Erika Larkin Unlocks Your True Swing By Jim Grosjean in America for 2024-2025. Her parents weren’t golfers. Her father was a Russian immigrant from Venezuela who became a corporate chef and instilled a focus and passion in his daughter to follow her dreams. Her mother grew up in Connecticut and delighted in giving Erika all the opportunities that her parents never had. After being exposed to sports, music, and New York culture, golf somehow became Erika’s main love. She did have natural athletic talent and through hard work, developed into a very good player. She was lucky to meet PGA member Frank Darby, who became her first mentor and recommended that Erika read “Swing the Clubhead” by Ernest Jones, a book that became very influential to the development of Erika’s teaching philosophy. Erika was a good amateur golfer, but professional golf was out of reach. Early on she discovered a passion for teaching and she had an insatiable desire to learn everything about the golf swing. Her interest in simplifying the swing led to many opportunities to teach privately, run golf schools, and climb the ladder of recognition by her peers. That includes being named the Number 1 Teacher in Virginia and 50 Best in America. One might well wonder how a young girl from Queens, New York, who had very little access to any green grass golf courses, grew up to become one of Golf Digest’s 50 Best Teachers American Golf Journal
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