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Barney

Jan 19
3 min

Barney's January Newsletter

Hi Everyone, Although 2023 has got golf off to a soggy start, at least some golf has been possible. For me any golf we play between now and the end of February has to be regarded as a bonus game. It is easy to forget we reside in the northern bit of the northern hemisphere and inclement weather is expected this time of the year. Also easy to forget that temporary greens were a feature at most courses ever since I started in the last century (although I look it, it wasn't t

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Barney

Dec 21, 2022
2 min

Barney's Xmas Newsletter

Hi Everyone, I wanted to wish you all seasonal salutations and good golf in 2023 and what's left of 2022 come to that! Amazing the temperatures are nearly 15 to 20 degrees different to just over a week ago and with this in mind I wanted to include this piece on our cold weather yardages, which hopefully you find useful over the next month or two. Please click this link here as it is amazing the difference air temperatures make to our golf ball, so definitely worth considerin

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Barney

Dec 7, 2022
2 min

Barney's Birthday Newsletter

Hi Everyone, I thought I'd coincide my newsletter with my birthday, mainly to take my mind off how many candles there are on my cake now. Sadly the cake would need to be the size of a family SUV to fit the candles on it! However, on the upside regular yoga, a daily pint of cod liver oil and plenty of vitamin D courtesy of the Portuguese sun, mean I can still get around unaided. Clearly conditions are changing quickly (although not in Portugal) and certainly the challenges o

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Barney

Nov 18, 2022
1 min

November 2022 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, The long hot summer is but a distant memory and winter golf is truly bedding in. I got a decent soaking on Tuesday even in my covered bays as sadly the wind decided to blow the rain straight in, rather than coming straight down, which is my preferred style of rain! Still good fortune sees my out in Portugal for a couple of weeks of what I gamely call work and in my next Newsletter I will put some irritating pictures of me in the sun, which I know everyone enjoys

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Barney

Mar 31, 2022
5 min

April 2022 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, March certainly started off wet, windy and playing golf assuming the course was open, definitely proved a challenge. I must admit to feeling slightly guilty as good fortune and family ties saw me out in the sunshine State of Florida for the first two weeks of the month. Apart from the weather it was just nice to tread on firm fairways and see the ball run, something which was happening here for the last couple of weeks. Whilst I was there the Arnold Palmer Invi

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Barney

Feb 7, 2022
4 min

February 2022 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, I saw from my fortunately sunny base in Portugal last week that we had our first real blast of winter at home. My guess is that there will be more to come, however, March is in view and with BST on 27th March thoughts of Spring and who is going to win The Masters can come to the forefront of our minds. This time of year is really one for keeping our game ticking over as playing presents challenges of wet lies, restricted movement, due to our extra layers and slo

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Barney

Dec 24, 2021
3 min

December 2021 Newsletter

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Barney

May 20, 2021
3 min

May 2021 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, Great to see golf in full swing, all we need is for the weather to catch up. At least the much-needed rain has come down and hopefully some heat to follow as I can’t think of a day when I haven’t had at least three layers on and a woolly hat handy just in case. The interest in golf continues to grow and certainly I have been busy with all levels of player from professionals to novice golfers, all eager to fine tune their game. A common theme has been short game c

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Barney

Mar 25, 2021
4 min

Back to Golf Newsletter

Hi Everyone, Well we are now in sight of being able to hit a ball in actual anger for the first time in 3 months. I would suggest for the opening game or two, to throttle back the power and keep the swing at say 65 - 70% power. I know over the last few months the golf media who love a Bryson DeChambeau story and that the only way to play golf is hit is as hard as is possible and consume as many calories as possible too! The key for most of us is to make solid contact with t

