Golf 8.5 In The News
Golf 8.5 is making waves in the golf community.
here are a collection of recent articles & interviews!
Putt for Dough - Under Par Golf article
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Putt for Dough - Under Par Golf article 〰️
Excited to be featured in Under Par Golf. Get ready . . .spring is right around the corner. Practice simple principles for more successful putting on how to roll the golf ball. Check out current issue: www.underpargolf.com
HERLIFE Magazine
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HERLIFE Magazine 〰️
Links to Leadership Tournament & Clinic
A Day of Connection, Learning, Growing
The second annual Links to Leadership Charity Golf Tournament, played at the Albany Country Club, Voorheesville, New York in early September, benefited Capital District Women's Employment and Resource Center or WERC. Kay McMahon, honorary chair and LPGA Hall of Fame instructor and former HERLIFE Magazine cover feature hosted her tradmenar Golf 8.5 clinic, giving new golfers a chance to participate alongside the event. READ MORE
Mainstreet Magazine
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Mainstreet Magazine 〰️
Getting into the Swing of Golf
By Mary B. O’Neill May 28th, 2022
Sometimes the Universe aligns in a particular way and propels you in a new direction. So it has been with me and golf. Friends applying positive peer pressure, a membership special at Canaan Country Club in Canaan, CT, and the discovery of a brand-new unboxed set of golf clubs. They had lain dormant in our garage attic for over a decade – a forgotten gift from my husband during the fog of child rearing.
I heeded the Universe’s call and found myself embarking, in my middle years and despite deep trepidation, on learning the game of golf in the company of my beginner friends. Enter Canaan Country Club and Golf Professional Kay McMahon, founder of eduKaytion Golf based in New Lebanon, NY.
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eduKayting Golfers in Our Area
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eduKayting Golfers in Our Area 〰️
Loudonville Neighbors - Article June 2022
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June 2022 by Jennafer Maselli
If there is any story to prove that hard work, determination, and a playful, creative mind can lead you to accomplish your dreams, Kay McMahon's is undeniably the one.
McMahon wins NENY PGA Teacher of Year
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DOWN THE FAIRWAY by Bob Weiner
Shared from the 4/10/2022 The Daily Gazette eEdition
Energetic Kay McMahon always followed the beat of a different drummer.
Ever since she learned to play golf on her dad’s self-made three-hole mini golf course situated around the family flower pots, McMahon figured out how to make a living from the game. While others beat their drums with sticks, she figuratively and literally uses cooking utensils — and still features them in her teaching techniques to this day. Read More. . .
The Truth About Lies - Kay talks with Holly G - The Golf Insiders - 4.2.22
A Fundamental approach about every club in the bag 2.20.22
Kay talks with Holly G - The Golf Insiders
Golf Central Magazine - “A True eduKaytion for Your Golf Swing” by Beverly & Greg Wise
A Fundamental approach to fixing the Shanks. . .
Kay talks with Holly G on show-The Golf Insiders
Kay talks about golf Schools & vaKAYtions - with Holly G - The Golf InsidersGolf Insider - Kay with Holly g
Q&A Sessions Live Fridays with LPGA Hall of Fame Instructor Kay McMahon
Two-Time LPGA Major Champion & CBS Sports Broadcaster, Dottie Pepper, Special Guest
ALBANY, NY. – On Friday, June 18th from 9:00 – 10:00 am, Dottie Pepper, LPGA Tour Member and CBS Sports Broadcaster, will be the featured guest joining host Kay McMahon, LPGA Hall of Famer, PGA Member, President of eduKaytion Golf and creator of Golf 8.5.
Dottie Pepper won seventeen times on the LPGA Tour including two major championships. She won The Nabisco Dinah Shore (now called the ANA Inspiration) in both 1992 and 1999. Upon retiring from competitive golf in 2004, Dottie has continued her contributions in the golf industry by covering all levels of televised golf for ESPN, Golf Channel, NBC, and currently for CBS sports.
As a friend and colleague, and having served together on the NENY PGA Section Board, Kay is thrilled to have Dottie as her guest. Among many insightful topics, Dottie will be discussing her recently released book, Letters to a Champion: My Time with Mr. Pulver, and how that relationship of teacher and student shaped her into a major champion and leading golf commentator.
“I absolutely loved this heartwarming book,” said Norah O’Donnell, CBS Evening News Anchor and Managing Editor. “Dottie Pepper is an American original and revered for her decades of insightful coverage as a broadcasting giant. Now, she presents a must-read for anyone who loves the game of golf. We learn the encouragement and endless search for excellence it takes to be a champion.”
Q&A Fridays with Kay started in April 2020 and are free online public forums each week hosted by McMahon. The Q&As are interactive discussions are open to players of all levels and cover a wide range of topics from swing flaws and cures, short game techniques, how to play in competition, mental strategies and frequently feature special guests.
