Nick Flanagan

We worked well and had a thorough practice session today. Nick and I got to the course by 7.30 and hit a few balls for a warm up. He then played 18 holes with Michael Sim, Aaron Price and Tim Wilkinson. The guys played a match to keep them focussed and the standard was hot, with 17 holes either birdied or eagled. After lunch we practiced bunkers and chipping for an hour and worked mainly on his routine and focus during the shot. His mind has been wandering and he has been a little negative on these short shots. We then hit full shots for two hours and worked on the timing of his release. I felt from Nick's feedback that he has been a fraction late with his arms in the downswing and has been very wristy through impact to catch the club head up. We worked on maintaining his right wrist angle through impact and the shots started coming of the club more solid and with a better trajectory. We finished up with an hour of speed putting and when we left the course at 6.30pm Nick was exhausted. I reinforced that, this is a standard days work if he really wants to be as good as the guys on the US PGA Tour and as a famous football coach once said 'talent is nine tenths of nothing' The same applies equally in golf.