George Finlayson, Advanced PGA Golf Professional

George is 49 years of age. He started his career at the Royal Burgess Golfing Society, Edinburgh and at Dalmahoy Country Club, Edinburgh. He has also worked as a PGA Professional at Elie Golf House Club, Elie; Director of Golf at Murrayshall Hotel & Golf, Perth and Director of Golf at Skibo Castle, Carnegie Club.

In 2000, George opened “Scotland for Golf”, which offers golf schools at St. Andrews…the ‘home of golf’.

As a PGA Tutor and Trainer, George is actively involved in training new golf coaches all over Scotland. This initiative by The Scottish Executive was to ensure that all youngsters are exposed to golf, our national game, by the age of nine.

George has written Future Golf Stars in conjunction with his fellow PGA Professional, Graeme McDowall.

Graeme McDowall, PGA Professional

Graeme is a PGA Professional with a Diploma in Sports Coaching and a teaching qualification in Further Education. He is currently employed as a lecturer in Sports Coaching at Elmwood College, Europe’s leading golf college and a Centre of Excellence for golf related training.

Graeme also works extensively for the PGA of Great Britain as part of a small, select team of Education Professionals. This work involves training the existing and potential PGA workforce to meet new standards in coach and player education.

Graeme is currently studying for a Masters Degree in Sports Coaching with the University of Birmingham.

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Future Golf Stars will introduce you to the fundamentals of coaching young athletes. As you work through this programme, you will learn about key coaching elements, technical and tactical components and coaching skills. You will also have access to a range of practical hints and tips to help you get the most out of your coaching sessions.

How Future Golf Stars gets results
Once you’ve got to grips with the fundamentals of coaching, Future Golf Stars helps you to put it all into practice with our unique, easy-to-use “Zone Cards.” Each Zone Card focuses on a different skill and they can be combined to create your own customised coaching sessions!

When you complete your course you can download a SportsCoach 21 Certificate of Completion – a great addition to your qualifications and your CV!

    Session 1: The physical and mental development of a child
    Session 2: Safety when coaching
    Session 3: Child and adult protection
    Session 4: Putting
    Session 5: Short game
    Session 6: Long game
    Session 7: Rules and etiquette
    Session 8: How to teach skills effectively
    Session 9: Operating the FGS system
    Session 10: Planning and organising the programme

It is recommended that anyone seriously interested in coaching golf should follow these steps:

1. Buy this Future Golf Stars online coaching programme
2. Enrol on a PGA Level 1 course
3. Enrol on a one-day advanced Future Golf Stars active learning programme.

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George Finlayson

As an expert golf coach, specialising in coaching the golf stars of the future George has developed a unique approach to coaching youngsters at St Andrews. At SALJGA (St Andrews Junior Golf Association) over 400 children play and learn the skills of the game at St Andrews, "the home of golf". George and colleague Graeme McDowall are responsible for writing and developing a unique Junior Golf Programme at St Andrews, where they encourage the children to get actively involved in their own development. They devised an innovative rotational format where youngsters move to a different station after 15 / 20 minutes from long game to chipping, then putting and so on. In their experience this helped to re-engage kids who were "switching off" from standard golf coaching programmes because they found them boring. Now you can learn their secrets in Future Golf Stars.

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