To join in the Q&A Fridays weekly session, please contact kay@edukaytiongolf.com or call 518-669-1551 to receive your personal passcode. To purchase Letter to a Champion: My Time with Mr. Pulver, or more information, go to: www.dottiepepper.net.
Kay & Dottie
Kay talks about new LPGA Commissioner - with Holly G - The Golf Insiders
Check out LYNNONTHELINKS Blog article on Golf 8.5 and eduKaytion Golf.
Q&A from Lynn about how Kay got started. Great Interview!
Kay talks about Personal Pars & Mental Strategies - with Holly G - The Golf Insiders
Kay McMahon, LPGA Teaching Hall of Fame talks about the philosophy behind Golf 8.5 and how it simplifies the golf swing in a way that is easy to understand. Dec. 4, 2020
BRINGING GOLFER’S TOGETHER THROUGH EDUKAYTION
July 21, 2020 Golf Coast Magazine
By JEAN COUSER
https://golfcoastmagazine.com/bringing-golfers-together-through-edukaytion/
While other people were baking bread and binging on Netflix throughout the stay-at-home order, I was taking a series of golf clinics and meeting golfers from all over the country, thanks to Kay McMahon, and her innovative zoom golf clinics.
McMahon, who was recently honored as one of the LPGA’s four “Elite” golf instructors, is in the LPGA Teaching Hall of Fame, and also is recognized as one of Golf Digest’s Top 50 Instructors. She holds a B.S. degree in Education and designed her teaching method called Golf 8.5 to occur in chunks, position by position and in a slow, repetitive motion.
The golfers in the clinics – called 8.5’ers – met at 8:30 am on Saturdays and were a mixed bag of players, not only in ability but in location. My classmates were from New York, Orlando, Chicago and there were even some hearty souls who woke up in Colorado and Texas to attend the virtual clinics. The handicaps ranged from a 9 to the highest of 39.
The five-week one-hour sessions moved from putting, chipping, pitching to full swing, and included strategies on the course and something I really need to work on – how to focus.
Kay’s easy style of teaching is fun and she is open to answering all types of questions. She would follow up each session with tapes of the webinar, a PDF Slide deck of the presentation, and a video of her demonstration.
She encouraged us all to video our swing and send it through a free app called HUDL Technique for Golf so she could analyze it. The interaction was very personal and suited to each golfer, and she encouraged her students to call, email, or send videos.
Kay’s second, five-week series focuses on strategy and includes a personal Video Swing Analysis each week plus Game analysis on how to lower your scores or index, Course Strategies, Personal Pars, Uneven lies, Rules, Mental Practice and Playwork – homework where you will actually have to report your progress.
McMahon splits her time between Massachusetts and Orlando so one-on-one lessons are available, but if you are not near one of those locations I suggest you go to edukaytiongolf to find out more and sign up to take advantage of these innovative virtual golf lessons from one of the best instructors in the biz.
Kay talks about Bunker Play with Holly G - The Golf Insiders
LPGA Teaching Hall of Fame member, Kay McMahon talks about best new Putting Techniques
May 30th, 2020 by The Golf Insiders Interview with Holly G
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LPGA Teaching Hall of Fame member, Kay McMahon simplifies the golf swing with Golf 8.5
May 7th, 2020 by The Golf Insiders Interview with Holly G
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LPGA T&CP ANNOUNCES 50 BEST TEACHERS
Top instructors recognized from more than 1,800 LPGA certified professionals worldwide
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Nov. 4, 2019 – The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Teaching and Club Professionals (T&CP) membership announced today the Top 50 LPGA Teachers for the years 2020-2021. This year for the first time an “Elite” category of distinction has been added to honor those who have reached the pinnacle of the instruction profession. The members included in that category are Lynn Marriott, Kay McMahon, Nancy Quarcelino and Annette Thompson. All of these LPGA Professionals are members of the elite LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Hall of Fame.
Gary Van Sickle & Kay
Berkshire Eagle Article 9.22.19
Women at Work Magazine July/August 2019
Golf 8.5 distills game to its essence
By GARY VAN SICKLE - Pres. Golf Writers Assn. of America
Morning Read - November 1, 2017
"This may sound unlikely, but I’ll go ahead and write it anyway: Kay McMahon may be golf’s most important person."
In our July/August 2019 issue of Women@Work magazine, we profiled seven women in the Capital Region who've created their careers in sport spheres. Below is a glimpse into some of their experiences in a slideshow format and my Editor's Note — an introduction to our Women in Athletics issue.
— Susan Mehalick, Women@Work executive editor
POSTURE, ITS AUTOMATIC WITH GOLF 8.5
Golf Central Magazine, August 2017
Golf the easy way
HERLIFE MAGAZINE, JULY 2015
"Kay McMahon brings new meaning to the "hole" sport of golf!" - Judy Goppert