Hole in One Golf Podcast - Matthew Tipper - International Tour Golf Coach #GolfingTales #2 - a podcast by Jack Bull

Highly regarded PGA, LPGA and European Tour Golf coach Matthew Tipper, shares his journey with me, starting in the small Welsh town of Porthcawl (UK) where he’s originally from and leading to a World Wide career in professional golf. He started out representing Wales at National level cricket as a teenager, then began a career in law, before following his true passion and embarking on a teaching career in professional golf, firstly as assistant professional at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in South Wales, under head professional Peter Evans, before qualifying as a PGA professional at Pyle and Kenfig Golf Club under Robert Evans. Matthew put the really hard yards in, working for the highly prestigious David Leadbetter Golf academy and further learning his trade under the great golf master himself. His first professional job was in Dubai for 2 years, before helping to set up a brand new teaching academy in Portugal for a year. He then worked in China for 4 years, then spent 1 year in Hong Kong and 1 year in Korea, before heading to Poland and finally after 16 years, he is now back in the UK, where he uses Goodwood as a base. His Global Academy takes him all around the World, travelling and coaching students! Matthew shares his insights into what it takes to be a world class Golf coach and then explains the huge jump from amateur golf into tour professional golf, explaining what ingredients are required in terms of culture and work ethic and the massive commitment required to make it on tour. Matthew discusses what the benefits of gaining entry into the American College Golf system can afford his players, what his players get out of the system and the importance of building the player as well as the person. He provides insights into his work with tour players, focussing on the short game and highlights the need for players to also build fitness, strength, psychology and statistics with experts in their field, as part of the player’s team. Matthew has coached numerous World class golfers and talks more about assisting the hugely talented Adrian Meronk achieve a semi final position at the 121st British Amateur around Royal Porthcawl in 2016, before narrowly losing to the winner Scott Gregory, who also went on to beat Robert MacIntyre. Adrian has now become Poland’s first ever European Tour player! Crucially important to his mentoring, is developing the correct “culture” to develop the player, which is one of high performance, hard work and sticking to the plan. Matthew talks about making small improvements everyday and every week and building on it over time. Not over focussing on winning. Too many players have a “finite mindset” and it badly effects their judgement. Matthew talks openly about #mentalhealthissues on the tour and speaks about golfers feeling depressed. Matthew has developed a “book club” with his players which helps them grow mentally stronger and become happier people, which in turn leads to better golf!

Links:

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/analyze-every-swing-like-the-pros-with-the-liveview-pro-hands-free-camera

https://golfrange.org/james-sieckmann-create-a-culture-of-high-performance-on-the-lesson-tee/

https://www.facebook.com/MatthewTipperGolfAcademy/

http://yourshortgamesolution.co.uk/contact/

https://www.europeantour.com/european-tour/news/articles/detail/player-blog-adrian-meronk/

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#mentalhealth

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