{"id":90,"date":"2014-07-09T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T07:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-07-12T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T17:28:19","slug":"golfing-guide-to-murcia-author-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costa-blanca-greenfees.com\/golf-blog\/golfing-guide-to-murcia-author-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfing Guide to Murcia – Author Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Golf<\/a><\/p>\n

Author Profile: Michael Probert<\/p>\n

Born in Stone, Staffordshire one early morning in 1959 the son of a miner and ultimately one of six children although my mother reminds me that I cried and grizzled more than any of the others (sorry mum).<\/p>\n

I developed into a quiet and pleasant child of average learning ability but with a passion for sport only dented by the need to wear glasses as thick as jam jar bottoms from the age of 6 years of age.<\/p>\n

Having decided in my mid-teens that golf was the game for me my father purchased for me, at a cost of \u00a315, a half set of Peter Thomson irons and also paid for membership of Beaudesert Golf Club, which to this day is still the best golf course that I have ever played.<\/p>\n

My golf developed in leaps and bounds and within one year I was playing off a handicap of 3 and a member of the Staffordshire County team where I played with and against such great golfers as Lee Westwood, Sandy Lyle, Ian Woosnam, Peter Baker and David Gilford.<\/p>\n

The clear difference between their golfing ability and mine quickly persuaded me that I could not compete with them in the professional ranks and so I sought an honest profession with a multi-national company for whom I worked for 30 years accumulating numerous qualifications with various professional institutions along the way.<\/p>\n

Being married with children and having re-located to Torrevieja in Spain in 2004, I decided that after many years of working for someone else that I would work for myself in the golf industry here in Spain.<\/p>\n

Subsequently I have become well known in golfing circles on the Costa Blanca as a golf columnist in local English language newspapers, in golf magazines, on golf specific web-sites and on local radio, specialising in golf psychology, coaching and golf course reviews.<\/p>\n

All of these experiences allow me to be considered by many as a local \u2018expert\u2019 and as such capable of writing this book<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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