Patrick Walker joins staff at St

Andrews Links Golf Academy

NEWS RELEASE
Patrick Walker has joined the staff at St Andrews Links Golf Academy.
Patrick comes to St Andrews from a thriving academy in Surrey which boasts excellent coaching facilities which hosted European tour coach, Mark Roe. In addition to launching a world class custom fitting service, he established an impressive individual client base of amateur and professional golfers.
Prior to this, he was part of the coaching staff at the Marriott Forest of Arden, venue for the British masters and English Open. Whilst there, he was instrumental in the establishment and delivery of junior coaching at the venue as well as providing excellent instruction for corporate events.
Patrick is a graduate of the Applied Golf Management Studies degree program which is run by the University of Birmingham in conjunction with the PGA. The degree is the only one of its kind with high numbers of elite golfers competing for one of the limited 25 places per year. It combines academic and theoretical aspects of sports management and science related to golf, with vocational aspects of the game.
Patrick graduated from the degree with a first class honours degree, furthermore he was awarded the highest mark ever in the history of the degree programme. During his final year of the degree he completed a research dissertation which has been recommended for publication.
Throughout his time at the University of Birmingham, he was an active member of the University’s golf team, competing in the BUSA leagues which Birmingham University would win during two of his three years there. Patrick continues to compete at a high level, playing in both national and regional competitions.