Scottish Golf has successfully appointed two new national coaches to its Performance team, into the Women’s and Girls’ squads.
The new appointments come shortly after Clare Queen rejoined Scottish Golf as Head of Performance and Pathways in February 2024 and working to establish a Performance Advisory Group, comprised of performance experts, to ensure clarity is brought to the pathways within Scottish golf.
David Patrick, appointed as Women’s National Coach, is an award-winning PGA Professional golf coach now based at Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society. He was Scottish Golf Girls and Women’s National Coach from 2014 to 2020.
Following a successful amateur playing career highlighted by winning the Walker Cup in 1999 alongside Luke Donald and Paul Casey, David turned professional in 2001. David has played all over the world with his greatest playing achievement was winning on the European Challenge Tour. David has been coaching golf since 2008.
David Patrick, Women’s National Coach, commented on his appointment:
”I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to be the Scottish Women’s National Coach again.
It is a role I am passionate about and thoroughly enjoyed previously.
I am very much looking forward to working with the players and other coaches to build a winning program and help the individual players maximise their potential.
I believe it is an exciting time to be involved with female sport and golf in particular and can’t wait to get started.”
Colin Fisher qualified from the PGA in 1998. He is past Development and Performance academy coach with Scottish Golf, and now joins the National team as National Girls’ coach. Colin is based at Great Western Golf in Glasgow, coaching full time and has been awarded Advanced Professional status by the PGA as one of Scotland’s first Level 3 coaches.
Colin Fisher, Scottish Girls’ National coach, added:
”I’m absolutely delighted to accept the role as Scottish Girls’ National coach. Developing young players and helping them perform at the highest level is a long-held passion.
I’m looking forward to working with such a great group of players, coaches and support staff and I’m really excited about the events scheduled for the remainder of this season and beyond.
I hope to continue Katie McNicol’s great work and further contribute to the future of Scottish Golf.”
Clare Queen, Head of Performance and Pathways, said:
”We are so excited to have Colin and David join us at such an important time for women and girls’ participation. They are hugely experienced coaches and I have no doubt they will bring energy and momentum to their roles.
We identified some promising coaching talent in our candidate pool and are looking to develop our coach development programme, we are also developing plans to establish a female coach development programme to increase the opportunities available for female coaches to coach at National level.”
Fisher and Patrick have now started at Scottish Golf. The first major team event of the year will be The European Team Championships, which take place in July.
