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ALAN MURRAY

Mobile: +65-8173 8121
´The Grand Master of Golf in Asia´
• Director - Champions Golf Academy
• Life Member - PGA of Australia
• Co Founder, Former President & Only Life Member - PGA of Singapore
• AAA Master Professional - Asian PGA

Considered the 'guru' of golf analysis and coaching in the Asia Pacific, Alan Murray is also the 'founding father' of professional golf in the region.

He began his career in Sydney, Australia, as an assistant professional at Killara Golf Club. During his term there, he was fortunate to have the opportunity to acquire much valued tuition and guidance from Australia's greatest players, including Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Norman Von Nida and Eric Cremin.

Alan Murray has played in every major PGA tournament in Australia and competed in most international PGA tournaments, including the British Open and 1967 World Cup. He has won no less than 60 professional golf tournaments during his illustrious career on the PGA International circuit.

This includes the 1962 French Open, 1961 Australian PGA Championship and the 1967 Australian Wills Masters to name a few. In winning these events he beat some of the legends of golf, including Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Peter Thomson.

Alan played the Asian Circuit during the 1960's and relocated to Singapore in 1972 to take up a prestigious coaching position at the renowned Singapore Island Country Club & was head professional at SICC until 1980. During this period Alan won the Rolex Masters three times and structured the Singapore Professional Golfers Association & Alan is to this day the only person to receive 'Life Membership' Status.

Alan was recently made a Life Member of the PGA of Australia. Alan has coached many of the finest players on the tour today as well as the National Teams of New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.

As Former National Coach of Malaysia, Alan was responsible for coaching many of Malaysia's leading touring professionals including Danny Chia, Rashid Ismail, P. Gunasagaran, S. Murthy, V. Arumugam, Mohd Johari, Rahizam Ramli, Wong Hong Nung, R. Nachimuthu & Victor Lim.

GARRY OVERY

Mobile: +65-9361 8567
PGA Professional – Green Fairways Golf
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Member - PGA of Australia

As a youngster in Australia, Garry Overy was considered one of the brightest prospects in Australian Amateur Golf with many tournament victories to his credit. He ASTled in school sport, particularly golf, and later became the assistant golf professional at the prestigious Royal Canberra Golf Club.

Garry went onto to win many amateur tournaments from 1968 as well as representing N.S.W. at state level before turning professional in 1973. During his time at Royal Canberra, Garry had the opportunity of gaining some valuable tuition and guidance from 5 times British Open Champion, Peter Thomson, and fellow Australian great & British Open Champion, Kel Nagle.

He later joined the PGA circuits in Australia and New Zealand. After 3 successful years on the circuit, he was offered a very lucrative position as Head Professional at the Kogarah Golf Club, a position he held for five years. On leaving Kogarah Golf Club, Garry moved to the far south coast of N.S.W. to take on the position of Head Professional at Eden Country Club. During his stay at Eden Country Club he also became involved in coaching the N.S.W. Junior Team.

Garry left Eden some nine years latter and his exceptional knowledge of the golf swing and the science of golf warranted him venturing to Singapore and teaming up with his long time friend, Alan Murray, to coach the Malaysian National Team.

Garry & Alan then went onto establish 'Champions Golf Academy Pte. Ltd' in Singapore after recognising the need for such a facility within the region to provide an international standard of learning and also better understanding of the golf swing in general. Hytek Gloves International Pte. Ltd. was formed in Singapore early in 1999 by the directors of Champions Golf Academy. An overall ten year plan was drawn up to promote and sell Hytek & Unifeel golf gloves initially in the U.S.A., Singapore and eventually worldwide.

Garry recently was appointed the Head Professional at the prestigious Dubai Country Club in the United Arab Emirates. As well as coaching golf his other duties will be to appoint staff and oversee these operations.

Garry assisted Alan as Co National Coach of Malaysia, and was responsible for also coaching many of Malaysia's leading touring professionals including Danny Chia, Rashid Ismail, S. Murthy, V. Arumugam, Mohd Johari, Rahizam Ramli & R. Nachimuthu.

KEL LLEWELLYN

• AAA Master Professional - Asian PGA
• Director - Kel Llewellyn Golf Academies
• Director - Kel Llewellyn & Cheng Jun Golf Academy @ Beijing CBD Golf Club • Member - PGA of Australia
• Golf Coach of the Year 2003 - PGA of Victoria
• Life Member - Bhutan PGA

The Asian PGA & Palm Resort Golf Academy are fortunate to have Australian Professional Kel Llewellyn as Director of Player Development& Head Professional to conduct their outstanding golf programs for all golfers including many of the leading tour players in Asia.

For the majority of his long golf coaching career, Kel has been on 'the journey less travelled' in his passionate quest for more knowledge to perfect his coaching and training expertise in this most elusive of all games.

From his hometown of Geelong, in Australia, Kel's golfing odyssey has taken him from the far reaches of the United States to the United Kingdom, India, Europe, S.E. Asia and Australia / New Zealand.

He is now known as 'The True Guru of Golf' being the main coach and trainer of present Indian Professional Champions Daniel Chopra and Jyoti Randhawa and a host of other rising stars. At various times he has been National Coach and Trainer for India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia & Bhutan over the past 20 years. Kel is currently the coach to many of Asia's leading touring professional's including:-

Daniel Chopra - India / Sweden - USPGA Tour
Jyoti Randhawa - India - Asian & European Tour
Zhang Lian-Wei - China - Asian Tour
Mardan Mamat - Singapore - Asian Tour
Lam Chih Bing - Singapore - Asian Tour
Danny Chia - Malaysia - Asian Tour
Kyi Hla Han - Myanmar - Asian Tour Chairman

Kel travelled far and wide to consult with 20th century legends including Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Eric Cremin, Tommy Bolt, Jackie Burke Jr, Jimmy Demaret and short game wizard Paul Runyan, all helping immensely to enlarge his philosophy to merge with his own experiences of coaching and playing the game. Kel's philosophy goes far deeper than just the coaching aspect of instilling his technical knowledge into golfers.

He is the BEST Trainer of Golfers from Juniors, beginners of all ages, golfers who have been playing for some time and budding champions. This training covers a very wide area including physical, mental and emotional. His ultimate goal is for golfers to be able to teach themselves!He may well be the first Golf Professional in the world to introduce yoga to golf programs as a means of improving golfers' mental, physical and emotional wellness, having studied yoga and reiki for the past 22 years.

Kel has been a Golf Professional for over 40 years and an insight into his optimism and enthusiasm for coaching and training golfers, for he has no greater passion than building champions, can be gained when he says - "I've got a lot to achieve in my life over the next 50 years!" Hopefully Kel has found his ideal 'Golf Schools in Paradise' at the serene learning environment of Palm Resort to release his vast knowledge to the multitude of golfers looking for the secret!