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Dear Members, Clients & Friends,
It’s difficult to believe we are nearing the halfway mark of the year already, let’s make the most of the rest. In this newsletter – Garrett flies our flag high again, and a gentle way to experience modern coaching.
Garrett Slattery & Yours Truly Gearing up for Canada
Stellenbosch Golf Club member, Professor Garrett Slattery, recently won the ISPS Handa South African Blind Golf Open (Gross & Nett) – for the 15th time! (lowest gross). His scores were 97 & 101 over the two rounds – not too bad for someone with less than 5% vision! The tournament was held at Reading Country Club in Johannesburg.

Since Garrett is such a good player (he won our Club Champs C Division a few years ago) I have had the good fortune of having accompanied him as coach and guide on 8 fantastic campaigns to all corners of the world over the last 10 years. We are preparing for this year’s ISPS Handa World Blind Golf Championships which will take place in Simcoe, Ontario, in early August.

Prof Garrett Slattery (left) receiving the trophy from SABGA President, Johan Kotze
As mentioned and before the year is done, I will be bringing you some inspirational stories of some of my clients I am fortunate enough to meet, some of which have come my way through Garrett – one being 12-year-old Walter Pienaar, who was born blind and had one eye saved when he was only 20 days old, who has a great swing and has made his fair share of net birdies already!
A Gentle Way to Experience Modern Day Coaching
Simply have a browse through the video further below – so that I can just keep you thinking about it … coaching is moving on and it is luckily based on guiding players more towards what is natural for them to do, and not accidentally guiding them away from this – all by applying some logical and testable facts. Putting and the short game are actually the best places to start on this modern journey, hence also the nature of my winter programmes further below. We always knew everyone must function differently, we just did not know how to properly test this.

Generally, this drastically reduces the technical aspect that has put so many people off before – since there’s nothing worse than trying to do something over and over again, that you actually cannot do, through no fault of your own, which you just did not know was happening – ask me I have also experienced this discomfort! Hint – it does not matter what natural for you looks like, which the No 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler fittingly displays in every tournament, and I touch on his putting style in the video – let’s see if he can beat our Thriston Lawrence, who shot an amazing 67 yesterday on the brutal Oakmont layout.

The recent Open Day was successful and fun, but due to people’s limited availabilities, it got me deciding that any day is open day with me – you are welcome to spend 20 free minutes at the studio with me on any day, Mondays to Saturdays to learn more about this, provided we make an appointment – and you are more than welcome to come as a small group as well. Simply click here to make a time.

Some of the winter programme options are also sold out already! Even though we don’t have a putting green at the moment, I have adjusted this option slightly so as to be able to host it in the studio, together with a very basic introduction to seeing the invisible in chipping and pitching, on what’s still the first Swing Catalyst 3D Motion Plate in the country, made possible by our great technology partner, FlightScope. You can view the remaining and adapted programmes by clicking on the relevant button further below.

Enjoy the video – if you are pushed for time, the video is divided into chapters that you can select along the time-line at the bottom of it or in the chapters description – it is worth a full view though!

See the adapted Winter Programmes here
See my website here
Speak to me here
Have a wonderful and safe weekend,
Erich
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