Nestled in the beautiful landscape of Burlingame, Crystal Springs Golf Course offers more than just stunning views and challenging play—it’s home to one of the most comprehensive golf instruction programs in California. Whether you’re picking up a club for the first time or looking to refine your scratch handicap, our team of PGA-certified professionals is ready to help you reach your potential.

At Crystal Springs, we believe great golf instruction balances technical expertise with the joy of the game. Our teaching philosophy embraces both the science of the perfect swing and the art of playing with confidence, creating an approach that helps you improve while still enjoying every moment on the course.

Ready to transform your game? Let’s explore the complete range of lesson options waiting for you at Crystal Springs Golf Course.

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Expert Instruction at Crystal Springs

The heart of any great golf lesson program is its instructors, and at Crystal Springs, we’re proud to feature a team led by Greg Coplin, one of Golf Digest’s top-rated instructors in California. With decades of combined teaching experience, our professional staff brings a wealth of knowledge to every lesson.

Meet Our Teaching Professionals

Greg Coplin heads our instruction team with a teaching philosophy centered on creating personalized improvement plans. Rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all approach, Greg and our team analyze your natural motion and build upon your strengths while addressing specific areas for improvement.

Each of our instructors holds PGA certification and continues their education annually, staying current with the latest teaching methodologies. This commitment ensures you receive instruction that combines time-tested fundamentals with cutting-edge approaches to the game.

Teaching Philosophy

At Crystal Springs, we believe effective golf instruction must be as unique as the player. Our approach begins with understanding your goals, physical capabilities, and learning style. We then create a customized plan that works with your natural tendencies rather than against them.

What sets our instructors apart is their ability to communicate complex concepts in accessible ways. Whether you learn best through visual demonstrations, feeling the correct positions, or analytical explanation, our pros adapt their teaching style to match your learning preferences.

Most importantly, we focus on building skills you can take to the course. While range practice is essential, we emphasize real-world application, course management, and the mental aspects of golf that translate directly to better scores.

Lesson Programs & Formats

Crystal Springs offers diverse instruction options designed to fit your schedule, budget, and learning preferences. From one-on-one coaching to group clinics, we have a format that will help you achieve your golf goals.

Private Lessons

Our private lessons provide the most personalized attention and fastest improvement. During these one-on-one sessions, you’ll receive detailed analysis of your swing, immediate feedback, and targeted drills to address specific aspects of your game.

Private lessons are available in 30, 60, and 90-minute sessions, with package options offering significant savings for committed students. These sessions can be scheduled at your convenience, making them ideal for busy professionals.

Semi-Private Lessons

Share your learning experience with a friend or family member in our semi-private lessons. These sessions maintain a high level of personal attention while creating a comfortable, supportive environment. Many players find that learning alongside a partner adds enjoyment and friendly competition to the improvement process.

Semi-private lessons accommodate 2-3 students and are perfect for couples, business associates, or friends who want to develop their games together.

Group Clinics

Our group clinics offer an affordable way to learn in a social setting. These sessions focus on specific skills or aspects of the game and typically run for 60-90 minutes. With a maximum of six students per instructor, you’ll still receive personalized tips while benefiting from watching others learn.

We offer regularly scheduled clinics covering fundamentals, short game mastery, course management, and specialty shots. Check our monthly calendar for upcoming sessions that match your interests.

Playing Lessons

Take your instruction directly to the course with our playing lessons. Your instructor will accompany you for 3, 6, or 9 holes, helping you apply practice range improvements to actual play. These sessions are invaluable for developing course management skills, pre-shot routines, and the mental aspects of the game.

Playing lessons reveal patterns and tendencies that might not appear during range sessions, making them an essential component of comprehensive improvement programs.

The Crystal Springs Learning Experience

Learning golf at Crystal Springs goes beyond typical instruction thanks to our exceptional facilities and the natural advantages of our location. The course’s unique features create an ideal environment for developing a complete game.

Practice Facilities

Our comprehensive practice area includes a double-ended driving range with both grass and mat hitting stations. The range features accurate yardage markers and target greens, allowing for precise distance control practice.

The short game area provides dedicated spaces for pitching, chipping, and bunker play, with different grass types to prepare you for various on-course conditions. Our putting green accurately mirrors the speed and contour of the course greens, helping you develop touch and confidence.

Course Features That Enhance Learning

Crystal Springs Golf Course offers varied terrain that naturally improves your adaptability. The elevation changes force you to adjust to uphill and downhill lies, while the mountain setting often presents side-hill stances that develop balance and control.

The course’s strategic layout, with its mix of tight and open holes, trains your decision-making and course management skills. Learning in this environment prepares you for virtually any golf challenge you might encounter elsewhere.

