I actually got into the golf business by accident. In college I got a mathematics degree from the University of Colorado. I was going to be a teacher or maybe one day a professor. That was my dream. After college, I took a job teaching college prep to high school sophomores. I hated it! I didn’t have any disciplinary skills and everyone just treated me like one of the other kids. After that year, I tried tutoring math to struggling middle school kids over the summer. I hated that even more!
As I was wallowing in self pity and feeling lost, my Fiance’s dad told me there was an assistant professional position open at the course where he played. He was good friends with the Head Professional and said he would put in a good word for me. I had been playing golf since I was 5, played in high school, but not in college. Sure enough, my father-in-law had some pull and got me the gig.
I thought it was only going to be a summer gig, but I started giving the majority of the lessons and I had a great mentor in our first assistant, Scott Stevens. I got really into it and realized that I could apply what I learned in college to teaching the golf swing. I enrolled in the PGA program as fast as I could and passed my PAT. After a year, GOLFTEC was recruiting coaches pretty heavily and approached me with benefits, paid time off, more training and the ability to teach as many lessons as I could handle. 15 years later, here I am, about to give my 25,000th golf lesson.