Over the
last couple of years your Sports Association has managed to accumulate a small
budget surplus. It has decided to use
these funds to offer coaching opportunities for members.
We are
pleased to announce that we have made an arrangement with Stephane Damiano,
through his Prime
Golf Academy,
to provide a two hour coaching session on Thursday mornings. These sessions will be open to all members
who have paid their AS subscriptions.
The
coaching sessions will start on Thursday 8 January 2015. They will be held at the practice range from
10 am to 12 pm, and will continue every Thursday for the next 30 weeks with the
last session being held on Thursday 30 July.
So what
do you have to do to benefit from this?
Just be at the practice range between 10 and 12 any Thursday morning
from January to July next year.
Obviously it would be preferable to arrive at 10 am as Stephane (or one
of his coaches) will be conducting a group clinic and will start at 10 am
promptly. But feel free to arrive at any
time between 10 and 12 and join in.
Stephane
will adapt the sessions according to how many members attend. In general, each month he will try and follow
a four part programme as follows: Week
1- long game basics (posture, grip, address, backswing etc); Week 2 - chipping and putting basics; Week 3 - long game improvement; Week 4 -
wedging and short irons. The programme
will then be repeated the following month, and could evolve according to
participants’ needs. Some special
sessions, concerning the mental game and sport psychology, will be announced in
advance. There should also be time to
deal with individual issues and questions.
As we
have never done this before we have no idea how many members will attend each
session. If the numbers get too large we
will have to consider limiting the size of the group at each session and
requiring that members book in advance.
But hopefully this will not be necessary.