Weather and Seasonal Advantages

Our mountain setting provides comfortable learning conditions through most of the year. The elevated location offers cooler temperatures during summer months, allowing for productive practice even on warmer days.

We structure our instruction programs to take advantage of seasonal conditions, focusing on different aspects of the game when they’re most effectively practiced. This approach ensures year-round improvement regardless of when you begin your learning journey.

Junior Golf Development

At Crystal Springs, we’re passionate about introducing the next generation to golf. Our junior programs combine fun with fundamentals, creating young players who love the game and develop lifelong skills both on and off the course.

Summer Camp Programs

Our popular summer camps offer weeklong immersion in golf for juniors ages 6-16. These camps blend instruction, on-course play, and golf-related games to keep young players engaged while they learn.

Camps are structured by age and ability level, ensuring appropriate challenges and success experiences for each child. All camps include lunch, a camp shirt, and a completion certificate, with awards for various achievements throughout the week.

Half-day options are available for younger children, while full-day camps for older juniors include more on-course time and advanced instruction.

Year-Round Junior Academy

The Crystal Springs Junior Academy provides consistent development through the school year with after-school and weekend sessions. These structured programs build skills progressively, with regular assessments to track improvement.

Academy members receive priority registration for tournaments and special events, creating a comprehensive competitive development path for serious junior golfers.

Our academy follows a proven curriculum that addresses technical skills, course management, rules knowledge, and the mental aspects of golf. This holistic approach produces well-rounded players prepared for high school and collegiate competition.

Parent-Child Programs

Share your love of golf with your child through our special parent-child clinics and playing opportunities. These sessions create quality family time while helping parents learn how to effectively practice with their children between formal lessons.

Monthly parent-child tournaments provide a fun, low-pressure introduction to competitive play, with formats designed to accommodate different skill levels within the family team.

Game Improvement Technology

Crystal Springs embraces technology that enhances the learning process. Our instructors skillfully integrate these tools to provide clear feedback and accelerate your improvement.

TrackMan Analysis

Our teaching center features TrackMan 4 launch monitors, the gold standard in swing and ball flight analysis. This technology measures over 30 data points on every swing, providing insights impossible to capture with the naked eye.

TrackMan sessions reveal your exact swing path, face angle, attack angle, and club delivery, alongside comprehensive ball flight data. This information allows our instructors to identify the root causes of your ball flight patterns rather than just treating symptoms.

All TrackMan sessions are recorded and shared with you via a personal online portal, allowing you to review your data and video between lessons.

Video Analysis Systems

High-speed video capture from multiple angles gives you visual confirmation of your instructor’s feedback. Our teaching bays are equipped with camera systems that can film at up to 240 frames per second, revealing details of your motion that happen too quickly to see in real-time.

Your instructor will use frame-by-frame analysis and drawing tools to highlight key positions and movements. This visual approach helps many students make faster connections between feel and real.

Like your TrackMan data, all video is available through your student portal for home review and practice reinforcement.

Custom Fitting Integration

Proper equipment is crucial to improvement, and our lesson programs include basic equipment evaluation. For more comprehensive analysis, our instructors work closely with our club fitting center to ensure your clubs match your swing.

The combination of instruction and properly fitted equipment often produces dramatic improvement, especially for players who have been using clubs that don’t match their physical capabilities or swing tendencies.

Skill-Specific Instruction

Different aspects of golf require specialized approaches. Our skill-specific sessions focus intensively on particular areas of your game for rapid improvement where you need it most.

Driving and Distance

Our driving clinics and lessons address both accuracy and distance. You’ll learn the mechanics of efficient power generation, from proper setup through the kinematic sequence that maximizes clubhead speed.

For players seeking more distance, we offer specialized power development programs that combine technique changes with appropriate physical training. These programs have helped students gain 15-30 yards without sacrificing control.

Accuracy-focused sessions help you develop a reliable ball flight and strategy for various course situations, emphasizing consistency over maximum distance when appropriate.

Iron Play Precision

Solid iron play requires consistent contact, appropriate trajectory, and distance control. Our iron-specific instruction addresses these key factors through detailed analysis of your impact conditions.

You’ll learn proper ball position for different clubs, how to control trajectory for various situations, and how to adjust for different lies and conditions. The goal is developing versatility and confidence with every iron in your bag.

We place special emphasis on creating a repeatable pre-shot routine that enhances consistency, particularly under pressure.

Short Game Mastery

Statistics show most scoring improvement comes from better play inside 100 yards. Our short game sessions cover pitching, chipping, sand play, and specialty shots with an emphasis on developing touch and creativity.

You’ll learn multiple techniques for different situations, helping you build a versatile short game arsenal. Rather than forcing one method for all shots, we help you develop options that match various course conditions and personal preferences.

