Mike Dowd

Mike Dowd is a graduate of California State University of Sacramento who joined the P.G.A. at the age of 20, wanting a head start on a career in golf; a career path that had been a goal of his since first picking up a golf club at the age of seven. Mike has been teaching golf professionally for 25 years, was elected a P.G.A. Class A Member in 1997, is a member of the N.C.P.G.A Board of Directors, was the recipient of the P.G.A.'s Bill Strausbaugh Award in 2013, is the current Growth of the Game Committee Chair, and since 2001 he has been Head P.G.A. Professional at Oakdale Golf & Country Club, in Oakdale California. Mike has mentored students who have played collegiately at USC, UOP, USF, U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Davis, University of Hawaii, Missouri Valley State, C.S.U. Sacramento, Stanislaus, and Chico as well as both men’s and ladies professional tours. Mike’s focus is on being a whole game coach, spending at least as much time and energy working with students on the mental side of golf as on swing mechanics. In his spare time Mike enjoys writing articles for various publications is the author of multiple golf instruction books. Find out more at MikeDowdAuthor.com.