About Gary
He has 12 years experience working with England's finest amateur golfers as an English Golf Union Men's Technical Coach. His experience of county and regional squad coaching is extensive, and includes Gloucestershire and Glamorganshire, and the EGU South Regional Junior Squad covering Surrey and Hampshire. He has consistantly been named by Golf Monthly as one of the UK's Top 25 Coaches. The testimonials to Gary's coaching, particularly for short game, on the Home Page show the extent of his reputation with all ages and levels of golfer, so much so that he now passes on his knowledge of, and ground breaking philosophies on pitching, chipping and bunker shots to Qualified PGA Professionals, through a CPD Seminar entitled Passion for Short Game
Professional Highlights
- Awarded Advanced Fellow of the Professional Golfers’ Association 2006
- Lecturer for seminars for the PGA titled ‘Passion for the Short Game’ 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09
- Travelling Coach for the victorious England Team – European Team Champions 2005
- Travelling Coach with the England Team – Home Internationals September 2005/2006 and 2007
- Lead Coach England A Squad 2005 - 2008
- Great Britain and Ireland Top 25 Coach as voted by Golf Monthly 2004/05, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008 - current
- English Golf Union England Men's Squad Technical Coach 1997 - current
- English Golf Union A Squad Coach 2004 - 2008
- English Golf Union - Pathway to Success - Lead Coach 2008
- English Golf Union - The England Experience - Lead Coach 2008
- English Golf Union Coach South Region – Boys Under 18 - ‘97- current
- Golf Monthly Teaching Panelist ‘95- current
- Gloucester – A and B Team Coach – Men ‘01- current
- Gloucester – Short Game Specialist Coach – Junior ‘01- current
- Glamorgan County - Short Game – 2004 – current
- Coach to the University of Exeter – World Students Matchplay Champions 2007 - '06- current
- EWGA Super Birdie Girls - Regional Coach - 2008 - current
- EWGA Birdie Girls – Under 14 – Regional Coach ‘02-'08
- NLP Train The Brain Sports Practioner
- ‘Play Better Golf’ DVD/Video in association with Justin Rose Detailed Short Game Instruction ‘03
- Co-Presented a CD-Rom/Video for Golf Monthly entitled ‘Play Better Golf’ covering all basic aspects of the golf swing ’97
- Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Short game Specialist Coach – Juniors – 2005/06
- Somerset – Senior County Team – Short Game Specialist Coach ‘03
- Coached Richard Boxall to European Tour Italian Open Victory And Dunhill Cup selection for England
- Coached Wayne Riley to European Tour Scottish and Portuguese Open victories and Dunhill Cup selection for Australia
Playing Highlights
Winner Kenya Open 1975
Represented Great Britain and Ireland in PGA Cup v USA 1986
3 x Winner West of England Championships 1978/79/82
3 x competed in The Open
