Irish LGU appoint Peter Lockley to

be High Performance Manager

NEWS RELEASE ISSUE BY IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION
England’s Peter Lockley has been appointed High Performance Manager of the Irish Ladies Golf Union and will officially take up his position later this month.
Lockley, who has worked with the Belgium girls' squad, is currently the Head Professional at Newark Golf Club and since 2007 has been Lead County Coach for Nottinghamshire, working closely with elite golfers at all levels of the game.
He has a comprehensive knowledge of the key elements of High Performance and Development programmes and is held in high regard by fellow coaches and players. He has a proven track record in the area of High Performance and his strong work ethic and amicable personality has seen him achieve notable results with low amateur and professional players.
He currently runs his own Academy and has recently designed and delivered coaching schools for young children at the Lee Westwood Academy.
On confirmation of his appointment, Lockley commented “This is a very exciting opportunity and with the ILGU achieving European success at junior level recently I am looking forward to establishing systems to build on that success“
Chief Executive Sinead Heraty commented “We have high ambitions for our national teams and to achieve our goals, High Performance needs a dedicated Manager and I believe Peter’s Texperience will introduce programmes to ensure our coaches have a constant pipeline of talent at their disposal”.
Lockley will take up the High Performance reigns in late October and will firstly meet the players and District coaches to devise a Winter Coaching Programme ahead of next summer’s busy schedule of tournaments.