Langston Instructors

Phil Cooper is a resident of Washington DC and an instructor of golf that is patient, observing, understanding and has a friendly demeanor. He keeps instructions simple and easy to understand so that an enjoyable atmosphere can be created.

His lessons are designed for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. His training aids include videos, monitoring devices, and some innovative techniques that allow students to see the principles that need to be understood.

The use of the reference techniques with each individual student not only helps them achieve their golfing goals but allows them to not forget it is a game and to have fun.

First, he was a military family student that traveled the world quite a bit but always returned to the DC area. After high school and college, he enrolled in the ROTC program, when graduated was commissioned in the US Army and became an Airborne Ranger.

Prior to, during, and after the military, he was still being an athlete with basketball, softball, tennis, and racquetball. But, as they say, the ball gets smaller as you get older and once the beginning of attending golf outings . . . the passion for the game of golf began!

• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
• Adults
  • Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
  • Leagues

Coach Par is a PGA Professional and has over 20 years of playing professionally and coaching.

My Bio is my ego. I will assist you in developing a solid foundation in the fundamentals of golf. Having this foundation will help you break 100, 90, 80, and yes, 70! The only ingredients needed are self-love, imagination, and a little time to practice what you have learned. Golf is recreation, so let’s have some fun!

Motto: If I can change your mindset, I can change your game.

I started taking my first lessons and playing golf at East Potomac. Through those three ingredients (self-love, imagination, and practice) , I was able to break 80 within 6 months of taking my first swing.

• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
• Adults
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons

Eddie is USGTF Certified and has over 20 years of experience. Eddie brings a wealth of knowledge from many years of experience in the game of golf.

He has had the opportunity to play in Pro-Ams himself, as well as furthering the game of golf for the next generation. Eddie taught winning high school and junior golf teams in DC, as well as running the youth golf summer camp at Rock Creek for three summers for the Capital City Golf Course.

Eddie also has experience in the management side of golf, as he was the head pro at Marlborough Golf Course and Lake Arbor Golf Course. He has worked with the Paul Berry Group as an instructor and as an independent golf instructor at Paint Branch. 

Eddie enjoys riding horses when he is not golfing. He loves to teach and play golf, being a firm believer that playing golf reduces stress and supports good mental health. One day, he would like to write a book on golf, “Volunteering and Mentoring Youth”.

• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
  • Summer Camps
• Adults
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons

Joy joined the playDCgolfAcademy in late summer 2022 as the first women and African American Woman Certified Golf Instructor at Langston Golf Course. She was introduced to the game over 40 years ago. Her love and dedication to the sport, keen athletic ability, and desire to expose other minorities and youth to golfing, led her in 2008, to form the organizations Sisters Who Swing Golf Association (SWS) and SWS Jr. Golfers. Through these organizations she has worked tirelessly to introduce women and youth to the art of golfing. One of her greatest accomplishments has been assisting African American youth secure college scholarships just by being in a golf program and still today providing scholarships.

As an Operation 36 Certified Golf instructor she heads up the OP36 training program for both juniors and adults. As a golf instructor she teaches loves teaching golf camps, clinics, and advocating for new golfers. For 12 years before covid 19, she had developed and founded, “A WINTER Indoor Golf Program” for new and season golfers at the facility “Unity of Washington DC”, for both adults and juniors that prepared them for the courses in the early spring. Her work has been in advocating to introduce more women to become golfers, as well as offering the season golfer the training tools and clinics to improve their golf skills.

She is great with juniors and uses golf as a “vehicle for higher education”. Whether the junior wants to go to college as a golfer, or become a golf pro or not, Coach Joy emphasizes “Learn the 4 fundamentals of golf” whereas “Golf is game for a lifetime”. Her approach for the new golfers and season golfers is to have fun interactive lessons and outings that will get you from tee to green quickly, keeping it in the short grass, scoring low and having fun.

Joy is excited to continue to serve the community in her new role as a Teaching Instructor at Langston Golf Course.

Langston golf course was the first course she shot under 90, and in the off season she loves to work with woodwork. Check out some of her golf projects on Etsy.

• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
  • Summer Camps
  • Leagues
• Adults
  • Beginner and Intermediate Private Lessons
  • Beginner and Intermediate Group Lessons