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this story caught my eye
melissa reid a 20y ole rookie on tour finished runner-up today in a euro event, notable for being annika's last ever euro tourney
http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/conte ... p?Id=17450
coupla points :
she shoudn't have lost as she had a 6 shot lead over annika & the eventual german winner, but just had a terrible last round
you have to be damn good to take out 6 shots on an even over-the-hill annika !
however, main thing is this gal is an "experiment" to see how virtually endless money & resources are thrown at an individual in a non-olympic sport & see what results
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 193338.ece
this is impressive back-up & it does seem to be paying off - indicating how a concerted approach can "buy" you success in sports
melissa reid a 20y ole rookie on tour finished runner-up today in a euro event, notable for being annika's last ever euro tourney
http://www.ladieseuropeantour.com/conte ... p?Id=17450
coupla points :
she shoudn't have lost as she had a 6 shot lead over annika & the eventual german winner, but just had a terrible last round
you have to be damn good to take out 6 shots on an even over-the-hill annika !
however, main thing is this gal is an "experiment" to see how virtually endless money & resources are thrown at an individual in a non-olympic sport & see what results
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 193338.ece
Yet the talent that makes Reid the most impressive woman golfer to emerge in Britain for years is not what makes her exceptional. It is that she is the focus of an attempt by Sir Clive Woodward, the director of elite performance at the British Olympic Association, to see how good someone who is not an Olympian can become if they are given all the professional advice and financial help that is needed. No one in golf in Britain, male or female, has ever been given such extensive advice before.
In Reid's case, this means working with 13 experts, from a fitness coach to a visual awareness coach, from an expert in nutrition to another in kinetics. She talks animatedly about her leg-strength programme, her shoulder and forearm programme and her whole body programme. “Dave [Reddin, her fitness coach] says he doesn't want to get me as strong as I could possibly be,” she said. “He wants me to be as strong as I need to be for golf.”
She explains how she eats much better because of advice from Adam Carey, a nutritionist. “He says to me that if I was a Ferrari I wouldn't get the best out of it unless I put the best petrol in. He has made me understand how important nutrition is and shown me how to cook. He has taught me that I shouldn't eat a lot of starch and carbohydrates at night, that I should eat fibrous food such as broccoli.”
And she outlines how with the help she is receiving from Kenny More, an analyst, she can have every swing she makes on a given day filmed. “Kenny can download a whole 18 holes within 20 minutes of me coming off the course, so if any one of my team want to see my swing no matter where they are in the world they log in and look at it online,” she said.
In Reid's case, this means working with 13 experts, from a fitness coach to a visual awareness coach, from an expert in nutrition to another in kinetics. She talks animatedly about her leg-strength programme, her shoulder and forearm programme and her whole body programme. “Dave [Reddin, her fitness coach] says he doesn't want to get me as strong as I could possibly be,” she said. “He wants me to be as strong as I need to be for golf.”
She explains how she eats much better because of advice from Adam Carey, a nutritionist. “He says to me that if I was a Ferrari I wouldn't get the best out of it unless I put the best petrol in. He has made me understand how important nutrition is and shown me how to cook. He has taught me that I shouldn't eat a lot of starch and carbohydrates at night, that I should eat fibrous food such as broccoli.”
And she outlines how with the help she is receiving from Kenny More, an analyst, she can have every swing she makes on a given day filmed. “Kenny can download a whole 18 holes within 20 minutes of me coming off the course, so if any one of my team want to see my swing no matter where they are in the world they log in and look at it online,” she said.
In Reid, Woodward saw someone on whom he could bring to bear the techniques he was using with Olympic athletes. “When I started the Olympic job I thought this was an ideal opportunity to work on a non Olympian,” Woodward said. “I had this idea to make Mel a guinea pig and I thought I would throw the kitchen sink at her and show other Olympic sports what could be done. She is a role model and a champion in the making.”
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