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...
The EVOLUTION of GOLF TEACHING CERTIFICATION
Golf instruction undoubtedly began when the first golfer offered to show his friends how he played. And, for several centuries after this first golfer took stick to ball, golfers everywhere delighted in helping family, friends, and even complete strangers by imparting a tip or two. Eventually, a group of golf professionals got together and formed the PGA of America in 1916. For African-Americans, this posed a problem, because starting...
USGTF Helps Fuel Golf Growth in Korea… And Elsewhere
Twenty-six years ago, a golfer named Ok-Hee Ku won the Standard Register Turquoise Classic, becoming the first Korean player to win on the LPGA Tour. Today, there are over 40 players on that tour, with more Korean men gaining their major tour cards around the world. Yes, Korea is a major player in the world of professional golf. Coinciding with the growth of the game in Korea was the emergence of the USGTF as the main governing...
President’s Message: Knowing the Difference
In establishing the new USGTF’s coaching division, the World Golf Coaches Alliance, I have to say that my knowledge of genuinely helping golfers has increased exponentially. That’s because we’ve had specialists in all the various fields of coaching golf come to the production studio at our office to share with us their specific knowledge through the creation of instructional videos. This includes subjects like golf psychology and...
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