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The Master Golf Teaching Professional®
Reaching Your Full Potential
By Bill Gilmore
USGTF Level IV Member, San Diego, CA
Why become a Master
Golf Teaching Professional? Why try to break par or our own personal
best score? The answers are quite simple: pride, the joy of
accomplishment, and the recognition that accompanies such a feat.
Pride is usually the biggest reason we strive for perfection. We set
our own standards, then we try to surpass them. This cycle
contributes to not only athletic excellence, but to excellence in
most any endeavor.
We watch our favorite touring professionals making gobs of money
week after week. Within a few years, those that are capable of
staying on tour are usually making huge sums of money. Yet, most
aren’t happy unless they are winning. As teaching professionals we
are driven by similar desires, to constantly seek perfection as
ballstrikers or as analysts of a golf swing.
We are continually driven to seek more knowledge and unravel the
endless mysteries that confront us in our teaching. Adding to our
own personal knowledge and understanding of the workings of the golf
swing is yet another reason to seek the credentials as a Master
Teaching Professional®. The Master’s course allows those of us to
become the “best we can be,” to strut our stuff, and to also learn
from our peers and the experienced teachers who conduct these
courses. It is yet another step in the endless, yet exciting,
journey of discovery and wonder that leads to becoming a truly great
teaching professional.
When you carry the card of a Master Teaching Professional®, you are
recognized not only by your peers, but by all you meet as being a
person who strives for excellence. Yes, your students and your
employers will know, but you will know that you had what it took to
pursue excellence and achieve your goals. In this competitive world,
if you aren’t moving forward, you surely are falling backward.
Do you have what it takes? If you have been a Level III member of
the USGTF for at least a year, you meet the basic requirement for
obtaining this valuable certificate. Think you are expert in some
area of interest for other teachers of the golf swing? Then put your
ideas down on paper so that you can present them to your peers while
at the next Masters Certification course. This will satisfy your
thesis requirement for completing this course.
As if this isn’t enough to rattle the nerves a bit, you will have to
pass a demanding written test which tells us you really know your
stuff and have a great grasp of not only understanding the golf
swing, but the abilities to teach these concepts effectively. You
can’t relax yet - you still have to show us your shotmaking skills
in front of examiners and the class as well. After all, conquering
the “nerves” and being able to demonstrate shots effectively is part
of a Master Teaching Pro’s repertoire.
Now you can see why pride plays such a huge role in obtaining these
advanced credentials. If you make it through successfully, you truly
have a lot to be proud of, and an experience you will cherish
forever. Only then can you have the distinct honor of being a USGTF
Master Teaching Professional®.
So go ahead, stop procrastinating. Put yourself to the test and your
career into “overdrive.” Have fun and the experience of a lifetime
while pursuing your Master’s credentials!
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