Anders Mankert

Location: Leicester Golf Centre

Anders has been coaching since 1993 and he is an  Advanced Fellow of the PGA and he has won numerous coaching awards including being the first professional to be given the Lifetime Achievement Award by England Golf. He has also been awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership of England and Wales Blind Golf

Teaching philosophy: 

Teach the student. Find out what they want to achieve. It's then my responsibility to work out how this can be best achieved for the student. You need many ways of teaching to achieving a goal/change because we all learn and respond to different things. Try to improve the student and not just hit them with information. Try to keep simple clear instructions. Keep jargon and technical words to an absolute minimum. The student does not need to know how much I know about ground reaction force patterns etc.

Greatest teaching success story: 

Taking blind man Billy MacAllister who had never tried golf and helping him to play golf and eventually becoming the UK’s #1 and the World’s #3 ranked blind golfer. Seeing him grow in confidence as a person through golf. To see him win The Open blind golf championship, British Masters, Australian Blind Championship, Canadian Open championship and ultimately compete in the World Blind Golf Championship in Japan. He also represented GB and Ireland against the USA in a Ryder Cup style match.

Students learn best when… 

They are relaxed, comfortable, enjoying themselves and in an environment of mutual trust.

Greatest teacher you have ever known: 

My mentor, the late Nick Melvin. He taught me to play golf and would often have me hit balls in front of a clubhouse full of people at the age of 12-13. He put me on a pedestal about being able to shape shots and frequently exaggerated my accomplishments publicly. He understood the power of building up a young boy's confidence and inspired me to practise relentlessly. I’ve been fortunate to be able to take many of his teachings and pass them on to kids of a similar age.