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31 Jan Golf coaches are easy targets

Posted at 13:09h in Golf Tip by

I shudder when I hear players say that they would like to thank their team, as just a generation of great golfers ago nobody had a ‘team’ behind them.

It was just them and themselves and the team was Manchester United or Liverpool. So, what now consists of a ‘team’?

Well, there’s the fitness trainer, dietician, manager, psychologist and, of course, the coach who can be blamed after a couple of bad rounds and loss of form. Recently, Brooks Koepka fired his longtime instructor, Claude Harmon III, after obviously determining that it must be Harmon’s fault for Koepka not playing too well recently. Apparently, Koepka met Harmon in person the Wednesday after the Masters in November, which was won by another Harmon’s client, Dustin Johnson. During that meeting at The Floridian in Palm City, Florida, where Harmon teaches, Harmon said that Koepka “wanted to go in a different direction”.

How politically correct we now are as ‘wanting to go in another direction’ previously meant you are fired! Koepka and Harmon have worked together since 2013, shortly after Koepka turned pro out of Florida State University. During their time together, Koepka won four majors and reached No.1 in the world. “I love Claude, we had a great run and he’s still family to me,” Koepka said. “But unfortunately we’re not working together anymore.” Golf coaches and football managers can have a short life if there are no quick and consistent results.

Out of Bounds: “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” — Oscar Wilde.

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