Born in Melbourne, Australia, on February 10, 1967, Bradley shares a birthday with his golfing idol Greg Norman, who was born on the same day but 12 years earlier.

At the age of 15, Bradley Hughes was thrust into the golfing spotlight when he qualified for the 1982 Victorian Open. This made him the youngest player to ever compete in a major Australian tournament.

After a distinguished amateur career, which included numerous representative teams for his state of Victoria and for Australia, he was the leading amateur in the Australian Open and the Australian Masters. He also had victories in the Victorian Amateur Championship in 1987 and 1988, and the New Zealand Amateur Championship in 1988. After representing Australia in the Eisenhower Cup in Sweden in September 1988, Hughes turned professional at the age of 21. 

Just three weeks later, he started his professional career with a bang. 7th in the Tasmanian Open, 12th in the New South Wales Open, and then a victory in the 1988 Western Australian Open at Lake Karrinyup GC. Hughes was storming up the charts in a hurry and was awarded Rookie of the Year honors. 

Besides his homeland, Hughes' playing career took him all over the world.  Three seasons on the European Tour. Four seasons on the Japan PGA Tour. Four seasons on the Korn Ferry Tour and nine full seasons on the PGA Tour.

Hughes competed in all four of golf's major championships. The Masters (1), the United States Open (4), the Open Championship (4), and the PGA Championship (1). All told, he competed in ten major championships, with his highest finish a 16th place in the 1997 US Open at Congressional GC, won by Ernie Els.

Hughes finished runner-up in the 1992 KBC Daiwa Open (Japan), losing in a playoff to TM Chen. He finished runner-up twice on the PGA Tour. The 1998 CVS Classic in Boston and the 1999 Kemper Open in Washington DC. In Australia, he amassed runner-up finishes in the Victorian Open, the New South Wales Open, Tasmanian Open, Palm Meadows Cup, The Players Championship, The New Zealand PGA Championship and also the Australian Masters.

His professional victories amount to seven. The 1988 Western Australian Open, 1991 South Australian PGA Championship, 1996 Players Championship, the 1993 and 1998 Australian Masters titles and the 2004 Wichita Open on the Korn Ferry tour.

Hughes represented Australia on two occasions in the World Cup of Golf. In Cape Town, South Africa in 1996 and at Kiawah Island in South Carolina in 1997. His golfing highlight was being a member of the International Team in the very first Presidents Cup outside of Washington DC in 1994.

Since scaling back his competitive golf towards the end of 2008, Bradley Hughes has now become one of the world's leading golf instructors. His YouTube videos have amassed over 9 million views and his thread on the golf forums at Secret Golf and Advanced Ball Striking are both well over the million view mark. His social media content on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook are one of the go-to pages for the true golf enthusiast to learn and enhance their understanding of the game.

His professional students he has helped include Brendon Todd, Peter Malnati, Harold Varner III, Brandt Snedeker, Scott McCarron, Mark Hensby, Bill Haas, Vaughn Taylor, Robert Allenby, Cameron Percy, Greg Chalmers, Ollie Schneiderjans, Ben Martin, Tom Power-Horan and several others. He has worked with European players such as Luke Donald, Russell Knox, Oliver Wilson, Jason Scrivener and Brett Rumford and worked with Major Champions Vijay Singh, Steve Elkington and Shaun Micheel. 

Hughes was instrumental in designing the comeback of PGA Tour player Brendon Todd. Todd was moments away from quitting the game after missing 37 of 43 cuts in events he played from 2016-2018. He had no status on tour except for a past champions category that dated back to 2014 when he won the Byron Nelson Classic. Todd had been told by one of his good friends to read Bradley's e-book titled The Great Ballstrikers. It reasoned enough for him to seek out Bradley for some initial lessons. They met on the driving range in August 2018. Within 12 months, Todd had made 8 of 11 cuts and finished high enough in the rankings to be exempt into the final qualifying series of events. With a runner-up finish in the first playoff event, Brendon Todd had done enough to regain his PGA Tour card for the 2019/2020 season.

