John McCartin is a 25-year PGA Member, and in 2006 earned the distinct honor of PGA Certification in Teaching. He became only the third PGA Member in the Illinois Section with this designation. From 1997 to 2009 he was a Lead Instructor for the Dave Pelz Scoring Game Schools and a Head Instructor for the John Jacobs Golf Schools. During that time John has had the pleasure of working with all levels of players including new golfers, women, seniors and juniors. He has also instructed touring professionals including KJ Choi, Rocco Mediate and LPGA Hall of Fame Member Pat Bradley. He has been mentored by five Top 100 instructors including Dave Pelz, Bruce Patterson and Donald Crawley. In 2009, John founded the Chicagoland Golf Academy which has been the player development entity for Billy Casper Golf, Indigo Golf and now Troon Golf. During that time John has continued to teach thousands of aspiring golfers as well as managing a dedicated group of golf coaches.

Johns teaching philosophy is to have each of his students become their own best teacher and to create a partnership with them to help achieve their goals for their golf games. Each golfer is viewed as an individual with their own set of experiences, strengths, weaknesses and desires for their golfing experience. The approach John takes with each of his students will be unique to them and will contain just the right amount of instruction, feedback, effective practice plans and most importantly fun. One of John's favorite expressions is that if your next mortgage payment does not depend directly on how low your next score is, relax, smile and have fun with the game of golf.

John is also a certified Titleist Performance Institute Golf Coach and a Certified US Kids Golf Instructor. He is one of only three Aimpoint Certified Instructors in Illinois.