How vulnerability and contact took William Bruyeres to the PNG Open title

I started working with Will Bruyeres a couple of years ago. From his feedback he felt he didn’t have much of an idea what he was doing from a technical perspective and wanted to learn more about his golf swing, how to control his golf ball better and how to gain long-term development.

We went down the pathway of understanding cause and effect.

We’ve really worked hard on creating a pattern whereby he can create a ball flight where he knows which way it’s going and when he has a miss, what the cause and effect is.

Through doing some online feedback work when he is on the road with video and using objective measurements, he understands why his body responds and moves the way it does, and essentially has a blueprint we have created for him.

For the amateur golfer, that same concept of developing an understanding with a PGA of Australia professional of where your bad shots come from is key to improving, and so is a version of the relationship I have with tour players like Will.

Will can contact me anytime on the road and shares video regularly, so stay in touch with your PGA pro to get the most out of your lesson, and if you’re going for your first lesson, don’t be afraid to mirror the attitude of a Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia winner like Will.

It takes a lot for him to come on day one and say, “Hey, I’m vulnerable, I want to learn more, I want to get better.”

That’s a choice that he had to make, and all credit to Will. He’s never once taken a step back. He’s never pushed back on anything I’ve asked him to do. 

Based at KDV Sports Golf Academy on the Gold Coast, Richard Woodhouse is a two-time PGA of Australia National Coach of the Year and three-time PGA of Australia Queensland Coach of the Year.