Early January & February Keith spent 3 days coaching indoors in Prague with the Czech Performance and Development Squad players.

Indoor facilities in the Czech Republic are first class - large indoor arenas with up to 20 driving range bays 50-60 metres long to see the initial ball-flight, short game areas and putting greens combine together with numerous numbers of swing simulators so that the Czech golfers can play matches and winter leagues until the better weather arrives. Most also have fitness and health centres and/or extensive indoor tennis courts. In Prague there can be up to 15 golf coaches working at some centres.

Mid February sees the top 3 Czech national men & ladies visit Turkey in preparation for the World Team championships played later in the year - the men will arrive first and play 4 practice rounds over the Sultan and Faldo courses. The ladies will play both courses at The Gloria Golf Resort.

Keith will be there to support their play and help develop course management strategies as well as plotting a detailed course planner/chart identifying target areas and danger zones as well as a detailed greens planner.

In March the Performance squad of 10 players will return to Costa Ballena for a weeks training with Keith. This year they'll be joined by Klara Spilkova from the Ladies European tour who is keen to check her swing out with Keith before her season gets too busy.

Keith is curently talking to 'old' colleagues at one of the UK's top golfing publications about rejoining their coaching advisory team -- watch this space and hopefully some positive and detailed information will be available soon.

Throughout the winter and spring period Keith will be visiting many of the County Golf Partnership coaches groups to deliver a 3 hour seminar discussing his past history & experiences; his swing theories and preferences; to illustrate Case Studies; and to discuss with the coaches his thoughts on the various swing models that are currently being coached throughout the World.

So far coaches and officials from at least 7 counties have attended and Keith has enjoyed some lively discussion and debate on many topics. Some key points he's keen to emphasise to the other coaches is that there isn't one model for the swing - the never has been and it's likely there never will be! But coaches have to be consistent with their lesson delivery and therefore it's important to be clear in what you believe in as a coach and to trust that knowledge and preference. Variation is not only possible within the coaches swing preferences, it's an absolute necessity as a coach has to adapt to the individual golfers capabilites and needs.

The next series of seminars is planned for early March.

Nathan Kimsey is having a busy off season at the moment! Not only is he commited to a more intensive EGU squad training programme as a member of the England A group but he has been working more intensively on a one to one basis with Keith. Since September they've worked with Trackman and Sam Putt Lab to get detailed information about swing and putting stroke club delivery and on the squad training he's worked on the physical and mental assessment and development aspects in Hertfordshire and Loughbough University.

The technical development aspects of the individual and squad programmes remain close related with Nathan, Keith and EGU squad coach Alan Thompson communicating regularly to maintain consistency and effective delivery.

Nathan represents the EGU by playing in the Orange Bowl Junior Championships, Florida at the end of December and a couple of months later will return to the States for another important event. He will also hope to slip in one or two early season European amateur championships.

2011 was an excellent year for Nathan - he achieved all but one of his seasonal goals and targets, winning individually, representing England and lowering his stroke averages .... 2012 will offer some tougher tests as he moves more into senior golf but he is well positioned to make the most of his capabilities.