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Barney

Mar 1, 2021
3 min

BJP Interview with Hannah Burke

Hi Everyone, It certainly looks good for us to return to golf at the end of March and let us hope for only weather interruptions for the rest of this year and beyond. Lockdown has been tough for all of us, none more so than the players on the Ladies European Tour who had a truncated season in 2020 along with uncertainty as to whether the Tour would survive. Well, good news came last week with the announcement that a partnership with the LPGA had been finalised. The players ca

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Barney

Feb 11, 2021
3 min

Lockdown Feb 2021 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, Looking out from my kitchen today it feels as if I am inside a snow globe. For those of you who do not remember this mainly Christmas ornament, when you shook it, you were treated to a snowy scene and back in the day this passed for entertainment! I have to say I am very glad TV viewing has moved on and I have been watching the rise and rise of World Number 1, Dustin Johnson. Since August when he won the Northern Trust event by an eyebrow raising 11 shots and bec

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Barney

Jan 21, 2021
3 min

Lockdown 2021 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, I appreciate it is very easy to feel demotivated at the moment with no imminent sign of being able to play golf

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Barney

Sep 1, 2020
3 min

Barney's September 2020 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, For me July and August have passed by so quickly with my diary brimming with golf swings in need of a spot of fine tuning and something I didn't think I would be saying this year, some golf trips. The weather has certainly been interesting with record high temperatures, some high winds and then a Bank Holiday weekend which had me rummaging around for my woolly hat! With David Short Golf I have been to the well appointed Belton Woods in Grantham to deliver three

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Barney

Jun 23, 2020
4 min

Barney's June 2020 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, Certainly levels of optimism in golf are completely different as we approach July than they were at the beginning of April. The pandemic had taken hold of the country and our economic future in golf and all areas looked bleak. Although I would be one of many saying as a society we must be careful, certainly there is some light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't a train! During our cautious return from lock down a curious phenomenon has taken place in golf an

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Barney

Apr 2, 2020
3 min

Barney's April 2020 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, To say how things have changed for everyone in the last few weeks would be a slight understatement. For all sporting folk this is a hugely frustrating time, however we can see by following the government guidelines, we will take the pressure off the NHS and hopefully come through the virus. The only debate in golf is how the schedule will look when we are allowed back on the courses. Clearly for the Professional Tours regular flights will need to be in place an

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Barney

Feb 17, 2020
3 min

Barney's February 2020 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, I thought I would put off my first Newsletter of the year until regular golf was on the menu in the UK. However, it looks like we are going to have to wait for our regular fix as the weather continues to disrupt play everywhere. We must count ourselves fortunate in our part of the world as at least some play has been possible, unlike parts of the Midlands and the North where regular closures have been ongoing since November. The Professional Tours have no real

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Barney

Dec 19, 2019
2 min

Barney's Christmas 2019 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, Welcome to my last newsletter of the year, which has had some incredible sport played with golf, cricket, rugby and athletics to the fore. I have really enjoyed this year as I have met some great people and visited some super venues. My particular favourites were Biarritz, Perthshire and our recent trip to Mauritius which exceeded expectations in food, weather, golf and horse racing. With my own coaching I have been fortunate to work with some fabulous new stud

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Barney

Nov 7, 2019
2 min

Barney's November 2019 Newsletter

The clocks going back this year really has signalled the beginning of the end of Autumn and as they say in Game of Thrones "Winter is coming

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Barney

Sep 7, 2019
3 min

Barney's September 2019 Newsletter

Hi Everyone, All in all a good summer I feel this year. On a recent David Short Golf trip that my wife Jennie and I were hosting in Scotland, we had a first (certainly in my lifetime) of seven days wall to wall sunshine, which is unheard of north of the border! We played the wonderful Blairgowrie courses, which if you ever find yourself up there are well worth visiting along with Pitlochry and Creiff. The welcome we received was terrific and we had a member assigned to our

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Barney

Jul 15, 2019
3 min

Barney's July 2019 Newsletter

It's hard to believe we are in the second half of the year already and the sport this summer has been terrific.

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BARNEY PUTTICK

PGA Golf Coach