Recently, the PGA of America announced the winners of their Annual National Merchandisers Award and the entire team at Stortz & Associates would like to congratulate Rick Kline of Sittler Golf Center for being named 2013 National Merchandiser of the Year!
This award was created by the PGA and Sports Illustrated in 1978 to recognize those PGA Professionals who have excelled as businesspersons/merchandisers in the promotion of golf. The award goes to a PGA professional in one Resort, Private, or Public Facility each year. Please check out the press release below and join us in congratulating Rick on this fantastic achievement! Visit Sittler Golf Center online at www.sittlergolf.com.
PRESS RELEASE – PGA of America
September 3, 2013
The PGA Head Professional at Sittler Golf Center in Kutztown, PA, Rick Kline, 51, was elected to PGA of American membership in 1989. He is the fourth Philadelphia PGA Professional to be name a recipient of the PGA Merchandiser of the Year award.
Kline and his wife, Patty, literally built the golf shop at Sittler Golf Center from the ground up after acquiring the facility in 1993 that included a driving range, mini-golf and an ice cream shop. From those modest beginnings, the Klines laid the foundation for a golf shop at Sittler Golf Center that would grow to be a Nationally Award Winning Facility. A true family affair, Sittler Golf Center is run by a staff that also includes their two sons, daughter, and Rick’s father.
Kline began as an apprentice in 1984 at Seaview Country Club in Atlantic City, NJ, the host facility of the 1942 PGA Championship. In 1985, it was acquired by Marriott and became the Marriott Seaview Resort, where Kline would become PGA Director of Golf. At Sittler Golf Center, Kline has created a facility that has been named by Golf Range Magazine as a Top 50 Golf Range in America and by Golf Digest as one of America’s 100 Best Club Fitters. Meanwhile, Kline has mentored 12 PGA members into becoming PGA head professionals.
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