HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – January 4, 2011 – Cleveland® Golf/Srixon® Advisory Board Member Jim Empey, who is the PGA Director of Instruction at Quail Hollow Golf Club in Boise, Idaho, has been named the 2010 Teacher of the Year by the Rocky Mountain Section PGA.
The Teacher of the Year award bestows special recognition on a Rocky Mountain Section PGA golf professional that has performed outstanding service as a golf instructor. The honoree is chosen based on his or her performance and leadership, image, promotion of the game of golf, impact on teaching and golf instruction as well as their involvement in junior activities at their facility as well as innovative contributions to golf instruction and published articles.
This is the fourth time, the other years being 2002, 2004 and 2008, that Empey has won this award. He also earned the RMSPGA Player of the Year honor in 2009. Jim was elected to PGA Membership in 1987 and teaches from the “Golf House”, a building he and his wife Debbie constructed at Quail Hollow in 2000.
He has devoted his career to teaching golf and teaches not only in Boise, but across the country due to this involvement with Back Tee Sports. That organization focuses on corporate golf outings and they vary in length from three to six days. The 2010 schedule included locations such as: The Tournament Players Club, Scottsdale, Arizona; Reynolds Plantation, Greensboro, Georgia; Pinehurst (North Carolina) Resort; Moon Palace Resort in Cancun, Mexico; Sanctuary Golf Club, Castle Pines, Colorado; and Bandon (Oregon) Dunes Resort.
Jim has had articles published on several occasions in PGA Magazine and he also created a ten-minute instructional video for the Golf Channel. He has also been recognized by Golf Digest as one of the “Best 3 Teachers” in the state of Idaho and Golf Magazine recognized him as one of the “Top Golf Instructors in the Northwest U.S.”, as well as one of the “Top 400 Teachers in America.”
Jim continues to offer free instruction to juniors who volunteer to help him with golf clinics, special events or maintenance at the Golf House. He will receive his 2010 award during the 2011 RMSPGA Annual Meeting.
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