| Swash Specialist Putting Professionals train the Spanish National Team |
| Friday, 02 January 2009 | |
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For the second year running, the Swash Staff Instructors, led by Director of Instruction Phil Kenyon, were invited by the Spanish Golf Federation to train over 35 amateurs of their elite squad at the Escorpion Golf Club in Valencia between the 26th and the 30th of December 2008.
The squad consisted of handicaps between 2 and +3,7 and ages from 15 to 23 years, some of them having an eye on a Scholarships in the USA to improve their competition skills, others turning professional and competing on the European Tours. On the first evening, Phil Kenyon and Michel Monnard gave a presention on their putting philosophy Instruction. A philosophy which has helped many PGA Tour Professionals like Henrik Stenson, David Howell, Oliver Wilson, Oliver Fisher and Maarteen Lafeber, amongst many others, in the past year. On the first working day, Phil Kenyon and Michel Monnard were joined by Juan Garcia Estrada, another Swash Instructor, based at HSPSE Madrid. Together the team took the players through a complete Analysis process consisting on Sam Puttlab, Dual Video Capture, Ball Roll capture and an Analysis Questionnaire to gain an insight into their work during the last year. In the evening Phil Kenyon, Michel Monnard and Juan Garcia Estrada worked through the collected data and set about creating an improvement plan for each player, including practice drills and strategies for each individual.
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