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NEWS
Advanced Junior Clinics
Golf Queensland provides young golfers from across Queensland a
fantastic opportunity to develop their golfing ability in the Advanced
Junior Clinics.
The aim of the Advanced Junior Clinics is to identify promising young
players and expose them to Golf Queensland’s High Performance
pathway. This provides numerous opportunities for juniors to improve
their game through both personal and social development, plus access
to better coaching and education programs. Players also have the
opportunity to meet with State Coaches and Selectors. The Advanced
Junior Clinics play an important role in Golf Queensland’s development
division.
New and exciting golfing technology systems play a valuable role within
the Advanced Junior Clinics. For example, Trackman, which is a golf
radar that measures spin-rate, club-speed, smash factor, launch angle
etc. Another system used is the Sam Lab Putting which is an analysis
and training system based on accurate ultrasound measurements is also
an extremely worthwhile function to teach juniors the correct practice
and help to improve their form.
The Advanced Junior Clinics also gives State Team Coaches the
opportunity to work and liaise with Local Coaches. This helps to
build and maintain relationships within the coaching teams, which
is important in order to provide the players with the best possible
coaching and education.
In 2011, Advanced Junior Clinics were held in Cairns, Townsville and
Brisbane. These were two-day regional events, and enabled juniors to
experience sessions on nutrition, rules and coaching. The format of the
Advanced Junior Clinics changed from previous years, and 2011 was the
extremely successful pilot of the new format. Golf Queensland State
coaches Tony Meyer and Richard Woodhouse attended these satellite
clinic sessions with the help from local pro’s Luke Newman (Cairns) and
David Lord (Rowes Bay).

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This year, Golf Queensland’s new Head Coach, Tony Meyer, will be
facilitating the four Advanced Junior Clinics to be held in Cairns,
Townsville, South East Queensland and Rockhampton. There is a cost
of $60 per participant to attend the two-day clinic, which includes
coaching (Golf Queensland Coach and local Professional), technical
analysis, acceleration sessions (golf specific exercises) and food and
beverages.
“The Advanced Junior Clinics play an important role in our player
development pathway. The opportunity to expose players to the holistic
coaching principles of our High Performance Program at an early age is
invaluable,” says Meyer.
“Last year’s program was an outstanding success and I look forward to
seeing many more junior golfers from regional Queensland at this year’s
clinics.”
For more information about Golf Queensland’s Advanced Junior Clinics,
please visit www.golfqueensland.org.au email tony@golfqueensland.
org.au or phone the office [phone].

Advanced Junior Clinics 2012
Cairns: 25-26 June 2012 at Cairns Golf Club.
Townsville: 25-26 June 2012 at Rowes Bay Golf Club.
South East Queensland: 28-29 June 2012 at
Brookwater Golf Club.
Rockhampton: 2-3 July at Mercure Capricorn
Resort.

www.golfqueensland.org.au