Meet our PGA Academy Professionals

Following several years of competitive golf, in 1998 Nicky embarked upon her professional career and attained her PGA Diploma gaining 3rd position within Great Britain and Ireland. She furthered her coaching career at The Emirates Golf Club, Dubai, where she gained invaluable experience as Senior Academy Instructor at the Peter Cowen Golf Academy.

With over 20 years coaching experience expanding across several continents, Nicky also pursued her passion within the field of performance mindset and alongside her experience as a PGA  Professional and TPI Level 3 instructor is a certified Master NLP Practitioner. Her passion within this area also led her to study various concepts within human performance. In 2011 Nicky was awarded Fellow status within the Professional Golfers Association.

Welcoming golfers of all ages and abilities, Nicky’s coaching philosophy bases itself upon a holistic approach, with a passion to develop each individuals golfing needs in an enjoyable, relaxed and simplified manner.

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Ryan began his career as a PGA Professional in 2011. After 2 years of his PGA training, Ryan became Head PGA Assistant Professional. After a year within this role, he was promoted to Head PGA Professional where he spent another 2 years coaching all levels of golfer from beginner all the way up to professional level.

Ryan has completed many courses to further his coaching knowledge. He works on the philosophy that by identifying the faults and characteristics in a golfers swing can allow you to improve your overall gameplay.

All lessons with Ryan include video analysis, demonstration and private emailed lesson notes to add that nice personal touch to every session.

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Not only is Gregg a qualified PGA Professional here at Bowood Golf Academy, in 2015 he also became a TPI certified Fitness Professional, offering TPI screenings to help improve mobility, stability and balance.

As a level 2 TPI Certified Junior Coach, Gregg heads up our Junior Golf Programme – Bowood Junior Golf Academy and offers coaching to juniors aged 5 upwards.

For further information about Gregg’s coaching and TPI Screening, follow him on Facebook and Twitter.

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Simon, is an experienced PGA Professional and has over 15 years’ experience coaching players of all abilities. Simon’s most notable coaching success has been coaching Jordan Smith from amateur to European Tour standard and is now ranked inside the top 100 professional golfers worldwide.

Simon enjoys coaching golfers of all levels and welcomes golfers of all abilities to benefit from his wealth of experience.

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Harry is one of our hard-working PGA Assistant Professionals here at Bowood. Harry started playing golf at the age of 6 and was part of a successful junior section at North Wilts Golf Club. Furthermore, Harry continued playing during secondary school as part of their golf team. After school, Harry decided that university was not for him and spent the next 4 years travelling around the world.

Along the way, Harry completed his PADI Open Water Diving Instructor course as well as becoming a Teaching English as a Foreign Language teacher. These experiences have given him some great knowledge that he looks forward to using in his PGA career. Harry got back into golf after some time away and began working here at Bowood in early 2019, with his aim being to start his PGA Training in 2020. In just over a year he reduced his handicap from 12 to 3 before turning Pro in 2020. We look forward to seeing him grow as a person and as PGA Professional during his time here at Bowood.

Harry first started playing golf in 2017 at Marlborough Golf Club off a handicap of 18 and within a couple of years reduced this to 3. He then made the move to Bowood Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort to become one of the PGA Assistant Professionals.

Over the few years of playing, he has enjoyed competing in club level competitions as well as being fortunate enough to represent the 1st Team whilst being a member at Marlborough. Harry is looking forward to completing his PGA Training at Bowood and is excited to see what the future may bring.