The 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed players at last weekend’s Open Championship had one thing in common – not their clubs, nor their sponsors, but their coach – PGA Master Professional, Pete Cowen. 
 
Beginning the year as Europe’s top coach (with more winners on the European Tour than anyone else) it seems that, even by Pete’s standards, 2010 is turning into a year to remember having already notched up a 2nd place for Lee Westwood at the Masters, a US Open win for Graeme Mcdowell and now a treble at the Open.
 
With a win for Louis Oosthuizen at the Open last weekend, and a 2nd and 3rd for Lee Westwood and Henrik Stenson respectively, it seems that Pete Cowen does have the winning habit.
 
It is not clear whether this is the first time that anyone has coached the top 3 players at a Major, but in any event it is a notable achievement and serves only to cement Pete’s position as the top golf coach in Europe.
 
With the last Major of the season, the US PGA, only a few weeks away, the question on everyone's lips is can Pete make it three Majors in a row?
 
Pete Cowen's golf coaching philosophy is called ‘The Pyramid of Learning’. It starts by building ‘solid foundations’ (aim, stance, posture, grip, and body position) and then  provides a progressive journey through the entire golf swing covering ‘dynamic movement’ (balance, body action, arm swing, hand action, path and plane) through to ‘controlling power’ (hand/eye coordination, speed and pressure, angle of attack) and  ‘attitude’. This coaching philosophy has worked for European Tour winners, Ryder Cup stars and now back-to-back Major champions.
 
To celebrate this historic series of victories, Dizzy Heights, the official distributor of Pete Cowen DVDs is pleased to announce that they are now available in NTSC format for distribution in the USA. A small volume are also available for competitions and reader offers for bloggers and website owners.
 
To find out more about Pete Cowen visit his golf academy website, or, if you want information about his golf DVDs, visit the Dizzy Heights shop.
 
 

 
Pete Cowen Academy golfer, Graeme McDowell, completed a famous victory at Pebble Beach on Sunday, making him the first European US Open winner for 40 years and the first Northern Irishman to win one of golf’s majors since Fred Daly won the 1947 Open Championships.
 
McDowell, who has worked with Pete Cowen since 2007, added his name to an elite list of Pebble Beach winners at the weekend, which includes the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Tom Kite and Tiger Woods.
 
"I really stuck to my plan, which was to stay patient, stay calm, and really put some nice calm swings on it and not get sucked in by what the rest of the guys were doing," said McDowell after his confident performance where he beat Gregory Havret on the 18th hole.
 
When asked what he was going to do next, McDowell, who hails from Portrush in Northern Ireland, replied: "It's a surreal feeling for me but I feel ready to go. I'm playing the golf of my life.
 
"I'm not sure how much partying I'm going to do over the next three months. I might catch my friends up with beer next weekend. The Harbor Bar, Portrush, a pint of Guinness. I think there will be a few of those in my future.”
 
After Lee Westwood and Thomas Bjorn’s double victory either side of the Atlantic and now McDowell’s stunning Open win it seems like June is fast becoming a successful month for the world class coaching of the Pete Cowen Golf Academy.
 

Congratulations to Henrik Stenson who won the TPC at Sawgrass this weekend.

Henrik has been coached by Pete Cowen for many years and after memorable victories together at the Dubai Desert Classic and the WGC Accenture Matchplay; this victory at the TPC (The Players Championship) is probably Henrik's most significant victory to date. 

The TPC is widely regarded as golf's 5th Major as it arguably boasts the strongest field of the year.  Stenson held of a strong field, that included World No1 Tiger Woods, with a final round 66 to finish at 12 under par for the Championship.  For a full blow by blow account visit the bbc sport website.

Louis Oosthuizen came within a whisker of causing an upset at the recent Abu Dhabi Golf Championship Qatar Masters nearly catching long-time leader Paul Casey with a brilliant final round 64 at the immaculate Abu Dhabi golf club in the United Arab Emirates.  Paul Casey had led by several shots throughout the round, but a nervy back nine with 3 bogeys saw his lead slip to 1 shot and the brilliance of the young South African coached by Pete Cowen turned what was going to be a procession by Casey into a very exciting finish.

With this win Charl Schwartzel secured his second European Tour International Schedule victory in his 107th  European Tour event as a professional and his first European Tour victory since the 2005 Alfred Dunhill Championship -  a gap of 50 European Tour events.

With this win Henrik Stenson secured his sixth European Tour International Schedule victory in his 62nd European Tour event as a professional and moves to Number Five in the Official World Golf Ranking – the highest position held by a Swedish player. Stenson is also the first Swede to win a World Golf Championship event.

Henrik Stenson birdied the 18th hole for a one stroke victory at the Dubai Desert Classic at the Emirates Golf Club ahead of World Number four Ernie Els who was second and World Number One Tiger Woods who tied for third with Niclas Fasth. Stenson climbs four places to World Number 10 and becomes the 65th player to have reached Top-10 status since the OWGR began just under 21 years ago.

(Reuters) – England’s Simon Dyson claimed his second title of the season when he beat Australian Richard Green at the first extra hole of a sudden-death play-off in The KLM Open at the Kennemer Golf & Country Club.

Dyson's birdie three on the 18th hole separated the pair, who had finished on 14 under par 270, a stroke ahead of Ireland's Damien McGrane.

McGrane led the field by three strokes going into the final round but the Irishman paid for being becalmed for the first eight holes, allowing Dyson, who closed with a 66, and Green, firing a 65, to overtake him.