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Simon Holmes
Simon Holmes was born in Irvine, Scotland and started playing National and International Amateur Golf Events in 1983 throughout United Kingdom and Europe. He suffered major injury to both wrists during the British Amateur Championships 1986 at Royal Lytham Golf Club. After recovering in 1988, went to David Leadbetter to have lessons at Grenelefe Resort in Haines City, Fl.
Simon was then instrumental in establishing the first Leadbetter Academy in Europe at Montpellier, France from scratch, which grew to more than 10 bases in France alone. From August 1991 until the end of 1992 he travelled extensively with Nick Faldo. During this period Nick Faldo was world No 1 and was impressively successful all over the world including The Open Golf Championship, where Nick credited Simon with his success.
Simon Holmes has appeared frequently on TV. He is a regular on Sky Sports and has been TV moderator and analyst for the popular Golf Night programme, and also been seen on Golf Channel and Golf Today Show, and many others. His commentary has also been used by the BBC, Sky Sports, TV3 Sweden and World Feed.
In addition to all this Simon Holmes has written many insightful and instructive golf articles regularly appearing in publications such as Golf Monthly, Svensk Golf and Golf Journal Germany.
The Simon Holmes Golf Academy
In 1992 Simon Holmes worked with 4 of the top 5 players on the European tour including Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Barry Lane and Anders Forsbrand. Simon’s players had 16 wins worldwide during this season. And to cap off a busy and successful year, in December 1992 he created the renowned Simon Holmes Golf Academy.
Simon Holmes has coached more than 80 tournament professionals worldwide. These professionals have won more than 45 titles around the world and 2 major titles. Among these have included:
Retief Goosen, Darren Clarke, Thomas Bjorn, Ernie Els, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam, Robert Karlsson, Soren Hansen, Jasper Parnevik, Vijay Singh, Lee Westwood, Barry Lane, Mark McNulty, Nick Faldo, Joakim Haeggman, Geoff Ogilvy, Tony Johnstone, Darren Fichart, David Carter, Marc Farry, Anders Forsbrand, Peter Fowler, Roger Chapman, Gordon Brand Jnr, Mark Roe, Jean Van der Velde, Jeremy Robinson, Per Ulrik Johansson, Roger Winchester, Mark James, Seve Ballesteros, Mark Davis, Brian Marchbank, Derrick Cooper, Nick Price, Bob Tway, Mike Hulbert, Curtis Strange, Trevor Immelman, Padraig Harrington, Richard Green, Ian Poulter, Stephan Ames, Peter Hanson, Constantino Rocca, Jamie Spence, Padraig Harrington, Richard Green, Ian Poulter, Stephan Ames, Peter Hanson, Constantino Rocca and Jamie Spence - a very impressive list of golfers.
Simon Holmes Golf Instructional DVDs
Simon Holmes has recently produced a series of golf instructional DVDs, all of which will be of benefit to us club golfers trying in vain to reduce our golf handicaps.
In 2001 the DVD Digital Golf School was produced, followed in 2003 by Golf Strategies with Robert Karlsson and Simon Holmes and in 2006 the new Digital Golf School II were released. Simon also produced a DVD for Nokia Pro Session Golf.
In 1995 the CD Rom From Tee to Green was produced and was the only sports title to win more than four stars from the Daily Telegraph in London.