Golf Education Asia Coaching Summit 2016 Wrap-Up
The inaugural Golf Education Asia Coaching Summit was held at the exclusive Landmark Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, on February 15-16, headlined by Cameron McCormick, 2015 American PGA Teacher of the Year and coach to world no.1 Jordan Spieth.
Roughly 115 golf professionals represented by 20 countries across Asia Pacific, Europe and America had travelled to the Thai capital of Bangkok mid last month to attend the region’s first ever golf education summit.
Over two days the attendees engaged in conversations lead by keynote speaker McCormick, golf coach and entrepreneur Jeff Ritter and short game specialist and tour coach James Sieckmann.
The unique education and coaching development experience marked the first ever summit where three of the game’s most respected coaches appeared in Asia to share their knowledge for the benefit of the golf professional community.
Coach Sieckmann said he thoroughly enjoyed Thailand and though the event was as a huge success.
“I have been to quite a few [events] but I don’t know if I have been to any this nice,” he said.
“I’m a huge fan of Thailand in general, I love the people, and I love to get out of my little area and experience new things, so this was cool,”
Sieckmann also said the feedback from the attending professionals had been overwhelming.
“People have been extremely complementary about the information they got, and you can always tell by if they want to follow up with you.”
“That’s code for ‘I’m in, I want to try it and see how it works.’ ”
American PGA Teacher McCormick said it was a great honor to be invited to speak at the event and that assisting like-minded people within the industry was helping him grow as much as it did the participants.
“To share a mind sites in the hopes that it might help them travel a more accelerated, or a faster, trajectory in their own career development is benefiting me as a person and making my hearty sing just as much as it does for providing them opportunity or insight to my lessons,” he said.
“We got a great crowd over a hundred people, all with a great appetite for learning and the feedback related to the presentations was largely all beneficial,”
“I think that overall, at least my hope as a contributor to this is that it was a resounding success and that we can continue to do it again and again.”
The two-day introductory conference successfully covered a wide range of topics, including effective use of technology, business and player development as well as short game instruction.
Australian PGA member and current Malaysia based golf coach Steven Giuliano is the man who successfully envisioned, planned, and hosted the inaugural summit constructed to bring industry teaching professionals from ASEAN and Asia Pacific regions together.
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