Martin Green Makes His Mark
 To well-travelled golf tourists along the East Coast, the golf academy at Hombre Golf Club in Panama City Beach, Florida is becoming a word-of-mouth phenomenon. One of Henry-Griffitts' most successful clubfitters, Martin Green, is swiftly turning the Martin Green Golf Academy into one of the region's most respected centers of golf instruction. Its golf schools have been increasingly popular with corporate golf groups, which fly in for three-day sessions devoted to team-building and in-depth golf improvement.
Green's teaching philosophy dovetails neatly with the basic HG principle of promoting balance in the golf swing. "We talk a lot about maintaining a stable base," says Green. "But we emphasize that doesn't mean a still or static base. In other words, your feet and legs aren't motionless, but throughout the swing the necessary power to create solid shots is always provided by the base." Among Green's other fundamental concepts are "establishing momentum for the clubhead and retaining that momentum as the clubhead squares to the target line. It's hard to trust a swing in which the player is coming toward the ball without momentum and needing to fire his wrist and hands to create power".
Green says the number of female executives in his corporate schools is increasing, and he's noticed differences in learning styles between the genders.
"In our profession, if you have the right information and teaching tools, you can sometimes achieve amazingly swift progress. That's a great feeling for both teacher and student. But I find it doesn't happen unless the student is in close contact with his or her body. And since women communicate with their bodies better than men, they seem to be quicker learner, on the whole.
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