Rick Martino, Your 'Certified' Golf Professional
Home: Port St. Lucie, Fla.
College: University of Maryland (1970, Business Administration)
- PGA Director of Instruction (1998 - Present)
- Director of Golf Instruction, Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club (1988 - 1998)
- Director, University of Pittsburgh Golf
Swing Research Development Laboratory (1988 - 1998) - Author, PGA Manual of Golf, Warner Books (2002)
- PGA Teacher of the Year (1997)
- Elected to PGA Membership (1975)
- PGA Master Professional Thesis –
The Circle – The Swing
Rick Martino’s Complete Teaching Method (1987)
Achievements & Awards
- Specialty Certification-Teaching
- Faculty member for PGA Teaching Certification
- Featured Guest, Golf Academy Live, The Golf Channel
- Television Analyst, TNT Network – PGA Championship
- Chair, PGA Teaching & Coaching Summit
- Presenter, World Scientific Golf Congress
- Speaker for Section Educational programs
- Director PGA National Junior Academy
- Golf Magazine "Top 100" teachers
- Golf Digest "50 Greatest Teachers list"
- Expert television commentator for TNT
- Instructor to Tour professionals Fred Funk, Tammie Green, Carol Mann and Val Skinner; 1988 PGA Golf Professional of the Year Bob Ford and 1993 U.S. Amateur Champion John Harris
- Author, PGA Manual of Golf
- Contributing Author:
- Science & Golf
- Journal of Human Movement Studies
- Golf Illustrated
- PGA Magazine
- Teacher of the Year – Tri-State PGA Section
- Horton Smith Award-Tri-State PGA Section
Golf Range Magazine Names Annual Top 50 Golf Instructors in America
September 12, 2006
Rick Martino, PGA director of instruction, is listed as one of the Top 50 Golf Instructors in America. The list focuses on teachers at learning centers, golf ranges and academies with short courses.
GEORGETOWN, Conn. - Golf Range Magazine, the trade magazine focused on Learning & Practice Centers, Golf Courses and Domes & Indoor announced its annual listing of the Top 50 Golf Instructors in America.
The Connecticut-based magazine is the official publication of the Golf Range Association of America (GRAA). As part of the magazine's commitment to promote the teaching and training of golf as a central mission within its golf facility niche, Golf Range Magazine highlights those PGA and LPGA teaching professionals who are contributing at the highest level.
Steve di Costanzo, President and Founder notes, "Our teaching group is selected much differently. We focus on instructors who work either year-round or seasonally at golf ranges, learning centers, golf domes or academies at golf complexes with a short course (Executive or Par 3). Criteria includes feedback from PGA sections, previous local, state and national teaching awards, feedback from the magazine's writers around the U.S. and Canada, as well as input from the self-nomination process itself."
Editor in Chief Mark Silverman added, "We want our Top 50 Golf Instructors in America to give national exposure to some very talented teachers who might otherwise not receive national accolades. While some of the teachers on our list are indeed nationally known, others are local heroes in their respective golf communities working with golfers of all ability backgrounds. They are on the front line to help the game grow."
For more information, please see the July/August issue of Golf Range Magazine or go to www.golfrange.org.
