The overall experience of the on site course exceeded my expectations. From the hotel accomodations to the learning facilities at Torrey Pines the entire package was first class. I left the class with a new found confidence in my abilities as an instructor and I am anxious to use the tools that PGTAA provided for me. I found Barry to be extremely accessible and willing to help the student in anyway he could. This is not a feature that you would expect from such a highly regarded individual and the President of the organization. Thank you PGTAA for the motivation to further pursue my ambition as a professional golf instructor.
How would you like to achieve your dreams faster than you thought possible? Well, you can!
Golf is a business. Businesses require cash.
Imagine starting a business that requires:
No major capital investment (less than $2,500 required)
No products to purchase
Has a market with continued growth potential
No inventory to sell
No delivery of any product
No collections (this is a cash business)
No quotas
No employees
No customer risk
No long hours
No major overhead, if any at all
Becoming a professional golf teacher is the answer.
Opportunities to teach golf are enormous.
Driving ranges
Public & private clubs
Leisure resorts – both local and global
Cruise ships
Golf schools – directing or teaching
Golf learning centers
University & high school golf coach
Corporate golf positions
At private and semi-private golf clubs many opportunities abound for those teachers who are personable and offer interpersonal skills. Those teachers who belong to a club are able to relate to the “whole family” and are at ease with their membership, offer a head pro an alternative to allow the pro to take a vacation and to reduce his teaching workload. Being able to conduct yourself professionally, dress the part and play better than the membership are ideal ingredients to enhance your teaching practice.\
For your convenience, five day certification courses are held every month in California, Nevada and Arizona. Our teaching sites offer both ideal weather and cities and that offer year round teaching an opportunity for a family vacation should you so desire. The PGTAA also conducts certification courses in Europe, Canada, South Africa, Asia and Australia. Our student-to-teacher ratio is a maximum of five-to-one only thereby optimizing your ability for focus on what is being taught and, of course, help you become a top teaching professional.
The PGTAA syllabus involves the following areas:
SECTION ONE: Teaching you How to Teach (The Instructor Module) – The Primary Objective – includes extensive use of video as learning and teaching aids.
SECTION TWO: Business & Marketing Module – Techniques and Tools to ensure your success as a Professional Golf Teacher.
SECTION THREE: Success Secrets for Teaching Golf – Everything you will need to know to imbue confidence in your methods and those of your students.
SECTION FOUR: The Playing Ability Test (P.A.T.)
SECTION FIVE: The Open-Book written examination requiring a 85% passing rate. The examination is designed to test your teaching knowledge
Also included in our On Site syllabus is our
Custom Club Fitting, Club Building and Repairs Module.
(Not available via Home Study)
In order that each student is made to feel comfortable in both the written and teaching situations, every area and aspect of the game is both extensively and comprehensively covered. Upon completion of the course, successful candidates will become certified members of the PGTAA and will receive membership cards that are recognized world-wide. A Certificate of Completion is also presented to all candidates who have successfully completed the course.
Please plan well in advance to assure your reservation. We look forward to seeing you at the certification course. Please do not hesitate to call if you have any further questions. The cost of the course includes 4 nights hotel accommodations, all course materials, tee time reservations (the obtaining of preferred rates where possible), snacks and lunch. Travel expenses, greens fees, range balls, cart fees and room incidentals are not included.
CONDITIONS
Submittable of 4 attested score cards of 83 or less on any championship course (6,000+ yards) for men, 85 or less for women.
You obtain at least an 85% pass rate on the written test.
Payment of home study course fees (at least 45 days prior to onsite school date selected).
You must submit your verifiable handicap, PAT and written exam answers prior to 60 days of the scheduled class.
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In the weeks heading into a tournament, what do you feed your mind: Positive or negative messages?
Do you hang onto past mistakes during a round or focus on the good shots you hit?
Your thoughts affect your confidence. It is pretty simple; you become what you think. If you think you are a terrible golfer, you will struggle on the golf course.
In our Golf Mental Game Survey, we received the following question:
"How do I start a tournament with confidence or keep my confidence throughout the round, especially when I am struggling with my game?"
Confidence grows or atrophies according to the messages you feed your mind. Think of it this way. If someone showed you film of every bad round you ever played, you would lose confidence.
If you thought of every mistake you made in the last year's tournaments, you would have less confidence. If you were to list all your weaknesses and technical flaws, your confidence would plummet.
The reverse is also true. You build confidence when you call to mind times when you are on top of your game.
When you highlight your successes during a round of golf, you grow your confidence.
If you were to list your strengths, abilities, and positive aspects of your golf game, your confidence would skyrocket.
In other words, whatever you choose to hold in the forefront of your mind impacts your confidence.
Each positive thought, image, and memory builds your confidence or success resume.
Building confidence is not as complicated as most golfers make it.
For example, Gianna Clemente, 15, is the youngest competitor in the 72-player field at the 2023 Augusta National Women's Amateur Tournament.
However, Clemente does not become rattled when competing against older golfers. First of all, Clemente prepares at a high level.
CLEMENTE: "I've put in a lot of hard work to prep for not only this event but the other events that I've had this spring as well. I'm looking forward to it."
In addition, Clemente maintains her confidence because she consciously tends to it. Clemente keeps in mind her previous successes which include three straight LPGA events in 2022.