Practice efficiency is emphasized, with structured drills you can use independently to continue building skills between lessons.

Putting Improvement

Our putting instruction combines technical fundamentals with green reading and distance control. Using specialized putting analysis tools, we evaluate your stroke mechanics, aim, and impact conditions.

Green reading sessions help you recognize subtle breaks and grain influences, while distance control exercises develop the feel necessary for minimizing three-putts.

For many players, putting improvement represents the quickest path to lower scores, making this specialty instruction particularly valuable.

Player Development Program

For golfers committed to comprehensive improvement, our Player Development Program offers a structured pathway with clear benchmarks and progressive challenges.

Skills Assessment

The program begins with a thorough evaluation of your current abilities across all aspects of the game. This assessment establishes your baseline and identifies priority areas for improvement.

Using both objective measurements and on-course observation, we create a detailed profile of your strengths and opportunities. This information shapes your customized development plan.

Periodic reassessments track your progress and allow for program adjustments as you improve, ensuring continuous advancement.

Progressive Learning Path

Based on your assessment, we create a structured development program with specific goals and timelines. This roadmap typically spans 3-12 months, depending on your starting point and objectives.

The program integrates private lessons, practice plans, playing lessons, and independent work in a comprehensive system. Each element builds upon previous learning, creating efficient skill development.

Regular check-ins with your primary instructor ensure you stay on track and allow for adjustments based on your rate of progress and emerging priorities.

Performance Coaching

Beyond technical instruction, our development program includes mental performance coaching to help you apply your skills under pressure. You’ll learn pre-shot routines, focus techniques, and emotional management strategies essential for competitive play.

For tournament players, we offer additional competition preparation including course strategy development, practice round guidance, and post-round analysis.

This holistic approach addresses all factors that influence your scores, creating improvement that transfers reliably to the course.

Booking Your Lesson Experience

Getting started with golf instruction at Crystal Springs is simple. We offer multiple booking options and flexible scheduling to accommodate your needs.

Scheduling Options

Lessons can be booked online through our website, by phone, or in person at the pro shop. Our online booking system shows real-time availability for all instructors, allowing you to find times that work with your schedule.

We offer early morning, daytime, evening, and weekend appointments, making quality instruction accessible regardless of your work schedule. Seasonal hours vary, with extended evening availability during summer months.

First-time students are encouraged to schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation to discuss goals and determine the best instructor match for your needs.

Pricing and Packages

Individual lessons start at $75 for 30-minute sessions, with hour-long lessons available at $130. Semi-private and group rates offer per-person savings while maintaining quality instruction.

Package options provide discounted rates for committed students, with savings of 10-20% compared to individual lesson pricing. Popular packages include the “Game Improvement Series” (five 60-minute lessons) and the “Total Game Overhaul” (ten lessons plus a playing lesson).

All lesson packages include complementary practice range access on lesson days and access to your personal instruction portal with videos and notes.

Preparing for Your First Lesson

To maximize your initial session, arrive 15 minutes early to complete a brief player profile and warm up. Bring your current clubs, wear comfortable golf attire, and prepare to share your goals and any physical limitations with your instructor.

First lessons typically include discussion of your experience and objectives, baseline skill assessment, and initial instruction on priority areas. You’ll leave with specific practice recommendations and a clearer understanding of your improvement path.

Consider writing down any specific questions or concerns beforehand to ensure they’re addressed during your session.

Success Stories & Testimonials

The true measure of instruction quality is student improvement. Here are stories from golfers who have transformed their games through Crystal Springs’ lesson programs.

Visible Results

Beyond testimonials, we measure success through tangible results. Our students consistently report handicap improvements, tournament successes, and increased enjoyment of the game. The average student in our development program sees a 15% score improvement within three months.

We maintain a “Wall of Achievement” in our instruction center highlighting notable student accomplishments, from first birdies to club championship victories. These successes span all age groups and starting ability levels, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach for all golfer types.

Most importantly, our students report higher satisfaction with their golf experiences, regardless of score. Learning to play more confidently and with greater understanding brings enjoyment that transcends the numbers on the scorecard.

Ready to Transform Your Golf Game?

Golf instruction at Crystal Springs offers something for everyone—from beginners taking their first swings to experienced players refining their competitive edge. Our combination of expert instruction, world-class facilities, and proven teaching methods creates an unparalleled learning environment.

The journey to better golf begins with a single step. Whether you’re looking to finally break 90, compete more effectively, or simply enjoy the game more fully, our instructional team is ready to help you achieve your goals.

Contact us today to schedule your first lesson and discover what makes Crystal Springs the premier golf learning destination in Burlingame. Your best golf is waiting—let us help you find it.