Patti Butcher Golf Enterprises presents student-centered golf coaching and instruction designed to lower your golf scores, not just improve your mechanics. Utilizing the premier practice facilities at Scott Lake Golf & Practice Center, our team focuses on your goals, your game, your schedule, and your budget. Led by 2010 LPGA National Golf Professional of the Year, Patti Butcher. PBGE is committed to teaching the whole game to the whole person.
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Patti Butcher
Lead Golf Coach & LPGA National Golf Progessional of the Year
Committed to “teaching the whole game to the whole person,” Patti has delivered results for golfers of every age and ambition for over thirty years.
Patti Butcher, a 2010 National LPGA Golf Professional of the Year and two-time LPGA Midwest Teacher of the Year, is excited to bring her experience to the greater golf community of Canadian Lakes Country Club. This season, she will be offering weekend Short Game Schools, Women’s Player Experiences along with limited private instruction opportunities on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
In addition to being a member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division, she spent 25 years as a member of the PGA of America. Patti was mentored and trained by some of the most skilled and noteworthy professionals in our game including playing for LPGA Hall of Fame Coach and Teacher Annette Thompson at Penn State University. She spent time as an Associate Professional at the storied Oak Hill CC in Rochester, NY under the tutelage of Craig Harmon of the venerable Harmon family; brothers Butch, Dick and Billy and Dad Claude Harmon (1948 Masters champion).
Patti’s passion for teaching and coaching is unmatched, and her career has included many “firsts”. She was the first Director of Instruction for the Meadows at Grand Valley State, and their first women’s golf coach. As a NCAA golf committee member, she was the first in Michigan to host a NCAA Division II Golf Championship as well as having the first player ever qualify. As the first full time golf instructor in West Michigan, she was the first to start an Academy, and first to do exclusively individual custom fitting (using ball flight and single irons) for golf clubs. After leaving the Meadows she started her own instructional company, Patti Butcher Golf Enterprises, and was the first to have an indoor teaching and practice facility during the winter, using early launch monitors (1999). Throughout this time Patti was the teacher of record for eight individual MHSAA High School Champions, NCAA Division II Women’s Champion, and Captains of the Men’s Team at Wake Forest, Duke and Michigan State.
In 2004, Patti was hired to be the first female and fifth Director of Golf at Blythefield Country Club in its storied history. In 2008 she added the duties of General Manager and in 2014 secured the LPGA Meijer Classic for Simply Give at Blythefield. Since her retirement from BCC in 2015, she has been teaching during the summers at Scott Lake Golf and Practice Center and in her own private indoor studio in Grand Rapids during the winters.
While I use all kinds of very recent measuring technology from video to force plates and launch monitors and am certified in body mechanics and mental game profiling tools and strategies, my teaching philosophy is quite simple. Help the player in front of me do what their body can do adjusting what they already have as efficiently as possible to change to the desired ball flight.
Having a home in CL, I am looking forward to spending more time here and meeting many of you. You may find out more about the golf schools at my website www.pattibutchergolf.com. Private lessons will be available Tuesday/Thursday beginning May 5 and to sign up for schools or to schedule a private lesson, please text me at (616) 813-9056. Fee is $120 per hour and is payable in cash. My email is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. but I am much quicker responding by text (616) 813-9056. Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, I am available by appointment at Scott Lake Golf and Practice Center at 911 Hayes Road, Comstock Park, Michigan.
Credetials
Expertise
Her years of instructional expertise have always been combined with a strong coaching philosophy, having started the nationally ranked women’s program at Grand Valley State University while serving as Director of Instruction for The Meadows Golf Club.
Always an active professional, Patti served as the Division II representative for the NCAA Golf Committee as well as hosting two National Championships while at GVSU. Previous students include an NCAA National Champion, eight high school state champions, many Division I, II, III individual titles, and AJGA winners; Patti also loves working with newer golfers, getting them engaged in the game which has taken her all over the world.
Professional highlights include working with the Golf Association of Chile on junior golf programming, travelling monthly to Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic serving as lead instructor of international golf schools, playing and teaching in Japan as a part of Mizuno professional pro-am series, as well as teaching in many corporate programs for high profile men and women executives all over the United States. Known for outstanding communication skills both on and off the lesson tee, Patti has numerous media credits including “Golf Shorts” a nationally aired-program on PBS, author of countless published instructional articles, as well as being a respected and sought after speaker and presenter.
Experience
She is a Class A member of both the PGA of America and LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division, as well as a member of the select golf instruction society, The Proponent Group.
A life long learner, Patti graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialty in Human Resources Management. With continuous improvement as a theme, PBGE owns the latest in instructional technology including: Trackman 4 – Dual Doppler Radar Launch Monitor, Smart 2 Move Force Plates – the latest in Balance/Ground Resistance Feedback, FocusBand – Industry leader in training for performance state monitoring and control, Blast – tempo and putting feedback and reporting tool, high speed video swing capture, Ikkos/Copy Me -the latest in virtual reality motion visualization, and, finally, she is a certified Carlson Learning Consultant with DiSC profile system.
Once holding the lowest scoring average of all collegiate players, she has won at the amateur, collegiate, and professional level. Patti continues to enjoy competition against golf professionals, having cashed a professional check for playing every year since turning professional as well as being the current owner of three course records for women: Oak Hill CC, Rochester, NY, Arcadia Bluffs, Arcadia, MI, and Rutgers University Golf Course, Piscataway, NJ.