In seeking a golf professional to help you with your game, insure that the individual has an active accreditation with the PGA or LPGA, or, has demonstrated an inarguable ability to help players of many levels improve through many years of practice.

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Jeffery Belden, a family physician and associate professor at the University of Missouri medical school who went through its communication training last year, says that after 25 years in practice, he was skeptical at first.

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