Kevin McAlpine going "back

to basics" after poor defence

to Scottish title

FROM THE SCOTTISH DAILY EXPRESS
By JOCK MacVICAR
Kevin McAlpine, the 2006 Scottish amateur champion, admitted yesterday that he is in a rut and ready to go it alone.
The 24-year-old Alyth man, pictured right (Cal Carson Golf Agency image), feels he has to change tack after missing the cut in the Bidwells Scottrish open amateur stroke-play championship over The Duke's Course, St Andrews at the weekend.
McAlpine agrees that he has learned much in his years in the Scottish Golf Union national coaching system. However, he now believes he has been hindered by an over-emphasis on technique.
He said: "They've tried to mould me into something I am not. When I was playing my best golf, I knew what I was doing. But now it has become too technical.
"I've learned a lot but some of it has not been right for me. I have to get back to basics, to the kind of golf I was playing when I was 17 and 18.
"This has been coming since the end of last year. When you're trying to do something you're not committed to it's very difficult. The time is right to stop. I'm in a rut and I'm going to go back and figure it out myself."
Fellow Scotland international Paul O'Hara (Colville Park) also made the decision to part company with the SGU national coaching system late last year.
Kevin, the son of former Dundee United goalkeeper Hamish McAlpine, won the Scottish amateur match-play championship in 2006 and then completed a national double by capturing the stroke-play title at Royal Dornoch last year.