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 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 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 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 Henry Brunton Top 100 Teacher
Rinker’s Golf Tips Henry Brunton Top 100 Teacher November 16th. Henry Brunton is one of the most recognizable names in Canadian golf and is one of the world’s leading golf coaches and educators. He is a PGA of Canada Master Professional and the only Canadian listed among GOLF Magazine’s Top 100 Teachers in America. He has a passion for developing …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Mike Adams Top 100 Teacher
Rinker’s Golf Tips Mike Adams Top 100 Teacher November 9th. Mike’s father was a golf professional and got him started playing golf when he was a young kid. Mike was kind of the guinea pig for his dad where his father would try out the latest fads on Mike. Some worked and some didn’t. Mike went to the University of …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Tom Patri, Bob Toski, Top 100 Teachers
Rinker’s Golf Tips Tom Patri, Bob Toski, Top 100 Teachers remembering my father Laine Rinker Sr. who passed away October 29, 2014. I asked Tom Patri what his fondest memories of my dad were, and Tom said that he was with my dad on two occasions, both times with my sister Laurie. “First of all he was a very proud …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Bill Davis Top 100 Teacher
Rinker’s Golf Tips Bill Davis Top 100 Teacher, remembering Payne Stewart who passed away 15 years ago October 25th. Bill Davis transferred from Florida State to Florida after his freshman year and found a team in Gainesville that was loaded with good players; Andy North, Andy Bean, Gary Koch, and Phil Hancock to name a few. After college, Bill turned …
Rinker’s Golf Tips Laird Small Top 100 Teacher
Rinker’s Golf Tips Laird Small Top 100 Teacher, PGA Teacher of the year 2003, and the Director of the Pebble Beach Golf Academy. Last Friday Laird gave me a tour of the new Pebble Beach Golf Academy, which opened January 2014, and was 20 years in the making. Situated on 15 acres, the Academy has a 350 yard range, putting …