About
Director of Player Development, Owner of Claude4BestGolf
Claude has conducted schools in the United States, Canada and Europe, and given more than 20,000 lessons over his near 20-year coaching career!
Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he founded the first and only short-game academy in France, and has taught players on the European Tour, Ladies European Tour, European Challenge Tour and Senior European Tour. Claude has had more than 60 instruction articles published around the world in such notable publications as Golf Magazine, Golf Magazine France, and Golf Digest Canada and Inside Golf Canada.
Claude’s areas of expertise include the short game, putting and on-course performance. The ONLY AimPoint Level III Certified Instructor and VISION54 Certified Coach in the state of Hawaii, Claude was a highly competitive player for some time, playing on the mini-tours in South Florida and competing in several Monday qualifiers on the PGA Tour.
Claude is ranked #1 Teacher in the State of Hawaii 2022-2023 by Golf Digest Best Teachers in every State
Claude was recently named the 2020 Aloha Section PGA Professional Development Award recipient. This award provides special recognition to an individual PGA Professional for outstanding and continuing contributions to professional education.
Brousseau was twice voted the Aloha Section PGA Teacher of the Year (2008, 2015). Claude was inducted in the prestigious list of Who’s Who in America 2021-2022. In 2016 was awarded the Aloha Section PGA Horton Smith Award, in 2014, was awarded the Aloha Section PGA Bill Strausbaugh Award for his significant contributions in mentoring fellow PGA professionals and furthering career opportunities for them. He is also rated among the “Best Teachers” in the state of Hawaii (2015-’16, 2017-’18) by his peers in Golf Digest.