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Randy’s 20 plus years within the golf industry have been an eclectic mix including golf finance, equipment manufacturing, country club golf, teaching and playing. His career in professional golf followed graduation from Ball State University in 1985. He began with assistant professional positions in Connecticut and Long Island, New York, as well as, ten winter seasons as a teaching professional at The Jupiter Island Club in Hobe Sound, Florida with a brief hiatus to play the PGA Tour of Australia/New Zealand in 1988-89. Randy became Head Professional at The Duxbury Yacht Club in Duxbury, Massachusetts in 1990 and continues to serve there during the summer months and is instructor in residence at The Dye Preserve Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida during the winter.

Although he teaches golfers of every level, he developed a strong clientele of professional golfers, as well as, regional and national amateur golfers. Randy’s worked with players of every professional level including players of the P.G.A. Tour, Nationwide Tour, Gateway/Golden Bear Tour, accomplished club professionals; nationally recognized amateurs including former two-time British Amateur Champion Dick Siderowf and former U.S. Mid-Amateur Champion Jim Taylor. Randy’s watchful eyes have been part of victories on virtually every stage of competitive golf.

Randy’s approach to the golf swing is the culmination of many years of introspection, trial and error and theory by many whose ideas have been invaluable in the learning process. From Toney Penna and Peter Croker to Jim Hardy – and many in between: learning is a constant journey. Tom Walsh was a brilliant student of the golf swing although not a golf professional by trade, but “T.J.” as he was affectionately known, knew how the human body wanted to do things and his interpretation of the “how to” opened up a new world as to how to play and teach this extraordinary game. T.J. often said that "our bodies intuitively know how to hit a golf ball -- it’s the conscious mind that gets in the way.”

Olin Browne has been one of Randy’s closest friends for more than twenty years. In fact, it was Olin who first introduced Randy to T.J. and together explored the golf swing with great enthusiasm until the loss of T.J. to cancer in 1996. A three-time champion on the PGA Tour, Olin’s gifts as a golfer weren’t recognized until he was a young man – not really interested in the game until his college years, the late bloomer took to the game with a ferocity and a passion that exists to this day.

Randy met swing instructor and golf course architect, Jim Hardy in 2004 when Olin decided to make a major swing plane change and enlisted Jim’s help. Jim’s study of one and two plane golf swings led to his authoring of a major book on the subject, “The Plane Truth for Golfers.” Through Jim’s vast knowledge and tremendous communication skills, golfers are just now beginning to understand how their learning of the golf swing is a direct result of which swing plane model they fit or work to apply. Randy’s work with Olin Browne and Jim Hardy has given him unique insight into swing plane instruction and helping golfers find their most efficient and repeatable motion.

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