Rick Murphy

Please indicate past awards won/recognitions:
PGA Section Teacher of the Year, GRAA Growth of the Game Teaching Professional, Golf Magazine Top 100, Golf Digest Best in State, Other (Indicate specific awards in 3-a below)

Other awards won (if provided):
Carolinas PGA Hall of Fame Inductee – PGA of Americas National Junior Golf Leader Award (First Year of Award) – Carolinas PGA Horton Smith Award – 5 Time Carolinas PGA Junior Golf Leader Award Winner – Carolinas PGA Golf Professional of the Year

Total number of individual lessons given per year:
Male: 1200
Female: 200
Junior: 200

Total number of individual clinics given per year:
Workshops held for groups with different topics for each

Please indicate any Growth of the Game initiatives your facility/academy has launched over the past year (please give specifics on such programs):
Host and Direct PGA Junior Golf Camps

Please share any programming you have made to keep your customers & students engaged:
I keep my students engaged with feedback and follow up after lesson sessions. Keeping students engaged with plans for their personal improvement is must in my opinion. Engaging each student through use of behavioral science. Encouraging, Engaging and Empowering my students to meet their objectives and goals…some of which they never realized they could. It's not a program. It's the way I make a personal connection with my students that keeps them engaged.