At the elite level, where the country’s leading coaches are striving to get the best of their talented pupils, PGA Professionals are skilled to make crucial swing modifications to the world’s best golfers remotely.
PGA Professionals Gary Barter and Dom Azzopardi recently had great success making small, but immeasurable improvements to their star player’s performances simply via their mobile phones.
Matt Jones was able to street the field and claim his second career PGA TOUR title at The Honda Classic in Florida, courtesy of a long-distance range session with his coach.
“I worked on the range through FaceTime with my coach back in Australia and we just started to get a feel for things,” Jones said.
“I started to get the body and the club working together and it worked all week.”
Lucas Herbert shared a similar experience with his accomplished coach, PGA Professional Dom Azzopardi, who helped him make a bright start to his European Tour season.
Heading into his Omega Dubai Desert Classic title defence, Herbert was concerned that a new driver shaft may hinder his control off the tee until a call with his coach over breakfast eased his fears.
“His preparation wasn’t ideal and I actually had a Zoom chat with him prior to his tee-off,” Azzopardi revealed.
“He was struggling with his driver but when he got out there he said he absolutely flushed everything.
“He was just having his breakfast, we had a Zoom chat for 10-15 minutes and just talked about some of the things about this new driver. I talked to him about what’s going to cause that in his technique, particularly now that he’s got the ball further forward.
“It’s just a lot of reassurance for him in that situation. Calm him down and give him a lot of positives about the decisions we’ve made and why we’ve made them.
“Just get him to be less anxious and calmer about what’s about to happen.”
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