Eric Cogorno's New TV Role, and What It Means for You

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Eric Cogorno is now the co-host of School of Golf on GolfPass, following legendary instructor Martin Hall's retirement after 15 years. The new season, with Blair O'Neal, premiered September 21 and takes viewers through the entire golf swing from start to finish. The real story behind it says something useful about your own game too. 

A View From the Fringe

Eric and I have spent ten years building Cogorno Golf together, and I was there for the year almost nobody watched. So when he posted last month that he's the new co-host of School of Golf on GolfPass, I didn't just see an announcement. I saw a decade of Mondays.

Eric Cogorno Named New Co-Host of School of Golf 

On August 19, Eric announced he's the new co-host of School of Golf on GolfPass, alongside Blair O'Neal. He's stepping in for Martin Hall, who retired this past season after 15 years and over 400 episodes.

Eric wrote about what Martin's show meant to him growing up as a coach: "I would make sure to never miss an episode of School Of Golf each week... I'd always rush home to watch the new episode so I could try whatever Martin was talking about on myself and test on the lesson tee the next day."

The new season, Eric and Blair's first together, premiered Monday, September 21, streaming exclusively on GolfPass, starting with Chapter 1: The Most Important Skill in Golf. It takes viewers through the entire golf swing from start to finish, a real season-long swing masterclass, a great supplement to what golfers learn from Eric on YouTube, going beyond fixing one part of the swing to better understand how the whole thing works together.

The Year Nobody Watched

Back in 2018, Eric told Forbes how Cogorno Golf actually started. I came to him originally just to learn golf, no plans to build anything. A few lessons in, I told him: "you really have something special here... we could do something here."

So we started filming. Three to five days a week, six to eight new videos uploaded every single week. For an entire year, almost nobody watched. Fifty views. A hundred. Maybe three hundred on a big one.

Eric's own words from that interview: "I wanted to quit about 100 times, but Mary wouldn't let me... It was her vision that kept this thing alive."

Within ten months of finally changing our approach, the channel went from about 750 subscribers to over 30,000. That was 2018. Today it's nearly 400,000, with almost 120 million total views.

Along the way, and not because it was ever the goal, the recognition followed. Golf Digest has named Eric one of the 50 Best Teachers in America, voted on by his peers. He's been on their Best Young Teachers list twice, and their Best Teachers in Every State list for Pennsylvania. Forbes featured him for how he teaches. All of it traces back to the same thing: thousands of lessons and years of showing up when nobody was watching.

Eric Cogorno's Teaching Philosophy, Now on National TV 

Back in that same 2018 interview, Eric described how he actually teaches: explain the why first, then the what, then the how. Why something is going wrong, what needs to change, how to actually change it.

That's the same structure behind School of Golf's tagline today, one Eric originated: details matter, clarity leads to confidence, and confidence leads to better golf.

Eight years and a new season later, it's the same idea, just with a much bigger room to say it in. Tuning in means getting real, proven teaching, the same principles thousands of golfers already invest in learning from Eric in person, just delivered to a much bigger audience every week that gives a genuine head start on your game.

Eric Cogorno's Approach to Golf Improvement 

Thinking about this whole announcement, and everything that led up to it, made me realize something. This whole thing was always Cogorno Golf, not just Eric: years of showing up, on the right things, long before anyone was paying attention.

For the past ten years, Mondays have almost always meant one thing for Eric and me: filming. Those weekly videos became the foundation of everything else we do. Every Monday is another chance to help golfers improve, something neither of us takes for granted.

What that reinforced for me is the power of consistency. Whether it's filming every Monday or working on your own golf game, real progress comes from showing up, week after week, even when life gets in the way, not from any single big day.

And that's kind of exactly how good golf instruction works too.

Eric puts it this way: "The goal is not to give you a million things to do, because that never works out. The goal is to find the top one or two main priorities for each area of your game that will actually move the needle." One or two things with your full swing. One or two with your chipping. One or two with putting and bunkers. Manageable, and actually impactful.

He breaks it into three real steps: identify the correct things to work on, understand how to work on them effectively, and get feedback on every rep to know if you did it correctly.

I keep coming back to the same thought. Practice consistently, on the specific things actually holding your game back, with real feedback from someone who can see what you can't see in your own swing, and the results follow. It's efficient by design, built to get you feeling the change quickly, not grinding through it alone for months hoping something clicks.

Where to Get Golf Lessons From Eric Cogorno 

Eric runs two-day golf schools in person at Don Law Golf Academy at Osprey Point Golf Course in Boca Raton, Florida, and at Woodstone Country Club in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. He also does private 1:1 in-person coaching sessions, scheduling here.

For golfers who aren't ready to travel yet, or want to start somewhere more accessible, there's the Cogorno Golf VIP membership online. You upload a video of your swing, and Eric and the coaching team send back a full video analysis within 48 hours, along with a specific practice plan built around your goals, refreshed every 30 days. You can go back and forth with questions until you actually feel comfortable with the change, not just understand it on paper. The whole point is helping you feel the difference between what a correct position feels like and what the position causing your miss actually feels like, something Eric and his coaches can spot quickly after seeing thousands of swings with the same handful of underlying problems.

And if you want instant feedback on your swing mechanics, there's also the Swing Coach app, where an AI version of Eric walks you through your own practice sessions. You record your swing, get real feedback built on Eric's actual coaching, and always know what to work on next, like having Eric with you while you practice. 

If you want that kind of specific, consistent, personalized instruction for your own game, that's exactly what our two-day schools are built around, at Don Law Golf Academy in Boca Raton, Florida, and at Woodstone Country Club in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.

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