Alex Hay

Alex Hay (actually: Alex Galloway Hay, born May 10, 1933, Edinburgh, Scotland, † 11 July 2011) was a respected technical book author and expert commentator in the sport and was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, one of the leading golf instructor.

Life

Alex Hay, born in 1933 in Edinburgh, worked first at the Scottish Stock Exchange, the Scottish market. His great love was but the beginning of the game of golf. Therefore Hay joined the profession and began training as a bat maker in the company venerable Ben Sayers North Berwick. Then he learned as an assistant golf pro Bill strict Shankland at Potters Bar Golf Club in London. His first independent trainer body got Hay at East Herts Golf Club, where he soon gained a good reputation. There, he went on and his reputation grew steadily. The leading trade magazine Golf Illustrated hired him as a reporter and Alex Hay wowed the golfing world with his unique and entertaining style, the BBC - TV until his retirement in 2004 allowed him to become a fixed and indispensable size since the The Open Championship transmission 1978. A year earlier, Hay began teaching at the newly founded Woburn Golf and Country Club, now one of the most famous golf courses in Britain.

Reference Books

(Excerpt )

• The Mechanics of Golf
• The Young Golfers
• The Skills and Tactics of Golf
• The Golf Manual ( The German edition The Golf Guide is the Christian publishing house published )
• Training Manual (Co-author )