Maude-Aimee Leblanc – RCGA Amateur Team
2010 Athlete Assessment Report/Performance Plan
To: Maude-Aimee Leblanc
From: Derek Ingram, RCGA National Women’s Coach
C.C. Doug Roxburgh, Jeff Thompson, Robert Ratcliffe, Greg Wells, Greg Redman, Penny Werthner, Coach Brouse, Denise Langavin
Date: January 31, 2010
Maude-Aimee Leblanc, the following is a draft of your 2010 RCGA Athlete Assessment Report and Performance Plan. The purpose of this report/plan is to facilitate your ongoing development towards achieving your short-term and long-term goals. This customized plan has been designed using information gathered from my personal observation, interaction with you, skills testing and analysis using TrackMan, Flightscope, Shot By Shot Statistical Analysis, RCGA Player Rankings, discussions with RCGA Team Physiology Consultant, Dr.Greg Wells; RCGA Director of High Performance, Doug Roxburgh; RCGA Women’s Team Assistant Coach, Robert Ratcliffe; RCGA Team Sport Psychologist, Dr. Penny Werthner and RCGA Physiotherapy Consultant, Greg Redman.
It is my duty and responsibility to assist you with identifying your strengths and encouraging you to keep these strong. This is important. It is what makes you excel. As well, it is crucial to pinpoint gaps in your performance skills so that you may adopt improvement strategies that will positively affect your results in competition. All of the performance factors that directly influence results are assessed and taken into consideration: practice habits and strategies, fundamentals, technique, short game, pre-event preparation, fitness, nutrition, mental game, self-management, schedule planning, travel planning, skill testing, stats collection/ comparative analysis. We will work with you and together with the individuals on your support team to follow this plan throughout the year. This is your plan – adaptable and applicable to only you, as we progress throughout the year.
Maude-Aimee Leblanc – Personal Information
Date of Birth:
Email Address:
Cell #: 512-539-7434
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec
Home Club –
College/University: Purdue University
Coach Devon Brouse -
Home Coach – Denise Langavin – 516-391-8691, 561-445-3379
Allergies: ?
Food Issues/Concerns: ?
Health Issues/Medication: ?
Emergency phone #/Contact Person:
Equipment –
On Scouting Solutions – What’s in the bag?
Overall Assessment
Maude-Aimee, congratulations on a great year and retaining your position on Team Canada. You have had some very good results including two fall season wins and some good play at the Canadian Open, among others. I am very excited for you and appreciate the hard work you have put in to achieve your excellent results. You have clearly established yourself as an international class amateur player. Your focus and commitment is outstanding. You show that you have the aptitude and the desire to reach your short – term objectives and your long term goal of becoming a bona fide LPGA Tour Professional – top 10 in the world. There is exciting room for improvement. It is important for you to identify key opportunities for development and then practice like a pro - specific programmed activities designed to help you learn to get your ball into the hole faster and faster. You can count on my complete support.
What is your current ranking/standing?
2009 RCGA Women’s OOM: #3
NCAA Golfweek/Sagarin Individual Rank: #3
Women’s World Amateur Ranking(WWAR): #18
Driving Skill – see attached driver fitting testing report
· Ball speed 149 MPH – LPGA Tour Average 139 MPH
· The fit on our driver looks to be perfect. We will monitor and retest throughout the year,
Iron play/Fairway metals/Hybrids
· Clubs are fit very well. You love your equipment and are very good with it. I think we should consider a hybrid for testing. It may prove to be an excellent club off the tee on narrow holes and into par 5s.
Short Game Test Results – Uncommon Golf Short Game Testing – this is just a snapshot from November/Argentina Camps. We will continue to test throughout the year.
· Overall 7 Hcp
· Sand play 1 Hcp
· Pitch Shot 8 Hcp
· Chip Shot 16 Hcp
· Wedge Shot 26 Hcp
· Lag putting 4 Hcp
· Putting +3 Hcp
Fitness and Strength Testing – Dr.Greg Wells
· RCGA Test Result. Dr. Wells has identified cardio fitness as an important area that needs to improve. Greg will contact you directly to discuss – after the Olympics.
Musculo- skeletal Analysis – Greg Redman
· Greg Redman has provided us with a report. Please use that report and Greg to assist you with your fitness areas. He is world class in this area and this is critical for your long term success, in terms of injury prevention.
Mental Game – from meeting with Dr. Penny Werthner
· Penny and you had an initial assessment re your mental skills. When you are playing well – you are confident and not trying to fix your swing technique.
· Develop a solid focus plan / manage emotions plan for each round and then assess how it went. Modify plan or retain the plan – is it working.
· Canadian Open gave you the confidence that you can play at the top level.
· Keen to develop and build these skills with Penny’s and Coaches help after the Olympics – or sooner.
Self-Management
· This is an area that you need to get more professional at before you can have the success you would like as a professional. It starts with the small things – returning emails, phone calls, texts on time and carries over to studying and getting appropriate grades. You are making good progress so far this year. Let’s keep up with our commitment.
Practice Habits
· Focused and committed – very good. We need to discuss what and how much to practice and then practice each time with the focus required for the Canadian Open. See below.
Pre-Event Preparation Habits
· I have not been with you at a competition yet but from all accounts – this is strength for you. Robert and I will continue to work with you and assist going forward.
