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Manage Your Time and Increase Efficiency: Three Recommendations for Coaches
By David Gould, Content Editor Below are three takeaways from our new website asset, the Golf Instructor’s Guide to Time Management, Efficient Operations, and Work-life Balance. You can find the full document elsewhere on the website, under the Life and Career tile on...
10 Years of Change in Teaching Industry Trends
This week we look back at what has changed over the past decade for the game’s top-tier coaches, also known as Proponent Group members. The data points below contrast what emerged from our new 2022 Operations and Compensation Survey with results from our survey in...
Financial Fitness: Basic Facts about Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
By Jamar Carr, Alain Landais and John Guthery Over the past few years, there has been increased demand and concern around a particular new asset class: Cryptocurrency. By definition, a cryptocurrency is any form of currency that only exists digitally, that usually has...
Current Tech Usage Results from our Operations and Compensation Survey
For many years we’ve been tracking our coaches’ technology usage for their businesses. In the recently released 2022 Proponent Group Operations and Compensation Survey we look at five key technology areas: Launch monitors, cameras for filming students, video analysis...
A Deeper Look at Coaches’ Instruction Revenue Sources and Averages
As has long been the case in our annual Operations and Compensation Survey – and again in the 2022 edition – about half of all member coaches’ revenues come from one-on-one private golf lessons. This year’s survey found that 51 percent of member revenues come from...
Coaches Who are Employees Should Pay Close Attention to Non-Cash Benefits
As we reported in our 2022 Proponent Group Operations and Compensation Survey results earlier this month, cash compensation over the past decade has increased for Proponent Group coaches at twice the rate of inflation. Since 2011 our coaches have seen a 40.3 percent...
Financial Fitness: Ways to Turn Spending into Savings
Ways to Turn Spending into Savings Wealth is built through wise investments over a long period—and savings are the fuel for investment. For most people, there are times when immediate financial needs outstrip the ability to meet them, and getting ahead...
The Proponent Group – Golf Genius Partnership is Ushering in a New Era for Coaches
This is the first in a series of articles that are part of a collaboration between our new partner Golf Genius and Proponent Group. Over the past 10 years, Golf Genius has built the industry’s leading system for tournament and league management. A key reason why Golf...
Proponent Group’s 2022 PGA Show Event Schedule
Our team’s planning sessions for the 2022 PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando are complete and a detailed Show Week schedule of Proponent Group activities is now available below. Highlights include our traditional education sessions which are moving to a new location in...
Name, Image and Likeness: Big Story on Campus Extends to Coaches and Academies
By David Gould, Content Editor Golfers who book lessons with Cameron McCormick are surely influenced by McCormick’s success coaching Jordan Speith. It’s the same with Rick Sessinghaus and his work with Collin Morikawa (pictured above), or the Mike Bender-Zach Johnson...