For
Immediate Release:
June 2, 2008
European Clinics Tour Spring 2008 Another Great
Success -- Five New PuttingZone Coaches.
Hamburg Germany -- The PuttingZone
NETHERLANDS:
March 11 and 12, 2008, Geoff Mangum presented
his PuttingZone techniques for instinctive putting
to over 120 members of the PGA Holland at their
annual "Week 11" Teaching and Coaching
Conference. The Conference was held at the Hilton
Royal Parc Hotel in Soestduinen, Netherlands.
Afterwards, PuttingZone Certification training
was conducted at Golf Centrum Rotterdam, and Bryan
Seton and Jeroen Aarse joined the ranks of PuttingZone
Coaches in the Netherlands (now four coaches).
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Jeroen Aarse, Ommen the Netherlands |
Bryan Seton, Rotterdam the Netherlands |
SPAIN:
Later in March, Geoff traveled to Mallorca Spain
to present clinics in association with Simon Hilton,
PuttingZone Academy East Switzerland, and Universal
Travel golfing tours. From Mallorca, Geoff visited
with James Marshall, PuttingZone Coach, at his
school at the Hotel Golf Can Rafel in Barcelona.
Geoff presented a series of four clinics for amateurs
and teaching pros that included top teachers in
the Catalonian PGA.
Mallorca |
Simon Hilton |
Barcelona Hotel Can Rafel with James Marshall |
Juan Manuel |
Can Cuyas GC, Barcelona |
Juan, at St Joan GC, Barcelona |
DENMARK:
In May, Geoff Mangum returned to Europe for a
series of Spring Clinics in Denmark, Germany and
Switzerland. Beginning with a highly successful
two days in Vejen Denmark with top Danish teaching
pro Andrew Pakes, the PuttingZone Coach for Denmark,
Geoff then traveled south to Bad-Wurtemburg Germany.
With the Vejen Golf Team, Denmark |
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GERMANY:
In Bad Bellingen Geoff and Henrik Jentsch, of
the PuttingZone Academy Southern Germany, attended
the EPD pro tour event and taught several players.
He then taught clinics for amateurs with PZ Coach
Thomas Ambuehl in the Black Forest at Hinterzarten's
Hochschwarzwald Golf Club and with Henrik jentsch
at Bad Sackingen's Golf Welt, where there is an
excellent indoor teaching studio. Before heading
into Switzerland, Geoff taught a series of private
lessons in Bad Sackingen.
SWITZERLAND:
Traveling east and a little south across Switzerland,
Geoff visited with Simon Hilton and his brand
new school the Golf Academy Gams-Werdenberg in
Gams Switzerland, in the shadow of Lichtenstein
on the south shore of the Rhine. With Simon, Geoff
officially opened Simon Hilton's PuttingZone Academy
East Switzerland and inaugurated the academy with
a series of four half-day clinics for area golfers
with the Crosses Alpen range as backdrop.
GERMANY:
Heading north back across the border into Germany,
Geoff visited Achim Steinfurth in the ancient
town of Lindau on the shore of the Bodensee. Here,
Geoff taught a full-day clinic to top players
in magnificent weather and a beautiful setting
overlooking the Bodensee.
GC Lindau Bad Schachem
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SWITZERLAND:
Leaving Lindau, Geoff traveled by train west and
south to Interlaken, the world famous resort featured
in James Bond films between the two lakes beneath
the highest accessible mountains in Europe, the
Eiger, the Monk, and the Jungfrau. With the golf
course spectacularly seated along the shore of
the lake, Geoff presented two days of clinics
to the top players and leading amateurs of the
club in association with Paris Buckingham, who
also serves the Swiss PGA as head of educational
programming.
Paris Buckingham |
Golfclub Interlaken-Unterseen |
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GERMANY:
Back north in Bad-Wurtemburg, Geoff arrived at
Mannheim's Golfclub
Heddesheim and the Golf
Academy Gut Neuzenhof with pro Jason Harvey,
PuttingZone Coach. Here, Geoff taught a full-day
clinic to area pros Mike Cole and Jochen Koneczny,
along with top amateurs.
Jay Harvey |
Jochen Koneczny |
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Traveling
south a short distance to Karlsruhe, Geoff presented
a program of Certification Training to teaching
pros Darren Scholes, Peter Eisenfurth, and Markus
Poehnl, adding three new PuttingZone Coaches in
Germany (current total of ten). Then Geoff followed
this by teaching a full-day clinic for top club
players.
