Meet our Coaching Staff

Llewellyn van Leeuwen

Llewellyn has had a lot of success working with talented Elite Golfers. He believes that it’s down to his passion for young talent and building lasting relationships over more than three of the learning phases. He has managed to build a world-class team of specialists around him that have one common goal: to become the best in the world.

Llewellyn is a Class AAA PGA Member and is a level 2 TPI Golf qualified and has won the coveted PGA Teacher of the year award twice.

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Emile Steinman

Emile has been the Senior Elite Coach at TuksGolf since 2011. He is our resident Short Game Guru, although he does coach every department, and was twice voted onto the Golf Digest Top 25 Coaches in South Africa.

He is TPI Level 2 and Boditrak certified.

Some of Emile’s clients include Louis de Jager and Zander Lombard (European Tour) and Jacques Blaauw, Pieter Moolman and numerous other members of the Sunshine Tour. He is available for private lessons.

 

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Youth & PGA Coach

Derik Ferreira

Derik was introduced to golf at a very young age by his father. He grew up playing golf in Pretoria and represented Gauteng North at every age level as a junior and formed part of the winning Inter-Provincial team in 2007, he also received Junior Springbok colours and represented South Africa on four occasions. He rose to number one on the South African Amateur rankings and represented South Africa several times. Derik pursued a career in golf and turned professional in 2010 and played 7 consecutive years on the Sunshine Tour.

After years of competitive golf, he turned his attention to coaching with a desire to share his passion and introduce more people to the game of golf. Over the past 3 years, he has become part of the TuksGolf coaching team.

He is currently doing his third-year apprenticeship with the PGA of South Africa and completed several courses which include TPI Level 1, SAM Puttlab Level 1 and Level 2, and K-Coach Level 1 certification and the Boditrak Golf Ground Mechanics Certification.
2019 PGA Apprentice Golf Champion

 

 

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