East Potomac Instructors

Ted is a PGA Professional with over 15 years of experience. Ted has held Head Professional and teaching positions at a number of facilities on the east coast, including the Courses at Andrews AFB, the First Tee Program in D.C. and Maryland, the LPGA International in FL, and most recently at the Cottonfield Golf Club and Sugar Creek Golf Club in GA.

Before turning pro in 1990 he had a successful amateur career winning four club championships with the Oxon Blades Golf Club and qualifying for the Public Links Championship.

• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
• Adults
  • Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons

Rich is a Certified USGTF Associate Teaching Professional and accomplished competitive golfer with a lifelong dedication to the game of golf. His journey began in Virginia, where he emerged as a standout junior player, contributing to a Virginia High School State Championship team and earning over 30 titles on the Virginia Junior Golf Circuit. He twice qualified for the prestigious USGA Junior National Championship, quickly establishing himself among the region’s elite junior golfers.

Rich went on to compete professionally for four years on the Tear Drop Tour, earning multiple runner-up finishes, including the Virginia Beach Open. He also reached the U.S. Open Sectional Qualifier, finishing as 1st Alternate—further solidifying his status as a top-tier competitor. As an amateur, Rich claimed four victories on the 2017 Golf Channel AM Tour, highlighted by a Championship Flight win at the DC Tour Championship and a top-five finish at the National Championship in Rancho Mirage, California.

Now focused on instruction, Rich is passionate about sharing the game that has brought him so much fulfillment—through competition, travel, and lasting friendships. He approaches every lesson with energy, empathy, and a student-centered philosophy, committed to helping golfers of all ages and skill levels reach their full potential and enjoy the journey!

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• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
• Adults
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons

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• Adults
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Ron has been playing and teaching golf for over 50 years (his first 9 holes cost $1.25!).  His first student was a high school buddy who became good enough to play with him on their Maryland State AA Champion high school golf team.

Ron loves introducing newbies and prepping them for the course. He simplifies things and teaches by feel, all with the goal of taking your game from the practice range to the golf course.

His students are all ages, one-quarter are lefties, and gender-wise are divided evenly. He’s great with kids (before instructing golf he coached two DCPS middle school championship baseball teams) and coaches competitive high school golfers/teams up to NCAA D-1 golfers.

Ron teaches the full swing (driver, hybrids, and irons) and short game (chipping, pitching, sand shots, stingers, bump-and-runs, cut shots, and flop shots), and works tirelessly on methods and strategies to help cure the yips. As a swing coach he teaches shaft-lean, lag, and tempo, and how to spin wedges.

Ask about his simple two-step putting method to enable beginners and average putters to quickly get to 80-90% of their ability.

He believes learning golf and getting better is a completely positive experience and his favorite phrase to beginners is “you have to hit 10,000 bad shots including whiffs, so let’s get started. We are not here to perform. We want to take the game from the range to the course.”

Ron’s teaching principles and methods are completely positive because he believes we don’t unlearn habits, we learn over them with newer, better habits. Dwelling on flaws and faults makes it more likely to repeat them. This came from crosstraining taught to him directly by nationally recognized sports coaches (eg. Tom House, Mike Epstein, and DC’s own U.S. Soccer HOF member, the late Len Oliver). Ron follows Timothy Gallwey’s “Inner Game” coaching principles.

Ron also helps with sorting through all the YouTube and Golf Channel instruction and equipment selection (clubs, balls, shoes, putters, learning aides, rangefinders, shafts, fitters, stores, websites etc.)

Ask about his simple two-step putting method to enable beginners and average putters to quickly get to 80-90% of their ability.

• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
• Adults
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons

James is a PGA Professional with over 20 years of experience. He is fluent and teaches both lessons in Korean and English. James is left-handed but teaches both right and left-handed golfers. He has also worked with Bridgestone Golf for 4 years working with golfers by fitting them with the correct golf balls and clubs. James worked with Titleist for a year distributing in Korea.

James joined the GolfDC Academy team in spring of 2013 with 22 years of playing experience in the US and Asia.

• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
  • Summer Camps
  • Leagues
• Adults
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons

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• Juniors
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons
• Adults
  • Private Lessons
  • Group Lessons