JKM Golf Academy is a private golf school in Wairau Valley, on Croftfield Lane at the North Shore of Auckland. It operates by appointment only. The academy is led by founder and head coach Jonathan Chau, a NZ PGA professional with more than 14 years of coaching experience who speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin. The coaches focus on swing analysis, and the academy has six bays with launch monitors, along with a putting and chipping green.
The academy offers lessons for beginners, intermediate and advanced players, juniors and adults, and it describes a long-term development pathway that runs from beginner to elite performance, college golf and professional coaching. Its website lists students who have gone on to collegiate golf in the United States, a New Zealand national academy and professional golf. One student's progress from scores over 100 to the late 60s is described as the result of a step-by-step swing rebuild. Its training uses data-driven performance analysis. For a golfer who wants a structured, coached route through the game, the swing analysis and the launch monitor bays are the main things the academy describes.