Golf Yeah

Contrary to the popular advertising slogan, what happens in Vegas does NOT stay in Vegas; at least in terms of world class golf instruction. Christopher Howard is a golf professional based out of Las Vegas Golf Club. He works with every level of player, from beginner to consulting with tour players. In 20 years of teaching, he claims that there isn’t a swing he hasn’t seen. When Chris isn't posting instructions or analyzing his students' swings online for his 25,000 Instagram followers (chowardgolf), you can find him touring all over the world, or teaching private lessons in his golf schools. Over the last 7 years, he's hosted more than 650 golf schools in 5 different countries and 200 cities. That's a ton of frequent flier miles, and a lot of golfers who are willing to pay for the Teaching Pro from Las Vegas.

Bryan Jones personifies the highest ideals of the PGA. In addition to his role as head golf professional, he devotes a significant amount of time teaching the rules of the game to others, and volunteering his time and expertise as a rules official at professional and amateur tournaments around the world. He is recognized as one of the most knowledgeable and experienced rules officials in the game. Bryan's list of golf industry awards and recognitions is lengthy and impressive, and includes the PGA's National Horton Smith Award, and induction into the New Jersey PGA's Hall of Fame.

Jeff Wallach is an award-winning journalist and the author of four books of non-fiction, two novels, and nearly 1,000 articles, essays, and reviews for dozens of national publications including The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Men's Journal, Money Magazine, Health, Men's Fitness, and many others. In this rambling, fun-filled conversation...not fueled by adult beverages or other stimulants... Jeff discusses a range of controversial topics, including why you should never believe rankings of golf courses around the world.

Eric Sedransk serves as the Founder and Charity Golf Officer of Member for a Day, an organization that helps nonprofits to raise funds by auctioning off "once-in-a-lifetime golf experiences." In its first two years, Eric has raised more than $3 million...and he's just getting started.

David Glenz is a PGA Professional who has accomplished just about everything golf-related over the course of his 5 decade career. He was a PGA Tour player; an golf instructor with designations ranging from "National PGA Teacher of the Year" to Golf Magazine's Lifetime Achievement recognition; named Player of the Decade and a member of the New Jersey PGA Hall of Fame; to designer and co-owner of the award-winning Black Oak Golf Course in New Jersey.

Donna Hoffman is founder of “Women on Course,” which has redefined the sport to encompass business networking, travel, socialization and personal style. Each year, Women on Course hosts around 800 local golf, social and networking events across the country for its 20,000 members.

Terry Koehler is known as “The Wedge Guy” for good reason. For more than 30 years, he has focused his design energies on the needs of recreational golfers, NOT tour professionals. Since 1992, his patented "Koehler sole" was the first (and still the only) wedge sole to combine both a high and low bounce into each wedge to make them versatile from any kind of lie and any swing path. If you are a reader of his hundreds of blog posts, you know that Terry's depth of knowledge regarding the game of golf, and about the golf equipment industry, goes far beyond wedges.

Jane Spicer went from selling puppets out of her van at arts & craft fairs, to running a successful company making headcovers for golfers around the world...including one very well-known golfer named Tiger Woods. Her "Frank the Tiger" headcover has been a permanent fixture in Tiger's bag for decades. Jane continues to live the Daphne's Headcovers motto: "Bringing a Smile to the Game of Golf."

David Lee is one of the most respected instructors in the game of golf, and is recognized for his development of the Gravity Golf swing, which focuses on having your body's core mass beat your arms to the ball.

For someone who was raised in the shadow of a man who’s recognized as Ireland’s greatest amateur golfer of all time, and who was the youngest child in a family with 6 kids, Marty Carr seems to have done pretty well for himself over the past 30 plus years. Marty is founder and CEO of Carr Golf Group.

Entrepreneur Tom Cox has grown GolfBalls.com into the world leader in the customization of golf products.

Since graduating from college in 2007, Jason has either started, or played an important role in a number of successful businesses – both cutting edge and traditional. He currently serves as CEO of Club Caddie Inc. -- a course management software company -- and is an owner / operator of Flushing Valley Golf and Banquet Center in Flushing, Michigan.

In the tradition of golfing legend Old Tom Morris, Woody Lashen is a master clubfitter. Decades before the national, multi-location companies like GOLFTEC got into the clubfitting business, Woody and his partner Pete Makowski were providing golfers with the equipment they need to play their best.

Contrarians are independent thinkers. And Tony Brooks -- who has more than 30,000 LinkedIn followers -- is entitled to be a contrarian for two reasons: First....He is recognized as a master of his craft. When it comes to golf, Tony speaks from authority. Secondly...He cares deeply about the game, and about how he uses his craft to benefit people’s lives; not simply their golf scores.

The Donald Ross Society was founded in 1989 to promote the recognition of Donald Ross, the excellence of his golf architecture and the preservation and restoration of the golf courses he designed. Brad Becken, who has played on 367 Ross courses, currently serves as its President.

With Kate Tempesta at the helm over the past 12 years, the Urban Golf Academy has delivered the joy of golf to at least 1,000 children each year.

Ryan Carey and his partner have created what’s become a thriving enterprise that’s expanded beyond online auctions to include related services such as appraisals, authentication and private searches for hard to find golf collectables.

Hank Gola has spent more than four decades as a journalist, covering professional football and golf for the New York Daily News and the New York Post. Hank is also author of 3 sports books, including "City of Champions," which chronicles Garfield (NJ) High School's unlikely path to a national football championship in 1939.

Ben Kline serves as Executive Director of the Shivas Irons Society, a California-based non-profit organization established in 1992 that’s based on the deeper mysteries of golf and life found in a book written 20 years earlier in 1971 by Michael Murphy, called "Golf in the Kingdom"…which is one of the best selling golf books of all time.

Over the past 20 years, former PGA Professional Evan Schiller has established his reputation as one of the world's premier golf course photographers. Evan has photographed hundreds of championship courses in several countries, and his work has been published in the golf industry’s most prestigious publications.

The Western Golf Association has more than 400 member clubs across the nation, and is a sponsor of a number of amateur and PGA Tour events; notably the BMW Championship. The crown jewel of the WGA is the Evans Scholars Foundation, which since 1930 has provided full 4-year college scholarships to nearly 11,000 deserving caddies.

What makes great golf courses possible is the many decades of turfgrass-related science and experimentation that have been the life-long passion of individuals like Rutgers Professor William A. Meyer.

Through her organization, Adaptive Golfers, Gianna Rojas is helping people with unique abilities to be inspired and empowered to overcome obstacles through the game of golf. According to the LPGA, Gianna is one of the nation's top women disruptors, based on her powerful advocacy.

Eric Cogorno's plan is to scale his golf instruction business by building a large online following with high quality, structured content. His long-range plan is to help people through personal development, which Eric believes can improve every aspect of their lives; not just their golf game.

Veteran PGA Tour caddie John Wood, who currently carries for Matt Kuchar, explains what life is like behind the ropes on the PGA Tour, and provides guidance on how to break in to the profession.

Noted author of 4 acclaimed golf books, Tom Coyne, provides insights into his journey as a writer, and what it takes for aspiring writers to succeed.

Freelance Golf Channel Operator Brian Thorne provides insights into production-related careers in sports broadcasting.

PGA Professional Peter Cowan, of North Fork Country Club in Long Island, explains how he transitioned his career from head chef at New York City restaurants, to head golf pro at one of the nation's oldest and most respected clubs.