ONLY 1% of all organizations get to celebrate their 37th anniversary. We have accomplished this milestone by listening to the market thus building our professional future through innovation and new technologies, or better said, by adapting to change. Because of our knowledge and “out of the box” thinking process, we have been able to better understand the sport, opening new doors to the educational system and making a difference in the sports industry.
Because ONLY authenticity and originality remains. But even the authentic and original must be updated and that is why at the International Coaches Institute we have developed new educational programs with the systems CDS: “Concept Drive System”, S2P: “Simple, Sensible & Practical”, WES: “Web Education System” “TeTaFiMe” & “HdP Human Development Pathway”, setting up new services to help you perform your job to the fullest, offering maximum guarantees, producing new multimedia educational tools, creating new educational material, in addition to promoting the sport at all levels through a different number of activities.
ONLY our philosophy and way of working has been unaltered throughout the years. We were born in Spain more than 37 years ago, and are now settled in 131 countries, where more than 70.000 certified professionals by the International Coaches Institute perform their work freely and independently.
The International Coaches Institute offers new ideas for sports, lifestyle and business through its different subsidiaries. In the sports arena we have the RPG, Registro Profesional de Golf, founded in Spain in 2002, with the goal of offering the most complete educational package, international certifications and comprehensive services to golf teaching professionals and their facilities, as well as promoting the sport at all levels, where we offer you the:
• GUARANTEE to be the first and only Spanish organization member of the World Golf Teachers Federation, which includes more than 25,000 golf instructors. The qualifications issued by the RPG enjoy the highest recognition in the golf industry through Spain Golf Teachers Association.
• EXPERIENCE of having developed and patented a revolutionary teaching method based on the parameters of common sense and simplicity, suitable for any type of player: RPG method. We have taught more than 700 training courses in 74 countries where more than 12.500 professionals have participated, as well as having organised 39 international conferences with the best golf schools in the world: David Leadbetter, Jim Mclean, David Glenz, European Golf Teachers Federation, Arnold Palmer Golf Academy, International Junior Golf Academy, Pro-Stance Golf Academy, Allison Nicholas Golf Academy, which confirm that our training program is the most complete on the market.
• EXCLUSIVITY of having created the first club of integral professional services for golf instructors: RPG Club ©; and the first certification program for official golf teaching centers: RPG COEG ©.
• COMMITMENT to provide professionals with the best working tools we have published different teaching manuals, CDs and DVDs, in addition to having developed materials and patented programs such as SBIniciación ©, SBIntermedio ©, SBAvanzado ©, SBDirección ©, CDS : Concept, Drive, System ©, S2P: Simple, Sensitive & Practical ©, WES: Web Education System ©, TeTaFiMe ©, HdPHuman Development Pathway ©, ADVISA © & ADJUSTIV ©.
• SECURITY We have always been active in the promotion of our sport, organising different activities and clinics where more than 25,000 players of all ages, abilities and levels of play have participated.
• RECOGNITION of establishing, together with the United States Golf Teachers Federation and the European Golf Teachers Federation, the first and only program of professional equivalences offering the opportunity to all our technicians to have an active and recognised qualification all over the world.
• LEADERSHIP of being an organization that is integrated within the International Coaches Institute. The ICI was born in Spain 37 years ago, and is now present in 131 countries with four divisions: Europe, America and Asia, which operate from our offices in Madrid/Europe and Naples/USA. The ICI qualifications are recognised by the European Union through the European Community Certificate Supplement
• INNOVATION to continue working with the most advanced multimedia system: RPMultimedia for integral training, the implementation of new programs for teaching, the organization of the RPG World Tour, with the diffusion of our sport all over the world with the Spanish System Golf Course and different activities to promote golf.
• TRUST RPG is an organization that was born in Spain more than 24 years ago, and that is currently carrying out its international expansion.
• TOWARDS THE FUTURE with the mission of continuing to trace with the most advanced multimedia system for the integral formation and implementation of new programs for teaching, and the organization of the RPG Tour.
PERSONALLY MANAGED BY:
Stewart Craig is regarded as a “guru” in golf education worldwide and one of the key drivers of the success of the Registry of Golf Professionals. Born in Scotland, he is the Director of Coaching & Education for the International Registry of Golf Professionals (RPG International). A professional golf player, he is qualified as a Master Instructor by the European Golf Teachers Federation (EGTF) and as an International Master Professional by the RPG. Member of the Executive Committee of the International Registry of Golf Professionals, he has more than 20 years of experience in teaching golf. He has coached players such as Corrine Dibnah, Dale Reid, Allison Nicholas, Ellen Smets, Elisabeth Esteri, Julie Forbes and Maria Boden.
Peter Ledwidge, born in Scotland, is Technical Director of the Registry of Golf Professionals – RPG and Director of Coaching & Education of the European Registry of Golf Professionals (RPG Europe). He is qualified as a Master Instructor by the European Golf Teachers Federation and is also certified as an International Master Professional by the RPG. Member of the Executive Committee of the International Registry of Golf Professionals, he has more than 20 years of experience in teaching golf and is fluent in two languages: English and Spanish. In addition, Peter is a professional player in Spain, European Tour Coach and CGA Europe Master Clubmaker.
Luis Mediero, is the founder and President of the International Coaches Institute – ICI, which has become the first and largest international organization dedicated to offer educational programs, international certifications and comprehensive professional services to professionals in the teaching of tennis, padel, pickleball, fitness and golf, through their respective Professional Registries: Tennis (RPTennis), Padel (RPPadel), Pickleball (RPPickleball), Fitness (RPFitness) and Golf (RPGolf), with a clear objective: to offer all those tools necessary to train and develop people through sport. The ICI currently has +70,000 qualified coaches in 131 countries, and since its foundation in 1989, it has trained +130,000 sports coaches. In 2002, it launched the Professional Golf Registry – RPG, which in more than two decades has achieved a position in the golf market as a leading organization in terms of training programs and certification of instructors, instructors, teachers, coaches and golf professionals in Spain and globally, with more than 1,000 qualified instructors in Spain and more than 7,000 certified in 74 countries. Mediero is certified as an International Master Professional by the RPG and is a member of the executive committee of the International Registry of Golf Professionals.