Eight of our best Juniors, split into two groups of four, spent a day with Dr Hurrion having their putting strokes analysed then being shown how biometrics can and has been used to improve what is often an under practised and not perfected part of the game.

These sessions are specialist coaching which is now becoming a vital part of any golfer's armoury, especially for the talented younger player who wants to find out the techniques of the best, to see if they can master them and ingrain the routines so that they achieve the consistency which will take them on to winning golf.

The aim of all the Union's coaching programs is to give its Juniors the best possible chance of individual and team success, maybe even the as yet elusive Boys County title. It was a long wait for the most recent Major win by a European golfer and Padriag Harrington's Open win was in part due to working with Dr Hurrion since 2002.

'Golfers from past decades got away with much more than those you see now,' said Dr Hurrion, 'Greens are much faster now - and getting faster.'

His first test for our Juniors was keeping a putt running on a metre of flat (and narrow) thin steel, something those on the coaching could only do 3 or 4 times in 10 goes (at best). They then moved on to having their strokes videoed using high speed cameras - showing up every imperfection

As lunchtime arrived, Dr Hurrion then showed each group the basics of how biometrics puts a golfer in the best position to make the most accurate putting stroke, some simple science and mechanics combined.

This showed up in some instant improvements in the putting on the steel test. Before moving out onto the artificial putting green at the Quintic studios, just on the outskirts of Berkswell

'You can only lead them so far,' said Dr Hurrion, 'They need to do the drills everyday. The best putters can complete 9 out of 10 using this drill.'

Dr Hurrion works with Harrington all the time, and was just analysing some tape from the recent Grand Slam of Golf, ready for a flying visit to Valderamma three days before the Volvo Masters was due to start. Harrington, and players such as Phillip Archer, are some of the best strikers of a putter he has seen, something only achieved through incredible amounts of hard work.

Each of the players will be able to spend the winter working on techniques which could, next Summer, produce the golfer of their young lives. Many will do so with shorter putters as for a number, biometrics pointed them to positioning their set-ups as effectively as possible with much shorter clubs than commercially available.

What did the Juniors think?

'It was excellent,' said Harry Ibbertson, 'I learnt an awful lot.'

Dr Hurrion is available for private consultations, and for groups of golfers from elite and development squads.

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