Keith Williams Pro & Amateur Players & Squads
Keith Williams has worked with many leading players over the course of a glittering coaching career spanning over 39 years.
Keith has seen it all; from coaching European Tour players such as Scott Drummond the 2004 PGA Champion, to some of the brightest young stars you see on television today, who once were members of England squads Keith coached, to other current and former European Tour and European Challenge Tour players.
Keith currently coaches the Czech National Squad and works with a number of leading professional and amateur players.
If you are an aspiring amateur and consider you have the potential to reach the upper echelons of the game then contact Keith and ask for his opinion based on over 4 decades of coaching and playing golf at the highest level.
If you are a keen amateur player of any standard then you too can benefit from a series of lessons or a day spent with one of the leading golf coaches in Europe.
Some of the highlights of Keith's long career include making signficant progress with the games of the following players:
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Nathan Kimsey
Nathan Kimsey - England and Great Britain
+3 - member at Woodhall Spa Golf Club
Men’s Ranking
The Men’s World Amateur Golf Ranking system ranks the top male amateur golfers in the world on the basis of their average performance in Counting Events over a rolling cycle of the previous 52 weeks.
The Mark H McCormack Medal is awarded to the WAGR Number One at the culmination of the amateur season, following the US Amateur and European Amateur championships.
| This week | Last week | Change | Player | Country | Divisor | Points average |
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| 1 | 1 | - | Chris Williams | USA | 67 | 1476.43 |
| 2 | 2 | - | Brady Watt | AUS | 64 | 1372.79 |
| 3 | 3 | +1 | Bobby Wyatt | USA | 64 | 1368.05 |
| 4 | 4 | -1 | Hideki Matsuyama | JPN | 48 | 1326.04 |
| 5 | 5 | - | Justin Thomas | USA | 74 | 1314.53 |
| 6 | 6 | - | Julien Brun | FRA | 57 | 1304.17 |
| 7 | 7 | +4 | Daniel Berger | USA | 48 | 1250.89 |
| 8 | 8 | - | Matthias Schwab | AUT | 38 | 1246.05 |
| 9 | 9 | -2 | Cheng-tsung Pan | TPE | 64 | 1241.80 |
| 10 | 10 | -1 | Patrick Rodgers | USA | 59 | 1241.53 |
| 11 | 11 | -1 | Albin Choi | CAN | 72 | 1236.44 |
| 12 | 12 | +1 | Matthew Fitzpatrick | ENG | 40 | 1221.35 |
| 13 | 13 | -1 | Michael Kim | USA | 71 | 1217.96 |
| 14 | 14 | - | Peter Williamson | USA | 53 | 1210.06 |
| 15 | 15 | +1 | Adrien Saddier | FRA | 68 | 1191.91 |
| 16 | 16 | +1 | Beau Hossler | USA | 35 | 1186.43 |
| 17 | 17 | -2 | Thomas Pieters | BEL | 54 | 1184.03 |
| 18 | 18 | +13 | Cory Whitsett | USA | 64 | 1177.34 |
| 19 | 19 | -1 | Viraat Badhwar | AUS | 35 | 1174.29 |
| 20 | 20 | -1 | Oliver Goss | AUS | 70 | 1167.62 |
| 21 | 21 | +4 | Robby Shelton | USA | 33 | 1162.50 |
| 22 | 22 | -2 | Alan Dunbar | IRL | 46 | 1160.87 |
| 23 | 23 | -1 | Brandon Hagy | USA | 77 | 1150.00 |
| 24 | 24 | -3 | Sean Dale | USA | 48 | 1140.76 |
| 25 | 25 | -2 | Pedro Figueiredo | POR | 54 | 1138.89 |
| This week | Last week | Change | Player | Country | Divisor | Points average |
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| 26 | 26 | -2 | Cameron Smith | AUS | 71 | 1136.62 |
| 27 | 27 | +6 | Nathan Kimsey | ENG | 62 | 1134.41 |
| 28 | 28 | -2 | Haydn Porteous | RSA | 90 | 1133.80 |
| 29 | 29 | -2 | Brandon Stone | RSA | 49 | 1132.91 |
| 30 | 30 | -1 | Steven Fox | USA | 63 | 1129.17 |
| 31 | 31 | -3 | Michael Weaver | USA | 63 | 1122.62 |
| 32 | 32 | -2 | Michael Miller | USA | 59 | 1113. |
England's Kimsey wins Terra Cotta Invitational
NAPLES, Fla. — Nathan Kimsey captured the Terra Cotta Invitational on April 7 at Naples (Fla.) National Golf Club. It was a tough battle between Kimsey and 36-hole co-leader Robby Shelton, as nobody in the groups in front could pose a serious charge.
Kimsey and Shelton bogeyed the par-3 17th after both players missed the green on the 183-yard hole and stood at the 18th tied. Kimsey's par was enough to do the trick, as Shelton suffered another bogey, and a 54-hole total of 4-under 212 gave Kimsey the title.
