Golf Pros"That helped," says Boyd, an African-American. "It honestly got people to pay attention to me." He now has an overflowing list of students and is enjoying the eminence and wealth rarely proffered on golf pros back home. Most Chinese "want to suck all the golf knowledge out of you: How do you hit so far? Why do you hit it like that?" he says.
affordable golf "They want to get as much information as possible." Reid hopes that sort of curiosity is the foundation of a golf-instruction empire. "In America, people sign up for six weeks [of lessons] and that's it. Here, they want 52 weeks. It's so new, they want to learn as much as they can from foreigners," she says. "They're open-minded and willing. They know they don't know it. They want your knowledge, your talent—and they're willing to pay anything for it." In China, her clients pay her about $150 more per hour than she was charging in the States.
golf wholesale Reid knows that for some students, having a foreign teacher is a crucial mark of affluence. "They want to be able to tell their friends who they had lessons with," she says. However,
wholesale golf few pros should expect to emulate Reid's success in the near future. Smart estimates that outsourced instructors might net $35,000 in their first year. Yet that figure can rise rapidly once
golf clubs they develop a stable of clients.
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