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The past couple of mornings, Golf Channel Academy Lead Coach Todd Sones has been on Morning Drive doing segments on a variety of topics including putter fitting and putting stroke fundamentals. Todd is a Golf Digest Top 50 and Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor who also serves on the Golf Academy’s National Advisory Board. That’s how I know Todd. […]

On Monday afternoons during the summer months (end of May, June, July, and August), several of the Troon courses in Arizona take turns hosting one-day shotgun tournaments. The series is called the Troon Golf Arizona Interclub, and it’s been a Troon Golf tradition dating back to 2011. They don’t do this anywhere else because no other state or country

I almost cost myself a chance to attend next month’s PGA Professional Golf Management (PGM) 2.0 Level 1 Seminar at the PGA Education Center in Port St. Lucie, Florida without my even realizing it. In my defense, in all my calls to the PGA Membership Information Services Center over the last couple of weeks, no

A few weeks ago, out of the blue, I got an email from Linda Parker at Scottsdale Golf. Scottsdale Golf is one of the UK’s leading online golf retailers and offers “a massive choice of high quality golf clothing, golf clubs, and accessories at discount prices combined with top quality customer service.” Linda told me she’d

Before you can register for the PGM 2.0 Level 1 Seminar, you have to pass the Qualifying Test covering three online courses: Introduction to the PGM and the Golf Profession, PGA History and Constitution, and Rules of Golf 1. It’s a combination of multiple choice and true/false questions. As far as studying is concerned, your