Life and Career

The Rise of the Administrative Athlete: How Your Coaching Business Can Thrive Through Sport Psychology– Iain Highfield

The Rise of the Administrative Athlete: How Your Coaching Business Can Thrive Through Sport Psychology is a review of the work Iain Highfield has done while working on his Masters degree at Harvard on the subject of at how the principles of sport psychology can be adapted to the way you run your business. His mission is clear: To empower individuals to be happy, fulfilled and reach their highest potential, whether on the sports field, in the corporate arena or running your golf academy.

Jim McLean: Mentoring

Matt Reagan and Ryan Dailey - Setting the Standard The Future of Golf and Your Coaching Business

Mentoring Young Professionals Panel

Liam Mucklow - Against the Grain - A Non-Traditional Approach to Building a Teaching Business

Rethinking the Golf Professional's Role - Player Development Professionals Create a Win-Win-Win

Our panel of Ian James from Retail Tribe, Matt Anzelone from Club Corp and Mark Gore from Club Corp share the amazing results they have seen by deploying Player Development Professionals at Club Corp facilities across the country. The result of this data-driven change in how golf professionals/coaches interact with a club's membership have been staggering to the point where Club Corp is rolling out Player Development Professionals to every one of their 160 golf clubs nationwide by the end of 2022. Watch and see why this is a win for the coach, a win for the student and a win for the facility. Recorded at the 2022 PGA Show in Orlando.

Dr. Rick Jensen - It's Not Impossible Managing Work Life Balance of a Golf Professional

PG Live - Derek Hooper Episode 021

Derek Hooper, Dir. of Instruction at Royal Oaks CC in Houston, TX, joins us to talk about Coaching at a High-End Private Club. About 40 percent of our members work at private clubs and here we discuss the pros and cons of being an employee. We also get into keys for protecting your job when working in a club environment. If you work for a private facility or are considering taking a job at a private club for the first time, Derek's interview is worth your time.

PG Live - Trillium Rose Episode 019

Golf Digest Top 50 Best Teacher, Trillium Rose, joins us to talk about what goes into The Modern Teaching Professional. She offers insights into motor learning as she has a formal education in the science behind skill acquisition. She also explains how she grows her business through social media and shares her ideas on how the PGA and LPGA can best support their coach members.

PG Live - Martin Hall Episode 016

Martin Hall is one of the most well-known golf coaches in the world thanks to his 11 year run as host of School of Golf on Golf Channel and his consistent inclusion on virtually every list of top teachers. His 40 years of growth in the industry is a testament to his ability to create opportunities for himself all along the way. He discusses how he built his career and talks about the state of teaching today in this candid conversation filmed in August 2021.

Dr. Rick Jenson - Taking Your Teaching Business to a Higher Level

Dr. Rick Jensen closes the 2009 AMF Instructor Summit by explaining how there is a difference between teaching the game and making a great living teaching the game and offers his thoughts on how teachers can rethink their business to earn more.

Debbie Doniger - Women in Golf - My Journey

From her childhood lessons with LPGA Founder Shirley Spork to her years of mentoring under Jim McLean - both as a player and a teacher - to diving head-first into the media world, Debbie shares her journey in golf.

Dom DiJulia - Why You Need an Advisory Board

Dom DiJulia, Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher and owner of the Dom DiJulia School of Golf in New Hope, PA, explains how he has used an advisory board of business leaders to help successfully guide his business decisions and how you can, too.

Elizabeth Granahan and Michele Gajderowicz - Valuing a Great Teaching Program

Elizabeth Granahan and Michele Gajderowicz are leaders in creating new opportunities for golf instructors. Their company G2 Golf Group is at the forefront of creating win-win situations for instructors and golf facilities. In this presentation they talk about how they brought their programs and a unique teaching building to a private club and have earned rave reviews from the membership.

Lorin Anderson - Making Your Next Career Move

Martin Hall - Avoid the Red Lights for A Successful Teaching Career

2008 PGA of America National Teacher of the Year, Martin Hall discusses the keys to his success as one of the world's top instructors and what other teachers can learn from situations that he experienced.

Kevin Sprecher - Developing Your Teaching Business

Kevin Sprecher of Sleepy Hollow CC in New York and the Jim McLean Golf Schools discusses how he became one of the top teachers in the business under 40 years old.

Associate Members Career Growth Meeting PGA Show 2017 (Lorin Anderson Presentation)

Lorin Anderson, Proponent Group President, offers up his Business of Golf Instruction presentation that lays out a variety of issues and opportunities younger Proponent members need to be aware of as they build their careers. Recorded at the 2017 PGA Show.

John Bierkan - The Components to Starting a Successful Teaching Career

Lorin Anderson - 10 Trends that Will Affect Your Career in the Next 10 Years

Proponent Group Founder Lorin Anderson takes the opportunity of the company's 10th Anniversary Summit in 2017 to look ahead at the company's upcoming second decade. He makes his predictions on the 10 Trends that Will Affect Your Career in the Next 10 Years. While there is no guarantee that all of these will affect you personally, certainly many of them will affect your business and your teaching. This is a Proponent Group "must-watch" presentation.