Suzy Whaley, PGA of America President

Suzy Whaley (0:00)

I always tell people, if you're not feeling pressure, most likely you won't win, or you certainly won't compete at a level that your body is capable of doing, if you're not feeling a little bit of that, because I like to see it as this positive energy that I can create and direct, and direct to whatever intention I have. So pressure is something that, for me, I turn into intentional processes.

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All right, this week's conversation is with Suzy Whaley, the PGA of America's first female president. And prior to being elected president last November, she served for two years as PGA secretary and two years as vice president.

And she's also the PGA owner of Suzy Whaley Golf in Cromwell, Connecticut, and the PGA director of instruction at the Country Club at Marisol in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Suzy is recognized as being one of the country's top golf instructors and she's won numerous teaching awards including Golf Digest Top 50 instructor, LPGA Top 50 instructor, and it goes on and on. She's got a history of awards that have demonstrated a command of her craft. And Suzy was also on tour from 1990 to 93 And then she famously qualified and participated in the 2003 Greater Hartford Open, becoming the first woman since Babe Zorias in 1945 to qualify for a PGA Tour event.