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Stuart Morgan from www.stuartmorgangolf.com was the Director of Instruction at the International Junior Golf Academy in the USA. Stuart has spent his life helping young golfers to develop and has a wealth of knowledge to share with the talent community.

We focus on the experiences he went through with developing a young female golfer called Emily Price and her journey of success towards several amateur titles and the way that the engagement with the family is all important. In the episode we cover:

  • How Stuart works with young players on the course and in context as much as possible. Designing challenges and using constraints to challenge their skill set.

  • How the relationship with the parents is all important but the relationship is built in having clearly defined roles.

  • How a delayed specialisation model was used in Emily's development. How keeping her away from the formal 'talent pathway' until the right moment played an important role in her development.

  • Creating an ecological environment around her in order to develop resilience and the characteristics required for excellence.

  • How Stuart still provided coaching even though he was on the other side of the Atlantic.

  • How Stuart's book 'Gifted Junior' can help parents and coaches to navigate this process.

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In this episode, I explain how the reluctance to have honest conversations with young athletes is a major blockage to their development.

Sometimes we are fearful that we will affect their confidence and damage their self-esteem so we can offer false praise in an effort to avoid damaging them. However, while this might feel like it is the right thing to do in the short term it can have a significant downstream impact that is challenging to overcome.

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In this week's post I explore the concept of 'comfort' and argue that young people being too comfortable in high quality facilities can actually work against the development of talent. As parents, coaches or talent developers we often want to make things better for the youngsters in our care and the instinct is to make things easier for them.

The hard and somewhat counterintuitive truth is that this may well be the exact opposite of what we should do if we want them to thrive and progress.

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