English golfer and former world number one Luke Donald has announced that he is all set to ditch his long time coach in a desperate bid to break his duck in the major championships.
The 35 year old has been working with coach Pat Goss for the past 16 years and has had spells at the top of the Official World Golf Rankings but his failure to land him the biggest prizes in golf has left him frustrated and he has finally decided to end the relationship with Goss.
Donald has decided to bring in the services of Chuck Cook as his new coach and the American certainly comes with a pedigree that is second to none in the coaching world at the moment having had previous stints coaching the likes of major winners such as Corey Pavin, Payne Stewart as well as the current and newly crowned US PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner.
And Luke Donald will be hoping the American can weave a similar sort of magic on his play and land him the much desired major title. Donald, however, also confirmed that he will not completely do away with the services of Goss and will continue to retain him to help him with the short game but he added that he felt the time was right to try something different and new as he aims to break his major duck in 2014.
He mentioned that he has gone with Chuck because he wants to make his long game more consistent in order to improve his chances of landing a major. Luke Donald went on to add that he has come to realize that the major championships come with a different philosophy and the players need to adapt to it.
Let’s hope Donald does break his major duck next season.