The PGA of America has announced that its 2009 National Teacher of the Year award recipient is Mike Bender of the Mike Bender Golf Academy, headquartered at Timacuan Golf Club in Lake Mary, Fla. This is the highest singular honor that can be earned by a golf instructor.
The PGA’s National Teacher of the Year Award was inaugurated in 1986 and the two-dozen teachers to reach this pinnacle of the profession include Manuel de la Torre, Dr. Gary Wiren, Jim Flick, Harvey Penick, Hank Haney, Jim McLean, Chuck Cook, Dr. Jim Suttie and Martin Hall.
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