NEW YORK – Jan. 8, 2005– Golf Magazine has released its biennial list of America's Top 100 Teachers for 2005-06. The complete Top 100 Teachers list appears in the February 2005 issue of the magazine, on newsstands nationwide January 10, 2005.
Over the past decade, Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers list has become the industry gold standard, not only because it was the first such list ever issued, but because of the diligent selection process that Golf Magazine created to assemble the list. Every other year, the magazine starts from scratch to determine the best one hundred teachers in the nation.
More than 600 nominations are accepted from the country's 25,000 golf professionals including the PGA of America, the Canadian PGA, the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division, current Top 100 teachers, and Golf Magazine readers. Each nominee must complete a thorough questionnaire developed in conjunction with Dr. Paul Schempp of the University of Georgia's Sport Instruction Research Lab - the nation's only lab designed to study how sports are taught.
The applications are first examined and ranked by the University of Georgia researchers. The final decision to include a teacher among the Top 100 is then made by Golf Magazine's instruction editors based upon a combination of 10 criteria including: swing knowledge, communications skills, innovative teaching ideas, flexibility in teaching different learning types, proven success, willingness to share knowledge with peers, longevity, success with well-known golfers, number of nominations/recommendations and industry awards.
Among this year's Top 100 Teachers receiving the honor are 10 newcomers, 10 women, 30 professionals that have been on every list since the first in 1991, teaching professionals from 28 different states, and the first-ever Canadian honoree. The entire 2005-06 list of Top 100 Teachers is available at Golf Magazine's website, http://www.golfonline.com/top100teachers/.
The new members of Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers for 2005-06 are:
Rick Barry (Sea Pines Resort, Hilton Head, SC)
Henry Brunton (Angus Glen Golf Club, Markham, Ontario, Canada)
Jim Hardy (Jacobson Hardy Golf, Houston, TX)
Shawn Humphries (Cowboys Golf Club, Grapevine, TX)
Don Kotnik (The Toledo Country Club, Toledo, OH)
Brian Mogg (Golden Bear Club at Keene's Point, Windermere, FL)
Bruce Patterson (Butler National Golf Club, Oak Brook, IL)
Carol Preisinger (The Kiawah Island Club, Kiawah Island, SC)
Chuck Winstead (The University Club, Baton Rouge, LA)
Dr. David F. Wright (Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club (Mission Viejo, CA)
"There are great teaching professionals all across America, but our extensive data and arduous selection process, recognizes the best of the best," said Lorin Anderson, Managing Editor for Instruction for Golf Magazine. "Although it is quite an honor to be selected, the biggest winners are the readers of Golf Magazine who benefit every month from the Top 100's innovative and insightful instruction tips."
Source: Golf Magazine
