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The
2002 Denver Golf Expo Faculty of
Instructors
The Denver Golf
Expo is please to present the 2002 Seminar
facility. The instructors below represent
some of the best and most knowledgeable
professionals we have in the Rocky
Mountain region. We hope you take the time
to sit in on a few of these seminars,
which are free of charge for attendees
visiting the Golf Expo February 7-9.
Please see the seminar schedule on page 7
for time and date of the seminars.
Berith
Jacobsen
CEO, TEAM
2000
Jacobsen is CEO
of Team 2000, a golf products design and
manufacturing company and founder of the
Denver chapter of the Executive Women's
Golf Association (EWGA). She also founded
and chairs the "Golf Ball" and was
recently named to the board of the First
Tee program in Denver. A native of Onamia,
Minnesota, Jacobsen has built a successful
Denver business designing and
manufacturing custom sports luggage,
imprinted sportswear and promotional
products for the golf, college and
corporate markets.
Carolyn
McGee
Physical
Therapist,
Body Balance for
Performance
Carolyn has been
a golfer for over 40 years and a PT for 12
years. It was a perfect match for this
individual who loves the game of golf and
enjoys helping other people with health
and physical issues. She has called the
front range home for the past 10 years.
Her love of the Rocky Mountains is only
surpassed by her love of golf. Carolyn
comes to us from the Body Balance
corporate office in Burbank, CA. after
she learned as
much as Paul Callaway, founder of Body
Balance, had to teach about physical
fitness and golf performance.
Janet
Moore
Member, Colorado
Golf Hall of Fame
At age 36, Moore
became the 18th woman to join the state's
Golf Hall of Fame. She dominated the
Colorado Women's Golf Association Stroke
Play Championship during the 1990s,
winning the event five times in the course
of seven years. And from 1994 through
1997, Moore was the lone stroke play
champion, claiming four straight titles, a
record that hasn't been matched in the
53-year history of the tournament. Being a
Denver native, Janet accomplished a dozen
club championships to her credit--seven at
Cherry Hills Country Club and five at
Lakewood Country Club. In 1998, she was
presented with the golf award given out by
the Sportswomen of Colorado, marking the
second time she has received that
honor.
Jeremy
Moreno
Teaching
Professional, Bogart -Flatirons
A native of
Colorado, Jeremy grew up an avid golfer
earning a scholarship to play at Adams
State College in Alamosa, Colorado. Jeremy
graduated with a degree in Marketing and
soon found his true passion in teaching.
He began and completed his Masters degree
in Education with an emphasis in learning
styles and it is then that he began to
give private golf lessons to students of
all ages and abilities. In 1998, Jeremy
became a member of the United States Golf
Teachers Federation, earning his Teaching
Professional credentials. Jeremy then
moved to Dallas and began teaching full
time at a private learning center and
later started working with Bogart Golf as
a Teaching Professional in the Dallas
area. As a co-founder of Bogart Golf
Colorado Jeremy now is enabled to combine
his passions for business, teaching and
golf to create better golfers for a
lifetime. Jeremy and partner Shane Pember
are currently the lead Teaching
Professionals at the Flatirons
facility.
Ben
Norris
Assistant
Teaching Professional,
Bogart-Park
Meadows
Ben comes to
Colorado from a golfing family on the East
Coast. He began his golfing career by
enrolling in the Professional Golf
Management program at Penn State
University. While at PSU he gained
experience at well-known facilities such
as Valhalla and Meridian Hills before
coming to Colorado to teach at the
Sanctuary. Ben recently passed his Players
Ability Test and is currently working
toward his PGA Class A certification. He
is a valuable addition to the Bogart staff
due to his lifelong involvement in the
game, knowledge of the swing and high
standard of customer service. Colorado is
a perfect fit for him since he can indulge
his passions for fishing and hunting as
well!
Jeff
Nova
Head Golf
Professional, Bogart-Park Meadows
Jeff began his
professional career in 1986, and spent the
next five years playing various mini-tour
events in and around the western half of
the United States. He accepted his first
club position in 1991 and quickly became
involved in the teaching side of the golf
business earning his PGA Class A status.
During the last 11 years Jeff has worked
as a teaching professional at two clubs in
the Los Angeles area, and as the teaching
professional at The Denver Country Club.
Making the move to Bogart Golf has allowed
Jeff to give what he believes to be the
best golf lesson available today in the
industry. In April 2002 Jeff joined forces
with fellow Bogart Professionals to buy
the Denver facilities. Jeff is currently
the Head Professional at the Bogart Golf
facility in Park Meadows and Director of
Instruction for the company.
