Top 5 Tips

Top 5 reasons I made it onto the European Tour

 

If I was organising a tour event…

 

Top 5 bits of advice for aspiring juniors

  • Love the game and smile
  • Practise less but better
  • Dare to dream about winning and success – put ideas of winning in your head.
  • Find a coach who inspires you to develop more skill over the ball, rather than a perfect swing. Tiger won the masters at 21 by 12 shots without a perfect swing.
  • Share your knowledge with other juniors (but only if they ask!!!)
   

Top 5 bits of advice for beginners

  • Don’t spend to much on new clubs, you won’t get the benefit. Find out if you like the game first. You should be able to get a good quality full set of clubs, bag and a few other starter things for £200.
  • Purchase a decent pair of waterproof golf shoes, about £70.
  • Buy a decent waterproof top, invaluable for our fantastic summers!!!
  • Find a passionate coach who doesn’t confuse you.
  • Try a baseball grip, this means not connecting your hands together. (It’s the grip I use)
  • Enjoy the experience – if you don’t, either change your, coach, course, partners or stop. It won’t be your clubs fault!!
 

Top 5 things that would help a tour player

  • Every event to be played at the players home course. This would mean that if every event was played at my home course I could sleep in my own bed every night!!! Now that would be awesome!!! (This might not work however as all the other guys wouldn't be too impressed. The sponsors wouldn’t be that pleased either!!!)
  • I would have loved and I'm sure all the other pro's would have liked one of these as well, a super charged driver that only they could use that added 50 yards to your drives over night!!!!
  • A ‘Dr Who’ tardis (is that how you spell tardis???), so that after a bad tournament you could be home in seconds rather than days.
  • A ‘home’ where all the stewards who put up their ‘quiet please’ signs at the last minute can be transported to and never seen again. (This is a bit harsh but extremely fair!!!)
  • A ‘home’ where all the tournament officials are sent who insist on the tour player competing either in the dark, in 70 mile an hour winds, on a golf course with ridiculous pin placements or at a tournament where you can’t get a flight home on a Sunday night. (All the journalists will agree with that one as well !!!)
   

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