What makes a good Professional.

In 1958, I played golf for Purdue University and thought I might be able to play as a professional some day. A stent in the Marine Corp followed by having a family and earning a living, canceled that dream. Fifteen years later, not having touched a club, I decided to start playing again. A lot of practice and in a couple of years I was able to get the handicap down to scratch.

Then, the senior tour beckoned but I needed lessons. The first pro I went to told me I needed to release the club to correct a pesky fade I'd developed. What is a release? Another teacher ate sunflower seeds and kept checking his watch during the lesson. I decided to go to some top teaching pros in the country in a quest to improve. One top fifty instructor said all I had to do was finish my back swing and I'd be fine. I was sixty years old and believe me, my back swing was finished. I felt I could do a better job of teaching and communicating than any of those instructors. I passed the PGA playing ability test requirement at age 62, which is practically unheard of, and spent four years in the PGA Professional Golf Management Program. Then I started teaching full time at a public golf course in Noblesville, Indiana and developed a Junior Golf Program that, to this day, boasts over two hundred junior's every summer.

I became a certified instructor for the United States School of Golf and taught at Diamondback Golf Course for three seasons. I won a PGA section event at Walden Lakes Country Club. Now I'm teaching golf at Bramble Ridge golf course in Lakeland, Florida, I've been here for six years. I've given hundreds of lessons since and have had great success with each and every one of my students. I've been told, by my students, that what makes me better is that I really get involved and committed in making them better players.

Come and see me. Whatever is interfering with your ability to play better golf, we will get it fixed!!