PGA of Canada

COACH OF DEVELOPING COMPETITORS • LONG TERM PLAYER DEVELOPMENT ALIGNMENT & AGES: Train to Compete & Train to Excel (15 – 18 year old athletes) • ALIGNMENT WITH PGA OF CANADA COACH CERTIFICATION – Coach of Developing Competitors • ESTIMATED TIME TO COMPLETE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION: 1 – 3 years • HOW TO ACCESS PGA OF CANADA COACH OF DEVELOPING COMPETITORS TRAINING: register online at pgaofcanada.com Coaches at this stage know that what they Accordingly, the coach must expand the do and how they do it makes a substantial network of expertise to which there is ready difference. There is clear evidence of this in access. By doing this, the coach becomes a the athlete's improved performance, also, winner. Now come the several years when that improving athlete performance achieves coaches are at their most productive and significant results. effective in delivering role excellence. Whether An information network is vital to refining the art of coaching, while never losing the sharpness of understanding the synthesis input from performance, learning and coaching sciences. It is also time for the coach to have the courage to search out to people who will challenge strengths and compensate for where the coach is not so strong. 18 voluntary or professional, the coach has a very professional approach as a coach and towards • Leader Coach – head coach or performance director • Specialist Coach – short game, swing mechanics, equipment fitting, young athletes • Educator Coach – coach education/ development leader coaching. There is a sense of pride in level This decision will take the direction suggested of professional development and personal for the emergent coach to quite a different effectiveness as a coach. If not already, level. The cumulative aggregate of knowledge certainly at this stage, coaches make serious sculpted by experience through a coach career decisions in terms of either: pathway to date equips the coach to focus on going to that level well prepared.

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