GD: Some would point to Ian Baker-Finch as a failure of yours.
David Leadbetter: I don't think he's a failure of mine. I worked with Ian, but for the most parthe worked with my assistant Mitchell Spearman. Mitchell and he were very close friends. They would work together a lot and I would chip in here and there. I think what happened to Ian was he was trying to achieve something that he couldn't achieve, which in his case was hitting it longer. He would actually almost force Mitchell to work on the line he wanted to work on. But I think Ian had a really good, simple golf swing and had a lot of control over the ball. Somewhere along the line, he went awry. Then, he started listening to other players or other teachers and maybe getting confused in his thinking. He started changing so many things that he actually lost what he had.
David Leadbetter: I don't think he's a failure of mine. I worked with Ian, but for the most parthe worked with my assistant Mitchell Spearman. Mitchell and he were very close friends. They would work together a lot and I would chip in here and there. I think what happened to Ian was he was trying to achieve something that he couldn't achieve, which in his case was hitting it longer. He would actually almost force Mitchell to work on the line he wanted to work on. But I think Ian had a really good, simple golf swing and had a lot of control over the ball. Somewhere along the line, he went awry. Then, he started listening to other players or other teachers and maybe getting confused in his thinking. He started changing so many things that he actually lost what he had.