Forget The Score and Enjoy The Game
I want to tell you about my friend Pete. When I started teaching skiing back in the mid-1960s, Pete and I ended up to be roommates. Pete, like your dear president Geoff Bryant, was a golf teaching pro in the summer and a ski teaching pro in the winter. Pete moved on to be a fly fishing pro when a business opportunity presented itself. Pete introduced me to fly fishing on the Bow River in Canada. The Bow River flows out of the...
PGA Tour Has Mixed History of Success And Mistakes
The PGA Tour enjoys a reputation as one of sport’s best-run and most upstanding organizations, but a look at its history shows it hasn’t been all peaches and cream. Like any other entity, the Tour has had its share of missteps and occasional downright blunders. 1968 Breakaway Revenue from televised golf started escalating throughout the 1960s, and by 1968 the players started to wonder why they weren’t getting a share. The PGA of...
Performance Reviews
Conducting performance reviews with your employees is an important part of a golf club manager’s responsibilities. It is a great tool to see where you are in terms of productivity, knowledge, and performance. Additionally, you get the opportunity to see how each of your employees thinks they are doing during their self-evaluation, which usually leads to an “in-the-middle” balance of where they actually are, and you the manager can...
3 Most Common Mistakes In Golf (times 5)
Touring professionals are often asked, “What are the most common mistakes you see your amateur partners make in pro-ams?” Usually, the answer is limited to one or two things, which is understandable. Touring pros are more focused on their own games instead of the amateurs’. Teaching professionals, on the other hand, are trained to observe others, and can come up with a more comprehensive list. The USGTF Technical Committee has...
USGTF Member News
WAYNE PLAYER JOINS USGTF Wayne Player, son of the legendary Gary Player, has joined the USGTF as a Level III member. Player competed in two British Opens, making the cut as a 17-year-old, and a US Open. Today, Player is the owner of Wayne Player Productions, LLC, a full-service entertainment and travel company, specializing in customized golf and bucket list experiences for corporate and private clients. He also provides motivational...
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