The winner of five Yorkshire PGA championships, four match-play titles and the Yorkshire Overseas Championship has been working on the teachings of Scotsman Kendal McWade – a coach he stumbled upon on reading a magazine article about 'Instinctive Golf' methods.

Ambler, the professional at Walton Golf Centre, Wakefield, who coaches as much as he competes said: "After I met Kendal I quickly realised that what he explained in his teaching was exactly the way I learned the game myself, through exploration and through understanding of the importance of correctly applying the golf club to produce the required outcome.

"I am on the path to becoming an Instinctive Golf coach myself, and I now teach these principles to all my students. This way of coaching is, to me, far more effective than conventional methods."

But back to the beginning. Ambler said: "About 12 months ago I came to the conclusion that the way I had been taught to teach the game, and the way I learned and played the game were entirely different.

"I was in conflict with what I thought I had to teach, and what I truly believed in. I hoped somewhere there was a better way.

"I stumbled across one of the many articles on golf improvement in GolfWorld magazine but instead of skipping it, I was intrigued by it.

"Some seemingly eccentric Scotsman was doing some unorthodox drills to get his point across to the way we should learn to play golf. It should be no different to the way we learn anything in life, simply by 'doing' and 'experiencing'.

"He was Kendal McWade and his company was Instinctive Golf. I had not heard of him but knew that former European Tour man Paul Eales was connected with Instinctive Golf and that Kendal was coaching Ryder Cup star Paul McGinley, which to me added credence.

"Having never had a structured golf lesson personally, I contacted Kendal and arranged to meet him at his club in Glasgow and soon took on board that his methods were exactly the way I learned the game – through exploration and through understanding the importance of correctly applying the golf club to produce the required outcome." Ambler says that players should understand firstly how golf clubs work, then find a way of applying those clubs to the ball.

He added: "To get the desired outcome is the basis of instinctive golf. How you or I do that is likely to produce a different looking, but just as successful, golf swing.

"People who are tied in knots through 'paralysis by analysis' make great progress very quickly when they come to realise what is truly important in playing successful golf.

"In Portugal last month I helped my pro-am team mates prior to the event and they were amazed how simple learning new golf skills can be, given the correct learning environment.

"I am sure they saw abenefit as they emerged victorious in the team event."