I have been a qualified PGA Professional for 23 years, spending 2 years as a Teaching Professional in Portugal and 8 years at Sunningdale Golf Club before joining Windlesham. 

Whilst at Sunningdale I was Senior Assistant to Keith Maxwell and a playing Professional sponsored by TI Apollo Ltd.  I have attended two European Tour Apollo weeks, various PGA Coaching Seminars and I am certified in Neuro Linguistic Programming to an advanced Level.

A highlight to my coaching career was working with Australian Tour Professional Peter Fowler. Peter a past winner on the European Tour had in recent years suffered a dip in form. Whilst working together Peter improved from 142nd on the European order of merit to 65th in 2002 and 45th in 2003.

More recently I have taken on the role as a Surrey County Coach to the juniors as well as creating and developing the Windlesham Junior Academy. A goal of mine for the Junior Academy would be to attract talented youngsters who are keen to develop their golf to county standard, whilst providing an enjoyable learning environment for those who just love playing golf.

My teaching style: All things start with the mind, if your brain does not tell a muscle what to do, whether it is conscious or unconscious the muscle will not respond. Therefore every lesson must start with an aspiration to move towards a goal. Due to this we ideally need to look at both the mind and the body and how they need to work together successfully to achieve your goals. When you play you are in the middle of an inevitable cycle, how you swing affects the flight of the ball, where to ball goes affects your thinking, how you think then affects how you swing.

Ways then I can help your thinking are:

1. To improve your playing strategies and routines
2. Confidence in your ability to produce the required shot, especially under pressure
3. How to think post shot and at the end of your round.

  Ways I can improve your technique are:

1. Using the V1 video coaching software to model the techniques used by the world’s best professionals. Seeing yourself side by side with the professionals makes it so much easier to visualize what you need to do to improve.
2. Using teaching aids that will give you the feeling for what you have just seen on the V1 system. Lessons then become a matter of seeing and feeling rather than complicated analysis.
3. Teaching you how to think when you practice, so that you are able to make a change in your technique until the time when you have gained the competence and the confidence to apply that change to competitive play.  

To do both of the above successfully I like to work on the golf course and the driving range. The course because that is where at the end of the day the game is played, the range because it gives us the space to work on parts of your game in a substantially easier environment.

To help your learning in-between sessions I can supply you with an internet video clip of the session, handouts where required and lesson notes.