World Golf Teachers Federation

The World Golf Teachers Federation® (WGTF) was established in 1993. With its unique evolution, it plays a significant role in the history of golf instruction worldwide. The WGTF came to fruition as a result of the creation of the United States Golf Teachers Federation (USGTF) four years earlier in 1989. The USGTF realized that the golf teaching profession should be a separate entity unto itself. Therefore, a unique program was established not available anywhere else - - - - a six-day golf teaching certification program with ongoing education thereafter through membership publications, monthly email newsletters and instructional DVD's. Individuals from around the world wanting to teach the game now traveled to the United States to become certified and would then return home and begin teaching golf. The USGTF's program was unique in that it opened the door to those who had never been given the opportunity to enter into the golf teaching profession. Prior to this, there was only a 4-6 year apprenticeship program initially established by the British PGA in 1901, carbon copied by the Canadian PGA in 1911, the PGA of America in 1916 and subsequently reproduced over the years by every other nation who decided to establish a PGA entity of their own.