Alex Wrigley

Dreamed of playing golf on one of the world's main tours, but coaching has always been a major part of his amateur and professional career. His fascination with golf coaching started as a 15-year-old county player, traveling to The David Leadbetter Golf Academy at The Wynyard Club for lessons from Andrew Nicholson. Just 5 years later I would find myself working for Andrew at The Leadbetter Academy, further increasing my interest in golf coaching and learning so much from him along the way.
Turned professional in 2008 and enrolled in the GB&I PGA training program. After 3 years of learning about all aspects of professional golf, graduated as a PGA Certified Professional.
At the age of 22, returned to Hartlepool Golf Club, where his golf career started at the age of 8 and started to work with his childhood golf coach, Graham Laidlaw. This move gave his playing career much more flexibility and since 2012 has worked alongside Graham providing golf tuition at Hartlepool Golf Club for all abilities of golfers.
In 2015 he met his girlfriend, Johanna Gustavsson, and since 2016 has been her full-time coach. They got married on May 28th by Lake Nora, Sweden. Gustavsson's held a full card on the Ladies European Tour since 2016 which has given Alex access to some of the best players in the women's game. It's been a great learning curve for me to see how they operate and what makes them so good.
Now spends his time between Sweden and the North East of England, teaching in both locations. His playing ambitions are still strong, I am striving to become the best golfer I can be and make it onto a main tour.
He has won on the Nordic Golf League and was a two-time member of GB&I PGA Cup Team. He had an urge to play again and started practicing eight weeks ago Made it through regionals at Goswick even though he lost the final spot but was the first reserve, but was able to get into Fairmont St Andrews shooting 73-69 to get into a playoff and beat Aaron Rai to make it to the Open. Making getting into the Open special, Alex's wife Johanna is exempt into next month's AIG Women's Open which brings up a great trivia question, how many married couples have played in the Open and Women's Open in the same year?