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...
Champion Golfers Compete in Nostalgic Trip Down Memory Lane
On an overcast foggy morning, host pro Tony Doroba launched the ceremonial first tee shot kicking off the 2nd World Hickory Match Play Championship at the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s St. Martins Course. The site of the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Opens once again experienced the thwack of wood-shafted golf clubs across the nine-hole layout, long since abandoned for championship play due to advancement in club and ball technology....
Relaxed Chipping Means Low Scoring
I was fortunate to go to one round of the Masters and two rounds of the Heritage Classic in Hilton Head, South Carolina, this past spring. As always, I spent a great deal of time watching the pros practice. I noticed a trend or change of thought in short-game theory that is worth noting and passing to our students. Remember, tour pros base technique decisions on the best general result because it translates directly to money. They...
The Analogy of Weight Loss to Golf Improvement
In comparing weight loss and improving in golf, simply put, both are very difficult. Each takes patience and dedication. Each endeavor is very tricky and elusive. More importantly, both occur in very small, almost imperceptible amounts. At the beginning of a new diet regimen, the weight loss, in many cases, happens quickly. The ease and excitement of the loss is very satisfying. But what happens after the initial weight loss? The...
The Last Ball
An old friend of mine died the other day. Let me tell you about him. His name was Glenn Smith, known to all as “Pappy.” However, for some reason I always referred to him as Glenn. I guess I just got into that habit. I first met him in the fall of 1989, about a year after I moved to Tallahassee, Florida, with my wife, Coyne. (Yes, that’s her real first name. I credit her parents with starting the trend of naming girls after surnames;...
Implementing a Results-Oriented Management System
Management has been defined as working with and through other people in order to accomplish the objectives of the organization and its members. Management is a process, and the critical links that hold the process together for the manager of any business unit, whether it’s a golf facility or otherwise, are listed in the steps of the process below: The Critical Links Defining Objectives Assigning Responsibilities Developing Standards...
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