Not surprisingly to Hughes, Todd went out and won back-to-back PGA tournaments in November 2019. Just over one year from their initial meeting, the comeback was complete. Todd would go on to finish in the top 30 at the FedEx Cup that season and gain exemptions into the upcoming Major Championships and be exempt on tour for the next four seasons due to his ranking and back-to-back victories.

Todd had elevated himself to a level of consistency that few players have established, only missing ten cuts in his next one hundred events and reaching his highest world ranking of 38. When the Hughes/Todd journey began, he was ranked 2144 in the world. A meteoric rise in the world of golf. Todd also led the fairways hit category, going from one of the crookedest drivers on tour to the straightest.

Hughes' success with top level players didn't end there. In early 2024, Peter Malnati sought out his help for similar reasons. Known as a great short game player, Malnati had trouble getting from the tee to the green and his short game only saved him from barely making cuts rather than contending for tournaments. Within 4 weeks of starting their work together, Malnati went out and won the 2024 Valspar Championship on a treacherous course — claiming his first win for 9 seasons. Malnati remarked to Hughes after the win," all I needed was to get to the green quicker to let my short game shine," and we did it!!

Known as one of the best ballstrikers to ever come out of Australia, Hughes has been able to transfer his striking ability to the golfers he has worked with. In the 2020/2021 PGA Tour statistics, Hughes' students led in two of the most significant ball striking categories for the season. Brendon Todd led the fairways hit percentage and Cameron Percy led the greens in regulation statistics. High praise to Hughes and his students for being able to excel at striking the ball in play and on target. 

Hughes' work with Luke Donald in 2021 also saw Donald record a personal first — when he hit every green in regulation during a round in the Texas Open. A feat he had never achieved in his previous 15 years on Tour. He was also rewarded with his first top 10 finish in an official event for over four years.

Hughes' inspired instruction has also attracted the attention of established stars from other fields, including legendary cricketers Alan Border, Dean Jones and Sir Ian Botham. Australian rules footballers Sam Fisher and Michael Roberts and the ultimate legend, 14-time Major tennis champion Pete Sampras, who visited Hughes in Melbourne, Australia for lessons, as well as Hughes spending time with Sampras at his residence in California.

In March 2015, Hughes was installed as professional instructor for major champion Steve Elkington's Secret Golf website, alongside Major champion and golfing legend Jackie Burke Jnr.

Hughes prides his instruction on being simple and imaginative, with the focus on being able to allow the student to feel and understand the true fundamentals of the golf swing and use science to back up this awareness. This is all based on his experience as a high-caliber player and from playing alongside, asking questions and learning from over 145 Major Championship winners including Greg Norman, Gary Player, Tiger Woods, Nick Rice, Seve Ballesteros, David Duval, Nick Faldo, Angel Cabrera, Retief Goosen, Ernie Els, Payne Stewart and many other great champions of the game.

Hughes also passes on information about course management — equipment — the mental game and the short game from his vast experience as a player on the world stage. A treat and experience nobody else can offer.

Hughes has now written four books about the golf swing. His first book, "The Great Ballstrikers", released in January 2018, has received rave reviews, with several people claiming it to be "absolutely the BEST golf instruction book I have ever read."

The second book, "The 430 Path To Great Golf", runs through the famous drill series. Released in June 2020, it is being hailed as the new benchmark for true golf instruction. Both of these books are now in print version available through Amazon.

His two other books are available as of now in a downloadable electronic version. The third book, "Ben Hogan: The Secrets To His Success", is a deep analysis into Ben Hogan's wondrous swing and the dynamics Hogan used to firmly implant himself as the master ballstriker in history. The fourth book "From The Tour To The Lesson Tee" dives into anecdotes and lessons learned from playing on tour and alongside the best. These stories take you right inside the experiences, achievements and acquaintances from his 50 years in the game.

Hughes is also the creator of the DownUnder Board — a training tool used to help golfers understand and train the correct ground forces in the swing. The DownUnder Board is now used by over 150 professional players from every tour. The product was labeled the "hottest training aid in golf and regarded as the best instruction aid for 2020 by golf testers and correspondents.

Personal instruction. Online instruction. Corporate outings and golf schools. That's all part of the package available from Bradley Hughes Golf.

It truly is the one place in golf instruction where experience truly does count.