USGTF Member News
CARDEA LEADS TEAM TO THIRD STRAIGHT NCAA USGTF professional Bob Cardea has been the head coach of the Rutgers-Camden men’s golf team for the past 21 years, but in the past seven years the program has turned it up a notch. For the fifth time in those seven years – and for the third consecutive year – Rutgers-Camden has qualified for the NCAA Division III Mens’ Golf Championship. Cardea said the school making the coaching position a...
WGTF Member News
USGTF-NORDIC JOINS WGTF Scandinavia will now be represented in the World Golf Teachers Federation with the inclusion of USGTF-Nordic, based in Finland. Karin Lampinen recently attended the USGTF certification class held in Fort Pierce, Florida, and will head up the new organization. Plans call for the first USGTF-Nordic certification class to be conducted this summer in Finland. The WGTF family would like to welcome USGTF-Nordic to...
Spring/Summer 2015 Member Profiles
CARLOS MAYSONET USGTF Member Bayamon, Puerto Rico USGTF member Carlos Maysonet from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, has made quite a mark in the golf world. Maysonet operates the Future Champions Golf Tour for kids ages 5-18 on the island nation, and is helping to develop some of Puerto Rico’s next champions. Some of the better players have earned scholarships to U.S. colleges and universities. The website for the tour is www.FCGT.com. He also...
Burnout Prevention
Introduction Many of us expect to play well or win every time we go out onto the course. Before a round, if you ask a golfer what their goal is, 9 out of 10 times they will say to win. It’s not hard to see that when you watch golfers practice. Many of them practice for hours during the week, and if after so many hours they aren’t improving, they practice more. There are two problems with this: With so much time spent practicing and...
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