TEACHER, PLAYER, ADMINISTRATOR, GOLF BUSINESS OWNER,
FOUNDER, INVENTOR, DIRECTOR, DESIGNER, COLLECTOR,
AUTHOR, SPEAKER, ENTERTAINER & HISTORIAN
PGA HALL OF FAME MEMBER
WORLD GOLF TEACHERS HALL OF FAME MEMBER
FOUNDER/CREATOR
PGA/USGA Rules Workshops... Still offered after 38 years
and having the biggest influence on golf officiating in history.
PGA Professional Golf Management (PGM) program;
(co-founder) at Ferris State University. Now at 17 universities
in the U.S.
PGA RECERTIFICATION PROGRAM (1974) Requiring all
professionals to pursue continued education for membership.
PGA'S BILL STRAUSBAUGH AWARD to recognize service to the game, the PGA Association and to fellow professionals.
THREE DAY LEARNING WORKSHOPS FOR THE PGA on RULES ...
CLUB REPAIR...TEACHING GOLF AROUND THE WORLD the teaching and training aids company providing learning aids to assist the teacher and pupil in acquiring the skills for playing enjoyable golf.
GOLF COLLECTORS’ SOCIETY (#19 of first 25 founding members) which has had 8,700 members over the years.
TEACHING AND LEARNING
PGA JUNIOR GOLF ACADEMY...The first international junior golf camp program in the world to be based on VALUES (1970'S) Our motto: "We train future leaders through golf."
LAWS PRINCIPLES AND PREFERENCES A golf teaching model presenting the priorities for the
teacher to present to the learner.
FOUNDED ONE OF THE LARGEST LOCAL GOLF ACADEMIES IN AMERICA IN EUGENE, OREGON...Five one-hour classes a day with 20 pupils per session over a ten-year period...1962-72
GAVE TEACHING SEMINARS OR TALKS AT 39 OF THE 41 PGA SECTIONS... OVER A 13 YEAR PERIOD WHILE AT PGA
TAUGHT GOLF IN JAPAN FOR 17 YEARS...Visiting for four or more weeks a year and serving as Guest Consultant to MIZUNO GOLF SCHOOLS (102 sites) the largest in the world, and had a Golf TV show for 2 1/2 years
Founded, Directed and Taught PGA GOLF DISCOVERY SCHOOLS 1982-84
Developed and taught FIVE-STAR GOLF SCHOOL, in Boca Raton at the famous Boca Hotel. (1986-87)
Chairman, Jr. Golf Academy Canada for six years
Consultant coach for Italian Golf Federation 1988-91
Gave coaching sessions to the national golf teams or clinics to the teaching professionals of: New Zealand, Australia, China, Japan, Canada, U.K., France, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Spain. Italy and Austria...plus military clinics to our Army, Navy and Marines and to eight of the PGM schools.
In 2003, was the first PGA Professional to teach a class at the world-famous Chautauqua Institute, the summer learning program founded in 1874.
Gary Wiren PhD Bio




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