Brad
Ott
MSPT, Cert MDT,
Body Balance for
Performance
Brad is a
physical therapist with 10 years practice
experience in orthopedics and sports
therapy. He is the owner of Loveland
Rebound Sports and Physical Therapy
(Loveland) and Performance Physical
Therapy (Fort Collins). In 1999, with
partner Paul McQuade, they opened the
first of three Body Balance for
Performance centers along the Front Range.
Brad carries a 2.4 handicap and is
passionate about the customized
golf-specific fitness and conditioning
services he provides exclusively to
golfers. The success of the Body Balance
program has fueled the growth of over 60
centers nationwide and was founded by Paul
Callaway, the first Director of Physical
Therapy on the PGA tour.
Shane
Pember
Teaching
Professional, Bogart -Flatirons
Shane has been
in Colorado since moving here from Texas
in 1987. He graduated from the University
of Colorado at Boulder in 1990 with a
degree in marketing. As one of Bogart
Golf's co-founders he is now enjoying the
opportunity to combine his business
expertise with his passion for the game of
golf. An avid golfer for over 20 years,
Shane decided to become a professional in
1999. He gained experience at PRO Golf
Schools before passing his Players Ability
Test and becoming a PGA Apprentice.
Currently he is working toward his PGA
Class A certification while giving lessons
full-time at Bogart's Flatirons Crossing
facility. Shane is convinced that Bogart
Golf's combination of expert instruction
and supervised training is the best way
for anyone to improve their
game.
Dan
Sueltz
CEO, D'Lance
Golf
Dan is the
founder and CEO of D'Lance Golf. After a
career in sales and marketing in the
software and computer systems development,
Dan started D'Lance Golf, a 24 hour golf
game improvement center in Littleton, CO.
Dan has a bachelors degree in Chemical
Engineering and an MBA in Finance from NYU
and is a certified clubmaker and member of
PCS and GCA.
Rick
Timm
Head Golf
Professional,
Bogart-Downtown
16th St. Mall
Rick Timm has
been working in the golf business and
teaching the game for over 21 years. He
graduated in 1985 from Ferris State in Big
Rapids Michigan with a dual degree in
Marketing and Professional Golf
Management. Rick received his PGA class A
membership in 1986 from the Metropolitan
Section while working at the Connecticut
Golf Club. In 1986 he also developed and
successfully marketed a golf training aid
called The Swing Bar and has sold over
100,000 units. He has spent the majority
of his career in the North Florida Section
and received awards in both Junior Golf,
Rules of Golf and was elected as Junior
Golf Chairman for the North Florida East
Central Chapter and served for five years.
His playing career includes many years on
the various mini-tours in Florida,
participation in numerous Long-Drive
competitions and he has also taken his
team to the Oldsmobile Scramble Finals.
Rick relocated to Denver three years ago
and before teaching at Bogart Golf he was
a teaching professional at Englewood GC.
Over Rick's 21 years of teaching the game
of golf, he has worked with players of all
abilities including many top level playing
amateurs as well as juniors and now
believes, "There is not a person's golf
game that I can't improve through Bogart's
unique training method!" In April 2002
Rick joined forces with fellow Bogart
Professionals to buy the Denver
facilities. Rick is currently the Head
Professional at the Bogart Golf facility
Downtown on the 16th Street Mall.
Mark
Westover
Assistant
Teaching Professional,
Bogart-Downtown
16th St. Mall
A Colorado
native, Mark Westover has been a golf
professional for nearly a decade. His
professional career began in the Vail
Valley at Country Club of the Rockies. He
took and passed his PAT and entered into
the GPTP program. After three years of
teaching and playing he landed as a
Director of Instruction for a Top 25 Golf
School based out of Denver Colorado. Mark
traveled and shared his passion for the
game as lead instructor in places like:
Scottsdale Arizona, San Diego California,
Las Vegas Nevada, Orlando Florida, and New
York State. In 2001 Mark became a
Certified Master Instructor working for
Resort Golf (Top 25) under Scott Sackett
at Legend Trail's Golf Resort in
Scottsdale Arizona. Along the way Mark has
also become Certified Master Club Fitter
for Dimension Z Golf, Titleist, Ping, and
Tour Edge. Recently Mark has completed his
training as a Certified Master Club
Technician which rounds out his knowledge
of how equipment and teaching have a
balance in every golfers game. Currently
Mark is a Personal Pro for Bogart Golf.
Mark feels that teaching using Bogart's
state of the art teaching and video
technology along with personal club
fitting system will further his abilities
as a teacher, club fitter and golf
professional. Mark is also an active
father who enjoys the outdoors and has a
passion for photography.
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