For golfers over 50
Your best golf is in the future.
The Senior Golfer Pathway is Steve Bann’s structured way for golfers over 50 to get power back, play smarter, and shoot your age. Ten steps, in order, built for the body you have now.
Free 13-page guide by Steve Bann.
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The wrong question
“Why am I getting worse?” is the question lots of senior golfers ask.
After 50, most golfers lose distance, lose a little range of motion, and start swinging like they did at 30 with a body that no longer does that. Then they hit hundreds of balls a week hoping it comes back, and bounce from one video tip to the next.
The right question is how far you are from shooting your age, and whether the gap is closing. A big gap with a plan beats a small gap with none. That is what the pathway gives you: the order to work in, so the physical, technical, mental and strategic pieces build on each other instead of fighting.
Shooting your age does not need a scratch handicap or a 30-year-old’s driver. Mid-handicap golfers get there in their 70s and 80s when they manage the body, the tee and the course well.
The pathway
Ten steps, in the right order.
Your constraints, not your talent or your experience, decide how fast you improve. The pathway finds the one holding you back and works on that first.
Read the full guide, free- 1
Map and share your pathway
Where you are, where you want to be, and the honest gap between them.
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Physical assessment
Strength, mobility and balance, measured, so the plan fits the body you have now.
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The five laws of impact
What the club has to do at the ball. Everything else is a way of getting there.
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Confidence cycle
How belief is built on the range and carried onto the first tee.
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Physical conditioning
The work that gives you back speed and range of motion, without injury.
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Refine technical skills
Simplify the swing to what your body can repeat, then make it reliable.
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Build mental resilience
Playing the shot in front of you, not the last one or the scorecard.
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Peak physical performance
Stamina for eighteen holes, and the last four played as well as the first four.
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Advanced technical skills
Trajectory, shaping and short-game control once the foundation holds.
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Strategic excellence and mental mastery
Course management that turns the same swing into fewer shots.
Your coach
Steve Bann
Steve turned professional in 1979 and played the Australian tour for fifteen years before he started coaching the players who went on to win on the PGA Tour. He still teaches at Kingston Heath, and he is over 50 himself, walking the same pathway he built.
- Inducted into the Victorian Golf Hall of Fame, 2024
- Coached Stuart Appleby, KJ Choi and Robert Allenby, at over 40 majors including 19 Masters
- Founding head coach of the Victorian Institute of Sport, 1990
- Four instruction books, one of which sold 300,000 copies
Come join us on the journey to “shoot your age”
Two golfers over 50 who are already on the pathway.
“Let's go! I'm excited about Shoot Your Age Golf. I know not everyone believes they'll ever shoot their age, but why not join me, give it a go, and keep improving your game?”
Ian Baker-Finch
Major Champion. Winner of the 1991 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale
“Join me on the Senior Golfer Pathway. Many golfers over 50 are much closer than they think. Let's close the gap together and enjoy the game more than ever.”
Steve Bann
Leading PGA Tour Coach
Free guide
The Senior Golfer Pathway, in Steve’s words. Thirteen pages, free.
What each of the ten steps asks of you, why the order matters, and the principles Steve used with the juniors who are now on the Champions Tour. Read it in twenty minutes; use it for years.
Send me the guideShoot Your Age membership
Walk the pathway with Steve.
Foundation membership is open. Steve is over 50 and on the same pathway, and the members’ site is where the ten steps get worked through, with him and with the other members.
- Steve Bann's Senior Golfer Pathway, step by step, inside the members' site
- Coaching content from Steve and from other specialists on the pathway
- A community of golfers over 50 working on the same goal
- Guidance on conditioning, technology and course strategy for the older body
One payment
A$100 once
Foundation member price. One payment. No further charges. Ongoing access as a foundation member.
Join with one paymentPrices in Australian dollars, payment by card through our secure checkout. Foundation membership is open now; the price rises when the foundation group closes.