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Federation, subsequently confirming his position as one of the world’s leading coaches.
In addition to his commitment to hockey, Charlesworth also worked as a high performance
consultant to the Fremantle Dockers and as a mentor coach to 5 Australian Institute
of Sport coaches. He moved to New Zealand in October 2005 to assume a role as High
Performance Manager for New Zealand Cricket and in late 2007 he was drawn back into
hockey as Indian Hockey’s Technical Advisor.
In 2008, Ric was appointed coach of the Australian’s National Men’s Hockey team and in the
same year was inducted into Hockey Australia’s inaugural Hall of Fame. In 2009 he coached
the Kookaburra’s to gold at the Champion’s Trophy in Melbourne and this was followed by
gold at the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi and gold at the Commonwealth Games. He is the
first person to have played in and coached a gold medal winning World Cup team in hockey.
Ric is also the author of three books, “The Coach – Managing for Success”, “Staying at the
Top” and “Shakespeare the Coach.” Through these publications he has been able to provide
an insight into how to be the best, but more importantly how to stay there.
Tony Bennett
Tony is the Director of Education for the Professional Golfers
Association’s of Europe, which has responsibility for over 20,000
golf professionals in 38 member countries worldwide. Tony travels
extensively in his role and also finds time for additional duties
as an international golf development consultant for the Royal &
Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He has worked with many leading
golfing organisations and several government departments while
developing innovative and far reaching projects around the world.
Tony started his career as a playing professional, but during his mid twenties, his business
acumen became apparent when he developed an innovative on course retail outlet, which
later was recognised as being one of the leading golf retail establishments in the UK. Tony
became a lecturer at the PGA Training School for business and commerce and has had
extensive experience in developing coach education frameworks, retail centres, academy
structures and learning pathways.
Tony was granted the status of Master Professional in 2006 and has been credited
for modernising and contributing to the development of golf in Portugal. He received
recognition from the former President of the Republic Dr. Jorge Sampaio in the form of a
presidential Order of Merit Award. As a former graduate of Birmingham University and
with a Master of Philosophy in Sports Participation and Coaching, Tony brings a wealth of
knowledge to development projects around the world. He is a current PhD student and also
sits on the Editorial Board of the Annual Review of Golf Coaching.
Matthew Frelich
A PGA of America Professional since 1995, Matt Frelich earned
a Bachelor of Science (PGM) degree from Ferris State University
in 1994, and an MBA from University of Michigan-Flint in 1999.
As a former Head Professional at the Oak Pointe Country Club in
Brighton, Michigan, Matt also worked at a variety of other courses
and facilities such as Desert Mountain (Arizona), Knollwood Country
Club (Michigan), Garland Resort (Michigan) and Summitpointe Golf
Club (San Jose, California). He was also a golf instructor with the Nike Golf Schools.
Frelich has held leadership positions in golf analysis technology sales and marketing, golf
club management, golf instruction, and club fitting. In addition to working for a range of
companies and organizations such as Interactive Frontiers (V1), Focaltron (GolfAchiever),
and Sentient Sports where he trained customers on aboutGolf simulators, force plate
systems and SAM PuttLab, Matt is currently the Vice-President of Sales and Business
Development for TrackMan, where he has worked since 2006. Among his responsibilities
includes training the world’s top players, coaches, and fitting professionals in the use of
TrackMan technology and knowledge for player development.
Matt has also been very active in creating strategic partnerships and was most recently
involved in creating a strong educational link with the PGA of Australia.
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