Markus Poehnl |
Darren Scholes |
Peter Eisenhuth |
As
a result of the Spring 2008 Europe Tour, Geoff
has added five new PuttingZone Coaches, bringing
the total now to 32 Coaches worldwide. Collectively,
Geoff taught 340 students in 23 clinics at 15
venues, nearly half of them PGA teaching pros.
In
September and October, the PuttingZone will return
to continental Europe for additional Clinics and
Certification programs and will also teach the
Swiss PGA October 14 at their headquarters in
Laupen Switzerland for the annual Education Day.
(See this Calendar
link for details.) Following this, Geoff will
be teaching pros again in Gams with Simon Hilton
before returning to Spain to teach with James
Marshall in Barcelona and with Quinton van der
Berg at the David Leadbetter Academy in La Cala
Spain in association with the Volvo Masters at
Valderama. Other European clinics are also being
planned for October in Hamburg, Bad Sackingen,
Hinterzarten, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Luxembourg,
and elsewhere.
If
you have an interest in seeing a clinic in your
city, use the "Info Request" link on the PuttingZoneClinics.com
website or contact Geoff by email.Ê
SPECIAL
DEAL FOR PGA PROS
PGA
course pros are especially invited to attend these
clinics or to host one at your course. The PuttingZone
offers a minimum payment (20-30% of gross clinic
revenue or $500 to $1,800 depending upon attendance)
to course pros for hosting services without burdening
the pro with details in arranging attendance.
Any sponsoring pro is entitled to bring two other
players to the day-long clinic for free, and the
pro is further entitled to an optional credit
for net proceeds generated by the clinic towards
full certification training by Geoff Mangum over
two days of intensive coverage of how to putt
and how to teach putting.
For
example, if the clinic generates proceeds of over
$1500 for the PZ, the PZ gives the pro the 2-days
of personal certification training for free. In
addition, a PGA pro who attends the clinic and
who later decides within the year to seek certification
as a PZ Coach will receive 100% credit for the
clinic fee against the cost of certification.
For further details, see the webpage
for Certification.
PZ
certified coaches are rapidly becoming recognized
as the top experts in the world for putting teaching,
sharing ideas and methods in a community of learning
and teaching. Don't just give putting the usual
"lick and a promise" -- it's the most vital part
of the game for both players and teachers, and
conventional instruction simply does not come
to grips with the substance of how to read putts,
aiming the putter, and touch, while instruction
for the stroke itself is divided and confusing.
Become a real putting teacher, with a deep knowledge
of what works and why. Contact Geoff at geoff@puttingzone.com
or 336-340-9079 cell / mobile. Let's work together!
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Geoff
Mangum is widely regarded as the most knowledgeable
putting coach in the world and has spent 20 years
studying and coaching putting to amateurs and
professionals right up to major winners. Last
year, after his lecture at the European PGA Coaching
Conference, Mangum held a series of clinics for
teaching professionals in Europe and received
rave reviews. He returned this year to hold further
sessions at locations in England and Germany,
teaching over 70 PGA pros and elite golfers.
Shaun
Micheel worked with Mangum in May 2003 and went
from winless on Tour and a low-ranking putter
to winning a major with his putter after a single
lesson. Winner of the 2003 USPGA in July, Micheel
improved his US Tour putting stats from 133rd
to 16th within two months of working on putting
with Geoff Mangum, and said: "Everyone remembers
my [last] seven iron, but my putter won me the
PGA Championship." Golf Magazine 2004. Micheel
recently finished runner-up to Tiger Woods in
the 2006 PGA Championship after the same caliber
putting performance. Other standout PuttingZone
students include Chris Hanson on the EuroPro Tour
and Ben Parker, who won the Orange Bowl Junior
Invitational in Miami (December 2005) over a world-class
field with an opening round 63 that left the field
6 strokes behind. He followed that with an opening
62 at the Tasmanian Open, which he also won, a
month later. For testimonials from veteran teachers,
click here.
Mangum's
approach is to combine the best of existing putting
lore with application of the neuroscience for
human perception and movement in putting, targeting
and stroke control. This "Mechanics of Instincts"
approach teaches the teachers how the instincts
actually work on the green and enables golfers
to use body postures and movements in a structured
putting routine that enhances rather than conflicts
with these basic human processes for instinctive
behaviour. The result is a permanent and dramatic
increase in putting competence and the added confidence
that comes with real skill.
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