JON WATTS
CURRICULUM VITAE
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30 Hardy Place, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS14 9FX
7 February 1981

I am a PGA qualified golf professional, and am currently employed at Brocton Hall Golf Club in Stafford as the Head Teaching Professional. Benefiting from over 7 years employment at the Belfry Golf Centre, and 3 years PGA training - of which I qualified 3rd in the Country. I am honest, reliable and pleasant with natural people skills and have a friendly and outgoing personality. I thrive on a challenge, am self-motivated and work well under pressure. I enjoy working as part of a team or on my own, using my own initiative.
My major influences and accolades have come from the Belfry, where it is renowned for its business initiative and its unrivalled customer service skills as well as the variety of successful golfers and golf coaches around the world.


Career History:

March 09 - Present Brocton Hall Golf Club

2001 - 2009
The Belfry

Head Teaching Professional at Brocton Hall GC
· My role here is to coach members and visitors to the club. Teaching golfers of all ages and abilities.
· Also as the Head Teaching Professional, I'm implementing ideas to increase the amount of coaching and the service we offer.
· I have set up Beginner group coaching groups, senior group coaching, Ladies group coaching, corporate tuition packages, junior weekly tuition and junior academy days throughout the school holidays.
· I currently teach 40 juniors on a weekly basis, under our own junior coaching program.
· Using the latest Casio high-speed camera, played back through Quintic teaching software on my laptop, I can offer in depth analysis of the golf swing. I have many videos taken from Tour Professionals to offer comparisons to my pupils.


  Achievements:
· Achieved 3rd Place Trainee of the Year Awards with the PGA of UK and Ireland (2006)
· Fully Qualified PGA Golf Professional
· Qualified with Distinction Average
· Selected to assist the winning European Ryder Cup team during the 2002 Ryder Cup at the Belfry
· Assisted the players and guests during two Benson & Hedges International Opens hosted by the Belfry during 2002 & 2003
· Custom fitting and Teaching the public during the Quinn Direct British Masters tournament 2006.
· Press coverage on Sky Sports and Today's Golfer Magazine and PGA website
· Lectured Custom Fitting for the PGA
· Custom fitting and teaching responsibilities - senior Matt Technician and Senior Taylor Made fitter.
· Wide product knowledge acquired from custom fitting all manufacturers clubs.
· While training I undertook a range of duties including driving range supervisor, golf course management, retail shop, green-keeping and events management.



 

Teaching Professional:
· Coaching many individuals, from beginners to low handicap players. Helping them work towards there short and long term goals.
· Coaching weekly junior tuition associated with the Golf Foundation.
· Coaching beginner adult group sessions and member group sessions on a weekly basis.
· Coaching the public, during the golf shows at the NEC as well as the Quinn direct British Masters tournaments held at the Belfry.
· Corporate tuition, group video tuition, pre round clinics, scorecard marking, on course tuition and beat the Pro challenges.


 

Key Achievements - Taylor-Made Fitter
· As Senior Taylor Made fitter - personally taking 20 - 40k a month club sales.
· Represented Taylor Made at the 2004 British Open as a senior fitter.
- European tour standard fitter - have already fitted the following:
Paul Mcginley, Simon Wakefield, Simon Khan, Andrew Oldcorn, Mark Roe, John Bickerton, David Lynn, Graham Storm etc
· Organised and managed several Taylor Made golf days, demo days and custom-fit corporate golf days.
· Custom-fit specialist in national golf magazine, Today's Golfer and Golf Monthly, providing a regular monthly article.
· Appeared in various golfing publications and other media outlets including TV.
· PGA custom-fit mentor for current PGA trainees.


 

Matt Room Technician
· Custom fitting Taylor Made Tour players, Taylor Made Adidas VIP's and other sportsmen.
· Maintenance and day-to-day running of the system.
· MAT-T EYE Launch monitor specialist.
· Regular contact with TaylorMade U.S and Motion Reality.
· Training other golf professionals on the system.
· Appearing in promotional material for the Matt system


 

Training Attended
1) PGA National teaching conference 2009. Speakers including Pete Cowen, Karl Morris, Paul Hurrion and Sir Clive Woodward.
2) PGA National teaching conference 2008. Speakers including Chuck Cook, Paul Hurrion and Sir Clive Woodward.
3) Theory and Practical sessions with Pete Cowen (European Tour Coach).
4) Theory and Practical sessions with Claude Harmon (European Tour Coach).
5) Theory and Practical sessions with Alistair Davies (PGA Tutor and Ladies European Tour Coach)
6) Theory Training with Jim Christine (PGA Tutor)
7) Theory and Practical sessions with Dr Karl Morris (European Tour Sports Psychologist and the founder of the Trained Brain Company), John Pates (European Tour Sports Psychologist), John Mathers (Sports Psychologist to Numerous International Teams Professor at Stirling University)
8) Theory and Practical sessions with Gary Alliss (PGA Swing Tutor and Today's Golfer Top 50 Golf Coach in the UK and Ireland)
9) Quintic teaching software training from biomechanist Dr. Paul Hurrion.
10) European Tour Level Custom Fit Training with Taylor Made, Callaway, Titleist, Ping, Nike, Cleveland and Wilson.
11) Advanced Technology Training with MATT (Motion Analysis Technology Taylor Made), Trackman and FlightScope (Radar Based Launch Monitor) SAM (Science and Motion Putting analysis program) and Tomi putting system.
12) Detailed Training with Vector and Vector Pro (Photograph Based Launch Monitor)


Education: 1999-2001 Duchy College (Plymouth University), Cornwall
· HND - Golf Management (Distinction)
(subjects covered, include - Business management, Sport Psychology, Exercise and Physiology, Coaching and Turf management)
  1997-1999 Henley College, Henley on Thames
· Gaining a Distinction in BTEC Science (Sport Studies)
· Community Sports Leader Award
· Emergency First Aid in the workplace certificate
  1992-1997 Gillotts School, Henley on Thames
(10 passes) GCSE Maths (B), English (double C), Geography (C), Technology (A), Science (double C)
Physical Education (D), Art (B), French (C)

Other Qualifications:

· PGA qualified professional - finishing top 3rd in the country
· Level 3 PGA Coach
· Emergency First Aid Award
· Bronze Medallion Life Guard

Other
interests:
· Travel - 8 weeks backpacking along the East coast of Australia
· Squash, badminton, tennis, football, fitness training (CSI-A coaching award)
Other
information:
British National
Holder of full UK driving license
Date of Birth - 7 February 1981
References available on request

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