To say Kimsey was warmed up coming into the Terra Cotta and due for a victory would be an understatement.
Kimsey, 20, is a member of the prestigious 2013 English squad and represented his country in the Eisenhower Trophy in Australia in January. Kimsey and his teammates also played a number of major individual events like the Australian Amateur (round of 32) and Master of the Amateurs (T-20) and several prestigious regional events during the same trip. He was runner-up in both the Lake Macquarie Amateur in Australia and the Avondale Medal Play, both top-level events at beautiful courses. In March, Kimsey represented England at the European Nations Cup.
Coming down the stretch Sunday, his "tournament tough" game showed. The 18th at Naples National is a double-dogleg par-5 where placement is key, as few players go for the green in two. Kimsey played position golf, while Shelton, the No. 2 ranked junior, found tree trouble on the right off the tee. Punching out and trying to clear some native grasses, Shelton's ball overcut and found the water hazard.
Both players wedged to makeable distance. Kimsey missed his birdie putt to guarantee a victory outright, but Shelton's putt also slipped by. At 17 years old and heading for Alabama in September, make a note of Shelton's name if you follow the game. Tournament director Denny Glass was impressed with both top finishers' games, and the quality of the younger players' play of late.
"It's amazing to see the poise that these players have," said Glass, who noted that the youngest player ever in a U.S. Open, 15-year-old Andy Zhang of China, was in the Terra Cotta field this year.
"At the Northeast Amateur (where Glass also is tournament director) and the Terra Cotta, there are a lot more better young players than I've seen in the past."
Klara Spilkova Ladies European Tour Player (+ 4 Czech Republic amateur)
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Jamie Zazzi - one of North Wales brightest prospects
Peter Baker - ex Ryder Cup player
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CGF Players -- Vitek Novak, Simon Zach & Keith
Simon Zach - Czech amateur. Handicap +3; Age 17 years old
Regarded as the leading young male player in the Czech Republic, Simon has progressed his game steadily over the last 2 seasons and is now ranked No2 men player by the Czech Golf Federation with many believing he will be No 1 by the end of this season.
This year he has made the cut at the Lytham Trophy and won several other events at both senior and junior levels. He is the leading Czech player selected for the European Boys Team Championships in Sweden, will play in the British Boys Championship in July at Notts & Coxmoor golf clubs and is likely to be selcted for the Czech team at the World Team Championships.
Keith is his Head personal coach and co-ordinates Simon's training programme for his other coaches at home. He often visits Keith in the UK.
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Vitek Novak - Czech amateur. Handicap +2.9; Age 17 years old.
Vitek is hot on the heels of Simon Zach is looking to be regarded as the No 1 junior boy player in the Czech Republic. He's improved solidly over the last two years particularly after he started visiting Keith in the UK last autumn when they were able to make some significant swing development plans for the winter period.
He missed the cut at the Lytham Trophy but has played really well since and recently finished 2nd at the German Boys Championship scoring -13 for 3 rounds. He is slected for the European Boys Team Championships in Stockhom, Sweden and will play in the British Boys Championship at Notts and Coxmoor golf clubs in July. Thereafter he will be looking to also be selected for the Czech team at the World Amateur Team Championships in Turkey.
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Squads & Teams
Czech Golf Federation - Performance squad
Performance squad Boys & Girls
Development squads East & West
Shropshire & Herefordshire County Teams - 1 & 2
Derby College - Years 1 & 2
World Amateur Team Championships 2012
The bi-annual World Amateur Team Championships took place this year in Antalaya, Turkey.
The womens event was played from September 23-30th at the Gloria Golf Resort whilst the mens event was held at the Sultan and Cornelia golf courses from September 30th-October 7th.
Keith was be in attendence with both teams and helped prepare the players with course information and strategy and was there to help back up the technical aspects of their swings.
Well two weeks in the hot Turkish sunshine proved to have it's up's and down's for the Czech Republic national men's and ladies golf teams but overall the two weeks showed very positive progress for the game and Czech golfers on the World stage.
The first week was the Ladies team championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy - the Czech team of Kate Ruzickova, Karolina Vlckova and Lucie Heinnerova played really well and after 69 holes were in 11th position in a field of 56 competing teams ---- a weak final few holes dropped them back to 15th position with an overall 144 hole score of +4 - but this was an historic result for a Czech team at this level so it was smiles all around !!
In the men's event for the Eisenhower Trophy the team got off to a bad first day start with a score of +9 from which they struggled to move up the field significantly despite +2 and -2 second and third round scores. Unfortunately due to thunder and lightening the event was shortened to only 54 holes which meant one less round to improve on the overall team score. A final score of +9 was 40th position from 76 teams - disappointing as the team of Ondrej Leiser, Simon Zach & Vitek Novak did not play near to their real capabilites on the week.
Czech golfers are now shooting scores well under par in European and World events which is a strong indication of a real jump forwards in their capabilities and mental attitude .... the future is bright and soon we may have others joining Klara Spilkova on the mens and ladies European tours.
