Fact Sheet
- PGA "Teacher of the Year" in the United States in 1986, the second teacher ever to receive the
award. He is currently ranked #12 in Golf Digest's Top 50 Teachers in America and annually in
Golf Magazine's Top 100.
- Author of 11 books on golf, one being the 617-page PGA Teaching Manual (the most influential
book ever written for teachers of golf), and has written over 200 articles on the game. His
newest book is When Golf is a Ball, which won best golf book of the year in 2004.
- Is both a PGA Master Professional, 209 out of 27,000 members, and one of only 31 Master
Certified Teaching Professionals out of 27,000 members.
- Has taught over 250,000 people in private, groups, and seminars in 34 countries. Now Director
of Instruction at the exclusive Trump International Golf Club and The Kingsley Club in Michigan,
while representing the Mizuno Golf Company.
- Is a member of six Golf Halls of Fame, including the PGA Hall of Fame and the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame, and has honorary memberships or distinguished-service
recognition from Sweden, Italy, New Zealand and Japan.
- Has been awarded the LPGA's highest award for contributions to teaching, the National Golf
Foundation's Graffis Award for golf education, and the National Golf Course Owners' Association
Award for promoting public golf.
- Keynote speaker at the First World Scientific Congress of Golf in St. Andrews, Scotland, in
1990, and twice more as a featured speaker. Was a main presenter at World Teaching
Summits in Canada, Australia, France and Italy, and has given golf/motivation/entertainment talks
for numerous years.
- Won the South Florida Seniors PGA Championship, made the cut in the U.S. Seniors Open, played in the
PGA National Seniors Championship twice and won the South Florida National Long Drive competition
with a drive of 381 yards, one foot.
- Appeared regularly on television in golf shows on ESPN, the Golf Channel, Madison Square Garden
Network and on in-flight airline specials, and had his own half-hour TV show in Japan for 2 years.
Has had four videos/DVDs on the market, the latest released in 2002.
- He was a member of the Golf Digest Professional Panel with the likes of Snead, Runyan,
Middlecoff, Toski, Flick, Love and Jacobs. Served as a teaching critic of Golf Digest Schools and
is now part of the Master Teaching Staff with Golf Magazine and is a regular contributor.
- A founding member of the Golf Collector's Society and three-time winner of its national wooden-shaft tournament. He is the owner of one of golf's finest private antique and memorabilia
collections and libraries. He has produced a national-award-winning video/DVD called
"The Fascinating World of Golf." To support further interest in the game's history, he is
also serving as executive editor of "The Classics of Golf," offering reproductions of golf's greatest
books while publishing new ones.
- As a PGA National Headquarters staff member for 13 years, he founded the PGA National Academy of
Golf for Juniors, The PGA Golf Discovery Schools, the Professional Golf Management Program
(now at 17 universities), the PGA Golf Re-certification Program, and the PGA Educational Workshops,
which included the USGA/PGA Rules Certification program.
