Mike Bender

MIKE BENDER is a golf instructor and Master Instructor of the Mike Bender Golf Academy in Lake Mary, Florida. He is the author of Build the Swing of a Lifetime.

Bender was named the 2009 PGA of America National Teacher of the Year and received the North Florida PGA Section Teacher of the Year award in 1996, 1998, 2005, and 2007. Golf Digest has ranked him among its Top Five Best Teachers in America for more than a decade, and Golf Magazine has listed him among its Top 100 Teachers since 1996.

When not teaching, Bender works with tour-level players; his students have included 2007 Masters and 2015 Open Champion Zach Johnson and two-time U.S. Open Champion Lee Janzen.

Mike lives in Lake Mary, Florida.

Mike Bender’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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