Coaching Staff

Profile

Tom turned professional in 1997 and completed his PGA training in 2001. He has worked as an assistant professional under Peter Taggart at Frinton Golf Club since 1994. Tom is on the committee of the Essex Golf Partnership which works on golf development. He has worked as a full time coach for Coastal Golf Academy since late 2008. In 2010 he became a lead coach for the County Academy Programme, which involves coaching talented juniors from around the county. During 2010 he attended a number of seminars on coaching & club fitting including a wedge fitting seminar with Bob Vokey

Playing Achievements

Played Essex PGA and East Region tournaments for the past 8 years and currently continues a small playing schedule. Highlight of his playing career was in 2006 when he finished 2nd in the Essex Open with his best ever round as a professional of 7 under par..

Profile

Scott turned professional in 2000 and completed his PGA training in December 2003. He worked as an assistant professional under Peter Taggart at Frinton Golf Club from 1996 to 2008. He has worked as a full time coach for Coastal Golf Academy since late 2008. In 2010 he became a lead coach for the County Academy Programme, which involves coaching talented juniors from around the county. He continually attends PGA seminars improving his coaching knowledge. He has not only a sound knowledge of the golf swing and short game shots but also an understanding what is required to become mentally and physically fit for golf.

Scott is also a Level 1 Qualified Plane Truth Golf Instructor. He uses the "+ and -" Impact System, which helps in understanding a players impact and ball flight. This helps when choosing which part of the swing to fix to give the most positive effect on the golfers ball flight. The MyProfile system is an amazing online tool that allows golfers to view their swings from their lessons with Scott, to see a detailed explanation of diagnosed faults within the set-up and swing, and recommends personalised drills, practice planning and goal setting.

Playing Achievements

Played Essex PGA and East Region tournaments for the past 8 years and currently continues a small playing schedule. Highlight of his playing career came in 2003 when he won the PGA East Region Ad Pro Order of Merit event at Nazing Golf club. Scott had the honour of being the Captain of the Essex Professionals in 2010.

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Michael started his PGA training in May 1996 and became a fully qualified Professional in May 1999. He has worked at Clacton Golf Club as Assistant to Stuart Levermore for 21 years. Michael is also able to offer Clacton Golf Club as a CGA venue and is available for lessons there. He has also been working as the professional of Harwich Golf club for the past 8 years and coaches at Hamford View driving range where he has been for 7 years. When Michael was a junior he represented Essex at under 16 and under 18 level.

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The Colne Golf Academy has introduced Performance Coach Gerry Weatherley as part of their program of ongoing commitment to helping young golfers achieve consistent outstanding performance.

Understanding how to control the mental focus is essential in achieving outstanding results in golf. Gerry has a long involvement with this aspect of influence and personal excellence which was kindled as far back as the 1970's after speaking with Timothy Galleway author and originator of the Inner Game concept who identified the value of working with both the conscious and sub-conscious mind as a critical factor in attaining the all important relaxed state of non-critical self observation when needed when playing at the highest level. The methods used to work on this inner game draw on Gerry's additional experience of neuro-linguistic programming and the techniques of focused attention used by PGA players of the caliber of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.

Golf provides an unequalled opportunity learn to apply these techniques and members of the Academy will learn how to use them to improve their game and also, by working with Gerry, develop a deeper understanding of the ways that these same techniques can be adapted and used in the wider field of career development and life improvement.