Nutrition and Hydration Habits
· Very Good– you are encouraged to adopt habits suggested by Dr. John Berardi in Precision Nutrition Guidebook/Cookbook.
What are your strengths?
· Good ball striking skills. Lots of power, excellent rhythm and tempo. You have the ball flight of a Tour Player.
· Driving – very good length consistently – gets you into position to go low and score. This is your “trump card” – we need to keep this super sharp and then take advantage of it.
· Your competitiveness and desire to win. You are a winner.
· Your ability to hit greens in regulation - consistently – you hit a lot of quality iron shots have opportunities to score.
· Aggressively smart play
What are your identified ‘performance gaps”/improvement priorities?
1. Wedge Play – drives the ball often within wedge distance, however doesn’t always take advantage with wedge accuracy and distance control. You need to make more birdies and capitalize on your strengths (tee ball) – currently you are not doing this enough.
2. Putting – develop more confidence and become a consistently solid putter. Currently, you are reasonable here but it needs to improve to achieve your lofty goals.
3. Chipping and Pitching (short game) – Because of your length – you have the opportunity to score on the par 5 holes and make many “easy” birdies. You need to pitch and chip the ball inside 5 feet much more often. A world class short game can and will also save you when your swing is “off a little” so you can still contend to win.
4. Mental skills – develop the mental game plan then use the plan with frequent review and debrief. Bad shots sometimes affect your confidence too much and you tend to get very angry.
What are your specific strategies to improve?
1. Schedule sensibly – We will work with you and develop the best schedule for you – given the field strength you need to achieve your goals and the situation you have at Purdue with school requirements.
2. Practice Habits – Practice with a purpose. Set goals for each and every practice. And practice the appropriate areas – for you. Top priorities – putting, wedge play, pitch/ chip shots. Then continue to keep your strengths sharp.
3. Putting – spend more time practicing shorter putts (10 feet and in). By practicing short putts, confidence will be developed by the repetition of seeing the ball go into the hole. See drills given to you at Jan 28 – 31st training camp. Harold Swash – Europe’s Dave Pelz, says “it is impossible to become a world class putter unless you practice putting for a minimum of 1 hour per day 360 days a year.” Follow the routine emailed to you and commit to putting practice a minimum of one hour per day 5 days per week.
4. Chipping and pitching – practice chipping/pitching for 45 minutes daily, 5 days per week- performance goal – hole 5 chips each day – target – 0 handicap or better on short game test – we will work on this a lot at our upcoming camp. You need to be very good on 3 shots – a low chip and run, a standard pitch shot and a high soft pitch. The first two shots are top priorities as they are used 85% of the time. The short game test is a great way to measure yourself and practice – by yourself or against a friend.
5. Wedge Game – on alternating days drop 10 balls from each of 40,50,60,70,80,90,100 yards then 45,55,65,75,85,95,105 yards hitting to a flag. The hit first 5 balls using your stock shot, then 2 high, 2 low and one more stock shot – at each yardage. We will also use the Flightscope to groove your full carry yardage with your wedges so you feel super confident with your “go to shot” (your Steve Nash free throw yardage) this needs to be done 4 times per week. Then test yourself with a friend in a contest or by hitting one ball at each distance and measuring how many do you get inside the length of the pin.
Equipment - Fitting Recommendations
· With your length we need to be awesome here and have several options. We have discussed 3 wedges (a 50 or 52) to reduce the critical gaps at the 95 to 120 yardages.
Maude-Aimee Leblanc – 2010 Competition Schedule– events in bold attended by Golf Canada Coaches
Maude we still have some discussion on this schedule – let’s get this done soon.
Feb
7 – 9 Lady Puerto Rico Classic
22-23 – Central District Invite
March
15 – 16 – Winthrop Intercollegiate
26 – 28 – Liz Murphy Classic
April
9-11 – ASU Sun Devil Invite
23-25 – Big 10 Championships
May
6-8 – NCAA Regional Championships
18-21 – NCAA National Championships
June
11 – Media Day
14 – July 9 - Summer school
July
8-11 – US Women’s Open
13-15 – Quebec Amateur
26-30 - Canadian Amateur
August
9-15 - US Women’s Amateur – Charlotte, NC
26-29 – CN Canadian Women’s Open – Winnipeg
September
– New College Year at Purdue
29-2 – LPGA Tour Sectional Qualifying
October
19-22 – World Amateur
December
2-6 – LPGA Tour School - Finals
Maude-Aimee Leblanc - 2010 Goals
· Improve competitive handicap from + 4.8 to + 5.5
· Fitness – reach all RCGA Standards – PAR OR BETTER
· Focus on remedial exercises as prescribed by Greg Redman – complete 4 times per week
· All shot by shot stats – 0 Hcp or better
· Win at least one College event this spring
· Top 10 or better in all spring tournaments
· Top 5 at NCAA Championships
· First Team All American at Purdue
· Win Quebec Amateur
· Win Canadian Amateur
· US Amateur - finalist
· Qualify for Canadian Open, finish top 40 or 140(first 2 rounds) or better
· Make World Amateur Team
· Top 3 team at World Amateur and top 3 individual
· Mental game goals – to be determined with Penny and coaches after the Olympics – see above mental game notes
· Top 3 in Women’s World Amateur Rankings
· Win the RCGA OOM
· # 1 in NCAA GolfWeek/Saragin Ranking