CC, The Landing at Reynolds, The Taylormade Kingdom at Reynolds, Nike Golf, and Club Champion Club Fitters.
After graduating, in 2015, I have had the pleasure of coaching at GOLFTEC, working at GOLFTEC HQ on their Merchandise & Club Fitting team, developing, testing, and designing equipment at Tour Edge, coaching and fitting at SMART Golf & Fitness, and now coaching and fitting as an Independently Contracted Coach.
I founded Vanquish Golf Works and designed my own training tool, A-LINE, during Covid and to this day am working to grow and expand that busienss!
Career highlights
- Accredited PGA Teaching Professional
- Coached more than 7000 lessons over 6 years
- Founder and CEO of Vanquish Golf Works
- Invented the training tool, A-LINE
- Fit PGA Tour Professionals for equipment
- Conducted equipment experiments on a golf swing robot
- Fit more than 500 clients for golf equipment
- Created enterprise wide club fitter training
- Building and customizing golf equipment since 2015
- Play to a +2 handicap
I am a strong believer in cause and effect. If you want to improve your swing, we have to start where the pattern starts to unravel. Fortunately for us, if we do, you'll make changes that will last a life time.
My Coaching Philosophy
Root Causes
You have to find the root cause of the issue and start your work there. If you don’t all the changes you make further down the pattern will quickly wither away.
Cause and Effect
If we want to figure out why something is happening, we need to understand the function of the pattern we’re trying to get rid of. If we don’t replace that pattern with another, better pattern, that accomplishes the same thing, that pattern will persist.
It's all about how you practice
You wouldn’t expect to be able to pass level 5 in biology if you just enrolled in level 1, right? It’s a process and as long as you build it up slowly and master the easy stuff first, it’ll always feel easy and you’ll be brimming with confidence.
It's all about the lefts and the rights
The golf swing is a scale and were going to try and balance it. Every pattern has left versions and right versions we can use to do so.
Your hands lead the way
Our hands and wrists are by far our biggest movers and shakers as far as ball flight is concerned. If we can get them to do what we want, the rest of the golf swing tends to morph itself around what they’re doing.
Topics I Can Help You With
01.
Driver
Let’s get the most important club in the bag dialed in!
02.
Full swing
Let’s get consistent contact and strike the ball first every time!
03.
Chipping & Pitching
No more round ruiners. Instead let’s turn your short game into your savior!
04.
Putting
Stop missing those 4 foot putts. Instead, let’s become the scramble team anchor!
05.
Bunkers
Leaving it in the bunker or flying it over the green? We can fix that!
06.
Strategy
Not getting rewarded for good swings? We can fix that!
07.
Uneven lies
Learn how your lie is going to affect the flight. That way you’ll look like a wizard who can predict the future!
08.
Curve of the ball
Do you slice or hook the ball too often? We can fix that!