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The PGTAA’s newest partner – MEANDMYPRO
A couple of weeks ago, we were looking forward to introducing you to our new Partner, MEANDMYPRO, a new and contemporary online scheduling system; but with the impact the Covid-19 epidemic has had on all of us, our economy, and the direct hit it has had to golf...
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The PGTAA congratulates Mark Immelman, a long time PGTAA member, on his appointment by CBS to his expanded role for the network.
Mark has worked partial schedules for the network in recent years on top of his duties at Sirius/XM radio and as Director of Golf at Columbus State University.
Mark’s younger brother, Trevor, a former Master’s champion and a personal friend, will join the CBS team as an analyst on PGA Tour events as well as the Masters and PGA Championship, both CBS properties.
Increase your skills and revenue by becoming a U.S. Kids Golf Certified Coach.
The PGTAA in conjunction with the U.S. Kids Golf Coaches Institute, invites PGTAA members to increase their teaching skills, specifically for teaching kids. PGTAA members receive a discount on the course cost by contacting the PGTAA via phone or email..
Participating in a U.S. Kids Golf Certified Coach Seminar enhances the coach’s knowledge of all aspects of youth golf coaching while providing tools to enable professionals to grow their programs. Link: http://uskidsgolfcoach.com/player-pathway-about.
The PGTAA partners with MEANDMYPRO
The PGTAA and MEANDMYPRO announce their partnership. MEANDMYPRO is an outstanding online reservation, scheduling, marketing and back office system designed specifically to help you grow your business. This system is exclusive for golf instructors and golf academies.
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2020 Top Ten PGTAA Teachers
- Patrick Cohn
- Jorge Croda
- Gary Gilchrist
- Mark Immelman
- Coe Kunz
- David Leadbetter
- Mark E. McCann
- Kenji Yoshida
- Lionel Wearne
- Jim Sowerwine
Speed Meets Performance – Introducing the New Titleist Tour Speed Golf Ball
High Performance Thermoplastic Urethane-Covered Golf Ball Delivers Category-Leading Speed with Precise Short Game Control
Following years of rigorous product development, the introduction of the new Titleist Tour Speed – a high performance, multi-layer golf ball with a proprietary thermoplastic urethane cover – provides golfers with the fastest, best performing golf ball in its category. Proven through extensive testing with amateur players, the breakthrough performance of Tour Speed is further enhanced by the superior quality and consistency of Titleist’s precision manufacturing process.
Available in U.S. golf shops beginning Aug. 7 , Tour Speed offers a distinct and compelling performance option in the Titleist golf ball family through its innovative three-piece design, delivering a unique combination of exceptional distance in the long game and precise short game scoring control:
• A new high-speed core formulation combined with Titleist’s fastest ionomer casing layer delivers maximum speed and low long game spin for category-leading distance. Tour Speed is faster and longer than Callaway Chrome Soft, Bridgestone Tour B RX, TaylorMade Tour Response, Srixon Z-STAR and Srixon Q-STAR TOUR.
• Tour Speed’s thermoplastic urethane (TPU) cover is proprietary Titleist golf ball technology specifically formulated by R&D chemists, delivering greenside spin for short game scoring control with soft feel.
• The exceptional distance of Tour Speed is enhanced by a new 346 quadrilateral dipyramid dimple design that provides a penetrating, consistent flight.
“Golfers can trust that when they tee up a Titleist, they are getting superior performance and quality versus the competition,” said Michael Mahoney, Vice President, Titleist Golf Ball Marketing. “Our golf ball scientists and engineers have gone to extraordinary lengths in the development of Tour Speed – testing numerous core formulations and aerodynamic patterns, while formulating and analyzing hundreds of TPU cover blends – to deliver on that promise. We have made every investment necessary in these new technologies, including a significant expansion of our manufacturing facility and process.”
EXTENSIVE AMATEUR TESTING
In addition to Titleist’s robot testing protocol, the performance of Tour Speed has been validated through rounds of comprehensive amateur testing, including:
• A three-month R&D test market conducted in the United States and Canada for the experimental golf ball EXP•01 – a prototype created during the development process for what has now become Tour Speed; and
• A golf ball performance study of amateur golfers led by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s R&D golf ball consultant on the PGA Tour . The blind test, conducted at the Manchester Lane Test Facility in Massachusetts, evaluated Tour Speed prototypes versus a wide range of current Titleist and competitive golf ball models.
“Every new Titleist golf ball must exceed our stringent machine and player testing targets in order to advance from the R&D phase,” said Scott Cooper, Titleist Golf Ball R&D’s lead implementation engineer for Tour Speed . “All of the data and golfer feedback we’ve collected has been clear: Tour Speed is consistently the fastest, longest and most preferred golf ball among the competitive urethane-covered products in this category.”
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The 102nd PGA Championship is the first of three majors taking place in 2020. And there will be a bid for history this week at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, California.
Brooks Koepka has won the past two PGA Championships, and will attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walter Hagen to become the second golfer ever to pull off the three-peat for this major. Hagen captured four consecutive PGA Championships from 1924-27.
William Hill has futures odds up for 134 golfers participating in this week’s event, starting with the man with his sights set on the record books.
Koepka currently is atop the board at William Hill to win the 2020 PGA Championship, as he and Justin Thomas are 10/1 co-favorites. Thomas was the last golfer not named Koepka to finish in first for this major, doing so back in 2017. He’s also coming off a win at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitation this past weekend to become the No. 1-ranked golfer in the world.
Rory McIlroy is next at 14/1, with Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm close behind at 15/1 each. Tiger Woods is tied for the 10th-lowest odds at 30/1 along with Rickie Fowler and Collin Morikawa. Woods has won this competition four times (1999-2000, 2006-07), and would tie Hagen and Jack Nicklaus for the most PGA Championship victories ever if he can pull it off this time around.
