Q Golf - Official online magazine for Golf Queensland Spring 2013 | Page 9

RALIA’S LEADING PLAYERS
education sessions with respected sports
educators involved.
“From a coach’s perspective it was great,’’
said Meyer. “We had two full days of
coach education.’’
Ex-Tour player Neale Smith, a sports
psychologist who has worked with
Jason Day, and Rick Aberman, sports
psychologist to the Minnesota Twins
major league baseball squad and the
Minnesota Vikings were involved with
“coaching the coaches”.
Others included Jim Leitz, Joseph Mayo,
Matt French, Argentine head coach
Santigo Garat and New Zealand Golf high

performance manager Gregg Thorpe.
“The national camp offers players in the
national squad the chance to take a pulse
on their games and spend time with some
of the best coaches in golf,’’ said Golf
Australia’s high performance director
Brad James.
Meyer, 34, utilised his time in the US to
full advantage. He attended the Callaway
World Junior in San Diego and met
Stanford University golf coach Conrad Ray
on site at the famous college.
“Conrad played on the same Stanford
team as Tiger Woods and it was a good
opportunity to look at the system Viraat

(Badhwar) is going into,’’ said Meyer.
“It was also an opportunity to speak to
Conrad about our setup in Queensland
and talk about some of the
emerging players.’’
Badhwar, who became the youngest
player to win the Australian Master of the
Amateurs title at Royal Melbourne earlier
this year, came to Australia from India six
years ago and is a graduate of the Kelvin
Grove School of Excellence.
Golf Australia conducts a minimum of
three national camps each year at various
venues in addition to Moonah Links
on the Mornington Peninsula and The
Woodlands in Houston, Texas.

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