Experience and Detailed Track Record

Summary Of Experience:

  • Long Term coach (10 years) to 2005 US Open Champion Michael Campbell.
  • Coached two US Amateur winners in David Gossett and Ben An (youngest in history).
  • Coached two US Girls winners in Julietta Granada and Aree Song (youngest in history). Both now LPGA players.
  • That is five USGA champions, which is a coaching record.
  • Coached three AJGA (American Junior Golfers Association) Players of the year. This is the ‘proving ground tour’ for players like Tiger Woods, Mickelson, Duval etc. It is like a national tour for elite amateurs that is run to the quality of a PGA tour event.
  • Coached four number one juniors as ranked by GolfWeek rankings.
  • Coached thirty one AJGA All American’s.
  • Coached a winner on the following professional tours: PGA (Gossett) , LPGA (Fisher/Dobson), European(Campbell), Challenge (Scahill), Asian (Kahlon), Australasian (Campbell).
  • Sent many junior players to the best US Colleges on Scholarships. Places like Duke, Stanford, Perdue, Wake Forest, Texas etc.
  • Been a coach associated with the tour since 1992. Been coaching at club level since 1988 or so.
  • Coached at Professional events on nearly every continent.
  • Flown around the world a few times to events.
  • Been nearly every major at Augusta, British Open, US Open and PGA in the last eight years.

Media Recognition:

  • Golf Channel UK analyst with Tom Abbott (2008- 2009).
  • Sky TV ‘guest’ analyst August 2010.
  • Part of ‘Sky TV Online Golf Academy”.
  • Monthly eight page contributor to Golf Journal (2002-present). (Germany).
  • Monthly large article contributor to Golf International (2008-present).
  • Golf Punk resident pro (2004-2006).
  • Golf Digest magazine occasional contributor.
  • Golf Digest Australasia occasional contributor.

Awards and Acknowledgments:

  • Honorary Advanced Fellow of PGA (UK).
  • Golf Digest “Top 20 Teacher Under 40” (2006-2008).
  • Golf Digest “Best Teacher in State Rankings” ten straight years (Florida).
  • Nine Year David Leadbetter Certified Instructor.
  • Titleist Staff Advisory Instructor.

Players past and present:

  • Michael Campbell
  • Alex Cejka
  • Stephen Scahill
  • Ed Rush
  • Sam Osborne
  • Matt Mills
  • Ty Tryon
  • David Gossett
  • Multiple elite college and amateur players
  • Aree Song (LPGA)
  • Naree Song (LPGA)
  • Miriam Nagl (LPGA)
  • Candy Hannerman (LPGA)

Observed and occasionally been involved with lessons of David Leadbetter over many hour’s with the following:

  • Ernie Els
  • Nick Price
  • Charles Howell
  • Nick Dougherty
  • Ian Poulter
  • Justin Rose
  • David Frost
  • Lee Westwood
  • Plus many more well known names

Mentors – Spent time with and learned from the following:

  • David Leadbetter – Observed hundreds of hours of his teaching.
  • Scotty Cameron – Been to his secret studio many times. Have assisted him on 2 occasions for three days at IMG/DLGA.
  • Bob Vokey – Spent time with Bob on tour and in California at the test centre.
  • Titleist test centre – Spent time here and at the Callaway test centre in Carlsbad.
  • TPI – Spent time at the Titleist Performance Institute with Greg Rose and Dave Phillips. Dave I knew from his DLGA days.
  • Spent time with Bob Rotella and Jos Vanstiput on tour with players.
  • Talked with Butch, Haney, Steve Ban and many others on tour over the years.

Celebrity Clients:

  • Mark McCormack- IMG founder and CEO
  • Peter Korda- Former number two tennis player
  • Ivan Lendl- Former Number one tennis player
  • Denise Lewis- Heptathlete

Interesting facts:

  • He was in the party that opened the New York Stock Exchange in June 2006. Players were Chris DiMarco and Michael Campbell. Before his defense of the US Open