New Job

I have just accepted a new job as the Head Coach of Nanshan Golf School in China. This golf school is based near the city of Yantai in the north of China. Nanshan is a large company based in China that have interests in golf courses, education, construction, manufacturing, textiles, wine and many other things. The company has the largest golf facility in the world and there are 275 holes at last count with several new courses in development at the moment. My job here is to develop and improve the golf training program at the school by training the coaches currently here as well as attracting new students to the program. As well as this role, I will also be doing some work for the China Golf Association with their development program. I will be working with some players on the fringe of National Team selection and hoping to improve them to make the National team.

My first job here was to run a junior training camp over the Summer vacation period. I had a group of around 20 players of varying standards and we worked together for around four weeks. During those four weeks there were also two tournaments for the kids to play in so it was a little difficult to fix too much in their games. We had some fun and did some video coaching and helped them a little with their on course strategy and it was a good opportunity to introduce myself to some of the students and let them know what my coaching style is all about. The students will choose a coach to train with when they come back to school next month so we will see who decides to train with me.

The camp finished last Sunday and this week I have been helping the players from the CGA National Squad. I have four junior boys that I am helping and we are training alongside the National Squad so they can see how the National Players structure their training. It is lots of fun and they have a tournament this weekend so hopefully I have helped them with their preparation and they have a nice result.

That is about it for now but I will post again really soon and fill you in on some of my student's results since my last post. Some of my Taiwan students have had some good results lately and I will tell you all about it next post.

Until next time,

Brent