Timo van Geest
I’m Timo van Geest, a golf coach and educator with more than 20 years of experience in teaching and coaching. My work combines golf instruction, coach education and system development, with a focus on making complex information clear, practical and useful.
I work closely with Andy Plummer within Stack&Tilt, coach players at the Stack&Tilt Academy at La Hacienda Links Golf Resort in Spain, and continue to develop my own work around putting, practice and skill acquisition.
A system built over time.
Where it started
Before golf became my profession, teaching movement already was. I studied Sport and Physical Education in Amsterdam, with particular interest in anatomy, biomechanics and motor learning. That background shaped the way I would later approach golf coaching. I was never especially interested in collecting isolated techniques. I wanted to understand why movement produces a particular outcome, how people learn those movements and how information can be organised so that it actually helps someone improve. More than 20 years of teaching sport has reinforced that interest. Good coaching is not simply about having information. It is about knowing what matters, when it matters and how to communicate it.
Golf coaching
I’ve been coaching golf for over 15 years. Over that time I’ve worked with golfers across a very wide range of ability, from developing players and committed amateurs to professionals and other coaches. Those experiences kept pointing back to the same problem. Golfers rarely suffer from a shortage of information. Most have too much of it. What they lack is a framework that helps them decide what is relevant, how different pieces relate to one another and what deserves their attention next. That became increasingly central to the way I teach.
Stack&Tilt
My work with Stack&Tilt gave that way of thinking a much clearer structure. I now work closely with the system’s founder, Andy Plummer, and play a central role in the development and overall direction of the company and its teaching system. A significant part of my work is coach education: helping instructors understand not only what we teach, but how the pieces of the model relate to ball flight, contact, power and curve. What attracted me to Stack&Tilt was never a collection of positions. It was the idea of a coherent system. New information has somewhere to live. Causes and effects can be discussed within a common framework. That allows coaching to become more precise without becoming more complicated.
Building skill, not dependence
My aim is not to make players dependent on lessons. A good system should gradually make the golfer more capable of making decisions for themselves. That means understanding why the ball behaves as it does, recognising which variables matter most and knowing how to organise practice around those priorities. My sessions are therefore built around diagnosis, explanation and direction. First identify what matters. Then explain why it matters. Then build a practice structure that allows the player to improve it. The goal is not simply to leave a lesson hitting better shots. It is to leave with greater clarity.
Putting and practice
Over time, that same approach naturally expanded beyond the full swing. I developed the Stack&Tilt Putting System around three fundamental skills: Contact, Distance and Direction. I also became an official AimPoint instructor, adding a structured green-reading system to that work. Putting reinforced something I had already learned from the full swing: skill improves fastest when the task is clearly defined, the variables are understood and practice has a measurable purpose. That principle now sits at the centre of how I think about practice in general.
Systems build skill.
TVG Golf is the next step in that work. I want to build an environment where coaching, education, practice and technology sit inside the same framework. Players should eventually be able to combine lessons, statistics, practice history, drills and feedback in one place, with the system helping them decide what deserves attention next. The technology is not the product. The coaching model is. The goal is to make good decisions easier, practice more purposeful and improvement more continuous between lessons. That is what I mean when I say: Systems build skill.
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