Professional Profile
Practitioner/Coaching History
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Support team member of several DP World Tour and previously European Tour players (including multiple winners) across the last 8 seasons.
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Team member of the European Tour Health & Performance Institute - official providers of sports medicine and performance services to golfers playing the DP World Tour, Challenge Tour and Ladies European Tour.
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Long-term S&C Coach to many England Golf u18 National Team Players, many of whom achieved a swift rise up the WAGR rankings, and notably one female who rose to the number 1 ranked amateur in the world at the time of writing.
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Long-term athletic development coach to many young multi-sport athletes, who ultimately progressed to professional contracts and senior international squads including the England Men’s Cricket Team, England Men’s Rugby Team, and GB Women’s Hockey Team.
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Delivery of S&C support within professional football, tennis academies as well as Olympic and Paralympic sports, namely judo and netball.
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Proven track record successfully returning athletes to performance following: bilateral lumbar pars defects, hip surgery (Femoroacetabular Impingement/labral tears), multi-ligament ankle reconstruction, grade III hip muscle-tendon injuries, ACL reconstruction (not exhaustive).
Academic Profile
Together with over 15 years experience as an applied practitioner, Simon is also an author and has lectured at a number of universities across the UK, including University College London. He has published several peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of exercise science and rehabilitation, as well as book chapters and a host of online and magazine articles on golf physical preparation.
Education & Accreditations
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Fully accredited by the UK Strength & Conditioning Association
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Founding member of the Golf Performance Network
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MSc Sport & Exercise Science (Biomechanics, Muscle Physiology, Skill Acquisition)
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BSc Sport & Exercise Science
Brearley SL, & Tilley, N. (2020) Is Bryson’s new swing really sustainable? Today’s Golfer. Issue 403, p64-65.
Brearley, SL., Buckley, O., Clements, B., Roberts, P., and Coughlan, D. Conservative management of bilateral non-united lumbar pars defects in a junior elite golfer. Abstract. UK Strength and Conditioning Association Annual Conference and AGM, Stadium MK, Milton Keynes, 4-5 August, 2018.