Rinker’s Golf Tips Scott Munroe Top 100 Teacher Amateurs think the most important club in the bag is the putter while PGA Tour players think it’s the driver. Scott Munroe had a great short game but struggled with the driver playing the Australian Tour. “When I started playing golf at 17, I just went to the library and started reading …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Dr. Rob Neal 3D Expert Biodynamics
Rinker’s Golf Tips Dr. Rob Neal 3D Expert Biodynamics is from Australia and decided to get his Masters degree at the University of Queensland. One of the first studies that he did was in biomechanics with forces and torques and measuring movement in 3D for golf. Dr. Rob Neal wanted to develop 3D motion capture technology to help coaches and …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Mike Shannon Top 100 Teacher
Rinker’s Golf Tips Mike Shannon Top 100 Teacher and putting expert got into golf by caddying at a new golf course where he grew up in western North Carolina. “After 23 years of teaching putting I’ve concluded that every single player can putt as well as a Tour player but, in order to do that, there are certain commonalities of …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Claude Harmon III Top 100 Teacher
Rinker’s Golf Tips Claude Harmon III Top 100 Teacher inducted his father, Butch, into the Teaching Hall of Fame last week at the PGA Show. Claude III went to the Masters for the first time in 1987 with his grandfather, Claude Harmon, who won the 1948 Masters as a club professional from Winged Foot Country Club. Claude III got a …
Rinker’s Golf Tips John Cook 11 Time PGA Tour Winner
Rinker’s Golf Tips John Cook 11 Time PGA Tour Winner said this about taking time off of the Champion’s Tour, “You don’t quite know where your game is until you get out there.” I asked John how he got introduced to the game and his father was a high school football coach who went to work for Firestone in Akron, …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Mark O’Meara Hall of Fame Inductee
Rinker’s Golf Tips Mark O’Meara Hall of Fame Inductee said it was a “Dream Come True,” when he got the call he had been waiting for in regard to being elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame. “It’s going to be a tremendous honor on Monday of the British Open at St. Andrews. Getting on Tour with a Volkswagen …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Rob Akins Top 100 Teacher
Rinker’s Golf Tips Rob Akin Top 100 Teacher 12-28-2014 grew up with a golf course in his back yard in Shreveport, Louisiana. After hoping the fence and sneaking on the golf course many times, he finally started going to the pro shop to check in every day. “A lot of us played every day that didn’t pay.” Finally the management …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Gary Koch NBC Announcer
Rinker’s Golf Tips Gary Koch NBC Announcer and PGA Tour Player grew up in Tampa, Florida where he was introduced to the game at a summertime city recreational department golf clinic. As an only child, golf was something he could do by himself, and he fell in love with the game right away. By the time he was 13-14 he …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Anne Cain Top 100 Teacher
Rinker’s Golf Tips Anne Cain Top 100 Teacher grew up in Springfield, Missouri where her father and brother introduced her to the game. Anne was a good athlete and would initially go out to the golf course with the promise of “being able to drive the golf cart.” Anne got to play a couple of times with another Springfield native, …
Rinker’s Golf Tips John Bierkan
Rinker’s Golf Tips John Bierkan Top 40 Teacher under 40 December 7th I asked John about what he learned from his father, who is a PGA Member, growing up in Connecticut. “More than anything, as much as I’m passionate about teaching and helping people with their games, just about being a gentleman. My father is a gentleman and a very …