Serving with distinction in a number of capacities, Dave retired at the rank of First Sergeant after 25 years with the Prince William County Police Department.  Dave has over 25 years of combined teaching experience in a wide range of disciplines.  Dave has extensive experience and has earned several certifications as a physical fitness specialist.  During his police career Dave designed and coordinated the physical fitness training programs and requirements for new officers as well as the SWAT Team.

Dave played high school golf but became frustrated with his lack of progress.  He drifted away from the game for many years.  When he returned to the game he discovered an easier way to play - the single plane swing of Moe Norman and sought out instruction from Tim and Todd.  Dave knew he was on to a better, simpler way to play golf, and discovered what he wanted to pursue as his second career.  Dave has taught with the Graves Golf Academy since 2002 at schools and camps throughout the U.S.

Dave is a PGA Professional and a Master Instructor with the Graves Golf Academy.  He’s a certified Golf Fitness Instructor and is featured in our latest instructional video - Flexibility and Exercises for Moe Norman’s Single Plane Swing.  Dave has his own teaching center in Bristow, VA, giving over 1000 lessons annually to students of all levels of ability.

Ron is the co-creator of an NLP-based system of studying world-class experts called Advanced Behavioral Modeling. In addition to working with golfers, both professional and amateur, Ron has utilized the ABM system extensively with athletes from many fields helping them improve, including world-class martial artists, boxers, Olympic kayakers, racquet ball players, LAX and skeet and trap shooters.

For many years, including when he played on the Tour, Ron served as Mind Coach for Todd Graves. It was through this relationship that he met Moe Norman and was fortunate to conduct an in-depth taped interview with him at Pine Needles in North Carolina and have the opportunity to explore his genius further in subsequent meetings.

Most recently, Ron returned to his native Canada to manage the GGA Canadian Operation and to perpetuate Moe’s legacy via a program called The Moe Norman Golf Experience. The Canadian HQ’s are at The Royal Ashburn Golf Club in Whitby, Ontario.

Eclectic to the core, Doc is also an author and an inventor. He holds nine (9) patents and has written numerous articles and three books. His business book, ALIGNMENT: The Seven Variables Driving Business is utilized by Executives world wide in analyzing the multivariate forces impacting their businesses. He is currently working on a book about optimizing mental/emotional performance for golfers.

Ron holds a BA from Guilford College and was a Dana Scholar.  He was awarded a Masters Fellowship from the University of North Carolina and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociological Social Psychology from California Western University. He is also the co-inventor of the Advanced Behavioral Modeling process and a revolutionary Bio-Feedback System for measuring pre-cognitive emotions called Answer-Stream.

He earned a BS in Secondary Education from Michigan State University and an MBA from Central Michigan University.

Clay enrolled in the PGA-PGM program immediately after his retirement, and in less than two years he completed the requirements to become a PGA member.

Other golf related accomplishments include:

• PGA President’s Council on “Growing the Game of Golf”
• Titleist Scholarship award winner
• Clarke County High School Golf Coach
• Club Champion Flint Elks 1988,89,91

Clay met Todd and Tim Graves through Dave Predzin, another GGA instructor, and attended a “Build Your Game Camp”.  He quickly thought the Graves Golf Academies knew how to do things the right way.  Clay experienced dramatic improvement with his own swing using the single plane approach, and believes it is the best way to strike a golf ball.

Clay is a PGA member and Master Instructor with the Graves Golf Academies. He is the Director of Instruction at the Golf Tour Trailer and Studio located just outside Warrenton, VA. This facility is open year round and has an indoor studio for inclement weather.
He resides in Winchester, Virginia with his wife, Karen, in a 220-year-old farm house.

Jerry began playing golf after returning home from the service with the U.S. Army.  Probably the biggest influence in golf was his brother Randy Martin.  Randy was 10 years younger than Jerry and was an outstanding player.  The major contribution Randy made was the fun he had playing golf and the fact he introduced Jerry to the “game”.  Randy’s influence gave Jerry a start in golf that has lasted many years. Within a short time of taking up the game Jerry met a club pro named Angelo Ruggerio who taught him the Single Plane Swing.  After working with Angelo for 3 years and playing in Amateur Tournaments improvement came quickly.

Over the years Jerry was very fortunate to have coaching instruction for his golf swing from some very good Pro’s.

• Bob Bayer who played on tour in the 30’s and 40’s who taught him the importance of ball striking.
• Paul Runyan who taught him how to make those all important short game shots.
• Claude Harmon who taught him how to mentally play the game and to visualize every shot.
• Bob Roseburg who taught him the importance of practicing.
• Bill Cullum who taught him that he had an “eye” for seeing things in people’s golf swings that others could not see.
• Roger Dunn, since Jerry is left handed there wasn’t much in the way of equipment so Roger had a set of Stan Thompson blades made for him which allowed him to improve his play at the tournament level.

Jerry has met a lot of great golfers through the years, but nothing had impressed him more than when he met Moe Norman for the first time.  “Watching Moe strike a golf ball was unbelievable. I had not seen any one like him before in my life and I have seen some great players.”

Jerry & Judy moved to Palm Desert in 1995 and shortly after they arrived Jerry was introduced to Natural Golf thus his teaching career with Natural Golf began. He already was a Single Plane player so it was a perfect fit for him.

Jerry had his own radio show for 4 years in the Palm Springs area called The Natural Golf Hour. Jerry also being Director of the Natural Golf Travel Club has traveled with some of his students to play some of the best golf destinations in the world.

Since Jerry has been a part of Natural Golf and now the Graves Golf Academy he feels his main success comes from helping golfers understand the swing and how they can improve their golf games.  One of the biggest challenges people have says Jerry “is over-coming their fears of failure”.

One of the greatest teaching tips that was taught to Jerry was to teach your students one thing at a time.  Let them get that right and then move on to the next thing.  That is what Jerry has based his teaching career on to this day.

Jerry currently resides in Palm Desert, Ca. with his wife Judy and their dog “Riley”.