Top Instructor Is Making Golf’s Stars Shine Brighter
At some point, Cowen has worked with virtually every European Ryder Cup player of the last 20 years
and helped Graeme McDowell win the 2010 U.S. Open, Louis Oosthuizen and Darren Clarke win the British Open in 2010 and 2011, and Danny Willett win the Masters in 2016.
Bill Harmon said that If there is such a thing, he might be the best teacher in the world,
"I couldn’t accept hitting one bad shot on the course
because I’d hit thousands of balls on the range." He abandoned the professional circuit in 1980 after finishing 57th on the European Tour Order of Merit the previous season.
In the final round of the tournament, two of Cowen’s pupils, Matthew Fitzpatrick
and Chris Wood, finished tied for second, one stroke behind Paratore, who claimed his first European Tour victory.
"He’s got three types of hitting the ball: good, very good
and perfect, and he can’t accept good and very good." Stenson rediscovered his swing in 2013, sweeping both the PGA Tour’s season-long FedEx Cup and the European Tour’s Race to Dubai.
" he said. that I have to make sure that players don’t fall into the same trap,
By ADAM SCHUPAKJULY 20, 2017
On May 30, two days before the European Tour Nordea Masters in Sweden, the agent Gorka Guillen of IMG called Pete Cowen to arrange an urgent tuneup for one of his clients, Renato Paratore of Italy, who had shot 79
and missed the cut the week before at another tournament.
Not long after Stenson won his first European Tour tournament at the Benson & Hedges International that May, he suddenly could not hit the fairway.