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Meet Your Coach

Joshua BrickleyClass A PGA Golf Professional & Coach

“Empowering players by adeptly managing the mental–mechanical relationship of the golf swing.”

13+Years Coaching
1,000+Golfers Developed
Class APGA Professional
The Story

A coach forged on the range

The Path to Mastery

I’m a Class A PGA Professional with more than 13 years of coaching and instruction behind me, and a simple belief at the center of it all: lasting improvement comes from the relationship between the mental and the mechanical — sound technique paired with a clear, confident mind.

Over my career I’ve trained and developed well over 1,000 golfers, from first-timers picking up a club to junior competitors and seasoned single-digit players. No cookie-cutter lessons — every session is built around the golfer in front of me: their goals, their tendencies, and the way they learn best.

That work has carried me across every corner of the game: leading instruction at Five Iron Golf in Boston, running junior camps and scoring well over a hundred tournaments a year at Meadow Brook Golf Club, mentoring fellow professionals to PGA standards, and today serving as Head Golf Coach at Suffolk University and Director of Instruction at Candia Woods Golf Links.

I lean on the best frameworks in the game to make progress measurable rather than a matter of guesswork — TrackMan ball-flight data, Titleist Performance Institute movement screening, and SuperSpeed training — so every golfer can see, and feel, the climb. Rise above. Become ascendant.

Experience

A decade-plus on the lesson tee

Head Golf Coach
Suffolk University
August 2024 — Present
Lead the university golf program — coaching and developing student-athletes, building new instruction programs to deepen engagement, and continually advancing my own teaching through ongoing education.
Director of Instruction
Candia Woods Golf Links
April 2025 — Present
Oversee all instruction at Candia Woods, building relationships across a clientele of 650+ members and public guests and developing programs that keep golfers engaged and improving season after season.
Director of Instruction
Five Iron Golf — Boston, MA
September 2024 — April 2025
Directed instruction at one of Boston’s premier indoor golf facilities — mentoring and training fellow professionals to company and PGA standards, surpassing quarterly KPIs, and expanding the studio’s reach through PGA Coach and social media.
Senior Class A PGA Professional
Five Iron Golf — Boston, MA
January 2023 — September 2024
Built and maintained a full teaching clientele while consistently achieving and surpassing performance targets each quarter.
Director of Instruction
Meadow Brook Golf Club — Reading, MA
March 2020 — November 2022
Coached golfers of every age and ability — including competitive players on in-game strategy — while running the Summer Junior Camp Series that empowered 60+ junior golfers each year.
First Assistant & Golf Pro
Meadow Brook Golf Club — Reading, MA
March 2013 — November 2022
Ran day-to-day golf operations and the member experience: organizing and scoring 100+ tournaments a year, managing inventory and vendor relationships, and leading outside service staff.
Certifications & Training

Credentialed in the craft

✦ Class A PGA of America Golf Professional
✦ TPI Titleist Performance Institute Level 1 Certified
✦ TM TrackMan Level 1 Certified
✦ SS SuperSpeed Golf Level 1 Certified
✦ US U.S. Kids Golf Certified Coach
✦ GD Golf Digest Certified Instructor
✦ AS Associate of Science Facilities Planning & Mgmt.
✦ GCO Golf Complex Operations Operations & Management Cert.
What I Coach

Every part of your game

Full Swing & Ball Flight

TrackMan-backed work on mechanics, strike, and shot shape — turning data into a swing you can repeat under pressure.

The Mental Game

The heart of my philosophy: managing the mental–mechanical relationship so confidence and technique work together, not against each other.

Body & Movement

Titleist Performance Institute screening to understand how your body moves — and how that movement shapes every shot you hit.

Speed & Power

SuperSpeed protocols and HIITS speed training to build real, measurable club-head speed and add distance off the tee.

Junior Development

U.S. Kids–certified coaching, camps, and the Ascendant Junior Academy — building skill, discipline, and a lifelong love of the game.

Scoring & Strategy

Short game, putting, and the in-game course management that turns good ball-striking into lower scores.

Begin Your Ascent

Let’s build your game.

Rise Above

Whether you’re chasing your first par or your next club championship, the path is the same — train it, track it, rise above it.

Reach me at josh@jbrickleygolf.com  ·  LinkedIn