There have also been a few notable early wagers taken at William Hill.
A Nevada bettor put down $643 on Patrick Cantlay at 28/1 for a total potential payout of $18,647, which is the biggest 2020 PGA Championship futures bet as of now at William Hill.
A trio of $500 bets have come in on Rory McIlroy at 10/1 ($5,500 total potential payout), Xander Schauffele at 25/1 ($13,000 total potential payout) and Gary Woodland at 40/1 ($20,500 total potential payout).
Additionally, William Hill has 36 head-to-head tournament matchups available, including Koepka (-115) vs. DeChambeau (-105) and Schauffele (-150) vs. Woods (+130).
To see the 40 golfers with the lowest futures odds at William Hill to win the 2020 PGA Championship, which is available to bet in Nevada, New Jersey and Iowa, check out the full write-up on our website: www.williamhill.us/2020-pga-championship-odds-koepka-co-favorite-as-he-aims-for-history/
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2020 PGA Championship Odds: Koepka Co-Favorite as He Aims for History - The 102nd PGA Championship is the first of three majors taking place in 2020. And there will be a bid for history this week at T...BETTINARDI PUTTERS VICTORIOUS AT THE HERO OPEN & PINNACLE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP
Bettinardi Golf putters were hot Sunday, taking home wins both on the European Tour at the Hero Open and later in the evening when Bettinardi Tour staffer Seth Reeves took home the Korn Ferry Tour’s Principal Bank Championship.
Sam Horsfield, the winner of the Hero Open, who secured his first European Tour victory, finished 18 under par this weekend to take home the championship. After birdieing the first hole on Sunday in the final round, the winner trusted his Bettinardi DASS BBZero Tour Department putter to make five birdies on Saturday’s front nine, and several crucial pars in the final round to hold his lead.
Seth Reeves, Korn Ferry Pinnacle Bank Champion, also trusted his Bettinardi DASS Lefty Studio Stock 3 to earn his first Korn Ferry victory over the weekend. Reeves, 29, finished over two hours ahead of the final pairing to score eleven under par in the tournament and an impressive 1.7 putts per green in regulation.
Bettinardi Golf is proud to tout eight consecutive years of worldwide victories on major professional tours.
Bettinardi Golf putters also finished T6 at the WGC Fed-Ex St. Jude Invitational over the weekend, finishing nine under par with the world’s top-78 best players competing, and T12 at the Barracuda Championship with their Studio Stock 28 Armlock finishing with 19 birdies at +31 in the modified stableford scoring event.
Bettinardi Tour staffers including Matt Kuchar, Jason Kokrak, and Jim Herman among others look to continue the re-start of the 2020 season, next up heading to TPC Harding Park for the PGA Championship, as well as the LPGA Marathon Classic with staffers Yu Liu and Annie Park set to compete this weekend.
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BECOME A CLASS A CERTIFIED GOLF INSTRUCTOR WITH THE PGTAA
PGTAA Master, Teaching Professional, Head Coach Columbus State University
Next to the PGA, the PGTAA certification and credentialization is the most highly sought after teaching designation in the golf industry. In recognition of the industry’s growth, and in response to the demand for qualified teaching professionals, the PGTAA was established to provide extensive training to individuals as well as recognized golf teachers with years of experience behind them.
Not only will we teach you how to teach correctly, but also how to psychologically and philosophically motivate your students to become better golfers.
Becoming a PGTAA professional is probably one of the most important steps you will take during your professional golfing career. Becoming associated and certified by the PGTAA not only enhances your credibility but also enhances your teaching skills for the benefit of your future students and, naturally, your earning capacity.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Please don’t be fooled by imitators of the Professional Golf Teachers Association of America. It has come to our attention that several other organizations are attempting to hijack our reputation, our certification designations, mimic our unique programs, especially our Home Study module, and in some cases, leverage even our name as their own. The name “Professional Golf Teachers Association of the United States”, formerly operated by National Golf Schools has ceased to exist after a settlement was reached between the parties.
The Professional Golf Teachers Association of America is and always will be the foremost 100% professional golf teaching certification institute in the world.
While these other programs and teaching organizations direct their marketing materials and resources to the targeting of all applicants (to cover their extensive advertising and marketing costs), whether qualified or not, the PGTAA’s philosophy and target market are that individual/golfer who desires to be a teaching professional in the field and not just an enthusiast. Since 1997 our mandatory personal telephone interview helps the PGTAA maintain their high level of members appreciated by all in the golf industry.
We do not offer various levels of certifications designed to separate you from your money and whose “membership/certification/levels of instructor” cards are useless and of zero value in the golf industry.
When comparing the PGTAA to ANY other teaching institution, whether the PGA, LPGA or USGTF, our cost to become a fully certified golf teaching professional is $995.00 via the Home Study module or $2495.00 via the On-Site module (restrictions apply– see below).
Going through the certification programs of the aforementioned organizations, specifically the PGA and LPGA, could cost you in excess of $5,000.00!
Additionally, contrary to what any of these alternate “schools” tell you, ONE CANNOT BECOME A PROFESSIONAL GOLF TEACHER IN A 5-DAY SCHOOL NO MORE THAN YOU CAN BECOME A DENTIST, PLUMBER ELECTRICIAN OR ANY OTHER PROFESSION. The theoretical foundation requires studying. At the PGTAA, our written manuals exceed 700 pages and include a DVD of all the key points of teaching and playing golf.
Most importantly, the PGTAA is 100% all about teaching.
The PGTAA has over 50 Tour players including Master’s, PGA and US Open Champions, who avail themselves of our members teaching expertise.
There is only one Professional Golf Teachers Association of America, and you can always find us at www.PGTAA.com.
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