{"id":119,"date":"2020-05-04T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T11:54:28","slug":"qa-with-jack-nicklaus-academy-director-of-instruction-ricardo-jimenez-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A with Jack Nicklaus Academy Director of Instruction Ricardo Jim\u00e9nez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Introduction Jack Nicklaus Academy Director of Instruction Ricardo Jimenez Eliaeson\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9-QYzf2Eco?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Part I<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the things that we\u2019re most proud of at Finca Cortesin is our Jack Nicklaus Golf Academy. With the golf course and club still shut, we took the chance to sit down with our director of instruction, Ricardo Jimenez Eliaeson, to unearth a few secrets about his life in golf and coaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">T<strong>hanks for taking the time to sit down with us. Firstly, can you give us an insight into your family background, who inspired you to follow a career in golf and how you got into coaching?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I was born in Stockholm in Sweden but moved to Spain when I was three years old and have been here ever since.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I started to play golf in 1986 at Torrequebrada Golf Club\u00a0and, believe it or not, my first teacher was Miguel Angel Jim\u00e9nez. I owe so much to the Jim\u00e9nez family and without their support in my youth, I would never have played golf.\u00a0 I did all kind of sports growing up but, when I tried golf, I was hooked immediately.\u00a0 From the very beginning, I understood that\u00a0I could never master this fantastic game and that I was not playing against other players but that I was playing against the golf course, and I think that was one of the best lessons I have\u00a0 received from Miguel Angel\u00a0Jimenez.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When did you know you first had a thing for golf?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is one of those questions that is very difficult to answer but, in my case, I always knew that I could be a very competitive player because I love competition. I consider myself a very good competitor but, having said that, it\u2019s one thing to play against amateurs and quite another to play against professionals. I remember one tournament when I hit two\u00a0drives in a row to rough on the left-hand side. \u00a0 In both situations, my ball was deep in trouble and I had to use my sand wedge to leave\u00a0myself exactly\u00a0100 metres to the flag.\u00a0In both distance wedges approaches I left my ball next to the pin, that is when I knew I could become a much better player.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Being director of instruction at a Jack Nicklaus Academy, how does this association help in your coaching and your student\u2019s development?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I have always been fortunate enough to be surrounded by great teachers. Many of them were more technical teachers while\u00a0some were more\u00a0\u2018feeling\u2019 teachers and others were more mental teachers.\u00a0 I have also been fortunate to have seen all the best teachers over the last 20 years and, together, they gave me a pretty good understanding of the whole picture.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Golf is not about instruction;\u00a0it is about teaching people. If you teach people, you can help them to improve their games but if you keep teaching\u00a0instruction, it will be very difficult to get good players and the best of their games.\u00a0 We are all different; we are built differently, we think differently, we understand differently, we learn differently so, therefore, we have to adapt to our students.\u00a0 Nicklaus Academies help me to\u00a0deliver a more comprehensive and easier message to players. In general, coaches make golf too complicated and use terminology that doesn&#8217;t help, so I consider myself more like a skilled developer coach.\u00a0 If a student can improve their skills around their game, then I think they will be happier because they will feel that they can perform much better. That is my passion, to make them better.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What\u2019s the greatest joy you get from teaching golf?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You probably will not believe it\u00a0 but the greatest joy I get from teaching\u00a0 is when you can get players striking the ball like the Tour players (with this, I mean the proper sound of the club hitting the ball and then the turf) and then turning around to me,\u00a0 with a big smile on their face, and telling me \u201cWhat a shot\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What\u2019s the one thing you\u2019d like to teach your kids about golf that will help them through life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I believe golf is like life,\u00a0a long path with a lot of obstacles in the journey.\u00a0 You are going to fall down plenty of times and you have to learn to stand up and keep walking. Do it\u00a0step by step,\u00a0grind, be resilient\u00a0and enjoy the journey\u00a0because that is when you are going to learn about you and your game\/life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tell us a story about your last non-golf adventure.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Since I was 20, I always had the dream of going on holiday to the Black Forest in southern Germany.\u00a0 Last year, knowing that my kids were getting older, we planned the trip to the Black Forest and the Austrian Alps so we could spend 10 days traveling in a car and living together. \u00a0 It was a fantastic experience that I highly\u00a0recommend to anyone. It was fantastic to be able to spend some quality time with my wife and children, and we fell in love with the Black Forest and the Austrian landscapes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fincacortesin.com\/nicklaus-academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jack Nicklaus Academy at Finca Cortesin<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part I One of the things that we\u2019re most proud of at Finca Cortesin is our Jack Nicklaus Golf Academy. With the golf course and club still shut, we took the chance to sit down with our director of instruction, Ricardo Jimenez Eliaeson, to unearth a few secrets about his life in golf and coaching. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/?p=119\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abQ&#038;A with Jack Nicklaus Academy Director of Instruction Ricardo Jim\u00e9nez\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hotelcortesin.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}