MOVE
Mike
McGetrick
hones his already
pure putting stroke
on the RTJGC
clubhouse green.
even that enamored with golf as a kid,
even though his father, Mack, was a
scratch player. His athletic son dabbled
in the game early on but was far more
interested in football, baseball and swimming
in high school.
“Back then, I thought golf was for older
people,” McGetrick said in a recent interview
in a cozy club lounge that serves as
his office and is the epicenter of RTJGC’s
world-class teaching facility. “It wasn’t
something I had an interest in.”
LET’S MAKE A DEAL
But his view of the game clearly heated
up not long after graduating with an
engineering degree from Columbia Basin
College in Pasco, Wash. He later took a
job at the Clinton Nuclear Power Plant in
central Illinois and began taking lessons
nearby at the Bloomington (Ill.) Country
Club. His instructor was Mike Adams,
then in the early stages of his own career
as one of the country’s top teachers.
McGetrick’s play improved dramatically,
and his growing love for the game soon
became quite obvious to Adams.
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