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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
The flat surface in your local golf school just went out of date.
“The 2021 Zen Green Stage has joined launch monitors as one of the essentials for the modern golf studio.”
PHIL KENYON , TOUR PUTTING COACH (Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose, Gary Woodland, Tommy Fleetwood, Francesco Molinari, Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood, Louis Oosthuizen + more).
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The 2021 Zen Green Stage® is the world’s first fully-adjustable connected playing surface for golf.
Offering precise Wi-Fi control from your phone or tablet, the adjustable 2021 Zen Green Stage connects with your swing studio technology for the complete indoor golf experience, giving golfers and their coaches new ways to play, teach and learn.
Experience minutely-adjustable sloping lies for both putting and full-swing golf with the all-new Zen Green Stage, completely redesigned for 2021.
It offers more movement, more stability, more accuracy, more flexibility and more connectivity than any other playing surface yet seen in golf.
It will soon make its TV debut in the Sky Sports Golf studio, replacing the older model which has already been seen by millions during live broadcasts at The Ryder Cup, the Masters, The Open Championship, The U.S Open and many other Tour events.
“Practicing or coaching on a flat surface indoors doesn’t represent the reality of a sport which is, after all, played on predominately sloping surfaces” said Zen founder Nick Middleton. “The new 2021 Zen Green Stage effectively creates a powerful, robust, digitally-controlled adjustable golf course for you to use indoors, at your home or in a golf studio.
“It fundamentally improves golf practice and tuition.”
Tour putting coach Phil Kenyon, whose putting drills are used by legions of Tour golfers including Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Francesco Molinari and 2019 U.S Open Champion Gary Woodland, said: “The 2021 Zen Green Stage has joined launch monitors as one of the essentials for the modern golf studio.”
Highlights of the 2021 model, which is available to order now, include:
· Unique all-direction movement, including double-breaking putts
· Robust Putting and Full Swing configurations
· Rapid slope transitions
· Up to 10% gradient left / right
· Up to 8% gradient up / down
· NEW Precise Wi-Fi control from your phone or tablet
· NEW Future-proof: connects with tomorrow’s technology
· NEW Precise accuracy +/- 0.1%
· NEW Stand-on-stage control
· NEW Auto self-levelling and calibration
· NEW Intuitive control system
· NEW Safety features
· NEW Self-assembly option
· NEW Ultra-real putting turf
· NEW Strengthened design supports multiple players at once
· NEW Dramatic in-floor installation option
· NEW Adjustable Strike Turf mat
When used with a launch monitor, the 2021 Zen Green Stage enables you to capture new data which you never had before, more accurately mirroring the real-world playing conditions found on an undulating golf course.
‘Let’s look at your numbers’ has never been this powerful, or as much fun.
For players, the 2021 Zen Green Stage adds an ultra-realistic feel to a home golf studio. “Zen Green Stage is great practice. It’s the business” said Ian Poulter, European Ryder Cup icon.
For golf coaches, it offers both full-swing and putting data capture in the exact same place, maximizing efficient use of floor space, enabling accelerated learning and better lessons.
“Just as launch monitors have become universal, within a few years Zen Green Stage will be everywhere” said Tour putting coach Jon Karlsen.
For retailers, Zen Green Stage creates a better retail experience enabling more powerful custom-fittings and ultimately more sales. “Now we have Zen Green Stage, our putter sales are up 100% from last year” said John McDonald, PGA Professional.
“I would categorize the arrival of the connected, adjustable playing surface as a fundamental evolution of indoor golf” said Zen founder Nick Middleton. “We believe it ranks alongside the arrival of launch monitors, golf simulators and, looking further back, the arrival of computer games as a seminal moment in creating the complete indoor golf experience.”
The 2021 Zen Green Stage can be integrated with a wide range of golf technologies including launch monitors, golf simulator software, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality systems, Putting Analysis and Ball-Tracking systems, 3D force plates, and many more.
“Nowadays you should be designing your golf studio around the Zen Green Stage. No-one else out there has a product that can do this” said leading golf academy designer Tim Cutshall from IA Sports.
The 2021 Zen Green Stage also now forms the centerpiece of Zen’s new Studio Design & Installation service, working with worldwide partners to produce next-generation indoor golf experiences.
The new product also offers a simple self-assembly option, for people who are building their own indoor swing room.
Other options include a Full Strike Oval to enhance full-swing golf, and the tailor-made Zen Simulator Canopy for larger spaces, with Zen’s own new, fully-integrated Augmented Reality solution also just around the corner.
“The Zen Green Stage is the final piece of the jigsaw. No other technology has its capabilities” said Phil Kenyon. “I now give better lessons simply because I have the Green Stage. In that respect, it is priceless.”
Recreate any makeable putt on the planet, and practice hitting off sloping lies with the all-new 2021 Zen Green Stage.
The 2021 Zen Green Stage retails from £20,950.
For a tailored quote please email info@zenoracle.com, or call +44 (0)114 262 6933.
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Zen Green Stage , designed and built in Sheffield, England, is the world’s first fully-adjustable connected playing surface for golf, offering a digitally-adjustable, wirelessly-controlled playing surface which can accurately replicate every putt within the scoring zone, including double-breaking putts.
The 2021 Zen Green Stage offers a host of features including all-direction movement; Double-breaking putts; Putting and Full Swing; Rapid slope transition; Up to 10% gradient left-right; Up to 8% gradient up-down, plus a host of brand-new features including NEW Precise Wi-Fi control from your phone or tablet; NEW Future-proof: connects with tomorrow’s technology; NEW Precise accuracy +/- 0.1%; NEW Stand-on-stage control; NEW Auto self-levelling and calibration; NEW Intuitive control system; NEW Safety features; NEW Self-assembly option; NEW Ultra-real putting turf; NEW Strengthened design supports multiple players at once; NEW Dramatic in-floor installation option; NEW Adjustable Strike Turf mat.
Packed with ground-breaking innovations which enable slopes to be changed with ease, it enables golfers to experience the combination of green speed, slope and contour for every makeable putt on the planet. Zen Green Stage can also be used as a full-swing platform to create real-world sloping fairway lies. Other golf teaching technology can easily be used with the Zen Green Stage to provide the perfect indoor coaching setup.
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Create and practice any makeable putt on the planet on the Zen Green Stage. Experience the true reality of the scoring zone – and say goodbye to unrealistic flat-surface putting.Orca Golf Bags
Welcome to the Next Generation of Women’s Professional Golf
64 of the world’s best up-and-coming players. Two weeks of incredible golf. One location. One Series with two tournaments, each with its own purse.
The Orca Series will pay out more than $50,000 in total prize money. Week One features a 54-hole no-cut Stroke Play event that seeds the Match-Play Championship for week two. All 64 players make the match play event. Only one comes out The Orca Champion.
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Join us for two big weeks of inspired golf at the first-ever women’s professional golf tournament in St. Johns County and the first in the Jacksonville Market since 1976. You’ll see local rising stars and rising stars from around the globe. Right here. Live.
More than a golf tournament, The Orca will be a celebration of women’s initiatives on and off the course. From putting clinics and a Pro-Am to executive networking events, entertainment and educational seminars, this will be a big two weeks.
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Next to the PGA, the PGTAA certification and credentialization are 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 institutions, whether the PGA, LPGA, or USGTF, our cost to become a fully certified golf teaching professional is $995.00 via the Home Study module.
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 member’s teaching expertise.
There is only one Professional Golf Teachers Association of America, and you can always find us at PGTAA.com.
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