To earn your PGA Class A Certification, at some point you have to pass your Playing Ability Test (PAT) through the PGA of America. It’s offered about once a quarter in Arizona, and take it from me, it’s not easy. By design, the test is as much mental as it is physical. It’s 36 holes in

Let me start by saying I’ve never lived in a state or a climate cold enough where not playing golf was my reality. I grew up in Arizona and moved to Louisiana, then South Carolina, and back to Arizona. I’ve only ever shoveled snow twice, so I don’t know what it’s like to look outside

Todd Sones is a Golf Digest Top 50 and Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor. He also serves on the Golf Academy of America’s National Advisory Board and says to make a change, often a player has to feel something exaggerated in order to make that change – no matter what part of his game he’s