Earlier this year, she finished T16 at the Epson Tour's season-opening event and is currently the top-ranked junior in the country.
CLEMENTE: "[Being young] is something that I'm pretty used to by now. I've been the youngest for at least a couple years now in every event that I play in. It's a very comfortable feeling for me. It doesn't bother me at all, and I'm just looking forward to playing some good golf."
Instead of keeping count of all your mistakes and bad rounds, start totaling up your successes, great shots, and positive attributes.
Creating your success resume builds high-level confidence.
Don't merely think about your successes. Write your successes in a notebook, on a spreadsheet, or create a document on your phone.
Writing down your successes, strengths, and positive attributes has a double impact. It causes you to review your positives twice...First, by thinking of them and again when you put them on paper.
Discover how you can improve your mental game for golf. We've helped professional, collegiate, and amateur golfers improve their mental preparation for golf.
FootJoy, the #1 Shoe in Golf, will be in full bloom this spring with the release of four Limited Edition Pastels, dropping on Thursday, April 6.
The “Pastel Pack” enhances the modern classic Premiere Series Field with rich, chalky pastel-flooded outsoles and accents. The subtle stand outs will be available for men in Powder Blue, Primrose Pink, and Hazy Yellow.
A women’s version will also be released in Primrose Pink on the new Premiere Series Issette, which features a removable kiltie. “Spring always brings a heightened level of excitement to all golfers” said Patrick Trubiano, Director of Product Management, FJ Footwear. “We wanted to encourage players to elevate their shoe game as they return to the course with this exclusive Premiere Series offering.”
Fans can keep an eye out for the fresh pastels over the weekend as several FootJoy Tour players will be wearing them in competition, including Will Zalatoris, Max Homa, and Cameron Young.
The Premiere Series Pastels will be available on footjoy.com and partner retail channels beginning Thursday, April 6 at 10am EST. Learn more at footjoy.com or follow @footjoy on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok. ... See MoreSee Less
PRO’S CHOICE GOLF SHAFTS LAUNCHES NEW GRAPHITE DESIGN TOUR AD HY HYBRID SHAFTS
Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. announces the launch of the newly refreshed graphics version of the very popular Graphite Design Tour AD HY Hybrid shafts.
The Tour AD HY Hybrid shaft will include the modernized Tour AD logo and a fresh, new blue color. The Tour AD HY Hybrid shaft specifications and performance remain the same and will become available on 4-5-2023 through all of the authorized Graphite Design dealers, golf club OEM manufacturers and retail locations.
Designed and manufactured at the Graphite Design Japan factory headquarters and now available in brand new graphics for 2023, the Tour AD HY hybrid shafts are available in four weights of 65g and 75g in R and S flex, 85g in R, S and X flex and 95g in S and X flex.
Designed with the Tour AD DI Hybrid profile in mind, the Tour AD HY hybrid is softer in the tip and mid-section and slightly stiffer in the butt section of the shaft, to promote a higher ball flight than the Tour AD DI Hybrid shafts. The easy to hit Tour AD HY hybrid shafts can be counted on to deliver pin point Accuracy and greater Distance, which is synonymous within all of the Graphite Design Tour AD shafts.
About Graphite Design: Located in the city of Chichibu, Japan, Graphite Design has 33 years of experience designing and manufacturing premium graphite composite golf shafts. Numerous Graphite Design shafts can be seen in play by the best professional players on all tours worldwide. Validating the company’s “Tour AD” logo, all of Graphite Design’s Tour-proven shafts specifically promote “Accuracy and Distance”. On Tour, Graphite Design shafts recorded 51 Global tournament victories in 2022 and have helped numerous golf professionals earn well over 500 tour victories and multi-millions of dollars in prize money since inception. Graphite Design continues to be the most dominant, #1 shaft brand on the Japanese JGTO Professional Tour for the past twenty years.
About Pro’s Choice: Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts is the exclusive distributor of Graphite Design golf shafts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, UAE, S. Africa, S. America, and Australia. Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts distributes all of the current Graphite Design shafts including the new 2023 Tour AD CQ model of wood shafts as well the Graphite Design MAD, Tour AD UB, Tour AD HD, Tour AD XC, Tour AD VR, Tour AD IZ, Tour AD TP, Tour AD GP, Tour AD BB, and Tour AD DI models of shafts. The company is located in Carlsbad, California with a distribution warehouse located in San Diego.
A guy was getting ready to tee off on the first hole when a second golfer approached and asked if he could join him. The first said that he usually played alone but agreed to the twosome.
They were even after the first two holes The second guy said, "We're about evenly matched; how about playing for five bucks a hole?" The first guy said he wasn't much for betting but agreed to the terms. The second guy won the remaining sixteen holes with ease. As they were walking off number eighteen, the second guy was busy counting his $80.00. He then confessed that he was the pro at the neighboring course and liked to pick on suckers.
The first fellow revealed that he was the Parish Priest.
The pro was flustered and apologetic, offering to return the money.
The Priest said, "You won fair and square, and I was foolish to bet with you. You keep your winnings."
The pro said, "Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?"
The Priest said, "Well, you could come to Mass on Sunday and make a donation of $80. And, if you want to, bring your Mother and Father along.....