{"id":458,"date":"2010-04-26T08:16:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golfcoursebusiness.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2010-04-26T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:17:48","slug":"yani-tseng-sees-gilchrist-for-post-major-tuneup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/golfcoursebusiness\/golf\/instruction\/458\/yani-tseng-sees-gilchrist-for-post-major-tuneup","title":{"rendered":"Yani Tseng Sees Gary Gilchrist for Post-Major Tuneup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. \u2013 Two weeks after winning the LPGA Tour\u2019s first major of the year at the Nabisco Championship, Taiwanese golfer Yani Tseng was back working with the golf coach who helped get her there: Gary Gilchrist.<\/p>\n

Tseng, the LPGA Tour\u2019s top money winner this season ($460,932), practiced twice this week on her entire game with Gilchrist in preparation for an event this weekend in Japan. She spent several hours April 20 at the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy, Gilchrist\u2019s full-time junior golf academy located at Mission Inn Resort about 45 minutes north of Orlando. The following morning Gilchrist gave Tseng one final tune-up at her nearby home course, Lake Nona Golf and Country Club.<\/p>\n

After an intensive session of working on her swing alignment \u2013 utilizing a yellow Swing Guard aid \u2013 Tseng spent about an hour on her short-game at Gilchrist\u2019s private practice facility Tuesday, putting and then chipping alongside dozens of admiring Gilchrist Academy students. Gilchrist, who\u2019s been working with Tseng since early February, says Tseng\u2019s alignment sometimes gets too open so she takes the club back a little \u201ctoo shut and swings it long.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tseng often does a good job of bringing the ball back to impact, Gilchrist adds, but a\u00a0 lot of times when she swings hard from being long the ball has a tendency to either hook or go right.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo making the clubface more square going back will shorten the swing and get her wound up more on her right side, which will allow her to be more consistent over time,\u201d says Gilchrist, who accompanied Tseng at the Nabisco as well as the previous week\u2019s LPGA Tour Kia Classic. \u201cHer short game, especially her chipping is really really good. \u2026 I think the biggest and most important thing for me as a coach is making sure she is trusting in the process. That she\u2019s trusting in herself and she\u2019s not getting ahead of herself or down on herself (after a bad shot).<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing that I noticed being with her the first week is she hits it long and she needs to realize that anybody that hits the ball as long as her, you\u2019re going to hit it offline more often than somebody who hits it short and straight. So even if you hit it offline, that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t score par or birdie the hole. She needs keep thinking positive, even though she hits it offline, that there\u2019s still an opportunity to take advantage of the length.\u201d<\/p>\n

Basically, Gilchrist is just as much a trusted mental coach as he is a swing coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cYani sometimes gets down on herself when she doesn\u2019t hit the ball the way she should, misses a couple putts or she\u2019s struggling to hit a ball to her standards,\u201d Gilchrist points out. \u201cWhat\u2019s very important for us is to understand is each week prepares you for the next week. So even though you might have your \u201cB\u201d game this week, you have a plan and have a strategy to play up to your full potential. While that might only get you to 10th<\/sup> place, you\u2019re improving your overall game for the following week.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the next week when you go out, you might be in the top five and the following week you win. But if you get into a negative cycle and start complaining, get frustrated, get down on yourself and you\u2019re negative the following week, you\u2019re going to miss the cut. And the following week you miss the cut again and now you\u2019re going to tournaments and you\u2019re dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

After focusing on a new attitude this year and \u201cjust relaxing and having fun,\u201d Tseng is far from dead in 2010. Consider: After winning the Nabisco Championship, Tseng\u2019s second career major, the 21-year-old golfer has already won twice this season (Tseng won the Handa Australian Open in March) and notched two third-place showings in five official starts for $540,932 in 2010 earnings. That brings Tseng\u2019s career earnings to $3,506,468.<\/p>\n

\u201cGary\u2019s a really good coach and he\u2019s always been very positive,\u201d the soft-spoken Tseng says with a smile. \u201cHe\u2019s helped me a lot with my swing and he\u2019s pretty simple. And I like the way he talks because he\u2019s really positive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing I really like is he told me that we need to build confidence every shot. Just keep building confidence on every shot and think like a champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Tseng is really enjoying about her new swing coach is his open-minded approach to the game and his overall simple and upbeat coaching style.<\/p>\n

\u201cGary\u2019s not the kind of person who protects you and thinks, \u2018oh this is my player,\u2019 says Tseng, who entered the week as the world\u2019s No. 3-ranked player in the Rolex Rankings. \u201cHe\u2019s just really nice, and open minded. Also because I\u2019m a very feel player, he can teach that feel too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really trust him and what he wants me to do. He\u2019s taught me a lot. It\u2019s not just technique, but more of the feel, strategy, and what you have to do to be the No. 1 player.\u201d<\/p>\n

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