Mick Hill was the guy who introduced me to the game in 1990. I played a little then but had to stop because I was hurt from throwing. I started again two or three years ago, after I met up with David Blair at the end of a season.

David Blair is a part partner in where Backley will go from September of which there is more later in this exclusive interview. I wanted to find out more about how Backley had developed his own game - he plays off a handicap of 7 with only a couple of months practice and play each year.

I am nowhere near him (Hill) in terms of length. Mick gives it a real swipe ... we were training in Southern Spain a few years ago when the Apollo Tour School was on. It was the year when Jarmo Sandelin first made it to the Tour. Mick took me along to the practice ground. He borrowed a driver and smacked it over the fence at the end of the range. I was in New Zealand training and went to the range with Gavin Lovegrove (a medal contender for Athens) and we got hold of this really big thing, one of the new drivers. Gavin smacked a ball over the fence with his first go.

The athletic golfer has appeared with Tiger and others and its the ability to hit the ball a very long way, irrespective of the technology of the club itself, which will be where Backley makes his new career.

I am going to pass on my training knowledge to golfers, all that I have learnt over the years, including ideas from Eastern Europe. It will encompass everything, from the rhythm that is part of field events, the psychology of going to do something now , through to the real similarities in the physical requirements of the sport.

There are lots of similarities - the hip and shoulder displacement, turning away from the target, the torsion involved - its very similar. I was asked, by David Blair (noted Teaching Professional) if I would be interested in taking what I know and passing it on ... the ballistic aspects of golf, building a base for body balance ... and that will be in the form of presentations in the six key areas.

So Backley can play and on the first tee of this golf day, in aid of the GB Olympic team for this year and onwards, his practice swing has a real whoosh , just like the top professionals. When it comes to the real thing, there is an amateur nervous tension which take away some of that club head speed. The result is still a very respectable 270 yards and pretty straight.

Backley s round of his life?

I played in the Pro-Am and the B&H, with Aaron Baddeley one year - yes its pretty good how much he can bench press - and another year it was with Paul McGinley. I enjoyed that as well.

I was level with Carl Watts once and at the Belfry, I smoked it over the trees on 18 and had a seven iron in which I hit to 8ft .... I missed the putt though.

I want to work with the best, maybe putting together bespoke training programs. One guy I am working with already, Andrew, has a big problem with flexibility. If you start to look at golf as you would athletics, one player is stiff, one weak, one’s this, one s that .... its the same thing as my sport.

So what about his Olympic prospects? I also ask Steve how he will prepare for the possible winning throw - what will he do when he steps onto the track runway for that chance?

I need to do one thing at a time. Its a steady process of preparing for that throw, building up over the next nine months.

I will not think about golf. I always say that you should model yourself on your best day. You need to realise what your character was (on that day) and repeat, exaggerate those feelings.

You need to appear relaxed externally, on fire internally. You are not distracted - you have this feeling of invincibility. This is one of the things that is most important to me. People don t even recognise me close to the event. You have to be ruthless.

And what about when it is all over?

You come out of it immediately , virtually as you walk off the runway .... then I ll start the rest of my life!