Instruction
POWER
Robert Trent Jones Golf Club’s Mike McGetrick left a career in nuclear
engineering and became a top golf teaching professional // by LEONARD SHAPIRO
MIKE MCGETRICK,
the new director of
golf instruction at the
Robert Trent Jones
Golf Club in Gainesville,
began his post-collegiate career
working as a newly minted engineer at
a nuclear power plant. It was a rather
unique first step on his path to becoming
one of the game’s elite teachers, a man
equally comfortable working with rank
amateurs or top professionals on the
PGA and LPGA tours.
A native of the Tri-Cities area in the
state of Washington, McGetrick wasn’t
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