1989 Declaration as a Golf Professional
1989-1993 Southwest Staff Director, Natural Golf Corporation
1993-1995 Vice President of Public Relations, Natural Golf Corporation
1994-1996 Member Fort Worth Golf Advisory Committee
1996 Became Member of the LPGA, Teaching & Club Professional Division
2000-2001 School Clinic Coordinator and Instructor for the Lindy Miller Foundation for Junior Golfers, the Fort Worth First Tee Program to Inner City Schools in the Fort Worth Public School System. Conducted Group Clinics for classes of 40 to 80 students citywide. Worked with adaptive golf instruction for students with challenges.
2002 Completion of 2002 B.I.O.N.I.C. Golf Cross-Country Training Tour … Bringing Golf to the Challenged. Encompassed more than 16,000 miles in a 1973 School Bus conversion to the B.I.O.N.I.C. Golf Mobile Golf Teaching School holding 80 golf clinics across the United States. In addition to the actual golf training through clinics, the following activities are noted:
• 78 appearances with over 1,000 members of community leadership groups to bring awareness of a need to help citizens of their communities to enjoy life through golf
• Participation in Sportsability in Jacksonville, Florida, with over 200 observers.
• Participation in the World Congress on Disabilities, Orlando, Florida, with open clinics for over 600 observers with the B.I.O.N.I.C. Golf Bus displayed inside the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
• Participation in expositions with observers numbering more than 1,000.
• Six television appearances and four radio appearances reaching major national markets. • Recipient of National Polar Bear Award from Nikken, Inc., Irvine, California, with story in their National Family Magazine reaching over 120,000 households. This award is given to someone who has done something to help change the environment or enhances society. Mr. Isamu Masuda, founder of Nikken, started this award in 1998.
2003 Development of New Life Skills for Persons with Developmental Disabilities as a new program provided by B.I.O.N.I.C. Golf as Grant Recipient from Florida Developmental Disability Council.
1. This will be a 9-month program hosting 2-day clinics in 9 Florida cities. This will be to educate the educators and embrace the citizens of each community who have developmental disabilities. We will be merging the professionals – both golf and health care – with the citizens and the community who will become aware of a segment of the population who can enjoy an enhanced life and community participation with new life skills.
2. New Life Skills for Persons with Developmental Disabilities will also create ongoing free weekly golf clinics in each of the 9 cities targeted for the Program. B.I.O.N.I.C. Golf will provide these clinics through certified and trained professionals who have participated in the program.
3. Two weeks following the training in each city, a Happy Word Playday fundraising golf clinic and 9-hole Playday will be held to raise funds to pay the teaching fees for the free weekly clinics in each city.
4. Establish Conference Calls for participants to share their testimonies of advancement following each training and fundraising golf tournament. This will connect the students and educators across the State of Florida and encourage participants of upcoming events to stimulate their interest and desire to learn New Life Skills.
2004-2006 Golf instruction locally in Kissimmee, Florida.
Created the B.I.O.N.I.C. Golf Instruction Manual and The B.I.O.N.I.C. Golf Instruction Manual for Kids.
Amateur Accomplishments Prior to turning Professional
1972 Began playing golf at age of 24 years
1984 Women's Club Champion – Colonial Country Club, Ft. Worth, TX
1983 & 1985 Runner-up Colonial Country Club Women's Club Champion
1987, 88, 89 Glen Garden Country Club Women's Club Champion, Ft. Worth, TX
1987, 88, 89 Country Club Women's Champion (5 competing Country Clubs in Fort Worth, Texas)
1988 Fort Worth City Ladies Champion
1988 Qualified for 2nd Mid-Am Tournament (on 40th birthday)
1988 Mid-Am Tournament at Amelia Island, Florida
EDUCATION: 1966-67 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
1967-68 Brantley-Draughn Business School, Fort Worth, Texas
