{"id":7088,"date":"2014-10-29T13:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T03:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T06:14:28","slug":"glenelg-head-coach-behind-murdacas-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/2014\/10\/glenelg-head-coach-behind-murdacas-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenelg Head Coach behind Murdaca&#8217;s success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141026_150655.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Glenelg Head Coach, Gareth Jones (right) with Antonio Murdaca\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141026_150655.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"397.5\" \/><\/a>Story by Martin Blake &#8211; Golf Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glenelg Head Coach, Gareth Jones knows Antonio Murdaca\u2019s game and his personality backwards, which is the type of relationship you get when a coach and a player are together for seven years.<\/p>\n<p>That relationship was crucial to Murdaca\u2019s victory in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship at Royal Melbourne last weekend, with Jones carrying the bag for his player.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is the national coach for South Australia and Murdaca is part of Golf Australia\u2019s elite amateur squad.<\/p>\n<p>Close observers suggested that his presence as caddie could have been worth six shots over four days to Murdaca, who hails from the Grange Golf Club in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s by far the best I\u2019ve seen him perform,\u2019\u2019 Jones told golf.org.au. \u201cI caddied for him at the Australian Open (at Royal Sydney in 2013) and I\u2019ve seen him at the Open when he was going okay, but mentally he was just super. He never got ahead of himself at all. It was a really professional performance. It was good fun. We kept it pretty light out there, talked about other stuff, things we couldn\u2019t talk about now!\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141025_094752.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141025_094752.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187.5\" \/><\/a>The 19-year-old Murdaca now has a guaranteed start in the Masters at Augusta National in April next year, and he expects to have Jones on the bag then, too. It has not been finalised \u2013 many young players tend use an Augusta local for insider knowledge on their first appearance at the famous club \u2013 but Murdaca made his feelings plain on Sunday. \u201cI haven\u2019t spoken to him (Jones) about it but I <em>will<\/em> be speaking to him,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Coach-caddie partnerships are quite unusual and can be disastrous in certain circumstances, although Jason Day, who uses his longtime coach Colin Swatton as his bagman, is an example of where it can work. \u201cI\u2019ve been coaching him for seven years, from a young boy at 12, to a young man,\u2019\u2019 said Jones. \u201cHe\u2019s really grown up, we get on well, I guess we have ups and downs as we all do. I know his personality, he knows mine and I know what to say out there.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Jones and Murdaca have taken the player back to his old left-to-right ball flight in the past year or so, after a period in which he was hitting draws. They also have been working on ball flight; Murdaca hits the ball incredibly low, but higher than he used to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree years ago we started working hard on getting his ball-flight higher, getting the club face right, which also goes to flight,\u2019\u2019 said Jones. \u201cWe\u2019d worked on getting some more flight before we played here. I caught up with him in Houston (at a GA camp) and he was hitting really down on it and it was coming out low and hard. It\u2019s better than it was.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>What Murdaca knows now is that the high end of his game is very good. As the R &amp; A secretary Peter Dawson observed: \u201cThirteen-under around this course. He must be some player.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141026_150901.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Antonio Murdaca with Augusta members\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glenelggolf.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_20141026_150901.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"397.5\" \/><\/a>Jones was pleasantly surprised by the performance, like a lot of people, because Murdaca was only the ninth-ranked of the 10 Australians in the field at Royal Melbourne. \u201cHe\u2019s not the tallest guy in the world but he\u2019s always been strong,\u2019\u2019 said Jones. \u201cThe guys were saying he\u2019s \u2018sneaky long\u2019. He does get it out there, his club-speed is good. Plus he\u2019s matured with his shot-selection. The preparation that (GA coaches) Marty Joyce, Stuart Leong and Paul Skinner did last week was great. I used it particularly on Sunday, \u00a0really made an effort where we needed to leave that golf ball as much as possible.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jones said the world would open up for Murdaca from here on. \u00a0For instance, he will get a start in the Emirates Australian Open at The Australian next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got a lot more opportunities now. It\u2019s been an amazing week for him. His ranking will go up, he\u2019s got three or four pro tournaments to look at. Our plan is to turn pro in a couple of years. I want him to represent Australia in a full team event before he turns.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"highlight\">Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf.org.au\">Golf Australia <\/a>website for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenelg Head Coach, Gareth Jones knows Antonio Murdaca\u2019s game and his personality backwards, which is the type of relationship you get when a coach and a player are together for seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[138,197],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guests-news","tag-coaching","tag-gareth-jones"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Glenelg Head Coach behind Murdaca&#039;s success - 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