GOLFTEC Top Coaches

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Nominate your GOLFTEC Coach to be recognized as one of our Top Coaches!

Do you love working with your Coach? Tell us how they've helped your game and nominate them to become one of GOLFTEC's Top Coaches!

Help us Celebrate the best Coaches at GOLFTEC!

Each of our Certified Personal Coaches is an experienced golf professional who is passionate about improving your game. Most have taught thousands of lessons. But we know that great coaching results in more than just great scores on the course.

Our students enjoy having a golf Coach who is more than a golf instructor. Great coaches care as much about your game as you do. At GOLFTEC we love to hear the stories of our coaches going beyond the bay and helping their students understand their game and celebrate their successes!

Share your top coach stories here to help us acknowledge their exceptional performance in helping students play great golf!

See how GOLFTEC student Terry Doyle celebrates his coaches in the GOLFTEC series - Making The Turn

Thomas Valdez

GOLFTEC Eva Sallgren Award Winner

Thomas exemplifies the characteristics of a true golf professional, which he shares with beloved GOLFTEC Coach Eva Sallgren, who we lost too soon. This award honors Eva’s love of the game and her commitment to sportsmanship and community involvement.

For the past 24 years, Thomas has volunteered for and worked closely with the Special Olympics. In 2018, he received the Larry Sharp Service Award from The Arc, a non-profit organization that promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. He currently teaches seven Special Olympians – 100% on his own time – both inside GOLFTEC bays and outdoors on the course.

In the fall of 2017, Houston felt the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey. Though he was not directly affected by the flood waters, Thomas turned his family’s good fortune onto others by cooking meals for neighbors and volunteering in the city’s clean-up efforts.

Thomas has more than 12 years of teaching experience in Texas and Arizona, and has been a part of the GOLFTEC Houston team since 2013. Thomas’s dedication to service is an inspiration to his GOLFTEC family.

Joe Stago

GOLFTEC Center Manager of the Year

Joe is a PGA Member who has taught over 11,000 lessons. His students have enjoyed 250+ career rounds, five holes-in-one, and one former student has even moved on to become a PGA associate and is now a GOLFTEC Coach.

Joe started his GOLFTEC career as a coach at the Easton Center in 2012. In 2016, Joe was asked to move across town and become the Dublin Center Manager. After massive growth in years 1 and 2, Joe led his team to a record 2019. GOLFTEC Dublin was the #1 Domestic Franchise Center. 

Joe is the definition of efficiency when it comes to using the GOLFTEC system to be successful both as Coach and manager. He has also helped develop a GOLFTEC Rookie of the Year and is a multiple-time SOPGA Teacher of the Year Nominee.

Kevin Tanner

GOLFTEC Regional Manager of the Year

Kevin is a PGA Master Professional who has taught more than 15,000 lessons and has coached his students to over 325 career rounds, 27 tournament wins and nine holes-in-one.

Starting with GOLFTEC in 2010, Kevin began as a Coach in North Bethesda. Seeing an opportunity to help develop that Center and region, Kevin stepped into the Center Manager role and has developed a passionate team of Coaches. Now, he’s the Regional Manager of GOLFTEC’s Washington DC & Baltimore Centers.

In addition to Kevin’s exceptional performance as Center and Regional Manager, he was named to Golf Digest’s 2017-’18 and 2019-’20 Best Teacher by State lists, plus landed his Center on Golf Digest’s 100 Best Clubfitters in America list for 2019-2020.

Matt Lohmeyer

GOLFTEC Coach of the Year

Matt is a PGA member who has been with GOLFTEC since 2013. After graduating from New Mexico State University’s PGM program he joined GOLFTEC in the Montgomery Plaza location and has been there ever since helping his student’s reach their golf goals. Since 2013 Matt has taught over 10,000 lessons.

In 2019, Matt achieved a record year in personal sales and taught over 1,800 lessons. Matt has also had a banner year playing golf. He competed in the PGA Professional Championship along with the Colorado State Open. After those tournaments Matt began a stretch of truly great golf.

At the Texas State Open he finished as the low club professional and then he went on to win at the Northern Texas PGA Professional Championship. With his great play, Matt was recognized with the Northern Texas PGA Player of the Year Award!