Golf Coaching

My name is Jon Adler, I'm a Welshman (Grand Slam 08!) & I now live in Bournemouth with my family. I currently coach golfers of all abilities. I have studied with some great mentors and trainers each of them helping me to learn for myself.

My goal is to enable you to learn for yourself what works and what doesn't work with regard to swinging a golf club and focusing your mind well. As well as being a Performance Coach to some great golfers I consider myself to be a student of the game of golf.

My own journey began when I read Tim Gallwey's book The Inner Game of Golf. I found a new way to learn about my swing for myself using my own experience and awareness. My performance and enjoyment improved dramatically. So by chance I began to coach a friend at my local golf club. I am not a swing coach. My interest is in how we use the mind or the mind uses us.

We worked together and he practiced awareness and concentration exercises and his enjoyment of the game, which had gone, really improved and his scores got better too. He shot a course record for an amatuer at his club.

I continued to train myself with other pioneers in this field and travelled around the world to gain more insights. I have studied with Buddhist Monks and Vipassana Teachers, in my quest to understand the mind. I have attended 10 day silent retreats, meditating for 10 hours a day. These experiences showed me how to develop a relaxed concentrated mind and what can interfere with it. I have used all my experiences to develop my unique golf coaching programmes.

I was recommended to other golfers and the list of players I now coach has grown to include keen amateurs and professionals who are all looking to improve. Added to that is a list of Touring Professionals on the European Tour, Seniors Tour ,Challenge Tour, EPD Tour and others. This understanding of your mind is available to anybody. You do not need to be a certain standard of golfer to understand your mind, play better golf and improve your focus and concentration. The same universal principles apply to us all.

I believe you can learn for yourself in golf and when you do learn this way, the learning happens quicker and is more enjoyable. It is easier to experience it than to write about it!

I play the game myself and all of my coaching comes from my own experiences not from a book! I have had some success as an amateur. In 2009 I won The Bournemouth Open, the only 72 hole handicapped tournament in the UK.

In 2010 I became the only person in the tournament's 59 year history to defend the title and win back to back. I tell you this, not to blow my own trumpet, but to show you that my coaching comes from real experience. I am not a proper golfer. Anyone who has watched me play will tell you this, but I can concentrate my mind and perform to my potential when it matters.

It's not about me, it's about you. So, if you feel that you can improve your golf and you are curious about how your mind works then please contact me. I will be pleased to hear from you.

Sportingly yours,

Jon Adler